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Ten

by Marilyn on August 8, 2008

cute It feels like an amazing milestone.  Ten years.  At the same time, it feels like the blink of an eye.

We were so young back then.  (I was so THIN!)  We had our lives ahead of us.  We had nothing but potential ahead of us, the promise of the years to come.  There was no way of knowing if the years would be difficult or easy.  I’d like to think I knew better than to expect easy.  But with my best friend at my side?  How hard could it really be?

I remember when we booked our photographer, over a year in advance (we had a long engagement).  She said it was a good thing we had, since 08/08 was viewed as a very “lucky” date in the Chinese culture and that had spread to Western culture as well.  As such, many couples were lining up to get married on that same day.  After all, who would refuse a little extra luck to start off their married lives?

Honestly, I just picked the day because I liked the repeating date.  (12/12, 08/08, 07/07… you see a trend?)  That and it was in August.  I was basically told by my mother that August was a good month so I remember picking up a calendar and scanning the Saturdays.  It took me maybe two seconds to pick it out.  Easy, peasy.

Toast

For years, I expected that on our tenth anniversary we would do something special to celebrate the day.  In fact, for a very long time my idea of the perfect anniversary would be to return to Mendocino, where we honeymooned, and enjoy some cool, coastal air.  Perhaps we’d even stay at the same bed and breakfast we stayed at all those years ago.  Perhaps we’d even stay in the same room.

Yeah, not going to happen this year.

Shoot, with two little ones and one not so little one, we can’t even manage a nice dinner out and a movie at the theater.  But, we’re also mature enough to realize that those things don’t really matter.  We can have a special anniversary without going anywhere.  Maybe we’ll fix a nice dinner here at home to have after (most of) the kids are in bed.  Maybe we won’t.  We might not be able to bestow fabulous gifts on one another, but we can look at each other and know that another ten years will be a breeze, as long as we’re together.

Happy Anniversary, sweetie pie.

Concentration? What’s that?

by Marilyn on July 30, 2008

I have zero concentration this week.  I have about a bazillion things buzzing around my head but I feel like I’ve been unable to concentrate on any one thing at any one time.  Even now, I’ve gone and laid Evie down up in her crib in her room (with the monitor within arms reach of me down here, of course) and Liam is distracted by “Jack’s Big Music Show” (LOVE) and a pile of plastic blocks.  But do you think I can concentrate long enough to gather my thoughts into a cohesive post?

NOPE!

I feel like I’ve been pulled into a million different directions lately.  A little piece of me is needed here, a little piece over there and another piece needs to be thinking about that over there too.  Nothing has my full attention and that is worrisome to me.  I’m scattered, is what it is.  I’d quite simply forgotten what it was like to feel this way.  Friggin’ thyroid.

Here’s just a little sampling of what is buzzing around in that empty cranial cavity at the moment:

  • I’m trying to make an appointment with a new doctor.  Our new primary care physician on our new insurance has a web-based appointment maker thingie.  I filled it out yesterday but haven’t heard back yet.  I hope they haven’t tried to call because our landline is at the mercy of two very f’d up phones that can’t hold a charge for more than two minutes and the charging stations are nowhere NEAR where I sit and nurse Evie.  So if they’ve called, chances are I’ve missed it.
  • You’d think, then, that I would check voicemail to see.  But I haven’t.  I should probably do that.
  • Speaking of phones, I won one.  You know, nothing much. ;)  Those that follow me on Twitter probably saw me lose my freakin’ gourd over it last week.  The only thing is that since we’re already AT&T customers, I need to wait until the end of August to renew my contract in order to get the reduced cost.  I think.  I’m still rather confused by the whole thing, to be honest.  But very excited to get my hands on it.
  • Evie is sleeping in her crib RIGHT NOW.  That freaks me out.  She didn’t sleep in there very long last night.  Only an hour or two and was in bed with us by the time we went to bed but STILL.  Baby steps.  I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m not too excited to get this particular milestone achieved just yet.  She’s only 4 months old!  SHE MAH BAYBEE!!!
  • I’ve discovered Rockstar in the last week or so and I really kinda like it.  MUST GET MORE.  May just be the only thing to punch through my Thyroid Fog right now.
  • Still haven’t seen “Dark Knight”.  Am pretty sad about that.  Hoping to remedy this little problem at the drive-in this weekend.
  • Am so glad that Noggin’s monthly theme will switch in a couple days.  Am rather tired of the “Are we there yet?” song.  Actually, I think I was tired of it after the first day, to be honest.
  • Where was I?
  • My anniversary is this month!  TEN YEARS, yo.  Do we have any plans made?  NOPE.  Not that I know of, at least.  Crap.  Should really start thinking about this.  Anyone want to take bets on if I can get a DSLR or laptop out of this?  (That hysterical laughter you’re hearing is my husband.  He thinks I’m SUCH a kidder!)
  • Liam goes in for a speech therapy evaluation tomorrow.  I haven’t really mentioned much about that, have I?  I don’t know why we’re not doing Early Intervention or if Nevada even DOES Early Intervention.  So in lieu of that, we have to journey clear across town to see this therapist.  And pay a standard office visit copay to boot.  Oh well.  It’s for the Good of the Child, which you can’t ever really bargain away, can you?

I’m sure I’ve got more.  But my brain keeps slipping away and thinking of stupid things like, “Should I do diaper laundry before or after lunch? This evening?  How about a shower?  Should I try to take one today?  Oh!  Don’t forget to Evie’s prescriptions filled at the grocery store!  When should I go to the grocery store?  Tomorrow?  Yeah, right, as if I’d go by myself.  Dang, when’s lunch?”

So… yeah.  Sorry about that, folks.  I’ll try harder to whip my lazy brain into shape for tomorrow’s post.  In the meantime, feel free to read yesterday’s post which I have on good authority is a pretty good one.