Quite honestly, I'm just typing this because i feel like i should have said SOMETHING at this point--after all. I have now been an official home-owner-type for a week!
Now, don't get me wrong--the joys abound. But there is a lot of work involved! A lot!!
My daughter wants a pink bedroom. I tried to paint some shelves pink. Not good enough. I tried to pain a toy box pink. Not quite! I painted a window alcove pink... getting there! I know, i know. I shouldn't be doing what SHE wants. But it IS her room. Up to this point, she's been sharing her pink room decor with her brother--and beleive you me, there is no way no how that Sponge Bob and pink flowers are cute together.
Andrew is another story. Now, pink i can buy. I know that Maddie has had a love-affair with pink since the day she was born. Andrew suprised me. He wants orange. What's that,you say?? that can't be right. You betcha it's right. He wants orange. And apparently, orange bedrooms don't exist for boys unless you're talking Nascar. Which we are most definitely NOT.
My mother in law doesn't beleive that my having a map hanging in the front room makes it "Grown Up" enough. And, I just plain don't care. I like the map.
I've shifted glassware and plates around a few times, and think i finally have it right--of course, any time anyone but me cleans out the dishwasher (yup! dishwasher! praise the housekeeping gods!), i have to re-shift,because apparently,what makes senseto me does NOT make sense to anyone else.Luckily, i think it'll turn into only me doing dishes again after the fun of having a dishwasher rubs off.
Anyway, I'm happy. Completely exhausted, and falling asleep nightly with a big smile on my face. :D
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
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The Whine Flu
So. It appears that there is a new epidemic going around.
This isn't the famous and ever-so-popular-to-discuss-around-the-water-cooler Swine Flu. I'm talking about the whine flu.
While I can appreciate that people get sick, and sometimes aren't able to work or go about their daily activities as energetically as they normally would, it disturbs me that somehow the most popular time for these sicknesses HAPPEN to come around on Fridays. Isn't that odd? it sounds more like a i-wish-i-had-a-three-day-weekend disease than something that actually is keeping you down. It's especially comical when you see them spring in and make you listen to nonsense about their eventful weekend the following Monday! Of course, remembering to fake a cough every once in a while, so that we'll all remember how gravely ill they were on Friday.
Now, if there is a genuine disease, i'm all for you staying home--i don't want it!! Please stay away from me. My stash of sanitizing gel just isn't going to cut it if i'm being bombarded on all sides. I just don't think that disease shows up on schedule every friday. I don't think, that as the week progresses, you can feel the symptoms coming on enough that you need to verbalize them if it IS happening for real! Usually, for me, I may start to feel a little sick the day before, and then BAM! in the middle of the night it hits me. Or, right when i'm about to go visit someone, or do something fun! It's NEVER been convenient enough to start to give me symptoms on Wednessday..."Man, I just feel like somethings coming on! I hope I don't have to miss a day this week!"--escalating on Thursday to..."Maybe I shouldn't have come in...I just feel like somethings about to hit!" To Friday's eventual..."cough, cough...Kathy? I can't come in today. I'm so sorry! I just don't want to get everyone there sick!". As i said, if it's real? I don't want that either!
But this fake stuff, that happens for the weekends, BRING IT ON! Maybe I DO want that spring-in-your-step causing illness!!
This isn't the famous and ever-so-popular-to-discuss-around-the-water-cooler Swine Flu. I'm talking about the whine flu.
While I can appreciate that people get sick, and sometimes aren't able to work or go about their daily activities as energetically as they normally would, it disturbs me that somehow the most popular time for these sicknesses HAPPEN to come around on Fridays. Isn't that odd? it sounds more like a i-wish-i-had-a-three-day-weekend disease than something that actually is keeping you down. It's especially comical when you see them spring in and make you listen to nonsense about their eventful weekend the following Monday! Of course, remembering to fake a cough every once in a while, so that we'll all remember how gravely ill they were on Friday.
Now, if there is a genuine disease, i'm all for you staying home--i don't want it!! Please stay away from me. My stash of sanitizing gel just isn't going to cut it if i'm being bombarded on all sides. I just don't think that disease shows up on schedule every friday. I don't think, that as the week progresses, you can feel the symptoms coming on enough that you need to verbalize them if it IS happening for real! Usually, for me, I may start to feel a little sick the day before, and then BAM! in the middle of the night it hits me. Or, right when i'm about to go visit someone, or do something fun! It's NEVER been convenient enough to start to give me symptoms on Wednessday..."Man, I just feel like somethings coming on! I hope I don't have to miss a day this week!"--escalating on Thursday to..."Maybe I shouldn't have come in...I just feel like somethings about to hit!" To Friday's eventual..."cough, cough...Kathy? I can't come in today. I'm so sorry! I just don't want to get everyone there sick!". As i said, if it's real? I don't want that either!
But this fake stuff, that happens for the weekends, BRING IT ON! Maybe I DO want that spring-in-your-step causing illness!!
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