Thursday 37 (Week 35)

 

1. Realizing that if I let the kids sleep until 7:30, it reduces the amount of awake time they have to a mere 17 minutes before we need to leave for school, thereby reducing my amount of stress in the mornings to a mere 17 minutes.
2. This email from Jen: "read your blog.  I just had this convo w lucca about why being a boy is not better than being a girl.  1.  Testicles all hangy and sweaty and in the way.  2.  Waaay too easy to zip weiner in zipper  3.  Boys can't have babies, which is one of our greatest joys in life.  Even if we marry girls and adopt babies we still have the option."
3. This text from Beth: "And ps, creatures doesn't sound bad to me at all! :-)"
4. Reservations made for Sunday instead of Saturday.
5. This text from my mom: "Breaker 19. The Breezy Beaver is done and made it home."
6. RSVP's for Pancake Tuesday.
7. This line: "If I'm not here, then you're not here."
8. Finding the time to knit.
9. The way the water moves when it is somewhere between frozen and not. 
10. 12.5 very  icy, snowy, painful miles on Sunday.
11. Eva Kay, kissing her hand and then putting them on my lips as she says, "from me to you to help you calm down."
12. This text from David: "Yes. I'm going to break all you computers and your phone!"
13. A clean car, if only for a minute.
14. George: "I'll miss you."
15. Eva Kay: "We don't need any more boys around here."
16. There are no comparisons.
17. Hesser: Thanks. I knew you'd understand.
18. Having Beth and Melanie talk me down.
19. Support comes in the most unexpected places.
20. Dude from Korn: "That is going to look great on you."
21. Beth: "The one thing I remember about the Quality Inn is that my mom always said the sheets were horrible. So horrible you could read a book through them."
22. Valentine's Day is for murder trials in Woodstock.
23. Guitar serenades during dinner.
24. Having television again only to find out that in the 14 months since I last had it they canceled all the good shows.
25. George saving the heart part of his Valentine's Day cookie, just for me. I'm not sure how I got so lucky.
26. The moment when a sock starts to look like a sock.
27. Me, sending a message.
28. Seeing the bigger meaning of what is happening.
29. July 1, 2010. 
30. Knowing that if I think something is melodramatic, it is waaaaaaaaaay over the top.
31. Being able to take a step back.
32. Wait listed is not not accepted (I keep telling myself this).
33. Thank you, Susan for being shocked that I was wait listed. It means a lot coming from you.
34. This text from Melanie: "But - like northwestern - I will be ready to trash talk u of c if they don't let you in."
35. For being reminded that I'm not where I want to be, but where I want to be is there.
36. This: "Its all about learning to balance being a badass with being a lady."
37. For all the struggles I never want my daughter to go through but will: Fuckin' Perfect.

So, there you go.