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Retro-retrospection - 2008-10-06
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9:25 p.m. - 2005-05-19
So yeah, my kid will be home in 2 days. Once again I warned both Alex and Mike that I am NOT negotiating, brokering, explaining, or running interference between them. Mike and Alex have never spoken the same language. Alex thinks his father is an unrelenting hard ass workaholic and Mike thinks Alex is weak willed slacker. They're both right. Because each had a valid case I thought it best to try and keep things smooth. For a while. But they never stopped! Snipe, bitch, whine. Drove me mad. When Alex was a senior I quit being the middleman. I thought 18 years of explaining one to the other was enough. It was time for them to learn to talk to each other without a translator. This has not been a successful venture. They still try to put me in the middle. "What are you telling me for? Go talk to him!" used to be my standard response, but this was ignored and the complaints rolled on. So now I have to use silly dramatic school yard tactics. I have resorted to going, "Lalalala I can't hear you!" when one of them stomps into my office to complain about the other. Fathers and sons. Sheesh. We need rain. Badly. I went out to do some planting today and the formerly loamy earth in the back garden was like cement. Ran the soaker hose all afternoon. Around 6:00 I went out to work a bag of soil into the back garden and still could hardly get the trowel into it. Dang. I churned everything up as best I could and ran the hose some more. Ended up with a slurry of mud. I'll see what I have in the morning. Hopefully I haven't made adobe. The perennial bed wasn't quite so baked. Put in snap dragons, the butterfly bush and the wee wisteria. Also watered and fertilized the tiered planting beds. The pansies show no sign of slowing down. The peppers look a little runty. I hope the food and extra watering helps. The naturalized plantings (ie: the stuff that was already here) are doing well. The poppies are up and opening. There's a gazillion lily-of-the-valley along the side of the house. Runs right beneath the kitchen window. I leave the window open all night. When I come downstairs in the morning it smells like heaven. I picked a few stems and have them in a bud vase here on my desk. I can smell them even above the stenchy ashtray. Nice. I don't like floral based perfumes or air fresheners. Always go with spicy scents. But real flowers I enjoy. I've got lilacs parked in the bedroom and dining room. Ummmm…. I've been managing to get off my butt more and have cut my eating way back. No real results yet. At least that I can see. Still way too blobby around the middle. Have to get into the pilates again. It's hard. Being busy and working out still feel like chores. The diet has gotten easier though. The cravings are disappearing. Made sure I had plenty of quick easy stuff of the non-junk food variety. Always keep a bowl of salad in the fridge. Now when I need to nosh I have better things than popcorn and vanilla wafers. Guess that's it. I'm boring right now. But sometimes boring is good. It makes a nice change from all this hormonal upheaval recently. Just a nice calm day piddling in the garden and spiffing the house. Peaceful, ~LA
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