You know the feeling you have when someone wakes you from a deep sleep? Like you know something is going on and that it might even be important but you just can’t quite wrap your brain around it yet? Well that’s how I feel. No sleep required.
Do you think it could be all the emergency room visits? Maybe the shock has addled my mind. If you follow me on Twitter you know that last week Bug had a bike/scooter accident. He feel off the scooter, his BFF ran over him (head included) with his bike and we rushed off to the doctor. He ended up with a big cut across his forehead, a chipped front tooth, a generally bruised and scraped body, and half an eyebrow. He’s just fine now but I’m beginning to be afraid to let the kid out of my sight and it certainly isn’t helping me stay sharp.
How is it possible that the kids are going back to school in less than 2 weeks? Didn’t they just get out? Did I remember to get them new socks and underwear? Sign them up for fall activities? I know I got school supplies cuz we did that yesterday. Oy. It was a worse mob than was at the Sanguine Gryphon booth at Sock Summit.
What was I thinking when I scheduled a camping trip for this weekend and how did I forget all about it? Thank goodness for Outlook reminders, cancelation policies, and that I never told the kids we were going. I feel guilty but not enough to pack and unpack again. We’re going to the aquarium instead.
How can I be knitting so much my fingers are permanently in the claw position but not have anything to talk about? As usual my enthusiasm is greater than my stamina and I’m buzzing around here trying to finish 3 super secret I can’t even show you a close up projects, the two sweaters it’s seems I’ve been working on for the last decade, and trying not to start a new shawl design I had a brainstorm about before I finish the other stuff. Oh and I have a simple free pattern for you all just waiting for me to take some photographs and change my notes to something normal people might be able to understand.
Who the heck decided we needed half a million ways to layout documents and make graphics? Just trying to figure out what all the options are makes my head hurt and actually learning how to use them may push me over the cliff gibbering all the way. All I want is a nice profession looking pattern with some simple schematics. Why do I have to be Michael Angelo and Bill Gates combined to get it?! Sweater Wizard? GIMP? InDesign? Publisher? Photoshop? Expression? What do you use and why did you choose it? Somebody please just come over and club me with my keyboard. It would be less painful.
Maybe I’ve been possessed. Is there a demon of organization? In one of my more deluded moments I decided that both the kids needed to have their rooms redone.Toys all removed and reorganized, furniture moved, clothes gone though, cleaned, big kids stuff added and baby stuff removed. That shouldn’t take long. The kids will help me. Right? Umm..maybe not. Unfortunately that momentary flash of sanity didn’t stop me. Billy’s room is almost done and tomorrow I start Bugs room. I’ll be moving a desk and computer down two flights of stairs, putting together 3 bookshelves and then carrying them up the stairs. Let’s hope I don’t end up at the emergency room for the third time this summer.
If I can survive another week and a half of having pea soup for brains the kids will go back to school (being interrupted every 5 mins is not good for concentration or politeness for that matter), we should resume some kind of routine and I can go back to regular blogging, eating my meals while sitting down, and doing a much better job of pretending I know what’s going on. Until then can you loan me a clue?
