MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

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--DH has been in London this week, teaching a class, so I've had 9 days of being the single mother. It's been a long week. I mean, it's not so bad with the kids being ages 12, 15 and 15 as it would have been when they were 1, 4 and 4, not the physically and emotionally exhausting work that it was back then. But still, it's a whole 'nother mind set. If something is going to get done, it's gonna be me doing it or me enforcing one of the kids to do it. There's no back up, no one else to take or deflect the energy kids give off. I don't know how single moms do it all the time!

--Jinx the cat developed his Catulence again, very stinky gas that clears a room. It wasn't quite as bad as at Xmas time, but he hasn't been eating well so I decided to have the vet see about it. One $26 bag of poop
and $31 in medicine later, he is starting to smell better. But since I'm the single mom this week, I've had to deal with giving the cat pills myself. Gee, I hate this! When DH is home, one of us can hold the cat firmly and the other shoves the bitter pill down his throat. I've tried having the older kids help, but they really can't hold the cat firmly enough. So I wrap him like a burrito in a blanket and do my best, but somehow even though I'm opening his jaws and shoving the pill deep and closing his mouth firmly, he's getting the pill spit out. And then he starts drooling and spitting all over the floor because he's tasted the pill. So I don't know how much he's actually ingesting of these pills, but he isn't stinking anymore. Sigh!

--Just got done having a boys' sleepover last night. Younger DS has wanted to have a "party" and invite 4 friends over for the night. Since Spring Break started yesterday, we got the party over with (and only 3 boys could come, which helped). It really wasn't too bad. They played video games, watched a movie, played ambush with giant nerf guns (more like machine guns). It was too rainy to go outside but they did go out for a few mintues at 11 pm. They woke up and had pancakes and I got to listen to some talk about school and girls and stuff. They're a good group of kids and DS is very happy he got to have his party. I'm glad it's done!

--I'm looking into starting to do freelance writing for businesses. We are needing me to make some income, and I just don't think I could make much money doing a job with my skills, which tend to be more writing/editing based. They really just don't pay writers or editors much in the job world, but businesses do hire freelance copywriters since they do not want to have them on staff anymrore. I'm nervous because I really haven't had to market myself and put myself out there in this way for over 15 years. But I think I can do this. Riight now I'm trying to figure it out, reading some stuff, working on a more business-like website, business cards, that type of stuff. Wish me luck! Or let me know if you have any connecitons.

-- NOw it's time for me to figure out what to do with the rest of spring break. We have all next week off. I want to go to the science museum, since we have a membership we haven't used much and the Omnifest is happening there (a bunch of Omnitheatre movies there at once). But what else to do?

That's it for now!

Posted by sapphire at March 31, 2007 12:49 PM