Posted by Carrie on 29 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: House and Home, Rants and vents
There are plenty of people in this world who don’t have indoor plumbing at all! I should be grateful just to have a toilet, even if it does overflow and flood the bathroom every time I flush, and it’s Friday evening, and all the plumbers in the city will be billing time and a [...]
Posted by Carrie on 29 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Completely random, Fitness and Health
SO grumpy yesterday, but I think a big chunk of it was that Thursdays just stick out like a sore thumb for me. Gabe’s not in school, sometimes I have MOPS but sometimes I don’t, it’s a no-running day…I just never have any sort of habitual expectations for the day, so I feel off-balance. [...]
Posted by Carrie on 28 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Rants and vents
Boy, whoever coined that phrase wasn’t kidding. Today, I’m battling a headache and some general grumpitude, and so I went and scheduled both kids for dental checkups. To be fair, they’re due for them, anyway, but for some reason, my current mindset prepared me to remember to make the arrangements. Remembering Gabe’s [...]
Posted by Carrie on 25 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Gabriel, Samuel
SAM: ::pant, pant, pant::
ME: “Hi, Sam. How was school?”
SAM: ::pant, pant!:: “Water!”
ME: “Sink. What’s going on?”
SAM: ::pant, pant; glug, glug:: “Running!”
ME: “Why were you running?”
SAM: “I…heard…a noise! It went fzzzzzzz-chunk!”
ME: “What do you think it could have been?”
SAM: “I don’t know! Maybe a ghost knocking over something, or a skeleton!”
ME: [...]
Posted by Carrie on 25 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Completely random, Fitness and Health, Pictures and movies, Samuel
I’ve been thinking lately about doing and trying new things. This morning, while on a typical, not new in any way, run, I got chased by a dog for the very first time. That wasn’t exactly what I’d had in mind. (It was actually a little white, fluffy, yappy dog, [...]
Posted by Carrie on 21 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Completely random, Cooking, Gabriel
Fact: on MOPS mornings, I don’t ordinarily have coffee, since I know I’ll have coffee there.
Fact: I don’t ordinarily eat breakfast those mornings, either, since ditto.
Fact: I can’t cook without caffeine of some sort in my system.
Fact: I was on tap for a “hot dish” for this morning’s meeting.
Results: I had several large mugs of [...]
Posted by Carrie on 19 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health
Eric switched his weekly Scrabble game around to last night so that he could do a Build-It night tonight with Sam for the Scouts Derby. Unfortunately, that went into limbo when he came up unexpectedly early from the Scrabble game and, um, “scrabbled” up the stairs with a bowl in his arms, at the [...]
Posted by Carrie on 18 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Completely random, Familial things
Eric says I should update more, that he liked it in December when I update frequently. Well, okay, then!
Sam had no school today, but Gabe did, which posed an interesting situation. Sam is old enough that I could have been comfortable leaving him in the house (with the internet [...]
Posted by Carrie on 15 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Completely random
Hop out of bed at 6 AM; the husband has an early meeting, so breakfast has to be prompt. Throw the oats into the boiling water, and start the coffee maker – a big pot, to accommodate this morning’s mugs and a thermos for him to take to work. At 6:30, call husband [...]
