This and That
Aug. 15th, 2005 12:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altarflameI think that that rule about not eating after 6 for healthy weight is for people who go to bed at 9 or 10. Right? I go to bed at 3 or 4. So I shouldn't eat after midnight? I mean I'm pregnant and hypoglycemic and don't generally feel very well if I go more than like 2 hours without at least a snack, and in the third trimester it's normal for me to have a small snack with lots of protein right before bed, so that I'm not miserable when I get up in the morning/don't get sick from the iron I take right before going to sleep. But I'm not talking about that - I'm talking about how I made a stir fry of chicken, brocoli, red peppers, squash, zuccini, mushrooms, spinach, tomatoes and corn over brown rice, with terriyaki at 11 pm for Grant and I to stuff ourselves with as if we were hobbits who need second dinner. Is there anyone else on my friends page who finds themselves cooking up a big meal to tide them over for the long haul that comes AFTER the kids are in bed? o_O
Speaking of kids and bed, tonight Ananda again brought me her bible as one of her book choices (along with Curious George and Sometimes I Like to Curl up in a Ball), and we continued our way through Luke, starting with John the Baptist. I have to stop often to explain concepts and metaphors, even though it is a kids' bible and she is pretty sharp. When I tried to explain to her what it means for us to bear fruit, she finally acted like she got it, and said "Oh, it's not REAL fruit, it's doing good stuff and not sinning and helping people and loving everybody. It's AIR FRUIT, that you can't see because it's invisible." And also she said she interrupted me to say she really wants to get baptized when she's older, but she'll have to bring a change of clothes :p It makes me happy that she has such enthusiasm for this on her own. My constant prayer is "Please, Lord, speak with my mouth, touch with my hands".
Random:
-One of my favorite things is to send the kids out to the garden to pick fresh herbs while I'm cooking our dinner. It makes me really happy and they love it. If it was not for Grant Sr, I would TOTALLY have a couple of chickens in the backyard for fresh eggs, and they'd be collecting those as well. He's not even willing to consider that, though, I think it's a class thing.
-Our living situation has become temporary. Apparently there is a promotion for Grant Sr opening up next summer (he works for the DEA) that will be in either Georgia or Colorado. This is on our minds a lot. Aside from the very slim possibility that we would be able to take on all the bills here ourselves by then (which I would really love), we've talked about things like moving to some of the land Grant's mother's family owns, like building or renting a little place on it, in Lake City (northernmost Florida) or even getting an RV or some such craziness. The bottom line is we really have no plan at all. Liqwid Tech is doing better than ever, but it's slow starting as he's kind of rebuilding it (new name, new site, new cards and shirts, lots of new customers who haven't paid yet). I think I could actually supplement our income with this yarn business and possibly freelance writing stuff as well. He's looking at a part time IT position with another business similar to his, to supplement, and thinking of starting up with airsoft gun selling on the weekends again. I'm really ambivalent about that, but understand where he's coming from. What would be amazingly sweet is if he could get a couple more clients who offer ongoing, continuous income (from site maintenance contracts and hosting bills) and Schnebly started doing big business (he gets 15% of websales, and they have huge sales projections, but it's still very new).
S'all for now.
Speaking of kids and bed, tonight Ananda again brought me her bible as one of her book choices (along with Curious George and Sometimes I Like to Curl up in a Ball), and we continued our way through Luke, starting with John the Baptist. I have to stop often to explain concepts and metaphors, even though it is a kids' bible and she is pretty sharp. When I tried to explain to her what it means for us to bear fruit, she finally acted like she got it, and said "Oh, it's not REAL fruit, it's doing good stuff and not sinning and helping people and loving everybody. It's AIR FRUIT, that you can't see because it's invisible." And also she said she interrupted me to say she really wants to get baptized when she's older, but she'll have to bring a change of clothes :p It makes me happy that she has such enthusiasm for this on her own. My constant prayer is "Please, Lord, speak with my mouth, touch with my hands".
Random:
-One of my favorite things is to send the kids out to the garden to pick fresh herbs while I'm cooking our dinner. It makes me really happy and they love it. If it was not for Grant Sr, I would TOTALLY have a couple of chickens in the backyard for fresh eggs, and they'd be collecting those as well. He's not even willing to consider that, though, I think it's a class thing.
-Our living situation has become temporary. Apparently there is a promotion for Grant Sr opening up next summer (he works for the DEA) that will be in either Georgia or Colorado. This is on our minds a lot. Aside from the very slim possibility that we would be able to take on all the bills here ourselves by then (which I would really love), we've talked about things like moving to some of the land Grant's mother's family owns, like building or renting a little place on it, in Lake City (northernmost Florida) or even getting an RV or some such craziness. The bottom line is we really have no plan at all. Liqwid Tech is doing better than ever, but it's slow starting as he's kind of rebuilding it (new name, new site, new cards and shirts, lots of new customers who haven't paid yet). I think I could actually supplement our income with this yarn business and possibly freelance writing stuff as well. He's looking at a part time IT position with another business similar to his, to supplement, and thinking of starting up with airsoft gun selling on the weekends again. I'm really ambivalent about that, but understand where he's coming from. What would be amazingly sweet is if he could get a couple more clients who offer ongoing, continuous income (from site maintenance contracts and hosting bills) and Schnebly started doing big business (he gets 15% of websales, and they have huge sales projections, but it's still very new).
S'all for now.
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Date: 2005-08-15 03:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-15 04:45 pm (UTC)How beautiful.
Laura
Date: 2005-08-17 08:04 pm (UTC)I would really like to know more about this stuff though.