Ok, some of this Sunday stuff worked ... some of it didn't ... but we're thinking glass half full
Good morning … or should we be saying … good afternoon. It’s already 11:30 am. I’m like still spaced out … We’ve been going over yesterday’s blog and most particularly the zoo route. But, I’m thinking right now I should have had a V8. Hmm, that’s been coined already, hasn’t it? Maybe we should go ahead with lunch. Then we’ll get around to other considerations.*Sigh* ok that’s been started and we’ve refreshed everything. There’s sometimes that we get so close to reality it’s a little scary. Just a sense of it now, but yesterday it happened while we were walking at the zoo. We tried to walk through it, but then we lost it. For a moment things became so crystal clear that we were afraid to look around because the depth of everything was so real. I remember looking at the ground through the wheelchair. It made us very dizzy. I’ve had that experience before … I’m not sure why it happens, but wanted to leave a marker here. For the record … I had been feeling good and doing everything right.
Ok … everything is good. Where are we? Rich is gone for a good part of the day. He is due home around 5 pm. He is going to a fishy show for a couple hours and then he is doing two games and then he is coming home and we’ll have dinner, but we haven’t talked to him about what we’ll have because there was so much energy going into getting to the fishy show. I haven’t seen him go to the grocery store since all the way back to Friday when he picked up the steaks, so I’m not sure where he’s at with that. He stayed up to midnight last night and slept in until 8 am this morning. I woke up at 8 am too, but I think he put us to bed about 8:30 or 9 pm. He was up doing laundry and getting into his newest book. Man … the man can read! Maybe that’s how he got his hero mentality? He sure is my hero! Go fishyman!!!
I couldn’t have made a better manfriend. He’s so gosh darn cool.
*Sigh* So … anyway manfriend left us a couple loads of clothes to fold and we’ll empty the dishwasher and make sure everything is picked up and the kitty litter is out … that and we want to get in writing and walking today … so there is a lot on the agenda considering I haven’t showered yet and it’s almost noon. Pshwoo. It’s sure hard living with a super man. Things gotta be happening all the time! It’s such a huge change of lifestyle from where we were a year ago.
We’re going to have to set some goals again … remember all that stuff we’ve abandoned on what was that? Hmm, can you remember? Self-regulation? Hmm? Self-determination? Do you remember anything? Where you been babe? This is all about doing the things that you determine yourself to do – like taking control of your life … It’s a real big deal thing now days for people who are going to succeed … you wanna ride that wave with us? Hmm? Come along? I know – your trying … doin good too, just we gotta keep going. Let’s take advantage of being able to walk.
What time are we going to be at the zoo? What time do we need to shower? When will we get to the household chores? Rich is getting home by 5 pm. Let’s have everything done by then, k? That’s 5 hours from now. What’s first? Well … yesterday was 2 ½ hours at the zoo. I don’t know if we have to spend that long today, because the route you were looking at really doesn’t have as many animals … are you sure of that? Or, would you like to repeat yesterdays bear/lions route? Ok, done deal. It’s the bears and lions again. It’s special to see the polar bears and lion IF the lion isn’t sleeping … yesterday he was in a GROWLY mood, before he laid down. I think he was thinking that he was tired and waiting for his dinner! It was just before 5 pm. There was another animal we looked at for a long time, but I don’t remember. I know we looked at the sloth bear, but they were just repetitive. Maybe they will be more fun today.
We liked listening to other people come up to the animals making their one minute observations. People get excited if the animals are doing something memorable while they are there. Like it is special if the animal roars at you or something. It would be nice though if we added an extra half hour and we tried to see the dolphins too! I think they were very close in-between the bears and the lions and we just missed out on it yesterday. So if we want THREE! Hours at the zoo … we have to get our something something going! Yeeks! That means shower at 1 pm, leave at 1:45 pm, and get there at 2 pm – zoo is open until 5 pm. That just gives me an hour to do everything else. Hmm, maybe I better do the dishwasher now … brb.
Hmm, that was a while … excuse me … we’re only going to be here for a bit. It’s now 2 pm and our goal is to leave by 2:15 pm. We did a lot of stuff in between … we finished the dishwasher and then started folding laundry, but Maury called and we talked for a while. I called Joe for a couple of minutes and made sure both he and Thom were ok on dinner, then I went back and finished folding clothes and got dressed and now here we are with 15 minutes left. We had to revise the schedule by a half hour … so maybe we are going to not see the dolphins or we are going to have to spend less time visiting the other animals. I don’t know we’ll have to keep our eye on the clock. But, we should be able to get in and about in 2 ½ hours, hmm? Can’t make it an all day project EVERY DAY Y’know??!
We are bringing the clothes down and leaving a note in car … we’ll leave a message … There done! He’s such a good Rich. I can’t believe I’m being a good Ann too. Hmm. 2:30 pm coming up … I think we better bring a couple of V8’s just in case we’re runnin down on whatever … that seemed to help yesterday. Ok, what else. Phone, note. Bathroom is done. Extra water bottle. V8. Coat, Bag, laundry. Keys.
Good better leave map … just in case. Damn forgot litter. Can I squeek that in in case Rich comes home first? We’re all starting to act like a well-oiled machine. But, I don’t know if I can stand to do litter and get laundry and us down in one shot and stay on time. Ok, girl this is it … what its all about … just one step at a time, remember … Oh no … do we have new litter?
Ok, 2:22 … couldn’t do that all at once. But we don’t have to panic. We did good … Rich will be happy … Double bagged and emptied Living room garbage all at the same time. Rich and us discussed getting the better kitty litter for multiple cats. Hopefully it gets better. Think we’re giving our back 7 minutes rest before we go down with laundry … that will be hard on it … gotta get over the panic. If we don’t get over to the zoo until just before 3 pm … we’ll still have 2 hours. That’s actually a long time … right? We’ll be ok. Just not so long visiting animals! Grrr…. Ok, maybe we’ll talk about that. But, on some days we can be shorter? Balance remember?
Hmm, this looks like a person trying not to be scared of pushing it a little today … hmm? Remember those kids of yours? How far are they planning on running? Cmon girls … you can do this – let it go!
Ok … that didn’t work. I’m not sure why.
We never made it to the zoo. It’s 4:45 pm and Rich is almost home. We did the litter box … and then we came and sat down and then I think what happened is that someone was thinking of the surgery and the next thing was that we were watching a couple hours of the surgery being performed. It was more important at first too then later, but we wanted at least Maury to see what was going to happen to us. I don’t think it is very real to them. I’m feeling pretty alone on this … I’m not sure but I don’t think we could get Rich to see it either because he’s so out of those kind of things, but it would make us feel a lot better if he saw it and knew what was going to happen too. I saw tonight the first one we’d seen and then I saw a new one. The surgery was fine, but I didn’t like the guy on the side so much in that he took a lot of camera time away from the surgery and he seemed overly smug … he did do the summaries good even if he seemed above people.
I think Rich has been so busy this weekend that he’s going to want to relax with his time. Maybe we could arrange to see the video with him next weekend? I don’t know. He called a little bit ago because he was making arrangements to be out with his kids on Tuesday night. I think he’s going to see a special old time map exhibit that is showing down at the Field museum. He’s being pretty cultured this week. I don’t know what happened with the zoo though … there was no thought put into not going … just I think whoever wanted to see that video took the opportunity of us being weaker after doing the litter to get her spot in. It wasn’t so bad I guess … we are up and dressed … that allowed us to help with the last load of laundry … we got it to the dryer and it should be dry when Rich comes by. That’s better than doing it ALL by himself, Right?
I think he’s going to be tired when he gets in and he’d talked about getting some bills and personal stuff done. I think we better save anything with him til another day. I’m not sure what he had in mind for dinner too. I asked and he said there will be something around to make. Maybe he is thinking of his rice and chicken dinner. I guess that would be fine. I’ve done pretty good with the day as to food – though after my snack V8 I also ate a cup of dry cheerios … I was very careful to eat them one or two at a time to slow it down and I didn’t go back so that part was good. I’m feeling kind of hungry now. Wish we were in a different place. Be nice to have take home Chinese, but I guess we’re a far cry from that. I just said “ok” when Rich said he’d fix something.
I better come up with a way to stave back my food craving if he’s going to be foolin around in the kitchen while he’s tired and grouchy. Maybe just cold water? I’ve been more conscious of it today and I drank about 1 ½ or more … that’s just the part I remember … there might have been one more … not sure. Maybe that’s what we’ll do then … we’ll just pull up with a fresh bottle of cold water and sip on that … every time we feel frustration we’ll take another drink … AHA! A wateraholic! That’s something too. We’ll make Rich a drink, but we’re not having anything to drink tonight. We’re going without. We’re going on 3 days dry in the washroom area – sorry for all who thought that over personal amongst all the other things, but having said that and all else before that today on the area of drinking … well basically, with or without Rich … we’re going a week without drinking starting tonight and extending it for as long as it makes me feel happy, but certainly past a week! Rich can think it weight wise or other, but beside that … it’s more going toward aholic in anything other than water. I will challenge him to be drinking his specially spiked bottles of vitamin water. Hmm, wonder how they’d taste frosty .. might want to make one for him now … brb
Pswhoo … smooth … hope he gets in soon. It’s 5:13 pm now. He’s here! Later
Ok, I’m back … it’s 7:39 pm. I don’t know if I can stay. I’m not usually out at this time. We’ve been having a very nice night. Since we were sitting here I thought why couldn’t we write. It’s just a bit awkward, right? Rich came home and spotted the drinks right away on the counter, but then later pointed out to the part that they were more calories – like 120 per drink … We had a little less than half – so about 50 calories, but still the same … that was too much for “water.” Figured we should go back to our water, but for Rich it’s a good thing to be making. He drank it just fine. Just make a half pitcher … the bottles have screw tops and I think he poured the extra amount in his ice later anyway. Good deal. Plus, he gets some vitamins from it.
We’re into this strange thing again … we could probably trace it through the blogs over time, but we’re doing that thing where we’re being domestic again. We easily fell into putting away that last load of clothes with Rich. And, although there wasn’t anything to do for dinner – Rich made it and the small salad before hand – we did clean up afterward … that was the kind of funny part … Rich was at the table and like we watch him cook, I think he was watching us clean up. He started to offer us umm advice on how to load the dishwasher, but I think someone pointed out that we’d been a professional housewife and knew how to load the dishwasher. Then we made sure all the sink was cleared and washed down the counters. The next step would be to sweep the floors
Well, how about that. I went into the hall closet and sure enough there were two things in there … so I took the smallest first and it said it was a dirt devil. I didn’t even know I had one. It wasn’t snapped together, so I did that and it was just fine … so I brought it into the kitchen and I plugged it in and it sucked stuff up pretty good and it even got up all those cobwebs under my counters. It didn’t want to swallow up that frosted mini-wheat under there, but it at least had the courtesy of knocking it out. That was nice. It had a long enough cord to get half the hall up to the master bedroom and through the eating part of the dining room – which is enough for a quick after meal cleaning session. I couldn’t be more excited – as far as cleaning processes go. I remember that … after counter tops were floors. How come I’d forgotten that? By the time we’d done all that though my back was tired and so we had to come back and sit, but we told Rich about it … he didn’t seem so surprised as we were … he said something about coming over to do his back, but we were too far domesticating for that.
I asked him what that wetting/squirting machine was called. He couldn’t remember so we went and took a look it’s called a swifter. I’d forgotten that too. Rich has been complaining about not getting to the floors, but if I did that after the meals, or at least 2-3 times a week or so then he wouldn’t have to worry so much … and then we could get in the habit like if we ever had people come over or something … Wouldn’t that be so cool – hey like if you just want to drop over! Wow. Very impressionable. I’m going to give it 5 minutes and we’re going in their again. And THEN, we’ll see about someone getting his back rubbed J
Rich had gone to the boat show today before his game so his homework has been for the last hour and a half to be reading through brochures he has picked up from exhibits for the Canada trip. We’re listening to music from the Four Seasons and other stuff like it. That’s where I spaced out the first hour after dinner. But, anyway … figure he’s about had it. Maybe we can talk about fishy stuff for awhile. I think then he’s going to want and watch a TV show at 9 pm … it’s about 8:09 pm now. Shoot. Now that I’m writing again … Not sure I want to stop … he’s going to tell us to go to sleep at 9 shoot, shoot … I don’t … shhhhhh we’ve heard that before … why don’t you go knock yourself out on the floor? We’ll see you in the morning, k? Night sweetie!
posted by Ann Marie @ 1/14/2008 07:51:00 AM
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