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Monday, November 14, 2005
neglect
I've been neglecting my poor loyal blog readers (I can tell you are all SO disappointed). I apologize. It's all dpchallenge.com's fault. That and just plain busy-ness. Here are some things that happened over the past four or five days (oh goody, a list!):
- T had a four-day weekend. This is always nice. Four days is so luxurious, because on Friday you get that Sunday he's-going-back-to-work-tomorrow kind of dread feeling, and then you realize that there are two more whole days with him at home. It's like a present, every time you remember.
- We cut wood. It was not so bad. I got brownie points (from myself, anyway) for doing this even though a few short days before, I had done that whole falling-on-a-trash-can-from-a-fence thing. I wasn't very sore, and it felt good to get out and do something.
- On the way home from woodcutting, my staggeringly-arachnophobic husband stopped the car and let me photograph a tarantula in the road, before backing up to run over it (previously he's only offered to allow me to photograph them afterward), on the condition that he never have to see the pictures ever in his life. You may not understand, on simply reading that sentence, how very generous of him this was. Trust me, it was a huge sacrifice on his part.
- We went to the city, 40 miles away. Twice. ugh. Wal-Mart both times. Double ugh.
- LT was finally able to have his Star Wars All Six Episodes Marathon with his best friend. It ended up being broken up over two days. Much candy, soda, and popcorn were consumed.
- C had her first paid modeling session. She earned a vanilla Coke all for herself by standing/sitting/lying on the lawn for fifteen minutes, talking to me and making faces, while I took her picture about thirty times. This was, of course, for a contest at dpchallenge.com. (stay tuned for reports about tonight's photo session involving T, his new-to-him slide projector, and his astronomy photos.)
- Um. Thatisall. I think.
Comments
That was VERY nice of your dh to let you take the spider's picture before running over it!!
Posted by: debi at November 14, 2005 09:38 AM
Oh, I'm glad you're doing the T/astronomy slide/photo thing.
Posted by: jenn at November 14, 2005 05:46 PM
I DO understand the tarantula-sacrifice. My husband is the SAME way. He sucks spiders up in the Shop-Vac.
Posted by: mary at November 14, 2005 07:03 PM
Mary, T would not allow that. They might be -- ALIVE in there. He would have to smash them first, preferably from far away. One time he was in his garage, and he saw a tarantula on the floor, and he happened to have a 40-lb bag of empty brass shell casings next to him, so he picked it up, HURLED it onto the spider, and then jumped up and down on it several times to be sure it would be done twitching before he moved the bag. He's also not above shooting them with a .22 outdoors. The man is obsessed.
Posted by: Rachel at November 14, 2005 07:30 PM
Tarantulas?! I don't know why, but I guess I never realized that you have those "out West". I always think of them as something in the middle of a South American rainforest.
Posted by: Michael at November 14, 2005 07:50 PM
See, I thought EVERYONE had tarantulas. So you guys don't have really big hairy spiders over there? What about in Georgia? I spend considerable time daydreaming about living in Georgia; the absence of tarantulas might be a motivator for T (although... cockroaches the size of your finger... eh)
Posted by: Rachel at November 14, 2005 07:55 PM
