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Sunday, September 07, 2003

whine mope groan complain

I didn't make an entry yesterday. (I don't think. Did I? Maybe I did. I don't think so though). This is because yesterday was an unbelievably boring day. We had sort of loosely planned to maybe take the kids to the movies, T had some work to do around the house, that kind of thing. But on his way home from his astronomy do on Friday night, he noticed a problem with the brakes on our car, so he took them apart Saturday morning to examine them, and couldn't fix them right away because by the time he got the part in his hot little hands, it was time for him to leave with a friend who wanted him to go look at a car that the friend was going to buy. In the Bay Area. Which is a 3-hour drive from here. So he was gone all afternoon, and my car was unusable while he was gone. I had all these GO SOMEWHERE urges and nothing to do with them -- couldn't even walk downtown in the heat because I knew (and the kids acknowledged) that my dear kidlets would whine and moan and complain (gee, I don't know anyone who does that!) when it was time to come up our steep hill. So we stayed around the house. The kids chain-watched a few videos, we played a few games. I was not the bright sparkly inventive creative mom that I love to be; I wanted nothing more than to vege out and mope about not being able to go anywhere.


On the brighter side, today I have had a crushing sinus headache. :-D. And a stiff neck too. I did get to take about a three-hour nap after we got home from church. But everyone else is perky and jovial, and hungry, and I feel guilty for not wanting to deal with that. Someone please, slap some sense into me. I have a wonderful family and a wonderful life. Well, except for this sinus headache/stiff neck thing. But still. What's a little physical misery in the face of the wonderfulness of my life?


OK, so right now it's a lot. How lame I am...

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