Well absolutely nothing exciting happened yesterday. Just your typical day at work. As I was on my way home from work yesterday Jonathan called on the cell phone and asked if he could go out to dinner with one of his reps. I said sure. So that meant a lovely evening at home, just me and the kids. After picking up Skyler at school and heading down to the babysitter's to pick up Chase, we made it home.
What an exciting night, NOT! I fed Chase and Skyler, gave the kids their baths and then began the nightly ritual of trying to get Skyler to bed. Believe it or not, things go much smoother for Skyler going to bed when Jonathan is not there. Like most people have said, she knows whose buttons she can push and whose she can't, I guess. She did get a little upset once while I was giving Chase his nighttime bottle. She hollered a few times and I ignored her and she got really upset. I am trying to put her to bed earlier. So last night it was 8:00. It was 9:00 before she ever fell asleep. Poor little Chase, he took his bottle at 8:30 and he was down for the count in 30 seconds flat. I hope he goes to bed this well when he is Skyler's age. I can only hope, huh?
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Things were so busy with the kids that I didn't even think or remember to eat dinner. Jonathan came strolling in about 9:15 and was rubbing his big belly saying, "Damn that was a good dinner and I sure am full." I just gave him this nasty look and said, "Well I'm glad you enjoyed yourself." Its not very often that he has to take care of both kids himself, so he doesn't relate. I know I shouldn't bitch, there are lots of single parents out there who have to do everything themselves ALL the time. All I can say for them is, "Bless you." I couldn't do it. I know I couldn't. I guess if you don't have a choice, you make do. But I sure as hell wouldn't want to do it if I didn't have to. Jonathan always says that if I died he would never remarry. I bet a good 6 months alone with the kids and he would be singing a different tune.
We're lucky, whenever I go out of town for a business trip, my mother usually comes over from Tennessee and stays with him to help. Its only a 3 1/2 hour drive and she loves doing it. Its really rough on her though with her diabetes and everything. Her sugar is constantly dropping and she walks around like she is drunk. For all those with loved ones who have diabetes, I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. The only fear is that sometime her sugar will go low and we worry about the kids. Usually when I am out of town and I know she is home alone with one of them, I call her as often as I can to check on her. I can usually tell 90% of the time just by her voice if her sugar is low or not. I can also tell by looking at her if her sugar is low. She gets this stupid looking face. I call it the "rabbit mouth." She just makes these strange facial expressions. Its pretty weird. I can tell if her sugar is low better than my stepdad can.
I hope I never have to deal with diabetes. It really runs in our family and with me being overweight, you never know. I've seen my mother struggle with it since she was 36 years old. Its a vicious disease and difficult to deal with.
Today was "Lunch & Learn" at work. Everyone was griping that we didn't have monthly staff meetings and no one knew what was going on in anyone else's department, so our EVP came up with this idea to have "Lunch & Learn." Kind of cool. We all get together in the conference room and each department hosts it one month. That department is responsible for coming up with the agenda and ordering lunch. So we get to learn stuff about other departments and get a free lunch to boot. Not too bad, eh? Today we had the world famous North Carolina barbecue. I'm not too keen on my barbecue, but I can handle it.
I know I haven't really talked a whole lot about my job. I don't really have anything bad to say about it. Really everything is pretty good. I just wouldn't want to say anything I shouldn't and someone from the office come across this some day and I get fired. You know that has happened a few times with people's blogs. I guess the only way to protect yourself from something like that would be to password protect your blog. But kind of defeats the purpose of a blog.
Speaking of blogs.... I googled on something about my blog and it came up in Google. Okay, that's kind of scary. I guess I'm not too scared about any of my friends or family finding the blog, but it makes you think you should watch what you say sometimes. I know Jonathan knows I have a blog, but he doesn't read it. I told him it might be best if he didn't, because I do bitch about him quite often. Its my little release, you know. Just let off a little steam and sometimes it makes you feel better. I guess that's basically why I started the blog.
I've never really kept a diary or anything before. Actually, I take that back. I did keep a diary at one time when I was in my early teens. Somehow my first boyfriend found out about it and really wanted to read it and I said no and it totally pissed him off. He then thought that I had something horrid in the diary and he got really pissed off at me. You know when your 14 how that makes you feel. I think he may have even broken up with me or something. So I got really pissed and tore out all the pages in the diary and burned them and sent them to him in a little Ziploc bag. Now how immature is that? I really regret it now, because I would have loved to had that diary to look back at now.
I have lots of my old letters and things from high school. I used to take them out occasionally and read them before I got married, but I haven't in ages. I do have every letter Jonathan ever wrote me. I thought it would be cool to hang on to those and pass on to Skyler when she was older. It's nice to keep a little family history.
I actually have tons of old love letters/notes from old boyfriends. I'm sure they would be horrified if I ever decided to "publish" them. he he he he I know its crazy to hold on to stuff like that, but its funny to look at them sometimes. They are actually at my parent's house in my old room. My hubby isn't a big jealous hog like a lot of men. He still has all his pictures of old girlfriends, etc. and I have all my pictures of old boyfriends/high school friends, etc. For all those men/women out there who DEMAND that their spouse/boyfriend/girlfriend get rid of all their old photos. That is just being petty and childish. In my opinion anyway. If it's in your past, it's in your past.
I actually still keep in touch with my old high school boyfriend. He is happily married with two gorgeous children and one on the way. It's nice to keep in touch with old friends and my hubby has no problem with it. We all went to high school together. So I can give Jonathan one thing, at least he isn't some jealous raving lunatic when it comes to things like that.
Well I guess I have rambled on enough for one day. Until tomorrow....
Boring Day Monica;
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1 Comments:
don't ya just love the good old trade off...Make it a great night! What is so big about a football game...i don't think it has anything to do with the game...i think it's just the partying! Big plans for Sunday here also. thank god i will be at work!
I'm also a diabetic on top of everything else that is wrong with me....I'm a heart patient(I almost died at the ripe age of 33) and i have thyroid problems. I hate when my sugar goes low....the sweating and shaking...yuck! Oh well...i'm still alive and i have a a purpose..."mom's slave" lol... later monica...
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