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Everything in all of my days now:
Mar. 11th, 2009 12:28 pmGeneral Health
-as in charting everything I eat via Weight Watchers points
-excercise, like riding bikes for 40 minutes Sunday with Aaron, walking with the double stroller (J&E) for an hour Monday, swimming with Annie for an hour yesterday
-general rollercoaster between feeling accepting of myself and good about my progress, and self-loathing with fits of disgust and hopelessness(that is usually a 15 minute burst when I try to find something to wear each morning or fresh from the shower).
Re-establishing my faith in a deeper way
-church had a big communion service and we sang Amazing Grace and I was basically a happy wreck. Then came a week of spiritual battle type stuff that had me struggling bad, and now I feel like I've sort of come out the other side.
-plus it's Lent, and I keep revisiting that, mentally and with study
Grant and I
-There is a lot of lingering weariness in him from my long year of being severely complicated, sensitive, sleepless and hysterical (FOR ME!!) from ptsd
-and lingering resentment from us having to wade through what is ok with both of us, for either of us, in a bunch of different ways
-but we still hug and kiss and mean it everyday...and go to bed happy everynight. It's just been too many strained, pained conversations ending with cuddling and sighs.
-I am really fucking blessed to have a man who goes to scripture when he's mad at me and comes back talking about how he's supposed to sacrifice himself to me as Christ sacrificed himself for all of us, acting genuinely humble and saying it's time for a massage. I mean...*blinkblink*
Gardening
-tomatos need staked soon, basil seeds have finally popped out through the dirt, it all gets watered every other day
-butterfly garden flower assortment has yet to pop through, watering that flower bed about three times a week
-lantanas in the front are starting to get overgrown, we fixed the falling brick wall yesterday and I'll be pruning them asap
-new and newly transplanted gardenia is getting pruned as the flowers die and it and this other thing I have on the front porch get watered daily
-all the philodendrons on top of the kitchen cabinets need to be watered once a week, which is only noteworthy because I have to use a stepladder
-trying to keep Isaac watering his little window garden that he got for his birthday...the seedlings are looking battered, though
Kids!
-A and A have been doing Abeka and cursive practice about every other day, and we've gotten them back into RightStart math manipulatives and science experiments here and there throughout the week
-they LOVE church and I get compliments every week that they go
-I'm reading her an Amelia Earheart biography and him a Harry Houdini bio, so they can get ready to dress up as those people and talk about "themselves" at PATH's "Historically Speaking" event later this month
-they're starting our local Friday School (a homeschool co-op deal where we all volunteer and pool resources) - she in ceramics, Junior Chefs and piano, and him probably in tai kwon do, piano and chess
-they're both really puberty-oriented lately, constantly asking me questions and pouring over their boy and girl versions of "What's Happening to Me?" with and without me
-and then there's AWANA on Weds, PATH on Thursdays, Game Night on Fridays...
-we're trying to get Jake and Elise out of our bed in earnest
-Isaac and I spent a long time browsing around blogs, flickr groups and tutorial sites yesterday and now there are multiple things he wants me to make him, that I've promised him in priority order (starting with a vine hung with flowers to hang along his wall)
-reading to youngest three everyday, even if just one book each
-ELISE PEED IN THE POTTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! We aren't pushing her at all, but we've made it available and talk about it sometimes and she's naked about half the day so long as we're home and inside
-trying to be consistent and serious enough to get Jake's temper under control
Writing
-Seven of 12 short stories for a themed collection are done
-Title, outline, table of contents, intro and beginning of first chapter are done for c/s book, and I've also amassed a long, long file including book titles, studies done, documentaries to watch, people to interrogate, university libraries I need to plunder online, etc, labeled "RESEARCH"
-email to myself full of possible agents for these things, previously completed works and another book I'm not ready to talk about, done, so I can start querying people
-I think about this stuff all day long but only get to work on it if I can outlast everyone and still concentrate, late at night, or in the 1-6 hours I get when Grant is off, to go off on my own for writing (just depends on everything else going on). And I'm working on a lot at once. So it's all very slow going, which I'm dealing with pretty well.
Animal Care
-cats need new food twice a day and new litter once a week
-chicks need to be checked on fairly often, have recently moved on from a little paper lined bird cage to the big portable rabbit pen on top of a spread-out sleeping bag, and make a giant mess of my office on a regular basis with their dust and fluff and scratching and shredding of paper. They'll be outside in a run/coop soon, and suddenly be much simpler then
-rabbits are "A and A's responsibility", which means I have to constantly remind them to change the box, check their water, get chewables off their bedroom floor, and oversee time the bunnies spend running around the house/help lure them out from under the couch to go back to the bedroom
tv/movies with G at night
-We only watch downloads and things from hulu.com, no cable or whatever, but that still means Lost and The Office every week. Usually a day or two late, which means Thursday is a fearful day I avoid the internet because SPOILERS ARE EVERYWHERE.
-and in the last week we've seen Smart People(we'll finish this tonight...), He Was a Quiet Man(very dissapointing, typical "independant film" ending),Secretary (again), Henry Poole is Here(mind-numbingly dull, I think we both fell asleep 3/4 of the way through and were relieved when it ended)
CROCHET!
-I'm totally addicted to the granny square and hexagon love pools on flickr, every project Attic24 posts, and a couple of books of my own
-I have this massive pile of Lion Brand wool-ease yarn that I rearrange in different color combinations and a notebook full of project ideas with url or page notations, and it's all changing all the time
Overall, I am very busy in a relaxed way, my house is a total mess almost all of the time, and I'm happy :)
-as in charting everything I eat via Weight Watchers points
-excercise, like riding bikes for 40 minutes Sunday with Aaron, walking with the double stroller (J&E) for an hour Monday, swimming with Annie for an hour yesterday
-general rollercoaster between feeling accepting of myself and good about my progress, and self-loathing with fits of disgust and hopelessness(that is usually a 15 minute burst when I try to find something to wear each morning or fresh from the shower).
Re-establishing my faith in a deeper way
-church had a big communion service and we sang Amazing Grace and I was basically a happy wreck. Then came a week of spiritual battle type stuff that had me struggling bad, and now I feel like I've sort of come out the other side.
-plus it's Lent, and I keep revisiting that, mentally and with study
Grant and I
-There is a lot of lingering weariness in him from my long year of being severely complicated, sensitive, sleepless and hysterical (FOR ME!!) from ptsd
-and lingering resentment from us having to wade through what is ok with both of us, for either of us, in a bunch of different ways
-but we still hug and kiss and mean it everyday...and go to bed happy everynight. It's just been too many strained, pained conversations ending with cuddling and sighs.
-I am really fucking blessed to have a man who goes to scripture when he's mad at me and comes back talking about how he's supposed to sacrifice himself to me as Christ sacrificed himself for all of us, acting genuinely humble and saying it's time for a massage. I mean...*blinkblink*
Gardening
-tomatos need staked soon, basil seeds have finally popped out through the dirt, it all gets watered every other day
-butterfly garden flower assortment has yet to pop through, watering that flower bed about three times a week
-lantanas in the front are starting to get overgrown, we fixed the falling brick wall yesterday and I'll be pruning them asap
-new and newly transplanted gardenia is getting pruned as the flowers die and it and this other thing I have on the front porch get watered daily
-all the philodendrons on top of the kitchen cabinets need to be watered once a week, which is only noteworthy because I have to use a stepladder
-trying to keep Isaac watering his little window garden that he got for his birthday...the seedlings are looking battered, though
Kids!
-A and A have been doing Abeka and cursive practice about every other day, and we've gotten them back into RightStart math manipulatives and science experiments here and there throughout the week
-they LOVE church and I get compliments every week that they go
-I'm reading her an Amelia Earheart biography and him a Harry Houdini bio, so they can get ready to dress up as those people and talk about "themselves" at PATH's "Historically Speaking" event later this month
-they're starting our local Friday School (a homeschool co-op deal where we all volunteer and pool resources) - she in ceramics, Junior Chefs and piano, and him probably in tai kwon do, piano and chess
-they're both really puberty-oriented lately, constantly asking me questions and pouring over their boy and girl versions of "What's Happening to Me?" with and without me
-and then there's AWANA on Weds, PATH on Thursdays, Game Night on Fridays...
-we're trying to get Jake and Elise out of our bed in earnest
-Isaac and I spent a long time browsing around blogs, flickr groups and tutorial sites yesterday and now there are multiple things he wants me to make him, that I've promised him in priority order (starting with a vine hung with flowers to hang along his wall)
-reading to youngest three everyday, even if just one book each
-ELISE PEED IN THE POTTY FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! We aren't pushing her at all, but we've made it available and talk about it sometimes and she's naked about half the day so long as we're home and inside
-trying to be consistent and serious enough to get Jake's temper under control
Writing
-Seven of 12 short stories for a themed collection are done
-Title, outline, table of contents, intro and beginning of first chapter are done for c/s book, and I've also amassed a long, long file including book titles, studies done, documentaries to watch, people to interrogate, university libraries I need to plunder online, etc, labeled "RESEARCH"
-email to myself full of possible agents for these things, previously completed works and another book I'm not ready to talk about, done, so I can start querying people
-I think about this stuff all day long but only get to work on it if I can outlast everyone and still concentrate, late at night, or in the 1-6 hours I get when Grant is off, to go off on my own for writing (just depends on everything else going on). And I'm working on a lot at once. So it's all very slow going, which I'm dealing with pretty well.
Animal Care
-cats need new food twice a day and new litter once a week
-chicks need to be checked on fairly often, have recently moved on from a little paper lined bird cage to the big portable rabbit pen on top of a spread-out sleeping bag, and make a giant mess of my office on a regular basis with their dust and fluff and scratching and shredding of paper. They'll be outside in a run/coop soon, and suddenly be much simpler then
-rabbits are "A and A's responsibility", which means I have to constantly remind them to change the box, check their water, get chewables off their bedroom floor, and oversee time the bunnies spend running around the house/help lure them out from under the couch to go back to the bedroom
tv/movies with G at night
-We only watch downloads and things from hulu.com, no cable or whatever, but that still means Lost and The Office every week. Usually a day or two late, which means Thursday is a fearful day I avoid the internet because SPOILERS ARE EVERYWHERE.
-and in the last week we've seen Smart People(we'll finish this tonight...), He Was a Quiet Man(very dissapointing, typical "independant film" ending),Secretary (again), Henry Poole is Here(mind-numbingly dull, I think we both fell asleep 3/4 of the way through and were relieved when it ended)
CROCHET!
-I'm totally addicted to the granny square and hexagon love pools on flickr, every project Attic24 posts, and a couple of books of my own
-I have this massive pile of Lion Brand wool-ease yarn that I rearrange in different color combinations and a notebook full of project ideas with url or page notations, and it's all changing all the time
Overall, I am very busy in a relaxed way, my house is a total mess almost all of the time, and I'm happy :)
