Tuesday, March 18, 2014

In Which I Concede Defeat

The whole family - after having the Doomful Colds of Woe all winter, during all of which I couldn't breathe and therefore couldn't exercise- came down with pinkeye last month - one at a time, for a total of a month.  Yes, most pinkeye is viral; ours was bacterial.  Apparently we are an ideal culture medium. For a March special, we've all gotten strep throat.

Bug was screaming and hitting and kicking the car today (he does this almost every day and I am exceedingly tired of it and yes, I have tried changing everything about this situation that can be changed, but he and Tatoe must be in the car, and we must drive home, and it will take at least five minutes, which is apparently four minutes too long) and I whacked him on the leg and now I feel terrible.  Also I kind of want to never pick him up from school again.  It's getting better, but WINTER.

I need to go exercise.  I feel terrible.  I need a house.  There are no suitable houses for sale at present.  I probably need to eat lunch.  I'm not hungry.

Winter, you win.  I throw in the towel.  Wake me when it's over.

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  1. I so hear you! On Sunday I just gave up...I can't take it anymore! I'm just sick of trying to come up with things to do on the weekends. I just want it to be warm enough that we can just go to the park!

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    1. Little kids + cold weather = misery. It was 65 here on Saturday and we took them to the park/river three times! Now it's going to snow again.

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  2. That does sound exhausting. I know why I don't miss German winters, for the most part...
    For the car, is there a way you could take someone else, like one of his friends, along, or their parents take him every now and then? I remember my parents complaining how we were so much better behaved with other adults than with them... and if a friend is around, he might either be distracted or perhaps a bit more in control. Although I suppose this could go wrong in all sorts of ways, so I understand if you think this isn't a good plan after all. Maybe come spring he can run home to burn off some extra energy?

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    1. That is an excellent idea - for when we finally buy a minivan. Currently the Honda Civic seats two carseats and two adults. Alas. They ARE much better with other people in the car. Ha ha ha ha running home. I can only wish. (There's no sidewalk. Oh, the South.)

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  3. 1. You all have no luck in the disease department. Have you tried herbal supplements to boost your immune system? (Jk, of course!)
    2. Constant tantrums really DO make you want to smack your child! Ask me how I know... I find guilt to be a rather useless emotion, so I apologized to C1 once we calmed down, thought about how I could avoid his tantrum and my anger response, and moved on. With the weight loss stuff recently, I find I'm really crabby when I'm hungry (who knew?!). I need to be careful to eat.
    3. Exercise: just go do it, you'll feel better. But eat first. Perhaps reward yourself with wine afterwards?
    4. I hope you find a suitable house soon. Perhaps more will come on the market with the imminent arrival of spring?

    Meanwhile, in Cold City, mud season has arrived! There is hardly any snow anywhere, the children were playing outside without jackets or shoes yesterday, and we've seen robins! The city compost site opens March 31st, as does the local nursery's bare-root sale. Tomorrow's high is 29 degrees, but it will be sunny, and I'm going to take cuttings from an apple tree. Winter is in it's death throes.

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    1. I'm sure you would NEVER smack your child (have you ever noticed when people say "I would NEVER" it usually means their child is younger than yours?).

      The unable-to-breathe is what's impeding the exercise - I tried once when I felt like this and had to leave after 10 minutes of stabbing-in-lungs feelings. But I did go Friday!

      MOAR HOUSES. And moar mud. What kind of apple tree are you taking cuttings? Grafting it? Woo-hoo!

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    2. Hmm, stabbing-in-lungs would discourage me from exercising, too.

      I took cuttings from a friend's parents' apple tree. I suspect it to be a seedling, it's pretty old and rather unlike other apples I've seen/read about. It's smallish (perhaps 3" across), very red, early (mid-August in zone 4), not bothered by insects or disease, not a keeper. It makes fantastic pink applesauce. I happen to have two rootstocks in my backyard to graft on to, not to mention a few crabapples in my yard. The cuttings are chilling in the fridge until it's grafting time in May.

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    3. Iiiiiinteresting. You know what they need? Some kind of ribosomal (or whatever) barcoding for frigging apple trees because nobody ever knows what variety anything is. I bet it's somewhere in that local orchard's enormous list, though they don't list applesauce color as a characteristic; I'll have to mention it to them, I'm sure they'd TOTALLY be willing... if you ever come here in late August bring some fruit and leaves and we'll see if they can identify them! Now THAT could be seriously entertaining.

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