Another long week has come and gone. Monday I did a lot of organizing here in the house. There were things that I knew that had been put downstairs and pieces were at the trailer as well as elsewhere. So Monday I got some of that all together, sorted though it, catagorized it, put it into a better system so now I know better what I have. While I was moving totes around, I whacked one of my knees really well. Even now at times if I am sitting with that leg folded under me, I limp when I first get up because it just aches.
Could be worse....
Tuesday the girls and I went to get our hair cut. Oh my goodness, Pumpkin and Parrot got it cut really short. In fact, Parrot's hair curls right under her chin, but it's so cute! It makes her big beautiful eyes look even bigger, if that is possible... Monkey opted to continue to have her hair long so she could have it braided and put in pony tails. I'm actually glad I have one that enjoys having her hair long and it looks great on her. As much as I like Pumpkin's, it's just not quite right to me, but I'd never say anything to anyone. Everyone else says its awesome, but I don't know.... There's just something to it. It's nice, but...
Wednesday, Pumpkin had her friend over. Brit is a sweetie and I'm really glad that she is feeling at home here. But one of the problems is that she is REALLYYYYY feeling at home here and now her little wild child side is showing. I really do want to be the "fun and cool" mom, yet at the same time I need respect for the house rules. I have to learn what works and what doesn't as I have never been in this situation before. Wednesday was a bit of a struggle because all four girls were just... hyper.... By 2:00 all I wanted was to sit down for awhile, but I just couldn't, which stressed me out and the chaos really started getting to me. Finally I literally kicked everyone outside to the back yard with drinks and snacks and told them not to come back in for awhile. It was a perfectly beautiful day and they had the tent to play in, the swing set, the sand box, bikes....They were fine. I did have just enough time to sit and read for about 10 minutes before the "I need..., I want, Can I... the crying... the "She hit me" and more crying, the whining, the "I spilt my juice..." and everything began. I have to admit, I was glad when it was time to drop Brit off at home. I slept really, really well Wednesday night...
Yesterday Little Brother, Sis in law and Abby came for another overnighter. Little Brother had two really important meetings yesterday and today down here that he had to attend and so it was just easier to stay overnight. This afternoon while everyone was out, Sis in law and I had the run of the household and we had a great chat. Adult conversation with a really, REALLY nice person. It was wonderful. Or, at least, I sure hope she's the nice person I think she is 'cause we got kind of personal. One thing she admitted was that she feels rather intimidated by Mom C and just doesn't quite "get" her. She likes her and all, but feels a bit overwhelmed. I apologized because I didn't really have any great advice for her except to just accept Mom C the way she is and love her anyway. She even still overwhelmes me sometimes!!!!
And now for the uh-oh part of the post. It figures that it had to happen when I was using it, but this morning, I turned on the Mac which I usually do, turned on iTunes, started playing a soft easy morning song list that I had recently made and then, when it got busy, I paused iTunes. When I came back, it was late morning and I wanted something else so when I went back to the computer, I heard a strange clicking noise. I discovered it was coming from the computer itself and in trying to figure it out, the computer froze, then went blank. Honey was looking at it tonight and said that the hard drive is fried.
He can't deal with it tonight, but oh no... please, not that. I have information I need on that hard drive. I was working on a story on that computer.... I have music on that computer that I can't get back.... oh crap.... iTunes and my iPod is one of the tools I use to mellow out and destress. I charged my iPod on that computer. Although I have a lot of my music backed up, a lot of music that I borrowed from friends and that which I downloaded from the past few months would be gone if I tried to synch my iPod with another computer. If the hard drive can't be fixed, I fear the worst.
Next week is probably going to mimic this one. Monday my Mom will be here, Tuesday, Brit is back over and I'm taking the girls out for a picnic on the beach if the weather cooperates. Wednesday, we pack for Labor Day at Mom C and Papa's beach cottage and will be gone until next Monday. I am yawning already.... It's gonna be a long week....
Okay then.... perhaps I should try and start trying to get some sleep NOW so that I can hopefully make it through next week.
Cheers! ~MacKenzie
Honey did feel really bad about me loosing basically a huge portion of our music collection. Even though I had only gotten an iPod last year, we've had iTunes for as long as we've had this Mac computer, which was roughly 8 years. For over 8 years a song here, a song there added up to close to 500 songs. From my own personal listening, to his own music tastes (which in some cases are like black and white from mine), to finding fun kids songs for the girls, we did use it a lot. In fact, iTunes was on AT LEAST 4 times a week over the past 8 years. 
And so now that he sees that I get what he is thinking, he asks if there's something I need to confess to him. "Well," I told him, "I make it a policy never to have sex on the beach and tell...." 
Okay, okay.... it is a little TOOOO early to think Christmas..... I'll stick with Fall. 
