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My Life Thus Far
Love From A Distance
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I was having a good day, but now I'm irritated. Very
irritated. I suppose I'll get over it eventually, but
right now it's pretty intense and I'm not sure I can. It
didn't start until Sue called and started badgering us
about when she can come visit. When she can see the baby.
Why we haven't called in so long (since Christmas). That
woman rubs me the wrong way consistently. Now that I'm
easily irritated she REALLY rubs me wrong. What's up with
all this familial contact, anyway? Why does Jason's
parents feel that we must talk to each other all the time?
I never talk to my mom and rarely talk with my dad and
that's just fine with me. Dad and I get in touch enough.
We don't need to be all up in each other's lives to feel
the love. We love from a distance :)
Okay, I'm starting to feel better. About that, at least.
Physically I'm drained. Hopefully sleep comes easily
tonight. I slept really well last night. It was so great,
I didn't want to get up this morning. It's sad that I have
to get myself to the point of exhaustion just to get any
sleep. I did wake up sore. I had to replay Tuesday over in
my head to pinpoint what about that day left me so sore.
Then I remember the groceries. I single-handedly carried
$300 worth of groceries in from the car by myself. Bottled
water, cases of soda, milk, canned goods, heavy stuff. We
were in pretty sad shape as far as our cupboards went.
After cleaning out the fridge, all that was left was
condiments. Ketchup, mustard, mayo and the like. Now it's
filled to the brim and we don't have to run to the mini-
mart whenever we're hungry.
I didn't really do too much today. I did a quick coffee
break with Gen, stopped in Ross to get Snookums linens for
his rack on the ship (he's preparing to go on a fast
cruise next week), then came home. Honestly, I'm not sure
how today passed by so fast, because when I look back on
it, I didn't accomplish much.
Annie made me very upset today. Gen and I were going to
get the kids together to play (my kids, the kids she
watches and Cyrus, of course), but Annie upset me so much
I didn't think she deserved to go and I certainly didn't
want to be around her after she'd made me so angry. To
make a long story short, I told Annie to do her homework.
So, she plopped down in front of the tv to do it. I told
her "no way, take it to your room", but instead of going
to her room to do her homework, she just dumped it on her
bed and came back up to watch tv! I was livid! I asked her
to bring me her homework and it turns out she had about 6
pages of it that were due today, but she lied about it on
Friday and said she didn't have any homework. We went
round and round about it. Snookums talked with her about
it and basically it comes down to her not wanting to do
it. That's what it always is. Or she's so busy talking in
class, she doesn't hear her teacher explain what to do, so
she does it wrong or doesn't follow instructions. It's
been like this since the day she started school. I've
devised a plan that hopefully will work. I went to Rite-
Aid and bought her a 3 subject notebook and never-sharpen
pencils (they look like #2 pencils, write like them, but
never need lead like a mechanical and never need
sharpening. Amazing). I told her she has to take notes on
everything. If her teacher writes it on the board or puts
it on the overhead, she'd better copy it in her notebook
and I will be checking every day. This will keep her too
busy to talk and force her to pay attention to the lesson.
Also, when she gets home and is doing homework, she can't
use the lame excuse that she doesn't remember the lesson.
I'm preparing her for middle school, high school and
college. There will be hell to pay if she comes home note-
less! We've got to do something now while she's in 3rd
grade before she's doing this in higher grades.
Our evening was really nice before Sue called. I made
spaghetti with Parmesan basil bread sticks for dinner. It
was great. It was nice having a family meal at home. We've
been eating out far too much lately. Things are back to
normal now. We're all monied out! There's nothing else
left for us to buy, do or get. We're content. Other than
getting the cars' windshield replace, but we'll take care
of that next week.
Okay. I'm off to bed now. I'm getting sleepy. Ciao for now.
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