The holidays are over, and the decorations will be back in the boxes later this week. It went by a lot faster than I thought it would, with family coming here to the house for the first time in quite a while. It was a stress free weekend and then the week after of just bumming around the house doing nothing much, was a nice break from the hectic pace of normalcy.
I’m not one to play out the whole resolutions for the new year, and the fact that I spent the weekend downing a batch of mimosas means that I completely didn’t bother to determine all the things that I should start up or drop doing for the new year. The husband and I both have said we’re making changes with the way we do things, but it has more to do with health issues and coincidental timing than actual “resolution” setting.
One thing I have said is that I’m going to try and get back into the habit of writing again. I am very good at finding distractions all around me and being too busy doing nothing to bother sitting down and putting thoughts here or on paper. I’m not going to do the blog 365 or anything like that, because the pressure to do this every day makes me post random stuff just to post and I end up with a bunch of pictures of things that are known to distract me from writing, and so I’m trying to avoid that.
We’ll see how it goes, with the simple idea that I should write something when there is something worth mentioning or humorous going on here in the house, which is in fact, most days of the week. It’s not like I’m short of material with a teenager tripping over his own feet running around.
Happy new year to those of you that wander here on occasion, let’s hope it’s a better one than the last.
As much as I like to complain about the kid bugging me all day, it’s fun having him around for the summer. Being a family of overly connected, internet dependent people, we’re not usually fussed about making big vacation plans and opt for short outings over a few days here and there. The kid is currently off with the grandparents and my brother for the weekend, driving through the mountains in Miata heaven, or so it was explained to me. I think between trips like this, and the more standard vacations with his dad, he gets a good rounded summer that doesn’t keep him glued to a computer, and sometimes there’s actual learning involved which is always a plus.
I’m sitting here this morning looking over the calender and realizing that there’s only about two weeks before school is going to start. We don’t have anything planned for the time left, so it’s going to be chilling, maybe heading to a movie or two and generally just taking a break before we get back into the fall routine.
This year, I think it’s driving home with me a bit more, because the kid is off to high school this year. It’s that forced reminder, much like the grey that is starting to congregate around my hairline, that time is running along at it’s own pace and we’re just trying to keep up.
The site has some minor tweaking left, but generally everything works so there’s no rush. The kid is off to his dad’s tomorrow and they’ll be out of town for 10 days. The day after he gets back, I’m shipping him off for a weekend with the grandparents, just because the way schedules worked out. What I’m looking at is about 2 weeks of quiet down time during the day. I’ve been trying to do some writing in between the coding and it’s not working. There’s also the problem of trying to do it with a teenager fragging things in the same room.
I’ve also pretty much backed out of raiding in WoW as of right now. I’ve not really logged in this week because of trying to get some odd jobs done and getting my own stuff up and running, but the fact is, I’m not really missing it that much. I’m trying to make a point of scheduling my time, and right now, there’s no time for gaming other than the occasional minesweeper or mahjong while I’m thinking through things. Now if i can get exercise thrown in there somewhere…things will be set.
I realized something this morning as I was trying to beat ask my kid to help out mowing the yard. I know his dad has him do a bunch of stuff over there and I hate getting double duty for him, and it’s an excuse for me to say I did some kind of exercise during the day. Anyway…
I got him to mow the front yard last week and I watched what he did. Now I remember as a kid we had a huge front yard and back, and to get over the boredom of walking back and forth we used to cut it into quarters or triangles or just run in circles. This used to piss off my dad to no end, but eventually he learned that it was easier and faster to do it himself most of the time. I’m doing the same thing now.
The kid can do the back, it’s fenced in and no one but us sees it and I don’t really care how he does it. The front yard is going to stay mine, because it bugs the living OCD get out the edger and even that shit out part of me.
At least it’s starting to look like a yard instead of an overgrown field. I need an umbrella for the table because I fry in any sunlight.