Couldn’t get my sorry ass out of bed for my run this morning. Guess I’ll have to suck it up on Mother’s Day. Things are going well at work. Took Christina to dance, texted a little with Siggi, sat with Robin while she worked on her Ferrari, watched the Knicks game with Billy. I have to get up early for digging tomorrow, but it’s already 11pm. Where the hell does the time go?
Tag: legos
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March 19
Made it back to Jacksonville. We hit next to no traffic until we hit Jacksonville city limits, and then it was traffic the rest of the way home. Welcome home. We got pizza from Renna’s and it was delicious. Christina isn’t feeling well. Some kind of stomach issue. I wish we could help her, but I feel like these digestive things just have to run their course. Poor kid.
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September 5
The last few days have been brutal. Work is stressful and then I am exhausted all evening. Today’s big accomplishment was putting together what I hope is a compelling proposal to do some meaningful hiring on my team. Time will tell. Robin and I spent 20 minutes cleaning up all the poop in the dining room, which Pinot clearly believes is his own personal toilet, but then we built these penguins together. I love spending time with my family – truly more than anything else on earth. I still want to throw up because yo, all the fucking poop, but also I’m happy because we made a fucking penguin. We rule.
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August 11
Today was the girls’ first day back to school. Christina seemed to have a better day than Robin, or at least it seemed that way by the time we got to the dinner table. I offered to take everyone out for ice cream to celebrate, but both ice cream shops we went to were closed. Go figure. So I made chocolate chip cookies instead. Guess that goes down as a win.
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July 30
I remember once when I was about 8 or 9, my mom and I sat on the front porch of our house watching a thunderstorm. We watched it roll in, pour, and then roll away, leaving that eerie green haze that thunderstorms often leave behind. It was both exhilarating and soothing and it completely changed my perspective on thunderstorms. From that moment on, I loved them. It stormed tonight, and instead of continuing with my day, I turned off the TV and sat and watched it like I did all those years ago with my mom. It was a good one with sheets and sheets of rain, lots of lightning and loud, booming thunder, wind tossing the leaves on the trees. I enjoyed it, and I enjoyed the memory. It brought on waves of gratitude, that I have this wonderful house to provide protection, that I have a garden to enjoy the rain, that I have a family to share it with, that I have a job to make it all possible… As hard as life is, it has its beauty. For this I am also grateful.
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