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I am glad to report that I am doing much better in the food department. I haven't been slipping up nearly as much and I am trying to regain control over my urges to just say "screw it" and eat horribly. It helped that I just spent the last two days running the stairs and moving furniture and sweating like a hog from dawn to dusk. Today I am trying to reorganize the ever-growing home school mess in my little person's closet.

We are thinking of selling our four year old's Compaq Presario. She rarely uses it lately and she was easily convinced that she would be just as happy if she were to share the oldest little person's iMac. She is pretty flexible that way. Of course, we would need to buy her some new games to replace the PC only games she knows and loves now. That is the hardest part of it for me. I don't want her to feel like she is losing the few things she does like to play. I think that she would adjust well to sharing the iMac though. It would free up a lot of usable space in her closet, and I am all for un-cluttering. It is also bad that at the moment she sits two inches away from the seventeen-inch monitor. There is quite a bit of PC only software looming around the house that I could also justify getting rid of, once the PC is gone.

If we sell the PC I think I am going to sell my iBook too. I would like to combine the income from both and buy myself the latest iBook. I really like my monkey's Powerbook and now the new iBook is basically Powerbook guts in a frosted clear plastic shell. It also has the sleeker Powerbookish design to the case unlike my clamshell shaped contraption.

I could stand to get rid of a lot of the stuff I have been transferring to the garage. I have been un-cluttering from room to room and moving items that just need reorganized and the items that could possibly be given away to the garage, much to my Monkey's dismay. He was so excited about actually getting to park the van in the garage. Poor thing. Hopefully, I will be redeemed in his eyes once all of his artwork, flash, photos and tattooing equipment have been dug up out of the corner of the storage area and nicely organized and contained in one central location where he can get to it. That is next week’s goal.

I am getting excited about my Mom's Day gift. I will finally be able to capture all of these fleeting precious moments on video once again. I don't think it was in our budget, but I guess I must have looked pretty desperate when I was trying to find the eyeglass repair kit screwdriver to take the door off of the old 8mm that we have that died on Christmas morning of 1999. I thought that if I could just get the door off then I might be able to see if something was actually broken or if the gears were just jammed or something. I think it is a lost cause. Having me tinkering in it would probably only worsen the situation though. The ironic thing is that now that the new camera is on the way, my Monkey suggested we take the old camera in to see if it can be repaired so that my oldest little person can use it for creative purposes. Great idea except that we could have done that ourselves and saved a ton of money. Oh well. It is still a good idea, I guess. On the other hand, I haven't gotten any of our mothers’ gifts yet. Shame on me.

My idea for the little person's Journal writing seems to be working. After only two days of working on it, he seems to be very pleased with his efforts as an author. As long as I am supplying the main idea and supporting sentence ideas he is interested in doing it. My patience is the key to his success. I am noticing that he isn't applying what he has learned about sentence structure or grammar to his writing. I guess we just take it one step at a time. I have been giving gentle reminders about the mistakes but I am not insisting he rewrite anything. He has been changing small mistakes without too much prompting. I think by just pointing it out and him recognizing his mistake he will eventually catch on.

This whole logging business is driving me nuts. I am behind. Each day's worth of work makes me even farther behind. I don't have time to sit each day and type it all into the database. (Well I guess I do, I just never feel like doing it.) So I suppose I am going to have to dedicate one whole day to doing nothing but that next week.

I am also debating starting some sort of home-based business. Childcare would be the obvious way to go but my Monkey doesn't like the idea of it because then I am a slave to someone else’s schedule. This is true for any job. No matter whether I take care of children, sell cosmetics, or write smutty novels...it all is time consuming. I just have to decide which will pay off fastest. At the moment the smutty novel thing isn't going very.... well... going.

All is peaceful at the moment. The baby is sleeping, the middle little person is in her room playing Barbie Dream house, and the oldest little person is in his room constructing Lincoln Log houses and making up song lyrics. I am going to steal ten minutes on the balcony with some Suisse Mocha and the breeze. Maybe I will have a brainstorm and think of a way to make a quick 30k so I can get out of debt because we SUCK at saving.

Posted by gwendolyn on May 11, 2001 at 08:14 PM