Certain Sense of Humor
Today was the first day in a long time where I challenged myself the entire day to find just something that was good. I'm sure it all started with the small fact that I was up til 3am working.
It's not really that I had to be up all night. The thing I was up doing wasn't really "my problem" if I got super technical about what my job description is and the employment agreement we entered but, really, it just didn't matter. This business of building something with someone is pretty radical. It's a do thing. There's no evaluating is an action worth it, mine to task, mine to do... it's partly, just do it because someone needs to step up and get it done. So you do it.
So I did.
After sleeping a couple hours, the station of the day just didn't turn much. One phone call after another phone call after another blurry eyed session at the computer, a txt message here and there...
I don't do yoga anymore. Yoga? What's yoga?
I want to do yoga. I keep throwing up the notion that this "isn't worth it." I keep saying "Well, you have a choice." And, oh I do. It's just that the ramifications of that choice aren't something I can even entertain the thought of.
After yelling at my kids for like an hour and basically acting like a 5 year old child, I was telling them how lame I am and so I told them how I was feeling. Like they were regular people and not kids. I used high level words and feelings but I was pretty honest. They seemed to respond to that. I read them some of the Little Prince laying on two bean bags and then let The Son eat popcorn and watch Survivor with me. I really felt uncomfortable with him watching it. I hadn't watched it in a few seasons and its become a fest of Ambercrombie underwear and Buff Dresses. I couldn't really take it back though so I went with it.
He told me tonight that he has a "certain sense of humor."


Comments
Always talk normally to your children. It will take you longer as you will most likely have to stop and explain those 'high level words' but in the end you and they will be better for it. I think when parents start dumbing down their vocabularly, they often slip into a mode of "talkling down" to their children and that is never good.
Posted by: ciodude | September 28, 2007 7:33 AM
Oh I don't dumb down my lingo but I also don't always express to them my own personal stress. I told them how I'd been up all night working on a project and I told them my feelings and stuff like that.
Posted by: Julie | September 28, 2007 8:48 AM
God, could you believe the tatas on the chick that got voted off? They should have voted up the washed up model. I would have like to watch those boobs at least another episode. I'm sorry, I love that show.....It's a sickness.
Posted by: Susan | September 28, 2007 9:51 AM
tv is a sickness
Posted by: DjM | September 28, 2007 11:39 AM
No, it's a tranquilizer. A legal very
addictive tranquilizer.
Posted by: Susan | September 28, 2007 7:20 PM