Thank you to Grand Poobah Moonie and his lovely back up singers for being so sweet to a lil ol septic like me:)
Posted by gwendolyn on August 31, 2001 at 02:53 PM
Today is our last official day of living here. It is sort of sad. Savannah is completely not happy about this at all. Everytime I mention the move she cries. I just want to get the whole thing over quickly now because I realize that it will be harder for the children to be bouncing between both places than to just get it over with. I wish I had a cigar. I will miss my big screened in balcony :( There is no use in listing all of the things I will miss. It will depress me. I need to focus on the advantages we will have once this is done. We will be doubling our current payments on our debt. and that is the bottom line.
Posted by gwendolyn on at 07:47 AM
I am also moving in two days. Well at least I am starting a move. It will be the most unusual move to date because of the fact that it will be the shortest distance and because I have a window of two weeks to do it in. I have heard rumors that this is the way people normally move. It is going to feel very strange. I bet even if I started right now, I could be completely packed by dinner :) If I wasn't in such a lazy mood for the last month I would do it too.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 30, 2001 at 03:14 PM
My birthday is in two days. I have had it in the back of my mind all day. I will be 27. I am starting to not look forward to birthdays. I never thought I would be like that at all. When I met my husband I was fourteen. This will be the twelvth birthday I have spent with him. I am completely floored by this fact.
Posted by gwendolyn on at 02:31 PM
I forgot my mother's birthday. It was August 18th. I just spent the whole evening guilt tripping. Somehow it came and went and I was oblivious. I am such a horrible daughter. I have a feeling the Karma of that will somehow come back and bite me in the ass someday.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 27, 2001 at 10:07 PM
While talking about which things I should get rid of in my closet this morning...
gw3nd0lyn: how do you feel about my green skirt?
eatonte: I think I look damn good in it.
gw3nd0lyn: so you want me to put it over on your side of the closet then?
Later that same day...
gw3nd0lyn: since when do you wear a leather thong by the way?
eatonte: ?
gw3nd0lyn: i have not seen a leather thong
eatonte: What are you talking about with the thong thing...
gw3nd0lyn: matt said you told him you wear a leather thong all the time and he told you that you just needed matching chaps now
eatonte: hell...
eatonte: he's a dork.
gw3nd0lyn: you must keep it somewhere else
eatonte: :-)
eatonte: I wear it under...
(long silence...)
gw3nd0lyn: under what?
eatonte: your green dress
gw3nd0lyn: hee
gw3nd0lyn: god ima be ill
gw3nd0lyn: that was not a pretty visual
eatonte: Ha!
Posted by gwendolyn on August 23, 2001 at 04:41 PM
Yesterday while on our way into Walmart the kids got a lesson about giving blood. They spent the next half an hour munching cookies and drinking juice while I gave a pint to the blood mobile that was parked there in the parking lot. I think that fell into the "Unschooling" catagory...I like those times better than sitting at the table buried in book work myself.
Posted by gwendolyn on at 02:34 PM
Don't Need No Stinkin' Man
pepper53190: this sucks
gw3nd0lyn: why?
pepper53190: I'm horney and I can't call Phillip
gw3nd0lyn: oh christ get a vibrator
gw3nd0lyn: :)
pepper53190: It's so hard to untrain yourself to feel about a person
gw3nd0lyn: yeah i suppose but that is like bad bad bad
pepper53190: know I am so determined to get away from him it isn't funny
gw3nd0lyn: so don't be calling him for a bootie call now
gw3nd0lyn: call your history teacher
Am I a good advice giver or what?
Posted by gwendolyn on August 22, 2001 at 10:43 PM
I got two presents in the mail today. Should keep my busy for awhile. Thank you Mr. Moon :)
Posted by gwendolyn on August 21, 2001 at 10:54 PM
School went fairly painlessly today. Pictures will come shortly of the tribe's first day of the 2001-2002 "school year". We were at it all of an hour before we threw out the schedule I worked so hard on. But that is what hard work is for right? We made some really cute paper sack puppets today. Learned the short "A" sound and how to classify things into groups. We also learned about Princess Juliana from Holland fleeing to Canada during WWII and them helping her country and about her gift of hundreds of thousands of tulip bulbs and the annual festival of tulips that Ottawa celebrates. We learned about measuring in feet, yards, and miles. We learned all sorts of stuff.
I am fairly on my own this evening as my monkey is being wined and dined...I won't go into it. It is painful.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 20, 2001 at 09:20 PM
Yesterday the Monkey Tribe was reportedly spotted visiting distant cousins, when they were physically assaulted by an angry ostrich. Film at eleven.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 19, 2001 at 09:15 AM
Monday we start our school year again. As the oldest little person requested, I developed a schedule. I am wondering if it is the right thing to do. I guess it will help make the days go faster if we are busy trying to keep to it. We will be resuming where we left off in the third grade curriculum, and according to my calculations we will be finished with "third grade" by the third week of September. I never dreamed that we would go through this material so fast. We aren't going to do more than one day's worth of worksheets at a time though. That is going to be a standard rule now. It leads to too much burn out. I have already purchased the fourth grade book in this same series. It is set up a little differently and is not pre-divided into daily sets for you, it is sectioned according to subject so we will be ripping pages out of each section everyday which will be funky. I like judging how far along we are by how many pages are ripped out of the front of the book. Now the actual book will be a mess.
It is really starting to sink in that we are leaving here in a couple of weeks. I thought I would be half packed up by now in anticipation. I am not. I still have some more sorting and organizing to do. I need to hurry up and get that all finished.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 17, 2001 at 07:35 AM
I just figured out why I like Sandalwood so much. I was just whining to the store clerk because they didn't have any bottles of it in stock at the moment. "In Tantric philosophy, the ancient Indian cult of ecstasy, sandalwood is used to awaken the sexual energy and at the same time connect it to the enlightened mind, turning physical pleasure into a heavenly experience. It's well-known aphrodisiac powers may be partly due to the fact that its aroma is said to be similar to our own sexual scent signals."
Now if that doesn't sound like a good reason that it is out of stock what does?
Posted by gwendolyn on August 15, 2001 at 05:54 PM
I went on a trip to The Body Shop today and bought some essential oils. Right now I am burning Eucalyptus in hopes of fighting off the headache I have from being in and out of the air conditioning/ heat and the overcrowded mall. Those things combined never fail to give me a horrible headache. I also bought Peppermint and Bergamot. If anyone needs energized and optimized it is me :) I want to go back when I have more money and less kids to distract me to get some of their Sensual massage oil, some Lavendar oil, some of their new line of bath salts, either some banana shampoo and conditioner or brazil nut, and a few other odds and ends. It has been a very long time since I worked there and there are a million new products that I haven't gotten to smell and feel. I could literally spend a whole day in there. Not to mention a whole lot of money. On second thought...maybe I should stay home.
Posted by gwendolyn on at 05:45 PM
If you all haven't clicked on the link over there to Loves is a Battlefield today, you need to.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 14, 2001 at 09:18 AM
I need a Starbuck's Mocha Grande and some socks. *sniff*
Posted by gwendolyn on at 09:06 AM
It is really amazing what I can get done when my internet connection is screwed. Yesterday, we went over to a friends house to plan the sessions for the preschool group we are forming, came home and made another huge pile of things to take to donation in the garage, and rearranged all of the other piles of things I have no clue what to do with yet. My monkey isn't thrilled about having to move the furniture to the new apartment. Believe me, I could fix this delima quite easily. All he has to do is say the word and it will all be gone. I am just that kinda girl ;)
Today I am sick. I have the kick-your-ass kind of head cold. It is a stay in bed- whine to my monkey- think about the fact that my toes are cold but I am too sick to even get up and get some socks- watch cartoons with the kids- not bother to dress anyone in the house- let the dishes and laundry just pile up- make the little people fend for themselves at snack time kind of day. Blah. What do people who don't eat chicken soup eat when they get like this?
Posted by gwendolyn on at 09:01 AM
I spent today cleaning the kitchen like a maniac while trying very hard not to think about the fact that my monkey and his junior monkey were on the living room floor taking apart the iMac to remove the dvd drive so that they could remove two plastic Barbie Boom Box cassette tapes. Luckily, after it was all said and done, it still works. I believe that this is a serious sign that we may need to rethink the ideal location for the iMac when we move.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 12, 2001 at 05:42 PM
Today we went to see Osmosis Jones. It was disgusting. The kids loved it of course. I am glad I skipped the usual meal of Snocaps. I was sick enough as it was. Afterward we went to Outdoor World!! Everyone cheer with me now for Outdoor World :) Yeah I know it isn't supposed to be so thrilling for us girls. I even went so far as to try on an Earnhardt Jr. ballcap and picked out a couple of Dale Earnhardt t-shirts I wouldn't be too embarrassed to wear in public. I didn't buy them though. We did buy a nice pair of flippers for the biggest little person.
We had dinner at Islamorada Fish Company. I won't even get into it. It tasted great...but the tummy ache I have only reconfirms the fact that I am destined to be a Vegetarian. So that is all cleared up now.
Hope was adorable holding her daddy's hand and running along through the store. She loves the big fish tanks as do the other two. We all felt sorry for all of the stuffed animals and ransacked the place then checked out the RVs inside and out and then came home. It was a pleasant day.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 11, 2001 at 10:21 PM
Ball point pen ink on the brown leather chair. Can anyone feel my pain? I didn't yell, I didn't punish. It would have been pointless. Two year olds don't know anything about leather or ink or why you shouldn't run from your mommy with a pen and try to hide behind the furniture.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 10, 2001 at 11:04 AM
This morning we spent an hour getting ready to go to the pool only to spend about half an hour actually at the pool. I think it was a doomed mission before it ever got started. I should have gotten the hint when I had to hold the littlest person down with my arms and legs on the floor to get the sunscreen on her screaming kicking little body. The following hour at the pool was just as traumatic with several attempts by her to earn a free ride to the Emergency Room via ambulance.
I also did about three-fourths of my morning workout until her crying and trying to climb up my legs won out. Lunch is over and I am actually laying in my bed with her trying to decide if I should give up the idea of rollerblading this afternoon. The way this day has been going makes me leary of putting wheels under my feet.
The oldest little person is also having entirely too much fun taking pictures of things here in the house and messing with them in photoshop. The day is young, we will see what happens. I am definitely going to the gym tonight though and then for a swim. If it kills me.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 09, 2001 at 01:24 PM
You all need to be reading hateyourdaddy.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 08, 2001 at 05:44 PM
I took the little people outside this afternoon. It was hot. I pushed the girls in the double stroller while rollerblading (the monkey estimates that this is approximately 100 pounds of stuff I am pushing uphill and down) and Logan was on his Razor. I decided that it felt so good that we needed to not only ride around the entire complex but we needed to make a big semi-circle around the outside of the complex too which involves three streets. We came home faces beat red and our clothes soaked through with sweat. *My t-shirt was sticking to me like wet newspaper. After coming home and changing the littlest person and I literally passed out for an hour. I need to do that every afternoon.
I should have a smoothie for breakfast and do my Ab Roller or Taebo tapes while they are doing their journal entries then take them to the pool, come back at noon and have a very light lunch and do a couple of bookwork lessons, then rollerblade with the kids mid afternoon, then come home and read with them and later have a protein smoothie for dinner and go to the gym and spot work my arms and legs and then go for a swim before bed. I also would never see my monkey. That is why I quit going to the gym at night to begin with. It is showing too. But I would be build like a brick shithouse before too long! I bet he would like that :)
Maybe I will have to start small and work up to it. It is really good for the little people to get out though. They have way too much pent up energy and I think it would make them sleep better.
*I would also like to know why it is everytime I encounter a van/truck with a landscaping company logo on the side of it I am greeted with half a dozen different whistling, cat calling and sometimes outright vulgarity. These guys are out in the heat too much. I think it messes with their heads.
Posted by gwendolyn on at 04:36 PM
gw3nd0lyn: what are we doing my love
gw3nd0lyn: eating spaghetti wilst gazing longingly into each others eyes?
gw3nd0lyn: shall i dress for dinner?
gw3nd0lyn: should we have linens and real dishes?
eatonte: :-)
gw3nd0lyn: or should we eat like the rednecks that we are...foam plates and plastic table cloths in our pajamas
eatonte: I like eating in pajamas from foam.
eatonte: :-)
gw3nd0lyn: you know chevy is gonna win
eatonte: That's CHIV-AY
gw3nd0lyn: :)
eatonte: Yew know chiv-ay's gunna ween.
Yeehaw...the romance will never die.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 07, 2001 at 05:27 PM
Here is what I am reading about today. There is a workshop forming within our support group by a family who practices Waldorf lifeways. I met the mother at a mom's night out dinner a few months ago. She was very interesting and very nice. I had no clue what Waldorf was about before I met her. Even after doing some reading today I still know very little but am willing to find out more just to satisfy my curiosity, also to see if this workshop is something that we would be interested in attending. There are several aspects of this type of lifestyle and learning that appeals to me, yet there are many that I feel wouldn't work for our family. Still, it is interesting.
Posted by gwendolyn on at 04:06 PM
Last night I dreamed about the old days when he was seventeen and I was just fourteen. Of course, in my dream I just casually called my mom up from his house at midnight after we had been out on a date and informed her that I would just be spending the night there and going to school the next morning. Like that would have EVER been in the realm of possiblilty! But then again in the same dream I washed my hair in an outdoor faucet in someone's yard in the middle of town on my way to being an hour late for school. I just made him pull over the car right there because I couldn't go to school unless I had at least washed my hair! It was one of those "Herbal Essence" kind of moments too. I am nutty. I know.
Posted by gwendolyn on at 10:19 AM
I am having a not so pleasant three hour experience trying to set up simple cable and internet service for our soon to be new residence. I have called at least three different phone numbers and been redirected to different departments by at least five different people, all to finally be told that without a home phone line I cannot receive cable television or cable internet service. I don't exactly know why. Maybe it is a common sense concept that just isn't registering in my brain. (That happens you know.) But I honestly don't see the connection between cable television service and a home telephone number. You can't have cable without a phone? Surely the person I talked to who thought it was funny that I was trying to obtain the services without a phone number doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. Yet again I have been made to feel completely stupid. Can someone tell me why am I in charge of all of this moving business AGAIN? This is yet another valid reason to scrap the whole apartment living thing and just freaking "live in a van down by the river".
Posted by gwendolyn on August 06, 2001 at 01:59 PM
It has be a LONG weekend. I have done at least fifteen loads of laundry, picked up the entire contents of the childrens rooms well over a dozen times (after talking to the walls extensively) and spent the last two days moody, overly sensitive, hormonal, and in pain. Thankfully, awesome things are coming from this big time suckiness. Yes, I am bitching. Sue me.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 05, 2001 at 08:15 PM
One of twelve.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 04, 2001 at 11:21 PM
I had to repost this because I found this in my archives and it creeped me the hell out all over again because 99.9% of it is SO very true:
Gwendolyn
"Your name of Gwendolyn makes you easy-going and refined, but detracts from your physical vitality. You desire all the finer things in life--lovely clothes, home, furniture, and environment. However, procrastination is your worst enemy, and you find yourself lacking the ambition to make your dreams a reality. People are inclined to take advantage of your sympathetic, tractable nature. You naturally attract people with problems who seek your understanding and advice. You can give good advice although it is unlikely that you would follow it yourself. You would be most successful in situations where you can use your skills in diplomacy in handling people, but where you are not under pressure or required to carry responsibility and make decisions. It is difficult for you to be individual and make your own decisions, for you lack self-confidence. Your desire for sweet, rich foods could cause overweight, circulatory problems, or weakness in the kidneys."
Posted by gwendolyn on at 11:00 PM
My middle little person woke us up this morning running down the hall throwing up. I was shampooing carpets by 7 a.m. What a way to start your day, eh? Thankfully, she took a really long nap and ate some toast and she seems to be fine now. The little people just scarfed down eclairs. Yes, I know that isn't exactly the dinner of champions but I am craving chocolate and was forced against my will to go to Dunkin Donuts to get Mocha Coolattas. Sue me. Havanna Republic (the local cigar store that I haven't had the chance to visit yet) was closed so I had to revise my choice of poison for the evening. I may take a blender of booze over to the neighbor's and get her drunk this evening. Not sure yet. Her husband just got home from a seven day work trip and they may need some time, although she stated earlier that she was going to hand him the kids and go hide. I would think that after seven days apart they would be more inclined to call someone up and beg them to babysit for a few hours so they could get freaky. But we all don't think like me...
Posted by gwendolyn on at 05:12 PM
YAY! Evaluation is over. We lived. It was actually really fun. We made a whole day of it and had lunch and went to the bookstore and played. She assured me that we rock and to just keep doing whatever we are doing.
On a crappier note I feel like I am having gallbladder attacks all over again. I find this odd because a) I don't have a gallbladder and b) what would be hurting there in place of it? Phantom gallbladder attacks? On the happier side maybe it is just a sign from some higher power saying...."Don't eat greasy food you stupid dork you know you're not supposed to."
My monkey bought me a dozen red roses today. I think he likes me a little. I feel special :)
Posted by gwendolyn on August 03, 2001 at 05:59 PM
I need to learn yoga and meditation. So I can remember to breathe when I am this pissed off.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 02, 2001 at 11:02 AM
Some people are just stupid.
Posted by gwendolyn on at 11:01 AM
Sometimes it is SO hard for me to let things go. People can be so rude and selfish and stupid. It makes the incredibly outspoken confrontational side of me that rarely rears it's ugly head emerge. I could just utter obsenities and insults and turn ten shades of red. I wish I could bypass this anger I sometimes have for these people. Feeling so intense about someone that so not worth feeling anything for is such a waste of time.
How anyone could say they are "disappointed" in someone so much more gifted and talented than they could ever be, and who is giving them so much for so little, when they themselves are so self absorbed and stupid that they know little to nothing about what a disappointment they are themselves is beyond me.
oooooh damn i am mad though. *grit teeth*
Posted by gwendolyn on at 11:01 AM
gw3nd0lyn: i am dancing in my tshirt and undies singing into a banana
gw3nd0lyn: scary huh?
eatonte: That's the only way to be.
gw3nd0lyn: Wouldn't have me any other way would ya?
eatonte: Will you sing into my banana?
gw3nd0lyn: yer a creep
gw3nd0lyn: :)
eatonte: No I'm not.
gw3nd0lyn: no your not
gw3nd0lyn: I meant yer a pervert
eatonte: That's better.
Posted by gwendolyn on August 01, 2001 at 10:08 AM