This post is exactly what you think it is. Brace yourselves.
- Hubby is away until Thursday night. He’s in Florida until then. In fact ,as we speak, he is attending his Uncle Frank’s funeral. Not what we expected to be doing this week… apparently he had high blood pressure. No one knew, he hadn’t been treated for it. Please, folks – go for a yearly checkup with your doctor. Meanwhile, I’m single parenting it until he gets back.. but not really. Uncle J (who is not really an uncle, but DaddyGeek’s best friend from childhood, who moved here last year and who is also Geeklet’s Godfather) has been a huge help. I mean, above and beyond. Seriously. He shoveled a space for my car at the apartment complex. Just for us. He helps with the kids, he helps get Geeklet to sleep and puts up with the incessant questioning and requests by Cupcake. He cleaned my kitchen. He cleared the snow off of our second car, which we aren’t even using this week, just so we didn’t have to do it later. He takes the trash out. He’s been awesome. Last night my mother did a whole judgy-thing about why he was there helping… apparently I’m not allowed to have help? I don’t know. Whatever – he’s been awesome, she can keep her opinion to herself. Things could have been far less awesome this week. For example, I could have had to deal with my massive head cold, the girls’ massive head colds, plus Cupcake’s puking on Sunday night 4 hours after DaddyGeek’s plane took off all by myself. But I didn’t. Mother can judge away, but the kids are doing better for J being around.
- Work. Work work work. There is a lot of it and I am barely keeping my eyes open after the kids go to sleep, so projects have been moving more slowly than I’d like. Thankfully I punched out a lot of work last night and today, so I’m nearly back on track. I don’t see it letting up this month at all. Oh, PS — did you know January is ALMOST OVER?!
- I got a new planner. It’s a GTD planner, and I love it, and it’s helping me be organized, and I love love love it. Seriously. Love. It. I’m usually a digital gal but I truly enjoy literally penciling something in. Or, penning it in. I hate pencils. It’s a texture thing.
- I am behind on blog reading, and I feel sorely out of the loop. It’s making me cranky. I have over 350 unread posts that I can’t get to. Also, my fishes, farm, deserted island, restaurant, cafe, zoo and pet on Facebook are feeling neglected. (lol)
- Taxes soon. I do taxes for my whole family (incl. brother, mother, sister, us) and I am not looking forward to all. those. fucking. numbers. I hate numbers. Speaking of taxes, next years taxes are going to be all sorts of borked. Also I have to start setting aside money for estimated tax payments. Not fun, y’all!
- I have about 4 posts planned in my head about songs that are meaningful to me, but I never get around to writing them.. I really should, because they are cluttering things up. Do you care about songs?
- I’m pissed at Mother Nature for starting 2010 off with the Haiti Earthquake. I’m pissed there isn’t more I can do.
- I finally decided I really do need to stop eating such disgusting food and do something about my weight, and my health, and my general fitness. I ate four donuts yesterday morning. FOUR. And another today, even though it was stale. Not good. So for lunch I had a Lean Pocket. It was hardly satisfying.. though could have been worse. I wanted to eat two. I ate one. Now if I can just keep that up, I can lose the baby weight, which is no longer baby weight, and is actually pastry weight, but saying pastry weight doesn’t sound as legit so baby weight it is.
- Speaking of babies, I don’t have any anymore. I have two toddlers. Geeklet is 14mos now and is walking and running and climbing and doing things she shouldn’t do, and saying things like “ceiling” and “nana” and “daddy” and “yes” and she thinks it is funny, oh so funny, when you shake your head yes or no at her. She also loves: spinning, trying to eat lightbulbs, the TV clicker, anything that is electronic that she isn’t allowed to have, mashing the keyboard. Cupcake is 3.5 and is amazing. She’s getting ready to be rid of her bedtime bottle (no judging you whore) and we are so close to really getting somewhere with this potty training (again with the lack of judging!) and bedtimes have been better on a whole. She is saying adorable things, and her favorite joke right now is to substitute the word “underwear” anywhere in a sentence unexpectedly to make you laugh. She also loves jumping around, playing tag with herself, saying grown-up things like “You can say that again!” and “Oh brother!” and she knows how to work the DVD player. She also DM’d @chibijeebs for me the other day, which was oh so sweet of her. (lol)
Since I can’t get over to your blogs/twitter/whatever why don’t you tell me in the comments what’s up with you?
So, like, I’m totally gonna dump here instead of on gchat because I know how MUCH I just rant on at you on there and totally distract you with my little japanese gay porn rants. Also, I totally had to delete it as it was TOTALLY besmirching the good name of the Japanese. See? Ethical to the max = me.
Also, I’m starting to get to that point where a person can do no more typing. Like, you know when you’ve been typing SO much and, like, your fingers and carpal tunnel and hands are just like “TYPE ANOTHER DAMN WORD AND I’LL SHOW YOU JUST HOW MUCH YOU CAN DO WITHOUT YOUR HANDS!”? Well that’s me. For the past 2 days. I hate it. I want one of those ergonomic hand keyboards where, like, it’s actually 2 panels that come out to the sides so you can type without having to have an angle on your wrists. I totally want one but, like, seriously… must do other stuff FIRST.
Speaking of that, SCHOOLWORK IS HATE RIGHT NOW. For some unknown reason, my teachers were all like “Let’s give larger-than-usual amounts of work this week! Especially in Spanish!” And so I’m just all BLAHKILLMENOWPLEASE. ANd what’s worse is my spanish teacher is all like “You’ve GOT to hand your homework in this week otherwise I’m pwning you, Matt and Hannah” and so we’re just like… bleckh. But the annoying thing is, I get home and all I want to do is SLEEP because school tires the FUCK out of me. NOT. FAIR.
Also, I’m still a little bit peeved about that thing I screamed about yesterday. Just like, yeah.
But speaking of that, I’m seriously starting to get annoyed at how little time I have to actually do ANYTHING on the business. I mean, fo’ realz. Also, in typical restlessness of myself, I want to switch back to business coaching. How silly is that? But I do. Copywriting is awesome but takes SO MUCH TIME and, like, see my “hands typing too much” problem.
Also, I am STILL not over my crush. Today my friend Georgina and I were playing this game where we were seeing how far we’d go moving towards each other in a kissing motion before one would pull away. And like, The Boy came over and was all like “Matt! Let’s do that!” and I was just like, in my head, “KILL ME NOW PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE” because I can’t force the shitstorm of emotions still flinging around whilst we’re playing a game of nervous with lips. So yeah. AWESOME.
Also, I too have SO MANY BLOG POSTS I want to get out but, yeah, no time much? The thing is as well… sometimes (as in very frequently) I wonder what the point is. Self-doubt in my abilities as a writer is floating about more than ever and it’s just like… meh. What’s the point? Why should I even bother?
Also, in other news, I hate this time of the week. We have, like, NO delicious vegan food left in the house apart from bread, sunflower butter and Marmite. Which, let me tell you, is not awesome.
Oh! I’ve also started to exercise too! We have a treadmill here and so I’m just trying to actually do SOMETHING at least every other day, so I’ve just started walking. My knees are fucked up (thanks, Grandad!)(He didn’t kick them or anything — it’s ‘cuz of his fantastic joint genes) and so I can’t run for more than about 4 minutes without my knees going “NERVE PAIN NOW MATT DIEDIEDIE” and then I have to stop moving or end up running and weeping in pain. Joy.
However, in the good news of things, I’m still really excited about my offers from the Universities of York and Edinburgh — they’re going to be first and second choices, respectively. Woohoo! They gave me such good offers! ABB for York and BBB for Edinburgh which is, frankly, pretty crazy. Considering they’re both high ranking university (The Times puts York at no.5 for English out of 98 universities that offer it) and, like, I was expecting something soooooo much harder! Woohoo!
Right. Now to attempt to do some spanish, get distracted and end up watching Boston Legal until 1AM.
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MommyGeek Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 5:30 PM
@Matt, wait, you play kissing games with your friends. Fuck. I need to go to your school like NOW.
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I think you’re in the email loop of THINGS HAPPENING WITH ME. So….yeah.
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MommyGeek Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 5:47 PM
@Miss Grace, speaking of which, I totally need an update on your weekend! That red dress was HAWT.
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Man, Moose isn’t really saying anything. I’m impressed at all these talking babies! Chipmunk talked like a damn fool all the time by 14-15 months but I forget what that was like.
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MommyGeek Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 5:47 PM
@Maria, Cupcake took forever to say things, so it seems weird for me to hear her talking… or maybe it just FELT like forever. I can’t remember. Mommy brain?
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D-man is still barely peeing in the potty and he’s 3.5. I’m not judging.
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MommyGeek Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 5:48 PM
@Melanie, love you for telling me. thank you. seriously? makes me feel better.
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No way she is fourteen months. I’m going to cry in a corner now. You were all pregnant when I started blogging.
Taxes. HATE.
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You’re pretty. And you have a nice ass. Just thought I’d share.
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*whispers* What’s the difference between a GTD planner and a regular, old planner? *shifty eyes*
I feel totally special that I was Cupcake’s first contact on Twitter, even if I originally thought you’d been hacked… hehe
P.S. I believe you still owe me a *cough* email. *waggles eyebrows*
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Seeing as I don’t have time to write much on my own blog… I’ll just say hi. Can’t believe those girls are getting so big – and take any and all help when it’s offered. Don’t listen to anyone who says you should be doing everything alone. Of course you can – but why would you if help is offered?
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MommyGeek Reply:
January 25th, 2010 at 5:48 PM
@Kate Coveny Hood, exactly! you’re smart
And I’ll be sure to take whatever help I can get.
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@Chibi Jeebs, haha, a GTD planner is a planner for use with the Getting Things Done system…. it’s basically a way to organize your life. I luff it.
And CRAP I do owe you that email… will search for it! Or send you a new one
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If it makes you feel better, I had over 2,000 posts in my reader. Sorry i’ve been absent, but I’m back now, done traveling and getting back into reading blogs. Missed you!
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Yes, I care about songs.
I’m with you on the taxes/numbers bullshit. Though the majority of the people I usually do taxes for aren’t speaking to me, so that means my pile this year is MUCH smaller than usual. Screw ‘em, let them PAY someone to do it for once. I’m sure I’ll get a flood of apologies just before April 15th, though.
And… oh, yeah. Being behind on blog reading. Me too, but now I’m using my overflowing reader as an excuse not to write on my own blog.
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I am feeling you with the Reader [unread posts], the taxes [OMG NOOOO], and kind-of trying to eat healthier and stuff. ;p
I saw my friends on twitter were talking with you, and I like talking with people. ;p
So, my name is @Al_Pal. I just started following you.
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Oh my god, matt. He was joking around with the comments here! I’m glad you had help when you were sick.
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