Ok, 1.) This poor blog has had the most boring streak ever. Sorry. I am slightly baffled still while transitioning from the run-over camera to the new camera. My smart friend offered lattes and tech support. So, soon, I promise, photos more exciting than this one, stolen from local news, that needs squinting to see.
2.) I really don't enjoy the days when I wake up with a migraine. Meds are kicking in, but now I have cramps. Awesome.
3.) For that reason, I am still here in pajamas with crazy hair. It's true, ask my tech support, who kindly came over to fetch Ruby for a play date. And had to go up and dress her too. Let me just re-iterate, she is a very good friend. Somewhere I have a photo that depicts that friendship, from last week. It is a path shoveled in the snow, in between our houses. I think one of the husbands did it. It was cute. Like a necessity to our lives. Some people shovel driveways, but no, we only need a path to each other's homes.
4.) I have big plans of wearing clothes today.
5.) One middle child, who shall remain anonymous, got turned around from school because of the sexy Urban Flooding. He now sits on his bed, for another 45 minutes, because I caught him sneaking candy out of my special secret candy spot. Dang! Now where will I hide my candy? And for the record, nameless child is punished for lying, not so much for taking my candy. I would have shared. Lying is a big deal to me. A one-hour on your bed, kind of deal. And really, he is sooooo not good at it! Um, hi, you are holding my candy in your hand.... probably just fess up. Silly.
6.) I just remembered from Love & Logic, that you should offer punishments that you love. So I just re-directed the candy thief to clean his sister's room. Now that is a punishment I LOVE! I hope he lies more today. Not really.
7.) Refer to #1. The most boring blog ever. My apologies.
8.) How long exactly, do you think I can get by on this crutch of "I have ADD" ? Have I mentioned that it explains a whole lot about my life?
9.) I have embraced the list-making. Have you noticed?
10.) Flooding is sort of fun. My apologies, again, to the people that are affected adversely by it. I'd probably feel differently if I were trying to pump water out of my garage. In my pajamas. But since I am not, I rather enjoy good weather excitement. I like storms, and blown over fences, and short power outages, and school closures, and most of all - Snow!! I wish all that rain was snow! But back to the flooding. Last night I was driving Mady up the road to youth group, and was impressed with how high the water was at the intersection just here at my street. I tried to explain to Frank, that it was as high as the tires. He thought I was being silly. Until he made it to work today, and realized I wasn't making it up. Boulders in the roads. I have lived here my whole life, and only vaguely remember a little Nooksack flooding as a child. Nothing like this. Certainly not school-closing worthy. See how exciting that is?
11.) I have said it a hundred times before, but I'll say it again. It is days like these when I do not at all miss owning our restaurants! Sure, it's nice to have pizza on demand any time I want, but dealing with flooding, slow sales, snow, frozen pipes and broken pizza ovens and dishwashers and fryers and walk-ins? Don't miss that. What else I don't miss? Having to hide my excitement about weather craziness, (which you might remember, I quite enjoy), because it poorly affected our livelihood and my husband's mood. Also, have you noticed? Izzy's is now a porn shop. Why didn't anyone tell me? (Ok, kidding, it is all we heard about for months and months, As in, "hey, why did you sell your place to a porn shop?" and "I can't believe that disgusting place! What have you done?". I have said it before, but there were other owners in between. I didn't do it. It was kind of interesting every time we drove by on the way to racquetball, and Jenson tried to figure out what happened to our restaurant. He is convinced it is a costume shop. (Cheyenne, this whole #11 was for your amusement. Have you seen the store? They boarded up the atrium, except installed three floor-to-ceiling windows to display the 'costume' manequins. And made the roof tiles purple. It won't last, there is hardly ever a car in the parking lot. So dumb.) Incidentally, Cheyenne is the wife of our old business partner, and they still own the Olympia Izzy's. But check out her motherhood post, it'll make you teary.
12.) Now I will get dressed.
13.) The end.
14.) Please accept my apologies for the ten minutes of your life wasted while reading this.
15.) I have added a new category, just for this post.
