24th May, 2008 (11:31 pm)
The Day Where A Lot Can Happen
A lot can happen in a week.
The only way I can properly update you and not have my fingers fall off due to excessive typing is to default to bulletpoints. Yeah - lazy, isn’t it? But it’s that or completely forget to write this stuff down, so what you going to do about it, eh? NOTHING. That’s what.
- I should be out tonight. As I type this, I should be dancing inappropriately with a man I’m not married to and lining my guts with enough gin to ensure that my body rejects it, heaving and heavy, in the early hours of the morning. I’m doing neither of these things because S beat me to the vomiting; he puked all over his bed last night, following it up with rip-roaring diarrhoea that’s lasted forty-eight hours and counting. Awesome - not least because he was in my bed last night. So at midnight I was giving S an impromptu shower (much to his apparent annoyance) to slough off the vomit and M was changing the sheets and making a moonlight trip to the garage to put the bedding in the washing machine.
- My Japanese exam was shit. As many people do that “omg I suckz at my examz!11″ psyche-out and then pass (annoying, isn’t it?) I’ll save you the uncertainity by assuring you that no, I’m not exaggerating. It was shit - as was I - and I’m gonna fail. I’d care but let’s face it - I can’t do everything I do and expect to do all of it well. Some days I struggle to take a piss I’m so busy, and if some has to give I’d rather it be my silly language hobby, as much as I love it, than lose my job, my child or my mind.
- Work’s been bedlam. Like, crazy. I didn’t see my desk for nine consecutive days and that had nothing to do with leave - I was simply out of the office and in meetings all over the fucking country. I have next week off - see the next bullet - but it’s crap timing and if we haven’t have already booked our flights I would’ve cancelled my leave and try to make a dent in my To Do list I’m that busy. Everytime I think of what I have to do my stomach cramps up with guilt and concern.
- My little man - for only the second time in two years - had to sit on the naughty bench in school on Thursday. Apparently, he grabbed a girl in his class around the neck. Wow. Thinking it to be the stuff of serial killers - “He was such a quiet boy, Officer, and so polite! Such a lovely boy. We should’ve known, though - remember when he strangled that girl when he was just four? Terrible thing it was, Officer. But what chance did the poor lad have? All his mother did was curse and waste her life on the internet” - we had a stern and deathly serious talk when I got back from work that night. I explained why grabbing people around the neck wasn’t, generally, an effective means of communication, and together we decided that a 24 hour TV ban would be his punishment (the first Big Boy punishment he’s ever had, since the Naughty Step usually suffices). Big brown eyes brimming with tears, S quietly replied that he really, really, really REALLY tried to ignore the girl but it was SO HARD and she just kept snatching his toys until it made him SO MAD and, anyway, how come girls can hit boys but boys can’t hit back? IT’S NOT FAIR, MUMMY! She hit him first and no-one listened! But honestly, what the hell can you do? He’s right - it’s not fair. But that doesn’t excuse what he did, does it? Sigh.
He took his punishment on the chin, though, which made me oddly proud of him. He understood what he had done, understood that there were consequences, and didn’t fight it much come Friday and a distinct lack of Ben 10 spread throughout the Vixx household. He’s growing up, I guess.
- I was also really proud of my little man when he had his Opthalmology appointment at the hospital last week. He was referred following continuous problems with his right eye - infections, redness, weeping, discharge, pain, sensitivity to light - and even though we had a half-hour wait before we were seen - and then a further twenty minutes wait between specialists - he was adorable; sweet, patient, curious, well-behaved. During his eye examination - you know, where you need to put your head in the contraption thingy? - he was soooo good, and needed only a Dalek chocolate lollipop to hover above the (non-sexy) consultant’s head to keep him focused. He was diagnosed with the - thankfully relatively harmless - condition blepharitis and the fantastically vague diagnosis of allergies (probably hayfever?) and prescribed eyedrops and a strict daily-cleansing routine. We can live with that - and his eyes are already back to their gorgeous, stomach-melting chocolate-brown selves. :)
- Monday we - M and I - fly out to Amsterdam. Our last childless vacation was New York last April (07, that is), which seems impossibly long ago and frightening recent all at once. We’re excited, but that’s usually the kiss of death for us - we end up expecting too much, get disappointed too quickly and then take it out on each other. Coolio. But M surprised me with this trip, an unexpected gift for our recent seventh wedding anniversary, so I’m determined to try and be kind and upbeat and positive the whole three days we’re there - i.e. be the complete opposite to my usual self. I wonder if I’ll last the flight before telling him that I hate him and demanding to go home . . . ? Anyway, S will be spend the time being spoiled rotten by his grandparents. Win-win. :)
- My book is progressing. This is good: it hadn’t been for a couple of months. I’ve broken the seventy thousand words barrier - SEVENTY THOUSAND FUCKING WORDS. I fucking rock - even if the book, as of yet, does not.
- I’m getting fat again. I bent over to tie my laces the other day and I think I blotted out the sun in the Northern hemisphere.
- The finale of S4 Grey’s Anatomy? Bliss. S3 was all kinds of crap, and I’m SO happy it seems to be back on track. I wish Derek Shepherd was real. I want to spend eternity slathered in chocolate, naked, and rubbing my body against Patrick Dempsey’s.
- I want a Wii and I want one now. I need a couple more clients to pay their GG bills and I think I can then justify the splurge. Just wanting one makes me feel like I’m cheating on my PS2. I think I’ll have to meet my Wii in secret and have rapid, guilty intercourse with it whilst drunk down dark alleyways when my PS2’s at work.
- I also want an iPhone. Stupid Apple. Making me yearn like this. I try to resist the hype but I’m such a weak-willed pussy.
- I think I have more to say but I’m bored now - which means you’ve either already stopped reading this or have expired from boredom yourself.
- Bullet-pointed lists are kind of addictive.
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Comment by Monique — 25 May, 2008 @ 12:49 am
I liked the recent pick up in GA. It’s gotten better since the writer’s strike, and I want to know more of Alex’s backstory asap!
Comment by Jac — 25 May, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
Well.. I shall impart the advice you gave me.
BUY IT! Buy the WII!! You know you want, I took the plunge in a ‘oops my finger slipped on that eBay auction about 5 times until I won’ type way!
As for the iPhone, tell me about it! I have craved it since it came out. 3G is coming soon.. hold on!
Enjoy the ‘dam, it’ll be great. :)
Comment by sharon — 26 May, 2008 @ 11:15 am
oooh, Amsterdam. Always wanted to go there so you need to know that I am insanely jealous of you right now and if you don’t want your plane tickets I’ll take ‘em off ya ;)
Oh, and buy the Wii. You won’t regret it.
Comment by Jem — 28 May, 2008 @ 7:21 pm
Jac is right, buy the Wii. Then buy either of the Rayman Raving Rabbids games.
I had the diarrhoea and sickness bug, followed by a 24 hour break and then a stinking cold. I don’t know if they’re related but it’s one to prepare for just in case…
Comment by Vixx — 28 May, 2008 @ 9:19 pm
Monique - I know! Me too!
Jem/Jac - I think I’m going to wobble before the month is through. Just watch me . . .
Sharon - it was awesome! Loved every second of it. Shall share photos tomorrow!
V xx
Comment by Teesee — 28 May, 2008 @ 9:33 pm
I’ve been sick too, suspected glandular fever - I blame you. *Shrugs”
Are you back now then? I’ve been told to go to Amsterdam loads of times but no one has convinced me yet.
Oh and about the Wii - I used to be a Nintendo girl… but then I was introduced to the Xbox 360. One day I might go back to the dark side… ;)
Comment by Chans — 29 May, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
I hope you had a great time in Amsterdam. I think it’s a beautiful city with lots to see and to do. What really made an impression on me is the Anne Frank house, where she and her family were hiding during the second world war. Although that might not be a right thing to visit on a fun / romantic trip ;)