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i just spent the last three days doing the following: teaching 4 hours straight, coming home and packing some stuff for the weekend, cleaning the cat boxes and putting out extra cat food, dashing off with the wife to get the boy out of school early, grabbing some quick lunch, driving for 8 hours with only a couple short stops for food and gasoline, hanging out with my sweet one's mom, new step-dad, and sister and looking at all the new additions to their house [ASIDE: these are the new additions: a shed out back that was converted into a little room with a bathroom and small kitchen that her sister gets to stay in, their new almost finished screened in pool and jacuzzi, and their "bubble"- a little round motor home has bubbles and stars on it and is decorated like...well, with all bubbles. little circles, medium circles, large ones, everywhere and on almost everything- and even a huge one on the ceiling. they even decked it out with colored lights inside and a beaded-curtain (except, it was little plastic circles rather than beads...and is that even what those things are called?)- and a very excited and highly overtired little boy got to camp out in it with grandma the first night and with his aunt the second...now back to my last three days, i believe i am at friday night sometime now], holding and squeeing over the six new puppies that their dog just had and petting the other 6-8 dogs that they have (really, i couldn't keep track- dogs everywhere. everywhere) sleeping in this funny little monkey covered trundle bed in a funny little 80's style monkey filled room [ASIDE- we spent about half of each night sleeping in the same half of the bed, basically a single sized mattress and the other half sleeping on our own because it wasn't that comfy to sleep in the same half really...but it's still more fun to fall asleep snuggling...back to my days], getting up riding in the bubble to disneyworld, spending the day alternating between periods of having an absolute blast riding the cool rides, eating the largest turkey leg i have ever eaten, looking at amazingly beautiful lights- the whole castle lights up and changes into different bright colors and so many other lights, laughing and chatting with everyone (ASIDE: ack- i managed to do a pretty decent job acting like a normal human this weekend...but that might explain way i feel now...i was constantly trying to monitor my behavior to make sure i wasn't slipping into a grumpy mood or into a depressed mood because i didn't want to ruin anybody's time but i did slip up a little here an there), watching the expressions on and listening to the laughter of speed loving roller coaster riding six year old, and sometimes wearing bubba teeth and smiling at people and being tired, hungry, thirty, or irritated by the 6 or 40-something year old males complaining about waiting in lines and by the end of the day you leave feeling exhausted, feet are aching, and being constantly surrounded and bumped into by other people, overcaffeinated because the step-dad keeps buying you drinks or food in between every ride (you really can't say no...it doesn't work...it is much easier in this case to order something each time. or at least the sweet one and i sharing something, or just getting the boy something on those times when neither of us really wanted anything- but often we would still get a water- trying to not get cranky with the cranky overtired and oversugared and still wound small child who just went to disneyworld for the first time but feeling overall very satisfied with the day and looking forward to going to something like that again...of course, it helped that we didn't have to spend a single cent of our own to go on this entire adventure so their was no financial stress involved and we could have fun and stuff without thinking of money every bloody second, riding in the bubble back to the sweet one's family's place, sleeping exhaustedly and soundly (i don't sleep soundly all that often lately so that was really nice...maybe i really really needed to do something fun and relax or something, or get a break from at least a few of our worries), waking up and hanging out around the house for a few hours, driving for eight hours back to our home with few stops again because we are exhausted and just want to get home at that point (luckily the boy is a damn good traveler...we are really lucky in that), getting home and the boy pukes on the carpet, he seemed to get anti-motion sickness...as soon as we stopped the car and he started to get out he felt sick or the dinner he ate didn't fully agree with him in combination with being overtired, oversugared, undernutriented or at least eating mostly grease (the turkey leg...that was really good though..)the last couple days except for breakfast, who knows, but he fine now, and cleaning cat shit off the floor near the catbox and cleaning nasty cat boxes because i was too cheap to purchase an additional one, and relaxing for a little while now.
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