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Jul 13, 2009 10:07AM
first we have to let him shrink and put him ina tub to find out
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Who's putting him in the tub? I'm not. I'm not touching the little monster
I might do it...if I have on a suit of armor
hey maybe he is hiding in a body of water right now and that is why we can't find him.
Wendy said he's playing with her tractors. He's still really big. He ate like six bodies after all.
yeah...I love my father but making small talk about me being underweight is not a good thing
My but it's strange in here without the bodies. Ahhh...I'll just have to find some more. Yesterday I did much better. Although I spent most of the day updating my website with pictures of Tweed, I managed to get some writing in. 2648 words.
That makes 2009 total = 231,767
July total = 27,385
Wow, it sure is weird in here without the bodies. Well, Court has a ball tournament this weekend. I'm sure I can find an ump, or a coach or two to throw in here. So very busy here, I'm not getting much writing time. I only managed 2061 words yesterday. Today I hope to get more. Next week is going to be slow, so let's keep our fingers crossed.
words so far in 2009=233,828
July total = 29,346
That's 16 days left, to reach 50,000 words I'll have to write at least 1290 each day. That's doable. To reach 100k and meet Paul's challenge I'd have to write, about 4420 words each day, a little more challenging, but not impossible. I'll be happy to reach 50k. We'll see.
I spent all morning at the park with the kids. I took lunch, bathing suits, Bandit (the ferret), and those wretched nets. I thought for sure I'd get some writing done. Not likely. I had to fight off the seagulls who insisted that Bandit was food. Not so you stupid birds. Then i had to go with the kids while they 'hunted' minnows with their nets. I am burnt, freckled even more (if that is possible) and I'm tired. The good news is I have three ten year olds in the basement ready for a nap. Yep, movie is on, popcorn is made and they are almost asleep. (One is sleeping), my five year old is not so easy. She wants to go swimming now. I don't think so.
So, I will try to get at least an hour or two in. We shall see.
http://dragcave.net/view/zpgHOh how cute!! I have a baby dragon. What does it eat? Does it know the potty rules? I forgot it had a name too. I called him Inc. for inconvenient. Yes I did.
and now you can name him!it eats dragon fruit
I wanted to name Kennedy that, but now I'm glad I didn't. May have left some emotional scars. She's not so inconvenient anymore either. She can finally wipe her own bum. A milestone in parenting!!
Such a quiet morning, now that the stupid sweeper has finished, and by 5:47am!! I'm so glad they started early. I'd hate to have slept in. Yesterday was better, I was able to write 3474 words. That's great. I only had two kids other than my own for the afternoon, but they destroyed the basement. Kurt wasn't happy, but hey, he needs to get over himself before he's furniture. I was going to clean today, jeez. It's a basement for crying out loud.
Oh, well. Today we need to cut the grass, rake pooh, and clean toilets. Yipppee!
Total so far 2009=237,300
Total July=32,820
Yep, I'm the pooh queen. Raking, scooping, wiping, and foraging out of the closet. Little bugger got smart and started burying it under clothes. Maybe if the hangers worked better and started hanging the clothes, it wouldn't be possible. But they don't.I've got about an hour before I have to go do the dirty deed. I'll mow first, maybe most of it will scatter, like fertilizer. Then Kurt can get mad about something legitimate.
Imagine, kids messing up a basement full of toys. I never heard of such a thing. We must get new kids who understand that basements are not meant for recreation and fun. Certainly not basements full of toys. Gasp! How could they not know?
When I read "pooh" I think winni the pooh. TO me poop is just poo.And children are to be seen and not heard- didn't you know?
Har har har
I always right pooh since boggle night proved to me that poo wasn't a word. I used to feel the same about poo and pooh as you. How bout we use poop? Seems to fit better for both of us.I didn't hear them, hence the mess. I was too busy sitting on my ass eating bon bons and painting my nails apparently. I wouldn't have been cleaning, cooking, looking after dogs, and such. No, if I had, I'd have heard the mess being made down there. Stupid men, I'd like to see him do one day, just one day of my life here. He'd run screaming and it wouldn't be clean, that's for darn sure.
He can barely control our two much less five more who don't give a shit about our house or punishment. I should really start making the parents pay for stuff that gets broke or ruined. Then maybe, he won't be so mad.
He'll get his, don't you worry. I'm going to clean his shower, but not scrub all of the cleaner away. Then I'm going to forget to refill his toilet paper, that always sucks. Then I'm going to lose his tooth brush. Yep.
Then I'll wash his clothes with the towels so they're full of linty stuff, he hates that. Being without a dryer, I can't get it off.
While making supper tonight, I'm going to slightly over cook the meat and under cook the veggies.
After all of that, I'll wait until he goes to bed before I vacuum.
See how this works? I can irritate him way more than he could ever irritate me. I might leave all the lights on too so when he gets up tomorrow, his head explodes while he calculates the hydro bill.
did you see that? I wrote right instead of write. Silly me.
You mean that's not how you do things all the time anyway? Silly me, I thought men liked it that way. We've had wars over great important stuff like which way to squeeze the toothpaste, whether the toilet seat should be up or down, How many butter dishes should be out at al times, who should put away their own laundry and who get's to have mom/the wife do it, which way (direction) to mow the lawn, how bread should look when it's done baking... etc. etc. Oh and don't forget that the "proper" way to serve watermelon is to cube the whole thing and take out the seeds already- Ya right! Here's your slice, be a man and swollow them or spit them out- the choice is yours.
Oh those battles. we have those all the time, I turn on the lights in each room just to bug him. He turns them off and I say "i was coming back in there." I roll his clothes rather than folding them like his Mama did. I used to fold, but that wasn't good enough, so here's your wrinkled shorts Mama's boy. I never replace the toilet paper on the roll, i prefer to set it on the back of the toilet. I use a towel only once.(this is a huge sin) and sometimes I put dishes away wet.
He also hates it if I fart. He farts every ten minutes or so, but not me. Ladies don't fart. WEll, guess what...sometimes you just gotta do it. So there.
Renee, I wrote this article. Thought you might be interested.http://afantasyfiction.blogspot.com/2...
i get livid when jeff tells me he is going to do something and then he doesn't and i have to do it, like taking out the trash or doing the dishes. when he was out of work our house had never been messier, because he was here all the time to make messes. when he cooks he destroys the kitchen and leaves it there, until i cook and then i clean everything up, cause i can't just sit there waiting for water to boil, so i clean while i clean otherwise i get bored. or go watch tv. i think its just a being married thing and his response is always well why don't you just do it, and i'm like um ahole because you said you would and i have a whole bunch of other crap to do, like pick up the living room that you just destroyed and didn't put back together, speaking of which, i'll be right back.
You are brilliant, I love it Rita. That is the funniest and you got everything. My kids think I'm nuts giggling away here. It even sounds real, I thought it was at first, then quickly I realized what it was. Too funny.
i think its the trade off we have to suffer for consitency and commitment.
yeah, I guess it's worth it in the end. Sometimes though, I'd love for them to just see that we are right. THat everything we do is right and harder than what they do. Sadly, I don't see that happening.
thanks for the review honey... i think i tend to write my horror that way too, depressing yet funny, i try to offset disturbing with humor, which makes it more disturbing in a way, but also lets you go to a darker place because people have that comic relief and they aren't just bombareded with horror.say's the girl whose profile pick looks like an advertisment for cover girl
That's what your picture reminds me of, I knew it was something familiar. I agree, a little humor makes it easier to go deeper into darknes, without feeling all creepy and weird for enjoying it. Not that I feel creepy or weird. I enjoy it without those annoying feelings.
Another spouse battle: does the sheet actually have to be tucked in or can it be mostly not tucked so that your feet can stick out when you get over heated?Sometimes I wake with a husband on one side, a kid on the other, and a little kid curled up on my chest. And guess what- THATS HOT! I gotta have my feet out sometimes.
You have that same issue with dogs don't you renee?
Yes I do. One dog behind my legs, one at my back, contemplating peeing on me. I usually have Kennedy screaming through the house once or twice through the night. Kurt likes to roll over me sometimes too, all 280lbs of him. Not fun. He doesn't care about the sheets, he'll climb in before I even get a chance to get one on sometimes. I hate that.
Some nights I'm glad Kennedy gets up so I can leave that smelly dog-fart room and sleep with my sweet smelling little girl instead. Sure she sticks her knees in my back and tangles her fingers in my hair, but she has never peed on me.
the only good thing about the hospital corners thing, is that its really easy to make the bed in the morning, you just have to pull the covers back up other than that its annoying and i feel like a burrito.
I kicked all the hospital corners out each time I stayed for kids and surgerys too. I've got big feet- they need their space. *Waggles stinky foot in Renee's direction.*
Wendy wrote: "I kicked all the hospital corners out each time I stayed for kids and surgerys too. I've got big feet- they need their space. *Waggles stinky foot in Renee's direction.*"
Okay what's with hospital corners I don't get it!
Folding your sheets tight against the bed so that you can't hardly move your feet- but also so that it is easy to make the bed in the morning.Bed-shmed. Who makes those anyway?
Wendy wrote: "Folding your sheets tight against the bed so that you can't hardly move your feet- but also so that it is easy to make the bed in the morning.Bed-shmed. Who makes those anyway?"
oh okay i'm sorry I didn't understand!
its when you tuck the sheet into the bottom of the bed really tight and it has a triangle corner pleat thingy.
GreenDaisy BlackStem wrote: "Wendy wrote: "Folding your sheets tight against the bed so that you can't hardly move your feet- but also so that it is easy to make the bed in the morning.Bed-shmed. Who makes those anyway?"
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I repeat my earlier post but thanks for telling me
no worries, it is not something you need to know unless you plan on going into hospitality or hospitals.
I couldn't handle a person's life in my hands or people vomiting I can not handle people vomiting
I never make the bed. I hide the sheet under the pillows and toss the comforter over the mattress if we're expecting company who may or may not want a tour of the house. What's up with that anyway? Touring someone's house when you visit. Honestly, I never have any desire to see someone's bedroom or their bathroom. Really, just come into the room I've invited you to, sit down and forget about the rest of it. It's likely (definite) I've only cleaned the main rooms by hiding the toys, etc. in the other rooms. Wendy, you will lose those stinky feet and then where will you be?
what does that have to do with hotels?
Renee wrote: "I never make the bed. I hide the sheet under the pillows and toss the comforter over the mattress if we're expecting company who may or may not want a tour of the house. What's up with that anyway?..."I put deodorant on my best friend's
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