Ayn's Multiple World

Off to a good start!

Good morning and happy New Year! This is me and we’re into the brand New Year and we’re happy to meet 2009. WooHOO!!! It’s about 8:30 am now and we’ve been up for a little over an hour. Rich is still in bed and we’re happy to start things off for this new place in time. We’ve been doing some checking out of things on the Internet, but our Internet was bogging down. That got to be just plain frustrating. We were checking out the Horoscopes, but we didn’t get very far there. The information was too sketchy to figure things out. And, then we finally got to the posting page for our blog and pasted-in the entry from last night to end the year. We also reread it. I think we’re ready now to progress.

We’re trying something new this year in that we’re typing our entries right into the format they are going to take for the book. Pretty much that means that we’re typing in Cambria 10 pitch, and we’re doing things in double columns. I like the look and feel to it. It makes us feel like we’re making progress because we like the new format.

As to last night, we had a very good night after a bit. It took a while to settle into things. Somehow or another we decided that we didn’t really want to go into the New Year separated from Rich, so I remember one moment being here, and then the next moment we were in our comfy position with Rich. I think we were a little crabby yet at first. I remember being very stiff while he was trying to be nice.

But, we seemed to have broken a border when someone told him to stop being so nice to us when we were being mad at him. I don’t remember why we were being mad. I do know that someone is giving him reports. They say, I’m still mad at you … or I’m almost done being mad at you … or I’m done being mad! Neither one of us has to do anything to get us there it’s a matter of us getting past the feelings on our own usually, because in all reality he does very little to be problematic to us. It’s just internal adjustments.

I think we had our head turned for a bit away from the TV show he was watching. It was the version of Star Trek where the Captain was a woman. Blah! I didn’t like that at all. I guess we are chauvinistic. I knew we were better when we started following the show along. By then we were done being mad and just wanted to be next to Sweetie-bear. I think what I remember next is that at some point we ended up massaging him in the bedroom and then somebody got lucky! WooHOO! Can’t say enough of that – then we found ourselves back in the living room and we were watching our looked-forward show with Anderson Cooper and Kathy something or another. It was fun to watch, but nothing real significant. I think we slipped off for a bit, because Rich had been doing some car shopping on the computer and the next thing I knew he woke us up because the fireworks were going off in New York. We stayed up after that!

Cool, cool. Rich is up now and we talked for a few moments and now he’s checking out his fishy shows. It’s about 8:45 am. We talked over the plans for the day.

He’s got just a little shopping to do. I think he’s going to leave about 11 am to meet up with his people at about 1 pm. I’m probably going to leave not too much later. I’ll want to be ready to meet the boys at about noon. We don’t know if Thom is going to be there, but we’re hoping for the best. Both Joe and Maury called him to make sure he knew what was going on.

Maury called last night and he said he’d talked to Alexis at about 3:30 pm and she was on her way to pick-up Thom. I’m pretty excited about all that. I’m really looking forward to being with everybody again. Alex is going to be there too as well as Kari. I’m just so happy that everyone is going to be there. Every time we think about getting together, we pick-up our book and skim through it some. I hope that it’s going to be an ok gift to give. I think if people are going to complain about being named in the book that I’m going to hear about it from the kids first.

I think though in general they might be a bit bored with it. I’m not sure how much they are going to want to hear about the work stuff or in general my rambling thoughts. But, I don’t want to criticize their effort, when I really don’t know where they stand. I am thinking in each of their cases, that their women are going to read the material first. I think women are more tolerant of this kind of thing.

We’re going to be going to Outback Steakhouse I think. At least that’s what Maury and Joe had picked out, but they’ll wait to make sure that’s ok with Thom. I sure hope that Thom and Alexis are going to be there. They are just soooo cool!

As to last night so we can finish that up … I remember that for about the last 30-45 minutes of the year we were watching Anderson and Kathy and we were over on the lounger massaging Rich. I know … he gets this a lot. Eh, it’s the nature of our relationship. He had saved the Bohemian wine just for this occasion and we did that bottle. It was after we had a Margarita on the rocks. Normally, we do slushy, but … you know we are sometimes up for changes. We still split have the glass with the diet lemonade. I think thought that Rich was feeling no pain. He was remarking on it otherwise I wouldn’t have known.

At one point, he said you could probably get anything out of me, so then we were like … so about those other women. Hehehe – yeah … we’re still trying to siphon out the worst of it. He’s been pulling me a long for years giving me just tiny pieces of that pie without giving me an entire calorific piece of the whole. You can’t blame us for trying. We found a little something new, but I don’t want to share that part. Well, you know we gotta have SOME secrets!

I think he’s still pretty happy with how things turn out. He says very positively, he’s not been with anyone in the last 15 years, and that part makes us feel happy.

Ok, now better let that go. Rich says we have a green-eyed monster and I know him to be correct. *Sigh*

I think Rich put us to bed out in the living room and we finished our last half fudgsicle on our own. He was really pushing the envelope as to being tired. We must have got up at some time because we woke up in his bed. Wow … are we the sneaky ones! Rich says though that our snoring is about 75% better. So that makes me happy. I don’t want to think I could be keeping him from sleeping. We’re working on it.

I think you are all caught up as to time.

Ahh, Rich just wanted me to write down a link, so I posted an entry to his blog with it. This is what he is interested in.



WooHOO! Ya gotta admire a real fishyman!

I’m really excited to it being a New Year. It’s especially nice since we’re sitting here with time to spare and a nice cup of coffee and with Fishyman in the background. This is the place to be!

Ok, then what should be our first year thoughts? I know we did some kind of a summary yesterday. Rich was talkative at dinner last night and most of the future talk got picked-up and carried away because of this fishing deal. I am looking forward to the season. I think he has to go to someplace near his Mom’s to test out the boat motor before he goes to Shreveport. His buddy Bob said he wasn’t interested in going down, but he has another fishing friend who would be interested if his plans his wife and he are making fall through. That’s not real likely. I think then the next person Rich is interested in is the Judge, but I’m not sure of all that. Rich is planning to be away for a week.

I am on the list of people to take, but he’s looking more for someone who is familiar with boating because it will be the first time he takes it out on the water and he might need some assistance. I asked about Doug, but Doug doesn’t have a boat and I think he’s frustrating Rich somehow. Not sure about that. I will make sure to reserve the week as to vacation time just in case. I’d really like to go, but I understand that it would be most advantageous to get a fishy expert.

I talked to him for just a half minute. I guess I’m still on the short list, because he said the only thing we’d do is he’d put the boat in the water and start figuring things out and that he has the knowledge how to do it, but would just be picking up extras. I suggested that he could get a fishing guide to help him with it. He’s still going to play out a few cards and he said that Bob was just being whatever and that he still might end up coming with him. Bob would be the best bet.

Hehehe they just had that fishing commercial on that I like so much. It’s got the young husband and wife in the boat and she’s talking up a storm where he responds in one word answers. Then the voice over says a woman will say 21 million words before an Evinrude E-tec needs maintenance where a man will say 7 million words. We’re going to have to keep that in mind so we don’t distract fishy-face!

Ahh he just went to another fishing show. It’s about 9:30 am now. We should think that he turn on the computer soon and start looking things up. I think he might have trouble knowing what to do next. Last night he named though a whole bunch of stuff and we told him that today we’d want to hear the list again so we could write it down and then he start checking things off. It’s this sitting dead in the water that makes the waiting so tough. If he was working toward his dreams he would be feeling better.

Hehehe we just reminded him of that, but he said that he was on vacation … hmm; I think he’s maybe a LITTLE intimidated by his new work load? We put it off until after this show. Then maybe he can write out a few things. He definitely wants to be relaxing, but it will soon be time to get ready - hmm?

I was thinking I could get in the shower to prevent a back-log. Maybe I should do that? Naw – let me write for just a few moments, k?

If I were in the right frame of mind, I would be talking about my New Year’s resolutions, but they were covered last night. First write, and then get into Outlook, and then get into the fishy-world. Hmm, better add better health in there too. It probably sounds like most peoples’ lists. I don’t think I’d want to go to the gym today. It would be flooded! I remember before setting up new stuff with the boys. There were years where we’d get together with a bunch of questions to answer or challenges. I miss those years of being “The Mom.” I wonder if there is anything I could do for this year. It’s just that the main group of them gets away from me and we find ourselves taking a more comfortable back-seat to the boys and their girls.

I wonder if there is any particular theme I could bring up, but then I think introducing the book is a pretty big deal. I will let them know my goal is to have everything completed by the end of the year. It would be nice to go into a publishing situation, but we’d … oh ok, we were not going to go back there yet until we have new information from the book, remember? I know, I know – just saying!

Shh…

Hey, we haven’t looked at the book for a bit, could we do that again? Ok, ok … it might be that we’re still compulsive-obsessive. Doesn’t mean we’re silly though!

Ok, just did that. We came up with a couple of entries for Rich’s blogs. One has all the fish and boat shows in Il and lower Wisconsin and the second is a preliminary list of stuff to do. There wasn’t enough time to go through the list to match up dates to have projects completed by and ordering of the tasks – we will have to do that after. Both of us got into the shower late and have kids to be seeing.

Whoops better collect packages.

posted by Ann Marie @ 1/01/2009 11:09:00 AM Comments: 0