Our Island Family Life

Day, I've lost count, of waking up with a headache. Swallow Tylenol and moving on. No work today. I should clean the house. I really have no motivation to. It's going to be just me and Sofie all morning. It's been a while since it has been just the two of us. I think I will just spend some one on one time with her. I could take her to my knitting group today. I haven't gone in ages. I think she is old enough to sit and play with the yarn without strangling herself. It will depend on if she behaves today and how my head feels. I have to email Sean today. Not looking forward to that.

Ok, well then. As you can plainly see I have done some changes on this here blog. Subtle, no? I hope it isn't too out there and let me hear some feedback on what you guys think. I'm not quite done. I have some ads to put up yet and I have some switching around to do with my gadgets. They are driving me nuts. They don't want to move and are pretty much are up now as they were added. Not in a very logical way. More to do on that later.

I performed surgery today. Sofie's blankey needed some sewing big time. Sofie wanted me to fix "her" but said "she" was afraid. So I told her that I gave her blankey some medicine that makes it so the needled doesn't hurt just like they do at the hospital. Then I told Sofie "she" would be feeling a little tired and sore so Sofie needed to be gentle with her from now on. Sofie was very happy and hasn't let go of "her" since.

I woke up with a snarling headache this morning. I slept well. So I have no clue why I woke up with it. Still, I don't mind too much since I don't have to clean the house I was thinking of doing today. I can do it later this week. It is stinking hot again today and I really didn't want to anyway. I did clean my house a little though. I dusted and vacuumed the upstairs and reorganized some stuff and checked out the school supplies box so I know what I need to get for sure on Tuesday. My list is a bit longer than I had thought but not by much. I do have to spring for a pen drive for Connor. I think the school should have some for people who can't afford them. When pen drives, laptops and calculators cost the same as pencils then that will be ok. Ha. Anyway, I also did some stuff I normally do like laundry but I haven't been pushing it and I am still in my jammies. Way cooler than getting dressed. A summer neighbor came over and dropped off some extra food for us which was nice and I got another job from them to clean up after they close. Sweet. Now I am doing some stuff on the computer and you will pry me off today with a crowbar. I have fun stuff to do which is way backed up but I also have important stuff to do like checking out the classes I am thinking about and checking my bank account yada yada. I do one fun thing then on stressful thing and it keeps me from making my headache worse. Stress does NOT help. Neither does the heat which is why I am not going on a cleaning frenzy. Gosh knows the house needs it.

I saw the coolest thing on tv today while Sofie and I shared a bowl of cereal. There are these toys that look like hamsters and they move around and are all fuzzy. They come with all the trappings like a real hamster. The round exercise ball and tunnels and carrying case (we had these things when we had gerbils). It was kinda neat. It would be interesting to get it for Sofie since we aren't allowed pets here but it is so realistic WITHOUT the mess. You can "feed" them everyday of course and "clean up" after them. I wonder if it would be good for her? Speaking of pets, I also wonder if the school here might get a school pet this year. They didn't before because we had a kid who was allergic to just about everything. Maybe a fish or something for when she visits her sister? I dunno.

I am slowly adding links to the places I surf to. That will take a while to do I think. I am also looking around to change the background. It's kind boring. I am not having luck finding anything I like or when I do it doesn't upload properly. I stink at HTML and frankly it is something I want to learn. Still, now isn't the right time. So I hunt.

I have been so busy I haven't had time to do much to fix this blog back up. I will have some free time tonight and hopefully I will be able to just have some fun with it and not see it as a chore. There were some problems with people getting back on from a direct link but it seems to be working ok now. I am not sure what happened but I am not going to think about it much or I will feel really sad. From time to time I would go back and re read stuff I wrote just like a regular journal. I could see how far I have come or things I wish I could be better at. I am at work right now so I can't write much. I just wanted to do a little update. I have been reading a lot. Total escapism. I really needed it. At the expense of a clean house and cooked meals as opposed to sandwiches. I am weaning myself off the books now. I read 4 books in as many days with the help of a really cool clip that keeps the book open and your hand free. I did dishes and everything with it. I still ....too much of a good thing you know.