Monthly Archives: February 2008

My plan for brainwashing WORKS!

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Yesterday was a tough day. I’ll keep the whine short, but it involved a 3 year old wanting to sleep in her  "beautiful red dress" and a 5 year old insisting that I didn’t understand how hard it was for her to eat vegetables. I do understand, Soleil, I do. I was pregnant with your sister and nearly vomited anytime I saw a veggie, but I ate them!

Last night, we finally had them both down. Jay and I played a round of Star wars Legos and then… Luna woke up. She was in pain. We finally figured out it was ear pain. I have an appointment at the otolyarengologist for March 3.  I finally got her calm by letting her watch hockey in our bedroom. We have the hockey package and the only game on was a California broadcast of the LA Kings vs the Phoenix Coyotes. During one ad for a Monster Truck rally, Luna told Jay, "We can’t buy that. It’s on TV and it’s in California."  

Well, Color me happy! I’ve been telling her that I won’t buy things in ads just because the TV tells me to buy it.

However, I am still working on how she understands that California is far away from Massachusetts? 

Assvice time!

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I am getting ready to schedule my eye doctor appointment. I am planning to ask about LASIK.

So, dear Internets, Help me out here. Any assvice? Should I do this? What is the recovery time? Should I just stick with contacts and glasses for the rest of my life?

 What are the risks? Is the surgery itself long or painful or just plain freaky?

ASSVICE PLEASE!
 

It’s raining again

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It’s been a while, so I thought I would give a little depression update.

To be honest, things have been good. I don’t mean "Little Mary Sunshine" good, but I am doing well in controlling the depression and feelings of despair. I kicked my meds up this week because I was alone with the kids. Jay returns tonight, so I should do okay.

My biggest issue remains time management. I have some other issues (body image, eating, self-esteem), but time management is the biggest issue I have to content with. I tend to get overwhelmed with what I need to do in life. Which turns on me. I start to panic over everything that has to get done. I panic over the simplest of things and then it snowballs into a disaster. I am working on this issue. It’s hard, but I am working on it.

I have found that the exercise is helping a great deal. I try to work out 4-5 times a week. I am focusing on strength training. I can see some incredible muscle development in my legs (as if I need it there! My calves are larger than Jay’s) and if I could lose some fat, I would look amazing! But,  the best part of the exercise is that I feel CALM afterwords. Really calm. It helps so much and when I don’t exercise in 2 weeks, I feel terrible. The anxiety kicks back in and I just start to stress.

My current plan of depression control is this:

  • Keep exercising
  • Stay on the meds
  • Accept that I can’t do EVERYTHING I want to
  • Try to be good to me

And that is my depression update…getting better…

Stuffing the mailbox

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Today I’ve been working on setting up my gmail account. I am moving my email to gmail.

Why? well, for one, Jay keeps threatening to move us over to verizon. And I am getting tired of constantly changing my email addresses.

So I am going to work on this, cleaning up the email and moving over there…. Wish me luck…. 

Weekend Recap…

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Wow, What a weekend!

I left my office Thursday and took several forms of public transportation to get to the airport. The TSA is starting to fall apart. The lines were non existent and then the attitude of "you are all idiots. You are making my life miserable by not following our silly rules." Sigh… The flight in was, um, non-fun (I will not elaborate, thank you very much) but I made in at 10:00ish. I met up with V & H & L. We got to the house and ate and chatted and were up to 1 am.

Friday was a few airport runs for L2 & S and V2 came over. V2 was our hostess and she was staying across the street with her family. We talked and relaxed and drank. Nice! Then we got some nice dinner out. There was a crazy couple that was drunk off their butts. It was quite odd and they needed a cab, but after they talked to our table, they left to head home! YIKES!

The next morning, K joined us and 6 of us left the Kissimee airport with V2′s husband and a co-pilot for a trip to Key West in V2′s family jet (I know! I know, they have a life that most of us envy!). Key West, folks. As in Jimmy Buffett land! OMG, I had gone to heaven! We ate with the chickens and roosters. Then we went to Duval street to get tattoos and piercings. I had been thinking of a second piercing in my ear for a while. So I did! We did have to wait a while. I am allergic to surgical steel (OK, the nickel in it) so I gave them my earing I was wearing and they sterilized it first. H got her nose pierced. K got a tattoo on her shoulder that contains the initials of her triplets and the initial of the boy she was the surrogate mother for. Then V got a tattoo on her hip for her daughter. They looked awesome, but painful!
L & V2 watched, an S & L2 stayed back at the house (S is pregnant and needed to stay laying down for a bit)

I got a margarita at Margaritaville! OMG, amazing… I wish I could stay there for a weekend just to relax….

Alas, we had to leave, and my friends learned something new about me. Even though I travel, um, extensively, I HATE TO FLY. L was sitting next to me on the plane and kept checking that I was breathing, especially when we hit some turbulence.

They all made fun of me for traveling so much, but being terrified of flying. For the record, I DID go on the plane. That is much better than in 1996 when I was flying to Huntsville, AL on a regular basis and I had to do some serious shots before getting on the damn plane….

I think every woman (and man) needs time away with friends… 

 

If you guessed…

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Ear piercing… you were right!

 

Tattoo? seriously? I am not that masochistic….yet….

 

I just got one of two kids to bed. Jay and I had a coffee at the airport before he flew out to Pasadena. We’ll see each other on Wednesday night….

Tomorrow? A recap of the weekend.

Guess which?

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6 Women went to Key West.

One got a tattoo on her Shoulder

One got her nose pierced

One got a tattoo her hip 

One got a new ear piercing

two watched

Guess which one I did?

 

Sadly, I head home today….But friends are the greatest! 

I can say FUCK!

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I am really enjoying Florida! It is cloudy today and the pool heater is broken, but I love it here. I was up late yesterday and I slept in this morning… UNTIL 10 am.

 And there are no kids here, so I can say FUCK and SHIT and FUCKITY fuck that fuckity shit! He he he!

 

I love having some time with out kids. Although I do miss them!