Archives for March 2006

I am very tired. Yesterday afternoon and evening I wanted just to lay down. Not sure why either. And of course Lexi got up like 4 times last night. She must be having trouble getting those molars in. I noticed the other day that they are all breaking through. Emma is sleeping late this morning. Yesterday I had to try to wake her up like 3 times to go to school. I wish I could have let her sleep because I know she needs it.

We watched Walk the Line this weekend and it was so good. I love Reese Witherspoon. And there was something romantic and desperate and noble about their story all at once. I watched it a second time yesterday morning. We also watched Elizabethtown. It was kind of weird, especially about 3/4 the way through and it was nothing but a self-discovery road trip. There was definitely good stuff about the movie but I don’t expect to be watching that one more than once.

So the guy who wants to buy our Jeep has not made it to the bank yet so we still have it. He says not to sell it though and we don’t have any other offers so we’re just hanging on until he gets it.

I finally got that book Created to be his Help Meet. It is a TOUGH read. Not hard to read, just very straight to the point about what the Bible expects and if you don’t follow it what can happen. It’s a pretty big eye-opener. Most of our society would laugh it’s way through the book. It is pretty conservative. But I can’t imagine your marriage being bad if a woman was to actually follow what it suggests.

One chapter I read was quite interesting. It talked about 3 types of men. All men are a little of each type but are dominant in one. When I read the first one, I knew immediately it was Scott’s type without even reading another word. I laughed through most of it and even read it back to Scott and then he grinned through it because it described him so well. The 3 were Mr. Command, Mr. Visionary and Mr. Steady. You wanna guess which one my police officer husband is? Yeah, Mr. Command. He is a born leader, always giving orders out whether someone wants them or not. He expects compliance, he expects to be served. He wants to know where you are, what you’re doing and does not want you doing anything that would take away from that. ie, go shopping on Saturday with D because it would take away time from him. Yes, that is my Scott. Mr. Command. I love him for it because I’m Mrs. Indecisive but yes, sometimes it makes you crazy. So that was interesting to read to see how I should react to that. The other ones were also interesting to read as well because Scott does have some other of the ones in him and it also brought to mind other men I know and it is funny to see how those personality traits come out in the husband and in how the wife reacts. This book is worth it just for that chapter.

I missed Grey’s Anatomy this week. And they haven’t put a podcast out either. Which is a bummer. I need SOMETHING to keep me going until Sunday. And Bachelor is off so I didn’t have anything to watch last night either. Thank goodness AI is several times a week :).

I have got to make it to the gym tonight. Last night I was just too tired but I really need to go. I’ve gained back a few pounds because I have been eating like CRAP and only going to the gym twice a week the past few weeks. Maybe I’m so tired because I haven’t been exercising. Probably.

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Yay, I did it…cleaned on Friday night again. That works out so well. I just love not being burdened with cleaning my house on Saturday morning. I am sure you are tired of hearing about it every Saturday morning. Anyway, Emma stayed the night at MIL’s last night even though MIL is going to the dr today because she is sick but far be it from me to say no to her, especially for that reason. Scott went to a junk yard with the boys today. Yes, a junk yard. They all need some sort of part for their used vehicles and are going to scrounge together I guess.

Oh, in great news, it looks like we sold that Jeep we bought and indeed doubled our money! Yahoo! We are still not sure what to do with our money except I think we definitely decided to put a picket fence up in the backyard. The neighbor complained that Mattie poops in their yard so we’ve been putting her on the chain outside. We’ve been tossing around the idea of a fence and meant to even before we moved in but it just hasn’t been an issue until now. And spending over 1K on something needs to have a good reason. But I figure it will be a good selling point when we move, so it’s more of an investment.

D & I want to go shopping this afternoon but Scott is complaining because he’ll be gone this morning and then if I’m gone this afternoon, that doesn’t give us much us time together on one of his very few Saturdays off. But really, this is the only time for D & I to go spend our gift cards until April 7 because Scott is getting his wisdom teeth out in two weeks and the next weekend he is off, he is having to work the Carolina Cup Horse Race. Scott said he’d go shopping with me today to spend it but for some reason that just doesn’t seem quite as much fun. Although we did have a lot of fun the past few times we went, so maybe.

In AI news, I’m so excited for the bottom 4 on Thursday. Someone must have read my mind. Maybe after 4 seasons we all finally figured this thing out. Oh! Ya’ll have GOT to go read the latest entry at www.greyswriters.com. She has this list of 6 things about the show and the 6th one she goes random on AI. It’s hilarious.

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I am definitely enjoying the guys this year on AI. Which is a first for me for AI. I liked Clay Aiken but I never really wanted him to win as much as I want Chris Daughtry to win. I’ve liked him since the first time I saw him on there. It was the same way with Carrie. I tried to vote for him last night but his line continued to be busy. I would be good if Taylor won instead and I really enjoyed his song last night unlike the judges. David must go tonight. Sway must go tonight. I will be surprised if its someone else that goes. As for the girls, I find myself not caring so much.

MIL took both girls yesterday afternoon. I was able to work uninterrupted, clean the living room/kitchen/play room and go to the gym for some arm workout AND a class. Yipee!

I started reading the Excellent Wife by Martha Pearce since it was in my “library”. I’m waiting on another book Created to be his Help Meet by Debi Pearl but I ordered it from Amazon from someone and picked expedited shipping and hopefully they shipped it right away. It’s tough stuff to read. Very conservative. Which is fine with me but it requires a lot from wives. I know if I did it, it would be good but it’s hard to do it.

Right now I’m in a I want to quit my job phase. I don’t want to live without the money but I find I don’t like that my kids are sometimes being “babysat” by me. And I know if I wasn’t working, I’d probably have other tasks around the house that would keep me from their attention but at least I would have the option. And I could go to Bible Studies and go to the gym and I could take Emma to Little Gym and go to D’s house with the girls and I just would be freed up to even just go to the backyard whenever we wanted! We would probably have to get rid of our van and get a used one and I’d probably have to give up the gym and I’m not sure we could even afford preschool and we surely couldn’t afford Little Gym. So I know it’s not what I think trying to live on one income and I am really lucky to be able to work from home at all. It’s just. Ugh. I don’t wanna work right now.

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I had a one on one bible study type thing with a good friend and mentor of mine on Monday. Mostly about G. I think I realized how serious this could have been and how immature, selfish, wrong, etc. I was. I spent a lot of yesterday thinking really hard about what I did, what I should be doing and what I want. Needless to say, I don’t think I’ll be talking about G much more. It is sort of sobering when you actually have to talk about what you did out loud to someone you respect very much.

Emma didn’t go to school Monday or today. But I’ve got PMS and she’s irritable and Scott went to work today and I can only hope we don’t drive each other crazy. I have little compassion when I have PMS and she needs lots of it right now so I pray I can serve up a lot to her even though I don’t feel like it. I finally took her to the dr Tuesday after she stayed all day on Monday on the couch and the dr said she was almost 100% sure she had the flu but it should only last another day or so. And Mom went to the dr last night and she has pneumonia!

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I was not impressed at all with the ladies on AI last night. I think Kellie might be the only one where I actually felt entertained and was on the edge of my seat. And that might be just because I was hoping she would do well.

Princess sang well although I would agree her song was too old for her. Ayla surprised me also and sang with a little bit of passion but it does seem that she is connecting the passion with herself and the audience. Mandisa has a great voice and passion, she just seems old for the competition. Heather was wrong for choosing Mariah. She sang the song decently but it was not good compared to the original. I think Kinnik sent herself home last night. That was bad. To me, Brenna didn’t do so bad but her attitude has got to go. I don’t like her very much. I think the rest were pretty forgettable.

I’m looking forward to the guys tonight!