Hug Twice

I am not as big a wuss as I thought.

Because the bad news is, I am sick.  Bah.  It seems I have gotten sick more this past winter/spring than I have my whole life before this.  I even had to have Matt come home from work at lunchtime yesterday and take care of the kids so I could lie in bed and moan.

Although I only moaned for about 14 seconds before I fell asleep for three hours.  That means I really am sick.

Hopefully today will be an improvement.

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I find it easy to convince myself that I am giving 100% even when in reality, I’m not.  I ran into that at taekwondo last night.  I was tired, I hadn’t gotten enough sleep and I found myself not pushing myself very hard during our warmup.  I thought I was trying but really I was just going through the motions and doing the minimum.

So I started talking to myself, reminding myself “100% effort, 100%” and I stepped it up.  But, in my tired state, I then overcompensated for, and pushed myself too hard, therefore feeling bad the rest of class and basically the rest of the night.  If you are beating the 17 year olds at the wind sprints, you are probably going at it too hard and not saving anything for later.  I did break all three of my boards first try with no issue though.  I just need to be able to balance effort with endurance.

Ah, I hate getting old sometimes.  I think I should go take a nap.

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CJ’s favorite place has always been the zoo.  From the first time we took him at just shy of a year old, he had just loved everything about it.  The animals, the paths, wandering at his own pace - he has always been a fan.

And now I am experiencing the problem of being “fair” to my second child.  CJ got to do the zoo at his own pace.  Now, CJ tries to force Alexa to do the zoo at *his* pace.  A common refrain I now hear every time we are there is “I need to go *faster*”.

This weekend, for a while, at the zoo we split up.  Matt and CJ went through  the Indonesia area, while Alexa and I stayed with the ponies and watched them.  Alexa was fascinated with the ponies.  She stared at them, she reached out to them, she loved them.  Then she pulled off a shoe and chewed on that for a while.  Then we started through the Indonesia area backwards, so we would meet Matt and CJ somewhere in the middle.

It was a nice little break.  However, when i take them both myself, I have to balance the “I want to go FASTER” with Alexa’s need to stop at every turn.  So it may not be so relaxing.  Since CJ asks every day to go to the zoo, I somehow doubt we’ll be able to confine it to a weekend-only activity.

But it was nice for a day.

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Buying a new furnace was not high on the list of things I wanted to do this month.  But, since our old furnace became possessed with spirits who wanted it to run randomly and constantly, something had to happen.

It is funny, because purchasing this furnace, even though it is a whole lot of money and I had so many other things I wanted to do with said money, has really made me more happy than sad.  The furnace is pretty, our ducts are all cleaned (and no one got mad about the painted-over registers) and I feel like we made an important addition to our house and our long term happiness here.

And, it is energy efficient. 

Ah, I love the planet. 

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So, I have a confession to make.  We have someone coming today to install a new furnace, and part of that is they will clean our existing vents.  I have meant to have this done (the cleaning vent part) since we moved in, and haven’t yet.  But today, we do.

So last night, I had to find all our vents.

We’re not well behaved about the vents.  If they were in an inconvenient place, I simply closed them up and put my furniture where I wanted it.  In fact, there is still one trapped behind my desk, and I hope they just say they’ll skip cleaning it out, because, well… I don’t want to move my desk.  At all.

I don’t know how vents get cleaned, so i don’t know if this is possible.  But, I did move everything away from the rest of the vents.  So maybe no one will realize we just do whatever we want.

I’m not really looking forward to this at all.  But I am looking forward to the new furnace, at least.  Since our current furnace has decided to be possessed by something and turn on and off at will without any input from us, it’ll be nice to have some control again.

I hope the people don’t get irked about the vents.

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