Seven Quick Takes Friday - #15, 2010

-1-

House.  DISASTER.  Perhaps a tornado hit it.  Or a hurricane.  Or... maybe I haven't had 5 minutes inside the house to breathe, let alone clean, and at least it's not getting all that much worse, but if I don't get some laundry done, I will not have anything to wear.  

-2-

Husband.  GONE.  Yep, he's off making beaucoup bucks for us to live on this summer.  And I remain behind, grudgingly willingly cheerfully oh okay, surviving and taking care of the house/kids/yard/whatever.

I miss him.

-3-

Son #1.  Mac.  GONE.  He's off being a camp counselor and doing a good job by what I can tell.  At least he went into the water to get the poor boys in the canoe to shore when it was starting to thunder and lightning and they couldn't get it turned right.  Of course, there is the small problem of the fact that he was still wearing his shorts over his swim trunks.  And his cell phone was in his pocket.  

Said cell phone is in a tupperware drying out with rice.  Early determinations are that it is dead as a doornail, but perhaps it will tell us "I'm not dead yet."

We do have insurance on the teens' phones, so it will only cost us $50 to replace it, but ugh.  Nickel and dime the budget to death, shall we.  See #2, where husband is making money for us to live on this summer.  There is a budget for that money and it's tight.  I don't want to go into our meager savings.

-4-

Regarding those meager savings:  In the portion I have designated for a future computer - there is almost enough for a laptop!!!  Just a MacBook, but I am starting to drool thinking about having a laptop of my own.   I can almost feel it, the smooth texture, the easy wireless connection, the webcam... ahhhh.

-5-

A laptop is actually becoming a need around here, not just a want.  It's hard to travel without one, especially when both kids have summer homework.  Who decided that honor students should have MORE work during the summer?  Who???? I don't remember having to do summer work.  Ever.  Not sure that this is a positive change!

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And I want to travel.  I want to see my husband.  I MISS my husband.  I want to stay married to my husband, and it is hard to keep a marriage going when you spend weeks apart every year.  We're NOT in the military.  So why does it feel like we are, just a bit.  It's not like he's in a war zone or anything, and I shouldn't complain, especially since I know one couple that has just spent 5 weeks apart, with at least 3 weeks to go, since he's in the Louisiana National Guard, and there is this oil spill thing, you know?

-7-

AIT therapy - done after today.  Don't know if or how it worked, and it will be a while before we know for sure.  And I don't know when we're going to therapy next week.  Guess I'd better figure that out now.

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Comments

[angie]

I always admired my mother who took care of me and my four other siblings while my dad was away her strength was something that is what I remember