{"id":193,"date":"2008-05-06T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T23:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-05-06T15:59:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T23:59:47","slug":"and-i-had-such-high-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xangelle.com\/dailygrind\/and-i-had-such-high-hopes\/","title":{"rendered":"And I Had Such High Hopes&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man,\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a few days, and I had totally hoped to post every day this month.\u00c2\u00a0 Looks like that ain&#8217;t happening, but I&#8217;m still planning on posting a whole lot more than I have in recent months&#8230;..okay, since &#8216;Siah was born&#8230;.:hangsheadandsighs:<\/p>\n<p>I looked back, and I&#8217;ve averaged about 10 posts per month&#8230;.WOW, that&#8217;s not many, is it?\u00c2\u00a0 And some months it was even less&#8230;.:shockedlook:<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had some great emoticons on here, but I guess that would be the lazy way out because I&#8217;d end up using them and not trying to explain my emotions and feelings with words, and that&#8217;s a part of what &#8220;this&#8221; is all about.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting here wihle waiting for the rice to boil.\u00c2\u00a0 Yup, it&#8217;s dinner time and I&#8217;m late.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been tired since Friday..well, I guess more accurately Saturday when we had SO MUCH FUN with our friends and then equally but a totally different SO MUCH FUN with &#8216;Siah.<\/p>\n<p>So, today I slept.<\/p>\n<p>Lemme back up a little.\u00c2\u00a0 Jon&#8217;s is working with a guy who is TOTALLY interested in the graphics side of web design, and seeing as Jon &#8220;figures&#8221; that it&#8217;s not his(Jon&#8217;s) forte(which is totally not true, but he stresses and so the stress of it ain&#8217;t worth it), he totally wants to work with this guy to help him along so that they oculd work together.<\/p>\n<p>So, that screws up my Mondays&#8230;see, this guy is Amercian, from just across the border and he drives up to work with and learn from Jon,\u00c2\u00a0 on Mondays, and while that&#8217;s AWESOME&#8230;.it would be even AWESOMER if I didn&#8217;t have someone in my house that I needed to feed and be all pleasant for (<em>read get up and get dressed and put make up on and all that &#8220;stuff&#8221;<\/em>).\u00c2\u00a0 I like to just keep it all low-key\u00c2\u00a0on Monday&#8217;s, but for now&#8230;..NO SUCH LUCK!<\/p>\n<p>So, today I did get up and&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.side conversation here&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>I took a shower today &#8217;cause you all needed to\u00c2\u00a0know that\u00c2\u00a0and I washed my hair&#8230;haven&#8217;t done so since last Friday&#8230;.and well. it really needed it, but so more so than it usually does for my regularly scheduled Tuesday washing&#8230;.so I&#8217;ve used the baking soda again and once again, my hair feels fabulous&#8230;..so I think I&#8217;ll give this a shot for a while and once we run out of the high priced natural stuff, I&#8217;ll get the kids to try the baking soda as well&#8230;.only thing is&#8230;.if it gets in your mouth, it tastes gross&#8230;&#8230;blech.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I just re-read that last paragraph, and I wash or bathe DAILY, but only take a shower twice a week&#8230;..just so you don&#8217;t think that I&#8217;m sitting over here stewing in my own filth.\u00c2\u00a0 I can&#8217;t go to bed dirty&#8230;&#8230;and now that I&#8217;ve shared WAY MORE information than you really wanted to know about me&#8230;.we&#8217;ll move right back\u00c2\u00a0into whatever it was that we were talking about before I veered off topic&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So, today I did get up and took a shower and then put on clean clothes, because that&#8217;s just the right thing to do, BUT&#8230;&#8230;I did dig out a pair of comfy clothes (sweats) and today has been my lazy day.\u00c2\u00a0 I did NOTHING, and when &#8216;Siah went down for his morning nap I laid down with him and he slept for an hour and I did had hideous asleep\/not asleep thing where you get up feeling WAY worse than you did beofre you laid down, because you were just teased with sleeping but didn&#8217;t actually really get to fall asleep&#8230;.that was NOT FUN!<\/p>\n<p>So then we wasted away a few more hours and about 1:30, he started showing signs that he might be ready to sleep again&#8230;..and so we went and laid down and slept.<\/p>\n<p>AND IT WAS GLORIOUS.<\/p>\n<p>We woke up at 4:15, and I actually feel like I&#8217;m able to function.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I&#8217;ve got dinner on and I&#8217;m posting while I&#8217;m waiting for the rice &#8211; it&#8217;s brown and wild rice and so takes 45 minutes to steam, and so I got a few minutes&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So, i think that post was about a WHOLE. 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