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Ch-ch-changes | Conspiracy Theories
Aug. 26th, 2009 02:01 amI am having an extremely busy and productive Real Life. I've been spending copious amounts of time (i.e., every waking minute) doing things like;
-entering civilized society by decreeing and enforcing that we all make our beds upon waking...the kids love this to a degree that meansthey're nerds there is really something to regimentation and structure in kids' lives.
-scouring flylady.net despite all my eye rolling and general misgivings and using the bits and pieces I can to customize - that's right - a daily and weekly plan for housekeeping that involves things like dividing my house into "zones".
-going through the ongoing, neverending work of this Giant Room Swap we're doing. I managed to clean Ananda and Aaron's room top to bottom, which includes cleaning out their entire his and her organizational (HAHA) closets, and overflowing mess of a shelving unit, and all their clothes storage and all of it, so that we can do things like actually install their baseboards and move on to the office, which needs scouring, painting and baseboards so Aaron can move in. Which will necessitate finishing what I've only started on our huge closet disaster, so that it can be my sewing room, and putting my desk in our bedroom where Elise's bed is. Which will mean freecycling her bed and getting her and Annie bunk beds to go in what will then be their shared room.
-listing, then prioritizing, and then scheduling all our homeschooling areas and plans for 4th grade Annie, 3rd grade Aaron, Kindergarden Isaac and preschool Jake, in and around factors like Grant's work schedule and involvement, their dance classes and AWANA, and keeping the Sabbath Holy. We're starting September 1.
Grant finished reconstructing the chicken coop in a new and less vulnerable way today. I'll be getting bedding for their nest area, a new waterer and a pole for them to roost on, and some hot wire to turn on at night for the outside tomorrow at the feed store and then we're moving them out of the office because really, that is also necessary to the room swap now that they're getting a little bigger.
There's been a lot of writing for Grant's website clients - which is $40 an hour paid work. And a lot of talking my mom through major developments with my Nana (positive stuff! She's eating with a fork by herself and not being transferred to long term care! They're restarting her therapy work because she can move her left arm again!), reading out loud to all of my kids, and sitting outside talking with them while chicks run around.
Also tons of cooking as per usual, but now when I go to bed at night the kitchen is clean. It all started with me using 5 kettles of boiling water to make counters look brand new, and today after picking up a massive producce co-op haul and making a run to BJ's (warehouse store) that kitchen is a sight to behold.
So yeah I have not had a lot of blogging time. Or facebook or email time. But I have visited my mother in law and assured her we'll never put her in a home, and gotten one on one with Ananda, and combed Elise's hair even though she's so averse to anyone messing with, pulling or washing her hair that it leaves me emotionally exhausted by the end.
And, above all, I think I might actually have a sustainable way to make this school year happen and keep this house maintained!
This really seems like some kind of suspicious miracle to me, that I am not quite ready to trust. But mostly I am excited.
EVERYONE I KNOW IS FULL OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES. Everywhere I turn. It's starting to make me think *I* am the crazy one.
-My Dad emails me a couple of times a week lately, and has kept me on the phone for an hour once, and he wants me to know things like how Obama engineered swine flu to kill whitey - really Tina have you noticed a single case of a black person with swine flu? "Think about it." he tells me and I'm like, uh. WOW. I got an email tonight that said, "PROOF POSITIVE".
-My Nana's Pa (as opposed to Ma's Pa...this is the one I just visited in Lakeland), has spent 30 minutes or more during both of our most recent visits filling me in on chemtrails and the New World Order. Google them, he tells me. I'll see. I invite you to google them if you want further information. He is dead serious and I don't always know what to think and what degrees or nuggets of truth could possibly be buried in all this.
-many conservatives I know are talking about converting their dollars to gold bars and/or moving out to the country because of the way Obama is wrecking the country
-almost all of the Catholic or Orthodox I know are convinced we are living in the end of the end times to the degree that they regularly fear things like being martyred in front of their children
-Grant is trying to convince me we need to consider our realistic options because Florida is likely to be completely underwater within our lifetime, like to where we can scuba dive over our old neighborhood and look down at Grant Sr's house and all. (he at least sees reason, we did a lot of research together and believe now that it's more like, the state will lose 100-400 feet off the shorelines over the next 100 years. The more immediate problem is actually the fresh water supplies as salt water encroaches. But I digress.)
-I was kind of venting all of this to a real life friend the other day and when I got to the part about how the New World Order thing involves previous presidents signing treaties with aliens she stopped me to be like, "Now, I do believe THAT to a degree, I mean think about the leaps technology has suddenly made in the last 25 years - think about how big of a deal it was to my parents to get a microwave and now I can stand there talking on the phone in a swamp."
*sigh*
-entering civilized society by decreeing and enforcing that we all make our beds upon waking...the kids love this to a degree that means
-scouring flylady.net despite all my eye rolling and general misgivings and using the bits and pieces I can to customize - that's right - a daily and weekly plan for housekeeping that involves things like dividing my house into "zones".
-going through the ongoing, neverending work of this Giant Room Swap we're doing. I managed to clean Ananda and Aaron's room top to bottom, which includes cleaning out their entire his and her organizational (HAHA) closets, and overflowing mess of a shelving unit, and all their clothes storage and all of it, so that we can do things like actually install their baseboards and move on to the office, which needs scouring, painting and baseboards so Aaron can move in. Which will necessitate finishing what I've only started on our huge closet disaster, so that it can be my sewing room, and putting my desk in our bedroom where Elise's bed is. Which will mean freecycling her bed and getting her and Annie bunk beds to go in what will then be their shared room.
-listing, then prioritizing, and then scheduling all our homeschooling areas and plans for 4th grade Annie, 3rd grade Aaron, Kindergarden Isaac and preschool Jake, in and around factors like Grant's work schedule and involvement, their dance classes and AWANA, and keeping the Sabbath Holy. We're starting September 1.
Grant finished reconstructing the chicken coop in a new and less vulnerable way today. I'll be getting bedding for their nest area, a new waterer and a pole for them to roost on, and some hot wire to turn on at night for the outside tomorrow at the feed store and then we're moving them out of the office because really, that is also necessary to the room swap now that they're getting a little bigger.
There's been a lot of writing for Grant's website clients - which is $40 an hour paid work. And a lot of talking my mom through major developments with my Nana (positive stuff! She's eating with a fork by herself and not being transferred to long term care! They're restarting her therapy work because she can move her left arm again!), reading out loud to all of my kids, and sitting outside talking with them while chicks run around.
Also tons of cooking as per usual, but now when I go to bed at night the kitchen is clean. It all started with me using 5 kettles of boiling water to make counters look brand new, and today after picking up a massive producce co-op haul and making a run to BJ's (warehouse store) that kitchen is a sight to behold.
So yeah I have not had a lot of blogging time. Or facebook or email time. But I have visited my mother in law and assured her we'll never put her in a home, and gotten one on one with Ananda, and combed Elise's hair even though she's so averse to anyone messing with, pulling or washing her hair that it leaves me emotionally exhausted by the end.
And, above all, I think I might actually have a sustainable way to make this school year happen and keep this house maintained!
This really seems like some kind of suspicious miracle to me, that I am not quite ready to trust. But mostly I am excited.
EVERYONE I KNOW IS FULL OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES. Everywhere I turn. It's starting to make me think *I* am the crazy one.
-My Dad emails me a couple of times a week lately, and has kept me on the phone for an hour once, and he wants me to know things like how Obama engineered swine flu to kill whitey - really Tina have you noticed a single case of a black person with swine flu? "Think about it." he tells me and I'm like, uh. WOW. I got an email tonight that said, "PROOF POSITIVE".
-My Nana's Pa (as opposed to Ma's Pa...this is the one I just visited in Lakeland), has spent 30 minutes or more during both of our most recent visits filling me in on chemtrails and the New World Order. Google them, he tells me. I'll see. I invite you to google them if you want further information. He is dead serious and I don't always know what to think and what degrees or nuggets of truth could possibly be buried in all this.
-many conservatives I know are talking about converting their dollars to gold bars and/or moving out to the country because of the way Obama is wrecking the country
-almost all of the Catholic or Orthodox I know are convinced we are living in the end of the end times to the degree that they regularly fear things like being martyred in front of their children
-Grant is trying to convince me we need to consider our realistic options because Florida is likely to be completely underwater within our lifetime, like to where we can scuba dive over our old neighborhood and look down at Grant Sr's house and all. (he at least sees reason, we did a lot of research together and believe now that it's more like, the state will lose 100-400 feet off the shorelines over the next 100 years. The more immediate problem is actually the fresh water supplies as salt water encroaches. But I digress.)
-I was kind of venting all of this to a real life friend the other day and when I got to the part about how the New World Order thing involves previous presidents signing treaties with aliens she stopped me to be like, "Now, I do believe THAT to a degree, I mean think about the leaps technology has suddenly made in the last 25 years - think about how big of a deal it was to my parents to get a microwave and now I can stand there talking on the phone in a swamp."
*sigh*
