I was thinking today, I haven't logged into my blog for quite some time. Partly because, when I am home I'd rather pay attention and spend time with Rory than write a blog post that could take an hour-although, I could do it while he is working in the evening. I couldn't do anything from my work computer until now because it had an older outdated version of IE that the blog site didn't really support. They just updated IE to be compatible with a new CRM tool that we are supposed to be using, so I can can post from work with no compatibility issues. Granted, with as busy as I am during the week, it doesn't happen very often that I am able to easily take time out of my work day to write a post. (except for Sunday when there is nothing going on and I am just passing the time along because I already got everything done I needed to do)
That being said, it made me wonder what the real reason was behind my ability to be consistant in maintaining anything that required writing or some sort. The thought occured to me-it doesn't matter whether it's my journal or a blog, I don't want to just write about nothing. I have the typical life everyone else has - work and home. Outside of going to work each day and going home each day, not much exciting happens in my life. I guess that's why each entry I have in my journal seems to be about boys. I dated plenty of boys over the last 9-10 years but apparently, those in particular caused me to do some serious thinking and I needed to get my thoughts out somehow. Which is the reason why the last entry was just after Rory and I got engaged, with a few entries being done before and after that. As for the other major events over that time frame, I have no idea. Today I thought, "what in the world do I have to say that would be even remotely interesting?" This obviously isn't a "journal" for me and I don't ever intend it to be. I do like talking about things that do happen and how interesting I find them or how different it is from the life that I am used to.
Last week Rory heard back from the courts regarding the children. It's been a very interesting long haul. They found it appropriate for us to adopt his partenting plan of 5-2-2-5, meaning we have the children every Monday, and Tuesday, and every other Friday-Sunday. Last weekend was our first weekend following this new said schedule which means we had the kids for 5 days. We had already talked about how we would care for the children since he and I both work. It worked out that since I am currently off on Friday, I took care of them that day. This wasn't my first time taking care of children in an all day situation. I have done this several times for a friend I worked for. She and her husband would need to go out of town for an entire weekend and I would take care of her 4 children while they were gone. Friday was fairly uneventful. I took Alex to summer camp in Phoenix and went grocery shopping with Aurora. All the while she is saying, "I want to go places" and "I want to go home". How did my mother ever go shopping with all of us kids??? The weekend passed quickly, although it was strange that they were with us for so long. Because of the holiday this past week, I was able to take Monday off to take care of them again. Then Tuesday morning they went back to their mom. I had a great time with the kids and I love it when they are with us. I also LOVE getting the opportunity to sleep in a little later than normal when we don't have the kids with us.
This weekend Rory is home with no kids and I am working all weekend. I am not sure he knows what he is going to do with no one around the house. It will be interesting to see how he feels by the end of Sunday.
Maybe I will make dinner in the crock pot for Sunday, that way when I get home from work, we can both have dinner. I have a culinary degree and I don't cook dinner nearly as much as I would like. Partially because I feel so confined in my kitchen. It's frustrating. I had a smaller kitchen before I moved here so I should be glad for the "extra" room. I still feel like I have no counter space. Part of the space is taken up by our microwave. I didn't pay attention to that fact that they didn't give us a microwave. (Oops!) While it's not something I use often, we do need it. We purchased a small one but it takes up a lot of room. I doubt I can find a way to find more counter space threre.
Because I am a cook, I have tons of kitchen stuff. When we combined my stuff and Rory's stuff, it got to be overbearing. I managed to get rid of a few items. But, I didn't want to get rid of things I would actually use. Problem is, again small kitchen means not much cabinet space. I made it all fit, but you had to move 4 pans to get to the one you wanted. It drove Rory CRAZY. To help Rory, I cleaned out tons of things that I had stored in the kitchen (Items that I don't use very often). They will go in storage for now. He keeps trying to get me to put some more plate sets in storage. He doesn't understand why I need three different plate styles. I tried to explain that I didn't like using the same plate all the time. It's kind of like shoes. Women have 30 pairs of shoes (yes I do have that many) to match 30 different outfits (no I don't have that many). Yes, you could use some of those shoes with multiple outfits but the one pair looks better. (I think that went over his head)
I do feel bad and want him to feel comfortable walking into the kitchen. I know I can do some more organizing but it will take some work. Whoohoo another project for me to work on. We will see how that works out.
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