Leave it to the Country Music scene to capture me totally right about now...
The last few nights, I have been feeling spry, heck, even downright hyper...and BB and I have been capitalizing on Captain Chaos and Tiny Princess crashing into bed early in the evening. Bedtime at our house is normally 8 pm for the children, and anywhere from 5 to 90 minutes afterward for BB and myself.
However, due to the wacky weather patterns, I am totally wound up in the evenings, and rarin' to go...
Sunday night we stayed up to watch some things we'd recorded, and while it was only 10 when we went to bed, I decided to stay up and read to "wind down"...big mistake to read Vince Flynn's "Transfer of Power"...holy cow...I couldn't put the darn thing down, and the only thing that kept the pages from being turned is that I read the same sentence about 6 times with longer and longer blinks in between each reading...I finally turned out the light around 11:30. Not too late in the world I used to live in, but being married and now a parent really takes the late-night steam out of a person...Tiny Princess proceeded to not sleep on Sunday night, and was up at 2am, and again at 5am. She slept until 8 am, but I was up with Captain Chaos at 7...it was not a happy day.
I did get the rest of the things into our dumpster, and my basement is much cleaner than it was last week! YEAH ME!
After spending the day sorting through baby clothes, washing, drying, folding and putting away the equivalent of 8 loads of laundry, and then cleaning my house, buying groceries and cooking dinner, I was already pretty tired by 7 pm . Captain Chaos went to bed, and Tiny Princess followed shortly thereafter. I then came downstairs and found that after FX did "DVD on TV" for "Man of the House" (hilarious movie, BTW), they were showing "The Girl Next Door". Keeping in mind that I saw the edited-for-tv-version, I would recommend this movie as a fun one to watch with your sweetie. Not with the kids, and definitely not with your parents (unless they were swingers, or are very open minded), but still a good flick. Without spoiling the movie for you, it is a "Lesson Learned, Coming of Age" sort of movie that will leave you thinking "Awwww...this was waaayyyy better than how I would have ended it!" Besides, the main character has this sort of Ewan McGregor look about him...only pair it with the fact that he's 17...and the lead actress is a flat-out hottie...I can't tell you the last time I said that about a female, and meant it sincerely...in the way a man would say it...hmmmmm...
Needless to say, the fact that the movie didn't end until 11, and we were watching it about 30 minutes behind, thanks to my pal TiVo...and then we went to bed...not sleep...bed...use your imagination people, don't make me spell it out for you. Afterwards, we talked...a real conversation that didn't include reference to the children once! The clock struck 12, and we finally drifted to sleep...only to be woken at 5:30 by the battery on the baby monitor letting me know it was low...so I plugged it in to recharge, and tumbled back into bed, where I would have stayed quite happily until noon...
Alas, Tiny Princess woke at 6 (having slept through the night), and Captain Chaos at 6:30...and then the neighbor kids came over while their parents were at the hospital for her surgery. The kids were here all day. It has been a long while since I've spent the day with a 14-year-old girl. I remember why that is...my head is spinning with the pinball game of conversation I was subjected to today...and I can't, for the life of me, remember anything she talked about, other than the fact that it all revolved around her...I would say "Andrew, please pick up your Cheerios, so you don't smash them" and she would find a way to relate an anecdote about herself, somehow linked to Cheerios.
I found myself wondering why it is that teenage girls are like this, and, to my horror, wondering if I was like that when I was 14...Dear Lord, help my parents forgive me if I was...
The good thing is that the procedure was done, no complications, the "easy" way...which to me sounds more uncomfortable and painful than the "traditional" way...but hey, I'm not the one who had the laproscopic incision through my "lady parts" and then had everything pulled out through said lady parts, rather than an incision...I am praying that she will have gotten through the worst of the swelling and inflammation BEFORE the spinal block wears off tomorrow afternoon...and then that they prescribed her some darn good medication for when she gets home.
I seriously am glad that she is fine, and that the procedure was fine, and that nothing unusual showed up, or was found, and that the doctor is pleased, and that she is doing well.
I am also glad that this has forced the kids in this family to take some responsibility and actually do some chores (GASP!) around the house...I've never honestly met a family in which the children don't have to do anything beyond get themselves up and ready for the day...she makes their lunches, she gets their dirty clothes out of their rooms (picking them up off the floor), washes, dries, folds, and puts them away. She reminds them of all the things they need for school, or practice, lets them sit around and watch TV, they each have their own computer, they have 2 gaming systems...and this is the first time they have ever had to do anything...you would have thought the world was ending when the daughter realized that the mother was serious about her doing the laundry and cooking dinner while Mom was recovering...
Eh...not my children, I can only sit here and think...I hope that after this summer, the chores continue, because it is simply not fair for both parents to work full time, and then have to act as chaffuer, butler, maid, cook and all the rest, when the kids are definitely old enough to do things...
Oh well...
I am going to Safeway to pick up some ice cream for dessert tonight, and then, after a large bowl, I am going to bed. Where I shall sleep for not nearly a long enough time period...
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