Let the Talking Begin.

It's 8am, the dog wines. Rolling out of bed I struggle into my pants and shirt. Hook up the leash and taker her out side. Hmm... Mike's door is open, he's in the bathroom. I wait patiently for him to come out. Telling him that his mom is sleeping, so he need to wait in the living room or his bedroom until I get back inside. Not to knock on our door. The dog and I go out side, she does her business. As we come back into the house I get 'DAD? Can I play my power rangers game?" I tell him I don't know, he has to wait for me to move the dogs create, and let her into the livingroom. His response, "Ok, but can I play my power rangers game?" Down the hall I go to get the oversized crate, and back into the living room I struggle to the chant of, "Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad, Dad"

Set the crate down, "Can I play power rangers?"
"No, have to eat breakfast first."
"I'm not hungry."
"doesn't matter you have to eat first, you can wait, but you're not playing until you eat."
"Ok, Can I have waffles?"
"Sure, what kind?"
"Strawberry"
Move to the kitchen to make the waffles, the whole time he's talking to me in the background.

It is now 12:20, he has not stopped speaking for more then 30 seconds at a time. Just long enough to take a deep breath and start again. Even in the bathroom he yells so I can hear him.

It's 7:30am...

It's 7:30 in the morning an I'm up and about, Mike woke me for a PB&J sandwich. After two days of not eating can you blame him? I'd probably kill for one by then. I hate being tired, it's the most annoying thing I can think of, yawning all the time. I can hear the dog wandering around in her crate in the bed room. She's probably wondering when I'll come get her and taker her out side. Cam is still in bed, not yet awake to face the new day, or awake to take Mike to school.

Sleepy...

Down with the sickness....

I hate being sick. Started feeling ill about noon yesterday, wasn't too bad just an upset stomach. Spent the day watching over Mike who was really sick, he spent the whole day on the couch playing video games, and just feeling like crap. Around 5pm he started throwing up again, and around 9pm I started in. Though it only happened once to me.

He slept through the night, only getting up once about 3am to get sick. But after that he was out until six when he woke up complaining of his knees hurting. Not much we could do about it, with is stomach the usually cure of Milk was out of the question. I put him back to bed where he slept till about 8:30. Currently he is playing powerrangers, seems to keep him feeling better. I on the other hand felt fine until I started moving around, now I feel like crap. It's starting again like it did last night. Hope I don't get sick again...

Just got off the phone with DTE, our service will be transferred from Jen's to My name. In this way we can avoid paying the outstanding bill run up from the last house, the one that wasn't us, but we are still getting billed for. We will have to pay it at some point, but now at least we can wait for my work to pick back up. Hope it works out ok.

Birthday Party...

It was Audrey's first birthday party, and it was fun.

Pizza and Cupcakes where yummy, as was the eggs... too many eggs....

Isn't she cute folks?

Magic The Gathering....

Cam and I went up to the hospital to play magic with Jen tonight. It was fun. We got a few good games in, and got to meet some of her co-workers. Maybe we can make it a weekend thing?

Any way, it's 4am, and I'm off to bed.

The boy and the dog.

I sit here watching the boy play with the dog, or rather I sit here watching the boy pick up the dog toy and throw it, then run away from the dog when she tries to bring it back. He really want to play with her, but he'd rather do it from another room if he could. We're burned out on transformers, or rather I'm burned out on transformers. We played transformers from 10am till 2pm with a short break for lunch. One can only take so much before he begins to crack.

The damn dog is getting worse at listening, I swear she listened better before we trained her. Now you have to tell her to do something five or six times before she does. Doesn't seem like anything we do helps her listen, maybe I should resort to using my hand...

Headache getting worse, sun coming out, flaming ball of death evil...

Head hurts...

This perpetual headache is starting to get on my nerves. I could deal with it if it was painful, but it's not, it's just annoying. It's one of those things that is just there to annoy you with out causing any real pain.

Blah.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AUDREY

Life is like a body building elf....

It's amazing how bored you can get just sitting at home doing nothing. Was having fun earlier playing Magic with the wife, but that ended after a few games. She just got called into work on her day off, so I guess I'll be home alone again. I'll probably just take my book and head to bed. Read can be fun, if done right. Of course, I'm reading this book for like the fifth time. Other then that it's been life as usual. No work, collecting unemployment, but at least the checks show up on time, as opposed to last year when they didn't show up. At least we are not drowning in debt again, that is kind of nice.

Magic...

We've been teaching Jen to play magic. I think it's going well. It's nice to have something we are able to do together in the house that isn't watching movies. I gave her two of my decks, and made one just for her. After a few games she had ideas on how to improve the deck I made for her. With a few changes it seems to be an effective, if slow deck.

I enjoy playing with her and Cam, though I lose almost every game because they attack me. I think it's too early to tell if she enjoys it or not. It'll be nice if she does.

Today David came over and we played two games. It wasn't that much fun for me. Jen looked like she was bored out of her mind through the whole thing. I think perhaps it was a bad choice of decks. Terry and Jen want to come over during the week to play, that could be cool. Hopefully all goes well.

Now, if we can find a way to get her to sleep, so she is well rested we'll be doing great. Insomnia must suck a lot.

Sickness.

It's always hard to have someone sick on the household. To see them suffering and not be able to do anything to ease it. I wish there was something I could do, even if it was only for a few hours of peace. But it dosn't seem likely. 

Hopefuly she'll be better in a few days.

Monopoly...

I just got my butt wooped in Monopoly. It was fun, it was sponge, it was bob...

My throat is killing me...

We are going into week two of the sore throat. I hope that it will feel better soon, I'd like it to not hurt when I swollow anything, even water.

Tired...

Soo tired. Need to sleep. Lots of sleep.

Soon...

Happy Brithday Mike...

That's it, I'm done.

The living room and dining room are clean. I'm done, not cleaning any more today.

First person to set something on the back of the couch, or on the chase is going to get a boot to the head.

Party Time...

The dishes are done, for the most part. I wish it didn't take two hours every time I did them. Of course, if I didn't wait two weeks it would be quicker.

Time for a quick break, then on to the living room. That should only take me 20 mins I hope.

M'ungry.

M'hungy...

Stillwater good.

This is a test...

This is a test of the emergency widget system.

I sit here...

I sit here two feet from my wife, her on her mac, and me on mine. It is a strange thing to be so close to someone, yet so far away. She is configuring her computer, the settings to be fixed. I just stair at her. Watching her work. Wondering if she'll look this way.

Mmm taxes...

The taxes have come in. We have the new Mac... It's shiney... or so I'm told.

M'ungry...