April 3, 2017

Late night last night.  Didn’t get into bed until 9:21 , but it was so worth it.  Mags and I were talking  about iuds at dinner as Ethan casually looked around the restaurant.  Not that this is a topic I frequently discuss with my children, but it came to a point about sex and I commented that my iud worked very well, since I didn’t even “participate in THAT any way” and Mags laughed, and said “it’s keeping you from getting pregnant and laid!” as we both burst into laughter and fist bumped across the table.  Ethan just sat there and pretended to ignore us. There are personal things that I don’t share with my kids, but I feel healthy talks about sex and sexuality are important-after all it’s how we all got here. 

I was in a bad place this morning, not sure why.   Sitting in front of Maggie’s school, I try to be conscious of drivers behind me and move up, yet it annoys me when people who work there look down into my car to see who I am (had the same car for 5 years and I’m there every day) and don’t say anything, rather they look annoyed and bothered.  So when the second person did this, then asked my to move forward, I snapped at her.  I felt really bad about the afterwards, after all, she is a nice person whom I admire and respect.  As soon as I got to work, I sent her an apology note.  She didn’t deserve that. 

Great fun at work.  Scott showed me a meme after first telling me his version of it. It’s a terrific thing for my clients (usually teens) who think they know everything and aren’t willing to put much work into anything.  The original: “Every corpse on Mount Everest was once a highly motivated human being.”  His version: “Everest is covered with corpses of people who thought they could push through with the force of pure will.” Macabre, perhaps.  

At home the kids and I loaded up the bus with some boxes and we’re ready.  Took our obligatory family car photo, turned the key, annnnnd, nothing. I guess  lights must’ve been left on. I got out the jumper cables and Ethan drove the Mazda behind Lizzie.  I attached the the cables and it wasn’t long until we were headed to the storage facility.  Target was next, where we ran into friends who told me about KOA sites.  What’s terrific idea for road trips!  I’m looking into it.

After Ethan talked me into piking up burritos for dinner (he said, “can we get burritos for dinner?”  I hate it when he’s forceful like that), we headed home. Work day 1-completed.  

Pictures: Do the footwork; Kids and I are ready for fu…; cking battery died.  No big deal.