Tales From the Mothership

Thursday, January 28, 2010

1, 2, er...A, B, umm, 3!

Tonight John & I were playing on his Alphabet Town game. There's a bunch of different "learning games". There's counting, alphabet, music time, spelling etc.. So, we're playing with the alphabet and I was asking him for the letter H.

Me: Where's the H
John presses the J
The Game: "J"...(makes the "J" sound)
Me: No, where's H?
John presses the H

Steven: John! I can't believe you didn't pick the H. You know your counting.
Me: Excuse me? What did you say?
Steven: umm, (big pause)... counting?
Me: And you're the one staying at home with him?
Steven: I know, kind makes you think doesn't it?

Monday, January 25, 2010

Argh! Get Ready to Walk the Plank Ya Scurvy Dog

Ahoy Matey!

Look what I got for Christmas....GAR! Now where be those lily-livered scoundrels?

Argh. don't let this adorable face mislead you. I am rotten to the core.

ahoy! My Booty! Thar she be!

Aye, thar be the poop deck. hee hee. poop deck.

shiver me timber

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Wednesday - Hump Day

Guess who made bread tonight? So it was in a bread maker but still c'mon! Fresh bread!

And in other news, I got my stitches out this morning. Am happy to report that there will be little or no scarring.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Lent

There are traditionally forty days in Lent which are marked by fasting, both from foods and festivities, and by other acts of penance. The three traditional practices to be taken up with renewed vigour during Lent are prayer (justice towards God), fasting (justice towards self), and almsgiving (justice towards neighbour). Today, some people give up a vice of theirs, add something that will bring them closer to God, and often give the time or money spent doing that to charitable purposes or organizations.

I love Wikipedia!

Lent in 2010 will start on Wednesday, the 17th of February and will continue for 46 days until Saturday, the 3rd of April.

In Western Christianity Lent begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Holy Saturday. The six Sundays in Lent are not counted among the forty days of lent because each Sunday represents a "mini-Easter", a celebration of Jesus' victory over sin and death.

Google is AWESOME.

I've been wondering what to give up for Lent. I may give up a couple of things since it's supposed to be something that is considered a sacrifice. My first choice is to give up Facebook but since that won't be much of a sacrifice, I should probably also choose something more meaningful. What about coffee? That would definitely be a sacrifice for me. How does that sound? Facebook and coffee.

Steven has decided to give up sex. But since Sundays are mini-celebrations then in his mind he figures we'll actually have more sex since we'll have to celebrate on Sundays. How can you fault his logic? He gives up something that is a sacrifice yet still would manage to make it into a win?

Blue Monday + 1

Blue Monday by definition is the most depressing day of the year. And that would be yesterday. Although, it is starting to piece together now. I've been fairly sad lately. Maybe in all the excitement of the holidays I let myself forget about all the crap going on in my head. And work has been extremely busy but good busy so I haven't had time to over analyze stuff or anything like that.

I've been really stressed at work and I think it may be becoming too much for me. It may have tipped the scales from being a good stress reliever to contributing to my stress and sadness factor.

I appreciate going to work, having a good job. Being able to provide for our family and having the ability to be able to choose to have one of us stay at home.

Something has got to give. And at this point, I'm not exactly sure what is going to happen. I may have a breakdown.

I'm just giving you all fair warning.

Do you know what is making me hang on?

Knowing that I have this in my life. Knowing that this IS my life.

I'm just tired of being sad. I'm tired of pretending that everything is okay. Do you know what? I don't have it all together. I don't fucking care anymore what you think. I need to put myself first and everyone else be damned.