Posted by Carrie on 27 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Rants and vents
Apparently, cell phone batteries aren’t meant to be immortal. I suppose I knew that, but I don’t like signs of weakness, even (especially?) in technology. The past several days, though, I begin the day with a fully-charged phone and end it with a “Your phone’s battery is dangerously low!” message. (”Dangerously?” [...]
Posted by Carrie on 09 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Rants and vents
Last night I dreamed I went to Thailand, just to pick up a form for something school-related. I had a few high school friends with me, until sea lions in our hotel pool began eating them.
(This is what I get for trying to switch up yoga routines. My dreams are just as vivid, [...]
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 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 07 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Rants and vents
Tossed and turned until 2…then got wakened intermittently by Gabe for various reasons (including “My butt hurts!”) for the rest of the night. Now feeling thoroughly exhausted, despite multiple cups of coffee. Snow is falling steadily, to the tune of what’s expected to be maybe ten inches today; we have MOPS this morning, [...]
Posted by Carrie on 05 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Rants and vents
Apparently, the universe felt I needed humbled, from the get-go, today. To wit:
- Gabe woke up with a nightmare this morning. I guess I must have been a little harsh with my scolding last night before bed, since he dreamed (though he didn’t want to tell me; he told me it was “too [...]
Posted by Carrie on 12 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Rants and vents
Oh, so very done
This day: so much longer than
the clock defined it.
Christmas shopping “fun”!
Younger son out of control.
Older? Not better!
When do they outgrow
the tantrums? The whining that
makes my brain shatter?
And why do they choose
this “jolly,” crowded season
to really push things?
“Santa is watching…”
They don’t give a flying crap.
I dream dreams of coal.
I could be [...]
Posted by Carrie on 09 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Rants and vents
Okay, they don’t bite. They’re just busy as all get-out. And it’s not even the whole day that’s so hectic – just the evenings, in which have to cram dinner, homework, and last-minute studying into the hour and a half between Sam’s arrival home from school and our departure to church for choir [...]
Posted by Carrie on 07 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health, Rants and vents
I have a particular strategy I like to employ when I’m attempting something new and outside my current comfort zones. I immerse myself in the idea and, as much as possible, surround myself in environments wherein the new idea is commonplace, old hat. It was what I did when I was pregnant and [...]
Posted by Carrie on 01 Dec 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Rants and vents
I’ve never done the external holiday lights thing before, outside of a Moravian star that was gifted to me two years ago. I thought I might give it a whirl this year, but the universe is conspiring against me. To wit, after I spent an hour wandering through Menards feeling D-U-M, stupid, regarding just [...]
