Snow Blind

I’m gonna try and stuff this full of some of the things I’ve been neglecting to post lately. Summer has been busy and I just haven’t been taking the time to update this like I wanted to. Well, shutup and take what I give you.

The kids have been super busy.

Avery and Zoe are doing swimming lessons right now. I think they are enjoying that but it’s hard to tell when you ask Amy about how Zoe refuses to get in the water every day but also refuses to leave cause she wants to swim.

Clayton just finished up his baseball season which I was helping out with cause, well, they really need as much help as they can get. I am also still gonna post the video of Clayton get his black belt, but I’m gonna throw the excuse that Amy’s laptop has been acting up lately. That, and well, between her and TJ, it’s hard to get access to it.

TJ hasn’t done a whole lot extra this summer but he’s been more helpful lately. Even offering to mow the lawn, which I’m totally cool with. We also moved him to the basement this summer which he’s been stoked about. Hopefully it won’t be a temporary solution but we’ll have to address winter as it gets like 40 degrees down there in the summer. I’m ok with that, but Amy seems to think Child Services might not be so keen on it.

Sadie keeps getting bigger and has been teasing us with her walking now for weeks. She just hasn’t built up the confidence to try it without holding some one’s fingers. Personally, I think she’s just being a baby about the whole situation.

I’ll be frank and just tell you that poker has been absorbing much of my free time. Last month, I was all kicking ass and taking names. I had my first $3k month ever and, even though I’m being staked and only getting half of that, I was pretty pumped about the success none the less. This month has been a huge kick to the crotch as far as poker goes, so hopefully I can turn it around and at least have a break even month at the end. For the first time ever, I’ve been putting in more hands than I ever have, have been really motivated to play and could even seriously consider doing this full time if I ever get to the point of playing high enough to sustain a comfortable living from it.

That’s a pretty big pipe to stuff a dream into but that brings me to the next part. There have been changes at work that have pretty much brought it back to the soul sucking source of income most people cope with and pretend to be happy. I’m not gonna lie and say that hasn’t been a big driving force for my poker playing, but I am gonna lie and say that if I ever do get to that point in my poker career that I don’t need a “day job”, that I’ll miss it terribly.

Word press is telling me I’ve eclipsed 500 words and I hate wordy blog posts when other people post them, so I’ll try and wrap this up here. I really do miss posting here and while I have been pretty active on my twitter account, I really want to get back to making more posts here. I don’t always come through with my intentions, but I’ll make an honest attempt. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. I don’t really know what that means, but I’m sure it really says something important about my blog.

Avery: What are you doing?
Me: I’m reading
Avery: Why aren’t you saying the words?
Me: Reading doesn’t mean saying the words
::pauses for a moment::
Avery: Are you just waiting to say the words later?

It’s always interesting on how kids perceive things in their world. What struck me as odd is that Amy reads all the time, yet Avery had never questioned her as to why she wasn’t saying the words when reading. Maybe I struck him as more of the lips-move-while-reading type. It’s probably not that far off.

I’ve had a few people bugging me that I haven’t been posting. Like all my other posting droughts, it’s not due to nothing I wanted to post. There has been tons going on and hopefully over the next week, I’ll find time to some of those that are still relevant.

In short it’s been due to being busy with kids back in school, me having a new position, the impending birth of Baby Cinco and my laptop taking a big dump – again. This time for good as I don’t feel like replacing the motherboard for it. It’s been quite a summer for things breaking down in this house.

My technology issues are probably boring though, so I’ll change the subject back to being busy. Most parents wait for their kids to go back to school to get a break. For us, things just get worse as it’s another thing that we need to fit into an already busy day. Pile on that the fact that our kids are now back in touch with their social circle, GG any free time. Our house has resumed it’s role as the congregation ground for any and all neighborhood kids that have nothing better to do. Plus, we have a snack drawer and apparently that’s a pretty popular feature.

IM chats are pretty popular on my circle of blogs lately, so here’s one that wraps up that subject. As a bonus, it’s a chat with the wife which are always epic. And by epic, I mean amusing. And by amusing, I mean I am probably the only one who laughs at them.

amy: there are far too many children here
Me: start sniping them
amy: tempting
Me: BOOM HEADSHOT!!!
amy: i had said trevor and bryce could come, and the 3 sweeneys were here waiting when theboys got home, which was fine
amy: trevor didn’t come with, so i thought he decided not to come-10 minutes later he shows up with trent and kristen-not at the door asking if they could play, just cme right in and made themselves at home
amy: i had told the boys this morning they couldn’t come over, since they had other friends coming, but they never asked, and it feels kind of mean to literally kick them out
Me: I bet you if they walked in once and we were having sex, that would put a stop to that right then and there
amy: you have such good ideas
Me: I know
Me: and they just come to me

It seems to be the end of the world. #1, #3 and #4 all have the flu. #3 and #4 have been sick especially over the last few nights throwing up at regular intervals. We are going through our rations of popcicles with astonishing speed. I’m also beginning to become accustomed to the smell of stomach acid.

I’m home helping with the kids today since I wouldn’t be much good at work anyway. I was getting up about every 45 minutes last night to assist with sickly kids (emptying puke buckets and changing pajamas) and am far too tired to have any chance of having anything close to a productive day. Hell, I have trouble keeping focus at work lately even when I am rested.

For their sake, I hope they recover quickly. I have always had trouble dealing with the kids not feeling well.