and we're back. [Walt, Wizards, and....Woolungasaurus?]

[kaoden39]

I feel your pain.

I am glad you had a nice conversation with your cousin. I myself would rather text or email. It is easier and no one interrupts your thoughts.

 

[bumbershoot]

Thanks for the empathy.


It did not let up ALL day. I don't know who, as an ex of mine once put it, peed in their Wheaties this morning, but wowie zowie! And then I am called the bad guy b/c of this stupid wrinkle between my brows. I'm gettin' botox, I swear, even though I don't "believe" in it, so that my expression (hiding impending tears) doesn't get me labeled "mean" anymore...

Botox fund donations anyone?

tomorrow is another day, tomorrow is another day, tomorrow is another day....never once, not once, understood why Scarlett said that...until right now...let's just hope it's a *different* one!

 

[bumbershoot]

Today is another day!

Robert woke up with a 132 blood sugar reading, which is very very high for him nowadays. So he obviously ate something mysterious that caused problems, or perhaps high emotions causes his blood sugar to be high, who knows (really, an endocrinologist should study him (and his mom) b/c his system is fascinating). Should they start to market those skin sensors, we will buy them, b/c it would be intriguing to answer the "chicken/egg" question with his moods.

Eamon is pleasant as well.

I noticed that my cousin's daughter's name is spelled wrong on our reservation, and was able to get that fixed with a nice and efficient DVC lady. Added reunion celebration info onto that stay, was even able to look up the CBR reservation on mydisneyreservation.

Whew!

Now if only I can brave this rain to get a package of CDs mailed to abundatrade and maybe get to the Y for some more interval training (ooh, sounds so official, the other phrase for it is "walking and jogging really slowly") AND get some surveys AND some homeschool in, it will be a banner day!

 

[kaoden39]

Definitely sounds like a better day. And take it from me emotions can trigger blood sugar changes. I truly believe that and I know that blood sugar can trigger moods too. If my blood sugar goes up I have discovered that it also cause my mood to change. I am not sure why but it does.

 

[Brady's Mom]

YIKES!!! I am in the same boat as you, Molly. I have a 14 yr. old that is going to make me absolutely stark raving mad! For some unexplained reason he is just so nasty - about everything!!! Guuurrrrr...

I just want him to go away and stop talking to me!

Did you cut up your shirts to promote a conversation? If you did, I hope it worked!

 

[kaoden39]

YIKES!!! I am in the same boat as you, Molly. I have a 14 yr. old that is going to make me absolutely stark raving mad! For some unexplained reason he is just so nasty - about everything!!! Guuurrrrr...

I just want him to go away and stop talking to me!

Did you cut up your shirts to promote a conversation? If you did, I hope it worked!

Shannon, I feel your pain. I have a 14 year old male, a 16 and 17 year old females. There are days that I totally block them out. I know that sounds awful but oh my. Can I just go back like ten years?

 

[bumbershoot]

E and I played the recorder today. Learned about the note B, and some about notes and how long you play them and all of that.


Then I went and checked VirginAmerica for airfare, and they are offering an airfare that's better than what we got for SW.

OK, it's only $42 better (total), and $40 of that would be sucked up with paying for bags, but still. We VA.

Now, if I knew for SURE that we would go to DLR before next August, that SW money could be used for that...but that might be just really stupid. Not stupid to go to DLR, but to take money we've already spent and put its use back to August, and incur more costs now.

As I'm sure we all know, more discussion will likely come later... Right now E is washing the windows! Just with water, and it's for his OWN purposes, to wipe off the "window crayons" so he can make new pictures on the windows, but still, this is monumental.

 

[bumbershoot]

I did cut up the shirts! And while it didn't immediately work, about 2 hours later he was happy to dust. I've even put all the little cloths in a hang-up net thing from Ikea that holds some of his stuff. Easy for him to get to.

If everyone had been happy to listen yesterday it would have been cool, but the thought process was good for me too. Where we all have responsibilities, and when we do those things it makes the house happier and we all deserve thanks and kudos for doing the things that are expected of us. And then there are extra things we can do as well!

So today I'm trying to get caught up with laundry, because that's my responsibility, and I've been slacking. And last night while dealing with the grumpypants males, I was continuing to clean up my "office" area and some other areas of the house that still look so un-DONE. My responsibility (self-deemed), so I should do it. No one else really got the importance of the talk, but today, since it's another day, I can see that it helped me, and that's good too.

(who the heck put valium in my water, seriously!?!)

 

[kaoden39]

Molly, they are clearly male animals, therefor they are oblivious to subtleties. Sorry to any men that may be here. But, I am glad you feel better.

 

[bumbershoot]

I agree. Obviously they needed a Mission Statement and a clear Goal Setting Strategy Statement and all the rest of that stuff. Instead I just sat down and started to try to talk! Crazy me...

 

[Brady's Mom]

Dare I say - Welcome to my predominantly male world! My 6 yr old told me the other day that I am "boy trapped". Boy does he have that right! Most days I am just fine with the house full of boys - but there are some days that I long for more estrogen than my own!

It sounds like things might have smoothed out at your house, Molly. They haven't yet at mine. Jeff (14) is super slacking on his school work and does not want to believe me that 9th grade totally matters. And if he just did his work every day instead of dreading it and putting it off he would do so much better. Ugh! He wants me to leave him alone to manage his own work, etc. etc. I would love to let him do that - but he sneaks and hides and lies.....hmmmm....methinks that is why I don't let him manage it all on his own. But trying to get him to "own" his stuff is making me crazy.

Thanks for the space for the mini-rant. We now return to regular Molly programming.

 

[bumbershoot]

Mini rants ALWAYS allowed at my place! Unless they are about me. Those I prefer to be off in hidden corners where I can't find them.


OK just noticed that a friend's page on FB now shows up as "single". She got married at 22. Is now 42. A little bit shocking to find out this way, but she's the one that arranged the Madonna concert trip I have been talking about since Nov '08...it's not that it's a *surprise* to find this out, but I sure would like to know where her ex-husband is so I can send him a card! The phone book won't work, since they live in a very Mexican-centric town, he has a very Mexican last name, and his first name is very simple. I'd be calling for DAYS. Anyway, I "saw" her online the other night, saw that she was logged in, but I was logging off and we aren't really close anymore...now I know what she was doing, I guess.

I guess this is how people feel when finding out big things on FB, but she didn't even post about it to her friends...just changed the relationship status. Definitely weird.



Waffling on the car rental situation again! Gah!

 

[kaoden39]

I agree. Obviously they needed a Mission Statement and a clear Goal Setting Strategy Statement and all the rest of that stuff. Instead I just sat down and started to try to talk! Crazy me...

And pie charts, don't forget the pie charts. Men seem to relate to them.

Dare I say - Welcome to my predominantly male world! My 6 yr old told me the other day that I am "boy trapped". Boy does he have that right! Most days I am just fine with the house full of boys - but there are some days that I long for more estrogen than my own!

It sounds like things might have smoothed out at your house, Molly. They haven't yet at mine. Jeff (14) is super slacking on his school work and does not want to believe me that 9th grade totally matters. And if he just did his work every day instead of dreading it and putting it off he would do so much better. Ugh! He wants me to leave him alone to manage his own work, etc. etc. I would love to let him do that - but he sneaks and hides and lies.....hmmmm....methinks that is why I don't let him manage it all on his own. But trying to get him to "own" his stuff is making me crazy.

Thanks for the space for the mini-rant. We now return to regular Molly programming.

If it makes you feel any better, girls are no better than boys. My daughters so the very same thing and I think they are much sneakier.

Mini rants ALWAYS allowed at my place! Unless they are about me. Those I prefer to be off in hidden corners where I can't find them.


OK just noticed that a friend's page on FB now shows up as "single". She got married at 22. Is now 42. A little bit shocking to find out this way, but she's the one that arranged the Madonna concert trip I have been talking about since Nov '08...it's not that it's a *surprise* to find this out, but I sure would like to know where her ex-husband is so I can send him a card! The phone book won't work, since they live in a very Mexican-centric town, he has a very Mexican last name, and his first name is very simple. I'd be calling for DAYS. Anyway, I "saw" her online the other night, saw that she was logged in, but I was logging off and we aren't really close anymore...now I know what she was doing, I guess.

I guess this is how people feel when finding out big things on FB, but she didn't even post about it to her friends...just changed the relationship status. Definitely weird.



Waffling on the car rental situation again! Gah!

I find it sad that you found out that way about your friend. You could try searching for her husband on google. You might surprised at what you find.

I understand waffling on the car. I think that I would lean towards it. I hate being stranded in a strange place with no car.

 

[bumbershoot]

I asked the mutual friend about it, and she said they've been living separately for a year. That she's grown and he hasn't. And while that is true, I'm sure, in some ways...honestly from her behavior on the girl's trip, I would say she was busy growing interests in other men...not in some deep philosophical way... But who knows. It's entirely possible that he wasn't ever much more than a sweet and incredibly handsome face. Looked like an Aztec warrior, hello... But I can understand that if that is ALL you've got going for you, it could get old.

Robert is completely distraught. This couple, along with my brother and his wife, are the longest-married of our friends, and it's really disturbing to him to have such marriages end. And Robert wasn't even at their wedding like I was (a bridesmaid). But he's way more of a romantic than I am, so it makes sense that he's so bothered by this. He made me promise that if I stop wanting to be married, that I would just get a divorce, that I wouldn't have flings for 2 years (and this woman bought a condo 2 states away, as well). Poor guy, he's upset.


The car thing...I'm just getting stressed about the money for it. We're spending so relatively much on clothes and shoes and all the other things...clothes for E, those would be purchased anyway, but everything else is being bought right now FOR this trip (and beyond), and it's adding up! So even though I've budgeted for a car...it's still stressing me out.

 

[kaoden39]

That is sad. Scotty and I are lucky as far as friends who have been married for years. We have a few friends that even have grown children, but we also have some that are not still together. We both felt that we were getting married for life. I feel sorry for Robert, Scotty is the same way. Why is it men seem much more naive than women are? DO they just naturally want to see the best in everyone?

I stressed so much over money on our trip in June, I drove everyone crazy. I ended up spending less than I expected and came home with money that I had ear marked for the trip.

 

[bumbershoot]

I feel sorry for Robert, Scotty is the same way. Why is it men seem much more naive than women are? DO they just naturally want to see the best in everyone?

It is amazing when they are like that, isn't it? Then you combine it with the inability to multi-task, and all the other things that many women tend to be better at than many men tend to be, and sometimes I really wonder....how exactly is it that men tend to be leaders while women are not? Just a little confusing.

But it is very nice to have a sweet husband. I do have a few friends with manly-man husbands who don't have strong emotions about human-emotion things, and I would absolutely hate that.


It would really help the trip's bottom line if I'd actually get to the post office to mail the CDs off to be sold....and today is a pretty day, so why am I inside?

 

[bumbershoot]

Let's just pretend I didn't double post, and I'll post something else here later. Right now we're off for a walk!


We're back. Ah, a walk can change your day! I feel refreshed. Energized. Ready to do those surveys. And I finally spent some of this month's "fun" money to buy a latte. Yay.

 

[kaoden39]

I am glad that Scotty is more sensitive too. My dad was always a "mans man" when he was young. Drove me nuts.

A walk sounds wonderful. Our weather is ugly today.

 

[bumbershoot]

Well, Robert might be a romantic, but I obviously cannot give up on friends. Just sent the friend a note, because, frankly, I'd rather support her since she's made a firm decision, rather be around her while she was waffling and just being naughty. And I want to be a good person. And I want to show her what support is...you don't have to agree with the person, but you do have to be caring...so that maybe she can do that with me someday! (she was pretty heartless after Eamon's arrival...I got to hear about the drug they gave her while she was waiting for epidurals, and how she hated that drug, for TEN YEARS, and she wouldn't let me talk about what happened with E even a month after he arrived...)

I do not know why I am so loyal! Oh well.

Anyway, during the Madonna concert trip, she had a chance to hear me blabbing on the phone to Robert about her behavior...she never talked to me about it, but I felt bad anyway (who knew she was sitting in the living room of the condo having a heart to heart with the guy she'd met the first night we were there, as I walked on the sidewalk under open windows?), even though I was just talking to my husband. And even though I did not agree with her behavior (having been there done that on the other side), I don't mind being there for her now.

Hmm. Maybe that doesn't make me a friend at all. On the other hand, if she'd *talked* to me/us about it during the Madonna concert trip or afterwards we could have hashed it out...


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But the REAL question is...cut off the hair into a bob that suits my face, or leave the hair long b/c the hair itself is impressive when long?

Yeah, cut it. I know.

You know what I'd like to do? Make a wig out of my OWN hair. So I could have it short normally, but when I really felt like it, put the wig on. That would be the best.

 

[kaoden39]

I am like you. Loyal to the end. And talking to Robert is not being disloyal, being disloyal would have been calling her husband. Loyal is listening to your friend talk about their baby and the experience.

I am in a no cut period myself. I haven't found any cuts I like that much and don't want to cut it. My mom tells me I am too old to let it grow. That may be why it isn't getting cut.