Ayn's Multiple World

We're Coming around the Bend and It is Looking Good

Good morning! This is me and we’re very happy because we have at least a few more days off, but not many. It’s late in the morning about 9:45. We had gotten up for about 15 minutes at 5 am, and then we slept in until 8:30 am. I think we were up in the middle of the night too, because we went from the chair to Rich’s bed to the chair. And then around 9:00 am we had a little bit of a slowdown. We were regressed and couldn’t concentrate, so we ended up in back of Rich massaging his back. It didn’t take him too long to figure out we hadn’t taken our medicine yet so there was that push. After that we laid behind him for about a half an hour until we got up to now. I knew we were getting better, because we started thinking through process things like taking an interest in how he was using his Outlook program.

I think Rich is going to be going to work soon, but maybe after a bit. He’s already showered and dressed, but he just turned on one of his fishy shows. He’s been working on quotations and he’s been on the phone. We didn’t bother him with too much we just were appreciating he was there to spoon up against. He’s so nice!

He asked us what we were going to do today and by that I knew that he meant are we going to be going to the gym. I think we really have to, but I know there are going to be a lot of people trying to get into their New Year’s resolution to be healthier. Maybe that is something we’re going to have to figure out today with the writing, but I’m not up to that point yet. Why don’t we take it slow and relaxed, hmm?

Let’s see … better think through how we spent yesterday, especially since it was the first day of the year.

Ok, we’re good now. We ended up with a cat in our arms, but in general we reviewed our notes from what we’d written yesterday. I think we’d gotten up to the part that we needed to get ready to be seeing the boys. The last thing we did before closing the entry was note that we needed to gather together the kids’ packages.

Rich went downstairs first and he was nice enough to get my car started and warmed up. He’s just so neat! There were no incidents on our way out to the Steakhouse, but when we got there about 15 minutes early, we found that the place didn’t open until 4 pm and it was only now almost noon. We parked and got out our phone. We tried not to fret when we realized that our phone was registering low battery. That usually means there are only a few moments before it collapses.

We did get through to Maury who said that he’d call back after he talked to some of the others to come up with another place. I warned him of the phone about to go dead, so he said if it does to just stay put and he’d get to us. That affirmation made us feel better, so then there was nothing to do, but sit back and relax. I did get one phone ring, but indeed then the phone went dead. We knew Maury knew our situation so we let things go. The next thing was that Alex pulled up a couple minutes to noon. We were glad to see him and had to catch his attention, because he was himself just figuring out that the place was closed. We tooted our horn and then he pulled up next to us.

We explained the situation and said that Maury should have gotten a hold of him, but it appeared that he’d been in the bank and hadn’t picked up Maury’s call.

Fortunately, his phone was good and he connected to Maury and they’d figured out we’d meet over at Uncle Julio’s. This was a Mexican place that is one of Thom’s favorites. He also confirmed that Thom and Alexis were going to be there.

I followed Alex over to the 2nd choice of restaurants and then we waited for the table and sat down. A few moments later Maury and his group go there, and then Joe and Cari. I guess there’d been some problem getting a hold of Thom, but Thom did then call in after he got to the other restaurant. It was only 7-8 minutes away from the other choice. In not too long we were joined by them and everyone was there … in total there were 10 people and we’d come in 5 different vehicles …

Pswhoo!

There was a little adjustment in chairs as we tried to figure out the best arrangement with Maury’s folks and Alex. The key was to get Lauren closer to the middle of the table, which mean moving Ame who didn’t want to move and then to make sure there were two spaces and two spaces so that Joe and Thom and their girls could partner up next to each other. Everything eventually worked out and it was a pretty good deal, but the table was too long to hear from the ends. I could watch Alexis and Cari who were sitting on the ends, but they weren’t really close enough to talk to.

In general, it was a hard situation. Alex pretty much talked to Joe and Lauren, Thom and Alexis talked to Ame. Alex and Joe talked to Isa, and Joe and Cari played a word search game from the kids’ menus. I tried to listen in on one set of conversations or another, but I felt kind of out of it and as a dead-end in conversations. Even though I sat directly next to Thom, I couldn’t figure out what to talk to him about. I was just feeling so dumbfounded that he was there. I don’t remember ever feeling so much of a loss of conversational ability. And, because Thom and Maury were quieter than normal, it felt a little lonely to be at a table where there were so many people, but we weren’t gelling.

I think we were pretty much smiles though because we were watching people interacting and hearing a little of the conversations even though we weren’t much a part of them. I’m glad that I had brought in the gifts. I’d asked Alex before getting out of the car if it would be ok to bring a few things in. He didn’t see much problem with that. Maury questioned it later, but it turned out to be ok.

The girls’ gifts were first. We had just a few things in the boxes, but they seemed pleased with their gifts. Both of them got a chocolate Santa, a pretty sequined black purse, a Christmas ball with candy in it and then Ame got a box of stationary and a fancy heart pen and Isa got a bundle of plastic jewelry. And, then in their purses were $50 bills. It was just a little gift giving that wasn’t too much, but was sufficient in giving them something to be playing with at the table. I felt bad because both Isa and Alex were coming off a cold, so they seemed a bit tired, but for the most part it was just nice.

The next thing was to hand out the big peoples’ envelopes. Each of them of course got the $50 too though Cari’s gift was half. I wanted to give her the full amount, but both Maury and Rich thought it should be the lesser, especially considering my financial situation. I hope that turned out to be ok. Everyone seemed to appreciate the gift, but it didn’t seem like a real big deal. Thom and Alex talked about going to Best Buy. I’m sure that they had other money or gift cards, but it made me feel good they at least had something more to spend. People were nice and said thanks.

And, then we did the last of the gifts – the one that went to Maury, Thom and Joe.

They teased back and forth because Thom saw that all the gifts were going to be the same, so he didn’t open his. Maury and Joe teased that they weren’t going to show Thom what they’d gotten. That part was fun. Then they opened the boxes. I’m not really sure of the reaction. I’m not sure exactly where we were. I was hoping I think for a little more excitement, but I didn’t really get that. There were a few things said as to clarifications – like I pointed out this was a year out of 6 and that there would be more books written that I’d like to get out by the end of the year.

The books got handed around to a couple of people, but no one really read anything that was in the books. I also remember explaining that they’d not really wanted to be mentioned in the books, but then when we’d gone private, I started using their real names. I reminded each of them who they were in the story. There was a little other loose talk, but soon after the food came and things were pretty much put away. I really don’t know how they felt about getting the book.

I did have a little more feedback from Joe afterward. He said he had a small gift over at his place and he wanted to know if I could follow him over. It turned out to be a really nice gift. We got a picture of him in his karate uniform that was professionally taken and framed. I was so happy to have a current picture of him, especially in this outlook.

Like I said the book did come up again … pretty much because of me. We wanted to point out the first place that he appeared in the story. He wasn’t going to read it in front of us at first, but I think we pleaded lightly. He read it while I stood back. It was about having met him and Alex for lunch and their excitement for starting college again. Joe was on his second year and Alex was on his first.

Afterward there were a few things said back and forth. The one that stands out in our minds was that Joe said something about these kinds of things being considered a legacy and in particular his legacy. I felt honored that he thought this much of it. It really was the case, but I didn’t know what it would mean for him. I think he was glad to have the book.

I’m not sure though if he was going to read it. Pretty much he walked it over to his glass bookshelves on either side of his fireplace, and he showed me where he was going to keep it. That’s when I thought, it would be there forever, but he would probably never read it, at least not for a generation or two. I knew this might be the case going into it and I had to accept it, but it still felt a little sad.

As to the rest of the time over at Joe’s, it was very nice talking to Joe and Cari.

It was the best time I had in getting to know her with Joe. I felt bad though, because it wasn’t really established whether I should stay or go. Joe’s chairs were taken up with stuff so there wasn’t a place to sit down, and you know I can’t stand long, so after about 15 minutes we excused ourselves and left.

Before we went there was one conversation about people, especially intimate relationships. I told him that Rich was barely mentioned in the book except as a friend, but in later versions we would be talking about sexual situations although not giving specific details except it was happening. Joe seemed to take this pretty well, and the and Cari talked a little about being in situations where their friends and themselves were trying to accept that their parents were having intimate relationships. They spoke of it as being younger and older. I think my conclusion to all that was that it was a little uncomfortable, but something they would accept as the time came. I felt glad for that and that we’d had the conversation. We also talked about being a little uncomfortable knowing that our sons would be doing the same thing, but the best part to figure was that it was in general a happy situation for all those involved.

After that we let it go.

Going back to the restaurant, things were nice there in that people seemed to have a good time even if the chatter was light. The food was good and plentiful. I did get an ice cream scoop to go after watching Ame eat hers. Ok, maybe that’s not critical, but it is how I remembered finishing up the evening. There were a lot of hugs to go around afterward and people were still making arrangements when we got out to the car. I think Thom, Alexis and Alex were going to Best Buy, Maury and Lauren were going home to settle the girls in, and I of course was going with Joe and Cari. But, then afterward, Maury had invited the others to come over to play the new Monopoly game he’d gotten and was excited about. I think most of that was going to turn on what Thom decided to do.

I was a little hurt that I wasn’t invited over directly. I suppose I could have been if I’d asked, but it was assumed that it was a younger parties event. I think I represent a certain amount of formality and I guess they’d all had enough of that. It’s not that I don’t feel appreciated, because they all accept me as being the mother. I just wish I was better at being social. Pretty much though the situation is that I’m so overwhelmed by seeing all these kids together and knowing of their relationship to me, I’m pretty much just bowled over. I sure do love the hell out of them. I’d do anything I could for them. They are just soooo darn cool.

That was pretty much of the event. There were the subtle conversations, but those are more things that get melted into your brain where no words are really collected, but there is an aura of warmth and love.

When we got home, Rich was still out. I think we got home about 3 pm. We might have tried doing the computer for a few moments, but mostly we just fell asleep on the couch. I think we woke up for a few minutes and had gone back to the computer when Rich got in. He gave us a chance to adjust.

Hmm, there’s been now an interruption of time. It’s now 11:15 am. Rich is getting ready to go for a while and he’s had his talk with us where we were supposed to be doing other stuff besides just writing. That part is probably good for us, but always meets with a lot of resistance. We know that we are more interesting when we have things to write about, but then just the feeling of leaving the computer … well you know. That’s not a new story.

Rich is a little frustrated now because he went out to make his sandwich and the thing that holds the ingredients to the side of the refrigerator fell out. It was noisy! He’s doing a lot of heavy sighing and grieving. He’s going to be out for quite a while now. He says that he’s going to go with Bob to play cards at about 2 pm. He says he’ll probably be home about 6 pm. He’s talking about going bowling again, so we said to call right away and get the bowling hours and then we’ll try to be ready. I hope he pays attention to the directive to give me time.

Oh man … he went to the bathroom and then he came out and said we’ll go now AND THEN he’ll play cards. Well that was TOTALLY unacceptable. I had to work up my nerve for later, I certainly am not going to bounce into it now before I finished writing or took a shower. That’s just crazy talk. I had offered to call and then he was stalling because he couldn’t think of the name. So then we finally got it by location and he was like write it down … he was eating and didn’t want to call yet, but then by now we are real grouchy because we’re doing something outside our comfort zone and he’s not following up to make it easier for us to adjust to. Man … this is just terrible. Plus, there’s the part where he’s sitting around now eating instead of going and leaving me with private writing time and with my CNN. Mostly it’s the feeling of being pushed that we dislike so much with him. We were ok when he told us about the cards and stuff, but man if you want us involved let us know.

And, then there is the part of him asking us what we want to do. We never want to leave the computer, so then this throws us into a bad mood too, because we are expected to come up with something. It would have been a lot easier if he’d agree to do the gym with us. But, that he’s not willing to do. So Hmpf!

We gotta calm down again. I think this might be a little of our being single thing holding out. Maybe then too about having parts. It takes us a while to tuck in the loose corners. Maybe we should go back into our regular stuff. I think we had to mention a few things about last night.

I think Rich got home about 6 pm. You knew he’d been out with his Mom and Chris.

He did give me a chance to talk about our time out with the kids and I think we did it in a lying down position on the couch. He had less to say about his event. He talked some of problems the Mom was having. I think actually though it’s his problems for his Mom not carrying the standards he has for her, like the standards he has that I should just get up and go when it is not our nature.

I think we’d eaten before so then we watched a couple of West Wings before finding ourselves back in mushy space. I think that fulfils the important considerations of one to finish up the year and another to start off the year *giggle*. Ok, enough of that. It’s about a wrap-up of the time though.

Hmm, now he says that he’s going to do the food shopping to get that done. It’s not my fault if he took all morning and got behind his scheduling ideals.

Wow! I have to work my way into being in a better mood. Maybe I should come up with something on my own to do. Rich is really on us about the gym, but we’re back to thinking that we should start that on a Monday and see how things go. That would be just to avoid going today or tomorrow. I know that there are going to be a lot of people there and I haven’t worked my way through it. On the positive side, we do have a lock and that had been one of our other reasons before of not going. I really am going to need running deep to figure out where that part of us is that wants to be healthy. We’re pretty sure she’s been away. Maybe she went to Vale, Colorado. It’s hard to know.

Rich said something about going for a walk along the lake and then he said we could go to the museum, but without some normal form of walking it is too hard without the chair. Man … our whole line of thinking is pretty much kaput here. We’re trying to understand this somewhat at least enough to get back into that whole area of thoughts. The last I’d remembered about it was that we’d gotten the meters on our devise to be watching what we were doing. We’d gone 4-5 times, and then we weren’t going. Not sure why.

Ok, that’s one thing … the first thing really. We got our iPod plugged in … that’s gotta be a critical thing. It’s way down really low on the red end of the battery cell. If I would be going to the gym that part would need to be taken care of. It seems like over the last several days we’ve really let our machines go and are very far from being able to get even the Outlook going. Yeeks that whole thing is too close to work thoughts. Don’t want to go there. We do have to realize that there is about 3 days left, but that thought is altogether way threatening. Why does anybody want to go to work?

Good, Rich just left. He’s going to the grocery store. We said a quick “Good-bye!” He said you act like you want t get rid of me … we said “YES!” And, then he asked why. We told him he was too much work and that we needed some quiet time to write and listen to CNN without him inserting in unruly thoughts. YEEKS!

There … we just called the bowling alley ourselves. They’ve got open bowling until 1 am. That should give us enough time without being pushed. We called back Rich and begrudgingly gave him the information. We said then “What are your plans?” He said after cards … ok, this was checking off. And then we said about what time. He said about 5-6 pm. I said fine, we’ll take our shower at 4 pm. Then he said why not take your shower at 3 pm in case I get knocked out. We tried not to get upset. I said we’re making a date; you can take me out at 6 pm, NOT whenever you feel like it. He said that was fine whatever we needed. HMPF! If I did whenever, I would not be leaving my computer! I know there are other parts who won’t mind going, but I’m not one of those parts. Double HMPF!!

Ok, Shh girls … we can do better than this, right? Let’s try a little harder?

Hmm, it’s now after 12 pm. We just finished having lunch … we had the last 3 ribs from our dinner with Rich and we ate a couple of peanut butter tortillas. That seems to be plenty.

Hmm, just checked my email and found there was about 10 minutes of work to do taking care of it. Biggest thing was that the Amazon order needed an updated credit card.

I’d used the wrong one and it naturally then didn’t work. So, now we are looking at delivery January 7-9th. It will do. I feel pretty caught up then. We’ve listened more concretely to the news on CNN because we’ve been away from the station all morning. There are a couple of stories in particular including the bombings in Israel. The other two stories of interest were the Muslims taken off the plane that most likely shouldn’t have and about the bus driver who left a disabled adult with an age level of 2 years on a bus for 19 hours, because she needed to get somewhere.

He was still seat-buckled in. He’s now recovering in a hospital. Man that’s just SOOOO wrong!

It looks like we’re really caught-up with no place to go. This would then be one of those magical moments where we insert a few thoughts in any one of many directions to see where we end up. I’m not real familiar with our hot-button items. Do we have any thoughts here? Hmm, yes gym. That’s a tough issue. It goes along with the eating goals. I think what has sabotaged this more than anything has been competing goals. There have been 3 major ones in the Outlook program, the writing, and the house. I’m sure there are many more and I’m not immediately aware of the big jumper that started the problem. I know there has been before our break a little working out of the problem. Mainly we now have a lock. Why don’t we do someone a favor then and try to work through the situation of just going. I think it will be easier to plan for the workout parts other than swimming, but for now let’s at least start there.

Ok, if I were to go to the gym, I would simply have to be … first getting dressed.

There is no doubt that all our shorts are clean. We would need to put on our double shorts, under-things, a shirt, workout pants and shoes/socks. I think we had gotten to the point where we’d take with extra shoes just in case we have to change, and we’re going to need a towel and all of that will fit with lock in the black bag which is on the kitchen chair. Ok that’s not too hard so far, right?

So then, the next part is getting out of the door. Let’s check our bag. We’ve got towel, and we should also remember to bring our water bottle and iPod. We should check the pass is in our purse … yes we need our purse too, and then we need to check for keys. Don’t forget to put your hair up.

Ok, so far so good. Next we have to drive to the gym. When we open the door and see all the people we have to not freak out. There will be people and most likely places to work out. Maybe we should remember to start the iPod before we get there. Maybe we should be listening to the audio-book on motivation or we should listen to one of the news podcasts. We’d figure it out. We have to not worry about not having the music. That’s been lost and we’re not going back. K?

So, let’s say we make it to the gate, insert our card, and go past the walkers toward the locker room. We’ll have on our green coat which is more appropriate than our black coat. We will go find a locker and get ready to attack the treadmill, right? Ok let’s not worry about how far to walk. We just need to try our hardest and see how far that gets us. We’ll work on elevating our numbers afterward. Then of course we do the same with the bike. After that we need to walk up the stairs.

I would like to think we don’t go to all the machines, but this first time maybe we should stay aware of the time and not stay longer than 1 ½ - 2 hours – less if it’s real hard. I know it’s not a good idea to leave it in the air, but most likely we got overwhelmed and that was part of us breaking off, hmm?

Whoops Rich is home. I forgot he was going to do that. He sounds like he has a lot of bags and bundles. I just heard him let out a heavy sigh. We’ve got to not let this get us blown away. We just said hi to his hi, but then he said he’s trying to be quiet. I think that had to do with someplace where we were at. We told him not to worry about it, but to be truthful; we’re worried over our next reaction. We feel we’ve gotten somewhere by starting the gym conversation, but we haven’t finished that enough to be walking out the door. I think we do have it so that we can walk through the process and we have everything we need. Our iPod battery is about 2/3rds charged - most likely if we’re going out to bowl, we will not be doing the gym today, but then when?

Let’s think it out for Monday night. Rich said that he was going to try going back to doing the basketball games. He needs to make the money so he can afford his fishy life. He said he’s going to be scheduling Monday through Thursday. That means I don’t have to feel as guilty for being out after work. This should work well. So, that’s about it, except we’ll have to put all that in our bag so it’s ready to go with us. Obviously, we’ll have to dress before we leave from work. We could dress at the gym, but that would add its own confusions.

So … now we can let that go. I we could get out of the house with rich once on Saturday and once on Sunday then that would be better than not. Maybe we’ll talk to him about that when he comes back. Tonight we’ll do the bowling, and then we’ll do the walk by the lake on Saturday and the trip to the museum or bowling again on Sunday. The weather today is about 29. The high tomorrow will be 36 and mostly cloudy and then on Sunday it will be 37 with 50% chance of rain. Hmm, he came in here and said stuff, but then we asked him to listen to us, because he was making decisions without understanding the weather yet. He agreed then that we could do this. He also added in that he’d gotten a lot of ham because it was on sale so that might take us a week to eat. He said he would use it for his sandwiches too. I think he got about 10 pounds.

He’s headed back out now to go to his card game with Bob. When we asked for a kiss, he said that he had to be quiet. But, someone then told him it would be a QUIET kiss. See we can be workable.

Ahh, that’s good news … it looks like the Mayor of New York is leaning toward Carolyn Kennedy for the vacant Senate seat of Clinton. That’s our best hope forward. We look forward to her being in the news and in particular working with Obama. Those two really get a long idealistically. I think she needs to work on being out in the public’s eye more. A couple of days ago, they did a story on the number of times she said, “Ya know,” while speaking. It was a lot!

Ok, now that we have the gym worked out, we need to figure out the eating part. I think that we’re going to need going back into a regular diet. That is going to mean a lot less little food throughout the day. We don’t eat a lot in one setting, but we do eat more and we’re eating much too often. I’m not real sure how to fix that. Probably where we were going before we lost track was to record what we’re eating on the iPod.

Ok, good … we’re back Gracie! We turn out to have a fitness tracker on the iPod.

It collects good data on what you are eating and how your are exercising. I think it’s different than the one we’ve been using at the gym, but it is good for counting calories and quantities can be adjusted. And, then there are the regular charts and graphs. It also reminded us to check our blood pressure and get a bottle of water.

We haven’t done that for awhile. Lately we’ve been drinking either coffee or juice – neither of which are healthy.

So, good food and health are looking better. Unfortunately, it doesn’t allow you to keep track of two sets of people. I guess that Rich is going to be on his own.

This is going to be a big deal if we’re getting back to the numbers. We’re going to need a little cooperation. Ok, too … if we are doing what we are supposed to be doing it means looking at schedules too – you know?!

Oh, don’t get that way … we just need to progress ourselves, right?

WooHOO! We got things going. We went through some things on our iPod and caught it up a bit. We even found our blog. It’s really cool to be able to read it on the iPod. We now know that if we spread our fingers then the writing will get big enough to read. The only problem is that you need the Wi-Fi connection for it to work. At least it works here and theoretically that gets us out doors on the porch or while it’s still winter at least over by the couches.

Hmm, we’ve put up a picture that we’d taken a couple of days ago … maybe now though actually more than a week ago. It’s when it was snowing so heavily. I think it was our first day of vacation. But, the neat thing is that we could still access that set of three pictures we took with our camera phone, emailed to our regular account and now just by tapping it we get a very nice picture on the iPod. I just love how things work now-a-days. It’s just soooo cool. It’s a good picture too!

Ok, I think we’re losing part of the day here. We still need to work toward good order and I think that beside keeping up with the records it’s also about doing things we should be doing. I am thinking that is going to mean that we pick-up around here before Rich comes in and most likely even before my shower. It’s now about 2:30 pm. I would be impressed with that and then also we might impress ourselves if we include putting do the bills on our to-do list. Hmm – why don’t we try?

Ok, we put the bill in to the To-do list. We’ve also noted the calendar, checked the email and we set-up our weather channel for Brookfield. It says it’s now 26 degrees Fahrenheit and our high is 27 low is 22. It confirms that Sunday will be rainy. AHA! We’ve got notes and we’ve got a notepad. Notes is apparently the one that came with the iPod. I like it because it’s script writing, but the other one is probably more comprehensive. I think what I could do here is leave the Note Pad for me and then write Rich notes on the notes section. Then I could bring them up – my questions or clues when we meet up with him, or get him on the phone. Hmm, I like that a lot!

We noted that our dictionary is in the eReader. We forgot that the other day when we needed a dictionary. We also started up the “Anycount” gizmo. That keeps track of how many times we do something. This is a good time to do it to because it’s a brand new year. This means we could set-up some goals for ourselves and then give us a tally mark when we reach them. Our group’s now is Ann’s Walks, phone interruptions (rich), watching calories and blogging. Yes, we’ll have to set-up some better stuff here.

We checked out the I Ching. Hmm, we could keep a record of that somewhere I would think. We need a place to write down questions. Oh very cool … just found out how to add a section in the notebook for the I Ching. The first question was “How are rich and I getting along today?” The response was innocence and increase, and then the second question was “What is going to make me the happiest in 2009 and we got the response for contemplating. This is exactly how I feel when I am writing or editing the journal. I think I’m going to leave the questions there.

Let’s see we told you about Todo and fitness, but I didn’t have anything I wanted to buy in What-2-Buy. The Fitphone is supposed to be when we are at the gym and can record specifically what we’re doing. I noticed that we have a ledger and something called the bankarama. I think those two things need to be figured out tomorrow when we are taking care of bills. I looked at the Spanish vocabulary things, but that didn’t really interest me. I did a Tweetie entry so that was nice and then that’s about that!

Oh yeah … and my battery is re-charged. It’s now about 2:45 pm, so I figure I better do something about cleaning up the house. Ok, we can do this, right? Go you!
Cool, cool. We’re done! It’s now 3:30 pm and we’ve got the house picked up and dishwasher running, plus we were in and out of the shower and we got dressed.

Feeling pretty good – though it’s for granite the house doesn’t get too bad. Now the bad areas are Rich’s areas. He’s got a spot on the table in the kitchen, the table in the living room, and the desk in his bedroom that is mess-maker places.

Maybe we could talk to him about all of that tomorrow. We’re still trying to give him room in the spare bedroom to make up as his extra room. Well except the closets. He can only have a part of them because I got some stuff in there in storage. I think he needs to finish some fishy stuff too. We’ll need to help him work through his list tomorrow. See, when we’re good, we’re good!

And, we’re on our second bottle of water. This is all good. I’m thinking though that now while we’re waiting for Rich that we should work on the book editing for a bit. There’s a ton ahead. I think I have done 14 chapters of 64 chapters. That means we’ve got 22% complete with 78% to go. Pswhoo. Plus there is the part that the remaining parts are going to take longer than the first, because they are soooo long. We’re going to do it though … just have to be busy 

posted by Ann Marie @ 1/02/2009 03:40:00 PM Comments: 0