I know I’m fortunate. My sister is raising three kids with little help, and doesn’t get a night off. Matter of fact, due to my niece’s medical issues, she has to be on-hand during the day and work nights. She’s on call 24/7. I know I’m a lucky woman to have my children spend time with the other side of their family for a week here and there.
But after a couple days, I get bored. No kidding. I don’t do bars – loud noise, smoke, and anything past about one drink leave me irritable. I also don’t look at my week alone as a time to spend money on myself, money that I would normally buy kid-staples with, since finances are tight anyway. Those funds will roll into the extra required to feed a teenager during the summer. And so far this week the pool has been out due to a handful of storms.
So I’ve played Mario Party 8
I started reading Odd Mom Out by Jane Porter and tossed it across the room after 80 pages of being beat over the head by the fact that she likes motorcycles and her daughter wishes she was normal. And that was only on Day 2 of the book No way I would read another 300 plus pages of that dribble.
So I started on Blood Orange
I went to Target to buy Archer Farms ginger beer. Mmmm.
I took the very old flea collar off Sutton, since he’s been indoors for the past year after he came back from my ex’s house. I’m telling you, after giving him a good scratching, I *own* him now. It’s to the point where he’s been tempted to join me in the bathtub he loves me so much.
I’ve finally started watching Firefly – The Complete Series
And I’m still eating soft foods. So I set the big rice cooker to go this weekend, and have just been digging in my rice supply and adding fun things to it for dinner, such as Snoopy Furikake with little Snoopy heads!
Other than that, it’s been very, very quiet the past few days.
