I’ve been delinquent in my blogging duties. Presley’s birthday was Sunday—she turned five!—and Wellington’s was yesterday. No one’s quite sure how old he is. I planned long, celebratory posts with pictures and stories and then didn’t write them.
Lori e-mailed more photos from the big San Francisco weekend to which I was not invited. I would like to showcase them in a post or two, along with snarky comments about not being invited.
I have half a post written about crappy Christmas lights in my neighborhood—thankfully, none of them on our friends’ homes, or I’d have to censor my critiques and NOBODY CENSORS JEN’S CRITIQUES—but I have no energy to finish it. So let me ask this: neighbors, have you seen the blue icicle lights that are sort of hanging on that one house? I’ve driven around the block several times just to see them again because they’re so unbelievably awful and they make me laugh and feel fortunate I’m not married to whoever is responsible for such hilarious workmanship.
The fan in our master bath stopped working. After our showers the room stays full of steam for way too long. It makes me want to take my shower in the kids’ bathroom except I don’t because it’s the kids’ bathroom and the cooties in there are bigger than I am.
Yesterday the toilet in the half bath was running so I took off the tank lid to jiggle the float and it snapped right off. And now I have to go to Home Depot and try not to giggle when I ask where I can find a ballcock.
Christmas shopping is finally done and I’m happily sitting back, waiting for orders to be delivered. That’s a relief. I do all the gift-wrapping after the kids have gone to bed, though, which has put me behind on the TiVo-watching I usually do in the late evenings. I don’t like when I get behind on TiVo because there’s so much good stuff on there, I can’t possibly delete without watching. I’m able to transfer to DVDs to watch later but I tend to forget about the DVDs so that doesn’t work so well. Maybe I’ll take everything to Sunriver and spend the holidays watching CSI and Law & Order and Bizarre Foods and Dirty Jobs. (That oughta make anyone feel grateful for an uncomplicated life.)
Finally and most significantly, work is exhausting me. I’m still on a ginormous project and have reached the most challenging stage. I keep thinking I’m at a halfway point and then another issue pops up that takes twelve people to resolve and my progress gets delayed again. I’ve got every living brain cell working and because my noggin’s not used to such strenuous activity, I’m pretty sure it’s on the verge of striking back.
So there ya go. I have a bunch of reasons to blog and but other things are getting in the way. Pfft.
Well, you just made me feel a whole heap better. (I know that's what you were aiming for.) I have been semi-out-of-commission all week with a very ill computer and way too many catering duties. So when I finally thought, Oh, there's Seth's computer, it was almost like, dang, really, do I have to blog?
ReplyDeleteSo! I look forward to the day when pondering a Thursday Thirteen sounds more like fun than torture, and all my files are clean and not filled with nasty viruses!
Meanwhile, I will be sitting by the mailbox, just waiting, and waiting and waiting for a little piece of Manullang sunshine to fill the sad and empty places inside. Sniff.