That's what I feel like. Cue alarm. 7:00 a.m. Coffee, baby, Todd to work, Lexie to school, Ty breakfast, cartoons, dishes, laundry, (simultaneously, so like dliasuhnedsry), take the dog out, baby gets up, clean up after Ty (there is always something to clean up after), lunch, news at noon (only for the adult voices), vacuum, wait for Lexie to get home from school, act interested in what so-and-so said to so-and-so at recess and why so-and-so shouldn't have been listening in the first place, help with homework, referee fight(s), desperately think of an adult to call (usually Todd, poor guy), baby goes home, Todd gets home, dinner, TV, fighting (kids, not me), bed.
Repeat.
Again.
and again and again and again...........
You get the picture.
Yeah, I do stuff. Right now I am working on a commissioned piece for the Boise School District. I will be (read: need to be) done tonight at 6. No big. We carved pumpkins. I made Lexie's Halloween costume. If anyone has a baby, I make a quilt. We went to Tamarack for a wedding on Saturday. I go to the cabin infrequently. I occasionally have lunch with friends.
I just feel like I cannot get off this damn merry-go-round!!! Same scenery, sitting on the same Zebra (I always go for the exotic animal on a merry-go-round, horses are so lame!), riding in the same circle, up and down with that crazy monotonous music in my head. Nauseating.
I think I will start switching things up a bit. Ya know, panties on the OUTSIDE!, eyeliner for lip liner, and vice-versa, maybe just folding the towels in half, not thirds!! Whoa, watch out, things could get a little rambunctious around here!!! When did my life get so predictable that the way I fold towels even matters!!!
I am stable, reliable, somewhat predictable. Those are good qualities. People appreciate those qualities. IN A CAR!!!!! I am a nice big Buick! I wanna be a Porsche Cayenne!! Red with "BITCH" on the licence plate. (side note: Porsche is a reliable auto manufacturer also). Sporty with enough space to accommodate a good day of shopping. Alas, today I am that Buick. Heavy, low to the ground, probably safety reflective tape used for the pinstripe detail. An over sized rear view mirror, and the alarm that beeps when you are in reverse.
I guess I could do something different today. The sad thing is, it would be back to merry-go-round tomorrow. The exception to the rule, straight back to the rule. Owning the Buick, test driving the Porsche, and in the end taking the Buick back home.......
Cue alarm, 7a.m., coffee, baby..............
You get the idea.
5 comments:
I LOVED reading your blog... sounds a lot like my world. With some big things ending in my life I'm determined for a new beginning and I'm ready to spice things up. Look out!
Oh yes, it's a merry go round and the ride gets a bit borrrrring and long, and sometimes you get so dizzy it makes you nauseous. However, we have a mutual friend who had had enough and chose to jump off the merry go round... while it was at full speed. Crash and burn... I don't think that worked out to well for her.
And just think, in a few more years you will wake up one late August morning to find all of your kids are now in school (you need to go back and sing the word school). And then you have lots of unpredicatable me time. You can go back to school yourself, get a job, or just go shopping... or whatever you want for hours... everyday. It's like you'll have your cake and you'll get to eat it too...
But first you have to make the cake, because buying the cake isn't the same thing, and not nearly as rewarding.
BTW, You're still pretty unpredictable.
Oh, one more thing... my liscense plate with say "the Queen"
The license plate border will say, "they all bow down to.."
I want a jaguar... In pale blue.
CAN I GET AN AMEN?!
so true :). May I also say that I adore FULL DAY KINDERGARTEN?! Now if I could just get all the kids in school I might actually find time to exercise and do the laundry completely (i.e. folding it and not just leaving it for people to pick through and find what they need) and mop.
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