Diligent, I am not

Wow, not an entry since September. That blows. Let's try to catch up the last 2 months.

Work has been a nightmare but with accounting/finance, that is expected. Each quarter is a mess and then throw the damn budget on top of it all and you might as well just screw the holidays. Oh well, tis the season.

My daughter has loose teeth. She is almost seven so she has lost teeth before but OMG, I cannot stand wiggly teeth. It is one of the grossest things I have ever seen. Plus, she likes to smile at you and then use her tongue to start pushing the tooth back and forth just for kicks. AAUGH. I send her away every time she tries it. Oh, she knows that it disgusts me, and usually she's pretty good about only showing her father, but she is seven....

My son is almost 4. He is in a stage of becoming the 'big kid'. He talks like he's older and is acting more mature (as mature as a 4 year old can be) but he is also into the stage of "Only Daddy makes me happy". This is fine because for a long time it was the "Only Mommy" stage and I loved it. I guess Daddy needs some time as well. One thing he does is takes swim lessons. The funny part is that when he swims, he only uses his right arm. The other one kind of moves under the water but he has no interest in letting it help move him through the water. He thinks it is funny though and just laughs. I wonder if he will be laughing in 12 years when he is still in the Three - Level Three class with the other 3/4 year olds only swimming in a counterclockwise circle...or would it be clockwise. Not the point.

In case anyone is a college football fan, the Kansas Jayhawks are #3 in the country (according to the BCS poll). KU is getting a lot of grief for this in that, admittidly so, they have a fairly weak schedule this year, but for goodness sakes, they are still #3 and, damn it, I'm gonna talk it up for as long as I can. They haven't been out of the cellar in years. Good for them. And by the way, Coach Mangino is gonna have a coronary soon if he doesn't lay off of the alfredo sauce. And, he is a sporting coach, I find it odd, but I try not to judge....to much. I would put in a link to one of his gigantic pictures, but I don't know how so just google it if you are interested.

As you can see, I haven't done much of interest in the last 2 months.

My friend is still pregnant. She is beginning the phase of "Holiday Guilt" and she hasn't even had the kid yet. It gets worse. Do you spend the holidays in a hotel to make yourself and your immediate family more comfortable and less stressed, or do you stay at the grandparents and endure the stress that happens at every grandparents house, or do you stay at the sister's house so the kids and their cousins that they see once a year can play together more but then you endure the stress of the grandparents being upset that they aren't with the grandkids all of the time during the holidays. Sigh. It is a no-win situation, but you love your family so you go through it every year.

Ok, time to budget some more. I'll update in another couple of months! Happy Holidays!