Febraury 23, 2015

This waking up at all hours of the nights is for the birds and this is about night 5.  I am going to be a very cranky 70 year old if things don’t change by then.  My vices in my life the last few years have been food and sleep.  I know have a parasitic food baby growing on my belly, so that’s out.  NOW MY SLEEP IS GOING????   What the hell else do I have to vice with?!?

I wore my rad new Giants orange Converse to work along with my <sad face> size 12 jeans.  During third, I decided to enjoy some light jogging around the track…but I couldn’t, because my pants would fall…<thank good for my long tshirt/cardigan>.  Now, some of you may be saying “Oh!  That’s great!  The pants are too big!!”  They are a little loose in parts, but too snug in others, so 10s wouldn’t work.  I really want to curse right now, but am trying to replace it “dadgummit” and “dagnabbit.”  Fuck.  By the end of the day, my feet hurt so badly I almost went barefooted, though I'm not sure that would have been appreciated.

Picked up that boy and we headed home to the casa.  I prepped a beer pork roast.  I bought 2 Guiness beers over a year ago  for roasts – I finally, after all this time, used the second one. I also made brown rice.  The horrifically bad thing  is that I eat decently.  I don’t do fast food…, I enjoy a good kale salad every now again (but only in private, due to my receding gum lines).  Granted, cranberry season kicks my ass…but really??  THIS 20 pound rice sack due to a few desserts I enjoyed by myself?  I don’t get it.  Oops…talking about me again.  So I got the boy situated after prepping food and we started reading about multiple alleles and karyotypes and no wonder this kid has a difficult time!  I was having a hard time staying awake,  myself.  For the next chapter,  I tried a different method – I handed him my iphone, setting it up so he could dictate his words and he read the chapter notes.  IT WAS AN AMAZING TRANSFORMATION!  He was alert and engaged.  He was thinking critically, asking different questions – I was thrilled.  Not only was he visually seeing the material, but verbal and audible components made it the learning that much more active.  Plus, he avoided the hurdle of “long, boring homework” in taking the “easy” way out.  Hell, yes!

After homework, I discovered a little event taking place in April – quite excited since I won’t be hitting Hipnic this year.  I’m very grateful to Joe, one of da family, who grabbed tickets for me.  Yay!!  Then I managed a bit of yoga, though I was depressed because of this mass I noticed during Uttanasana.  It isn’t gonna get any better unless I jump right back into this.  I have to , I have to, I have to.  I had told myself if I did yoga I could have a teeny-tiny treat, but once I finished, I realized that really, I cannot have a teeny-tiny treat, because I’ll end up eating 7 of them, so I had water instead.  <sigh>  

So now – Monday is over – I have a new Fender amp, courtesy of Sam (this means I really need to start learning how to play), I have a music date in late April, I had a terrific weekend with my daughter, and I found a new way to engage Ethan in (parts) of schoolwork.  Life is good.

Pictures:  The new Fender amp!!!!  I'll have to start chords again...G, A, B???; It was a windy West Texas day here in CA; The tree was covered in fairytale white blossoms - so beautiful.