To explain today’s bad attitude
Dec 10, 2008 work work work
I had trouble falling asleep last night after spending most of my evening trying to make someone’s code fit someone else’s code and not really succeeding at it. I finally drifted off sometime after midnight and then dreamt about code ALL NIGHT. I woke up because Madison was licking me. When I protested (she was licking the back of my shirt and no I don’t know why) she said, “Fine then! I’ll just lick the dog!” I only wish she’d thought of that sooner.
So I tried to fall back asleep even though dreaming about code is not at all restful but the kids bickered me awake fighting over Noah’s right to fold his papers versus Madison’s right to play with her dollhouse right where he was folding his papers.
The day has been downhill from there mostly because I can’t wake up properly and am still worried about the code issue. I’m going to mess with it some more today after the inlaws (bless their hearts!) come and get Madison to play with her PDX cousin who is here for a quick visit. And I’m going to drink more coffee. And I’m going to burn the CD that the kids have that plays this song because if I hear this song again, I may do something crazy like burn down the house because it contains the CD (warning: don’t click that link and if you do don’t turn up your speakers and if you do don’t do it when your kids are in the house and if you do don’t blame me when your kids fall in love and begain to demand this song daily while they dance wildly and your head pounds).
I sound grouchier than I am. And I’m acting grouchier than I am, too. I actually feel pretty darn cheerful but I’ll be glad to get rid of everybody for awhile so I can get down to work.
HighBall Tonight
Oct 31, 2008 The Story of My Life
I’m going to be working from open to close at HighBall so I’m just dropping by here to say that. I’m not really the kind of gal who goes to a big street party but I wanted to check out the show so I said I’d pull three shifts since that’s more fun than just attending. At least in my book it is! I also featured myself in the last blog. I have no pics of myself in costume because I haven’t been in costume since sixth grade. But my mother-in-law picked up a purple feather mask for me to wear while I serve beer. Nice, isn’t she? Purple feathers is just the ticket for HighBall!
The kids had a good time at my dad’s last night. Madison got in an argument with us this morning when we were talking about Pennie going around with her and Noah said, “Yeah Pennie’s great” and Madison said, “Pennie is MINE!” Take that, Noah!
This was on the way back from picking them up from Gram and Gramp’s house. I had a client meeting to go over products for their spring catalog. I took a camera to get some detail shots but my battery died halfway through it so then I had to rely on the shoddy camera in my phone. Alas. I hope my notes make sense when I get going.
They’re going around again tonight with a friend of Noah’s who’s coming over and maybe my inlaws. I’m a little sad about missing tucking Maddie in because she generally needs a good tucking in after a busy night but Brett can tuck as well as I can. (I’m the one who’ll miss her not the other way around.) I will also miss Brett because it would be about 86 times more fun if he could come, too.
Anyway. I’m off!
Tags: halloween, HighBall, inlaws, Madison, my dad, Noah, short north, volunteering
One more video
Aug 28, 2008 Read/heard/seen
Of the family I linked to before (you can get to the main site here if this link isn’t working). This one is called “A Taste of Heaven” and if you don’t want to listen to the sermon, let the whole thing load and then forward to the middle of the show for their music video.
Ok, the video is unintentionally funny (especially when the kids come sneaking out of a black van with rifles) but one of the things I find interesting is that clearly the family came to their modest dress, long hair and picture hats for ladies somewhat late. The girls have shorter hair and the family used to worship in a church. I wonder if it’s been hard for them (the kids) to embrace a lifestyle that is much more restrictive?
The other thing that’s interesting to me is that this family — and their patriarch — is obviously pretty active and colorful and creative. It doesn’t look to me like the other family — the one the girls married into because the girls go live with their husbands with their inlaws — has anything like the same spark. I wonder if the girl who married INTO this family and who now lives with them ever feels overwhelmed by having such a charismatic father-in-law. I wonder if the other two girls who left this family ever miss their duties helping run this show, which gave them a much larger scope than their homemaking lives must have now.
I just wonder about it. And even if I know without a doubt that I’d go stark, raving mad I also hope they’re happy because regardless of our VERY different beliefs, I feel very fond of Kressant and her little sister. (I’m going to go ahead and link to their blogs but please be respectful and don’t flamewar them. For one thing, if they take them down I’d be very sad to lose my glimpse into their lives and for another, it’d be unlikely to make them WANT to change and would just convince them that the outside world is, indeed, a cruel and un-godly one: The Smith Family and Mortonclan Anytime you see mention of the Plath family, that’s Brett’s cousin.)
Tags: creative, fundamentalism, homeschool, inlaws, Music
