Saturday, November 21, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
where has my mojo gone?
soooo i have a bunch of half-written stuff from september and october but i can't for the life of me get enough motivation to finish any of them. it's what happens when i start writing about something when i'm excited about it, get interrupted for whatever reason, and then come back only to read what i've written and get exhausted at the sheer amount of detail. so maybe it's a good thing i haven't posted them, because detail usually = boring.
but here's a quick summary of all kinds of highlights since early september.
#1 niek turned 4 on october 12th. he's the sweetest most lovable snugglebug ever. he has his moments (quite a few of them actually) throughout the day where i want to rip my hair out, but he's so damn cute that it's easy to forget about it. he's animated, hyper, talkative and descriptive (so basically talking to him is like talking to a real-life stream of consciousness), and pretty damn funny. and over the past few weeks, i've seen a few lightbulbs flicker as i'm trying to teach him stuff. for example, he no longer wants to eat his toes when i'm showing him numbers. also? each night i get "a hug, a regular kiss, a kitty cat kiss, and a butterfly kiss." love him.
#2 might as well update on the other kids. artin has all of a sudden picked up some kind of smartass gene. i told him last week to write me a paragraph of our day and what we did, and to make it 100 words. he goes "okay." and then the fucker comes back with "blah blah blah blah" x 100. also kicking ass in karate and overall being the good example to the younger two. heehee
avisa. oh my, how do i word this without making it seem like i want to shove her back into my uterus? fuck it. i DO want to shove her back into my uterus, so i guess there will be no misleading here. bad points: she's mean. she bullies the boys, takes their toys, bites, pinches, screams, and is overall a pain in their ass. she enjoys tormenting them and often likes to instigate shit just to get a reaction out of them. keep in mind, she's not even 2. and when you ask her to say sorry? "i sowwy" with all the works--sad face, lips pouted, head tilted to the side. but you know what's right beneath that little pout? a fucking smile. her sorries are not genuine. sometimes i wonder if she will be a sociopath. the good: she's picking up phrases left and right, using more words which has sort of led to less tantrums. and best. hugs. everrrrrrrrr.
#3 okay enough of the shits. i went to 2 u2 concerts, one with GA admission, one with seats. GA experience kicked the seats experience's ass. so when u2 comes back next summer, i'm doing GA and only GA. shows on my itinerary so far: anaheim, denver, miami, and oakland...and maybe philly, and okay fine i want to go to ny too. i doubt i'll make all of them but i'll be damned if i don't try.
#4 went to cali for a few days, saw the fam, met aida's kyle and his family and realized that there is a fine line between "fun with the family" and "too much time with family omg they're driving me crazy"...this time it was all fun. my trip last year where i stayed for about 2 months? too much. so i need to keep my visits somewhere between 4 days and 2 months. :)
#5 i got a dog, then gave the dog back. my little mutt from the spca. apparently when you're the only person in the house that wants a dog, you shouldn't get a dog. i cried for two days when i gave her back and was super bummed...then we all got the flu and i'll be honest, as i was lying in the fetal position wishing i would just die because i had never felt so bad in my life, i was relieved i didn't have yet another little helpless thing to take care of. because i would rather have had someone stab in my eyeballs with a sickle than think about taking the dog out for a walk. anyway, it sucked ass but on the brightside the kids got their mommy back. on the downside, the dog was the only one that would jump on avisa and be able to pin her down and now she's back as king of the pin. so, you know...you win some, you lose some.
let's see...what else what else...that's about it. oh, and we're finally narrowing down where we'll live, so it's good to finally have a small glimpse of the future. and i will now publish this post before it sits and festers.
but here's a quick summary of all kinds of highlights since early september.
#1 niek turned 4 on october 12th. he's the sweetest most lovable snugglebug ever. he has his moments (quite a few of them actually) throughout the day where i want to rip my hair out, but he's so damn cute that it's easy to forget about it. he's animated, hyper, talkative and descriptive (so basically talking to him is like talking to a real-life stream of consciousness), and pretty damn funny. and over the past few weeks, i've seen a few lightbulbs flicker as i'm trying to teach him stuff. for example, he no longer wants to eat his toes when i'm showing him numbers. also? each night i get "a hug, a regular kiss, a kitty cat kiss, and a butterfly kiss." love him.
#2 might as well update on the other kids. artin has all of a sudden picked up some kind of smartass gene. i told him last week to write me a paragraph of our day and what we did, and to make it 100 words. he goes "okay." and then the fucker comes back with "blah blah blah blah" x 100. also kicking ass in karate and overall being the good example to the younger two. heehee
avisa. oh my, how do i word this without making it seem like i want to shove her back into my uterus? fuck it. i DO want to shove her back into my uterus, so i guess there will be no misleading here. bad points: she's mean. she bullies the boys, takes their toys, bites, pinches, screams, and is overall a pain in their ass. she enjoys tormenting them and often likes to instigate shit just to get a reaction out of them. keep in mind, she's not even 2. and when you ask her to say sorry? "i sowwy" with all the works--sad face, lips pouted, head tilted to the side. but you know what's right beneath that little pout? a fucking smile. her sorries are not genuine. sometimes i wonder if she will be a sociopath. the good: she's picking up phrases left and right, using more words which has sort of led to less tantrums. and best. hugs. everrrrrrrrr.
#3 okay enough of the shits. i went to 2 u2 concerts, one with GA admission, one with seats. GA experience kicked the seats experience's ass. so when u2 comes back next summer, i'm doing GA and only GA. shows on my itinerary so far: anaheim, denver, miami, and oakland...and maybe philly, and okay fine i want to go to ny too. i doubt i'll make all of them but i'll be damned if i don't try.
#4 went to cali for a few days, saw the fam, met aida's kyle and his family and realized that there is a fine line between "fun with the family" and "too much time with family omg they're driving me crazy"...this time it was all fun. my trip last year where i stayed for about 2 months? too much. so i need to keep my visits somewhere between 4 days and 2 months. :)
#5 i got a dog, then gave the dog back. my little mutt from the spca. apparently when you're the only person in the house that wants a dog, you shouldn't get a dog. i cried for two days when i gave her back and was super bummed...then we all got the flu and i'll be honest, as i was lying in the fetal position wishing i would just die because i had never felt so bad in my life, i was relieved i didn't have yet another little helpless thing to take care of. because i would rather have had someone stab in my eyeballs with a sickle than think about taking the dog out for a walk. anyway, it sucked ass but on the brightside the kids got their mommy back. on the downside, the dog was the only one that would jump on avisa and be able to pin her down and now she's back as king of the pin. so, you know...you win some, you lose some.
let's see...what else what else...that's about it. oh, and we're finally narrowing down where we'll live, so it's good to finally have a small glimpse of the future. and i will now publish this post before it sits and festers.
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