Last night Derek and I watched the movie, The Way We Were. It was good, however, I failed to see the reason they were together in the first place because they never were a good match. I was analyzing it, and Derek said, ‘They were never a good fit because of the way they were.’ They never changed. I am sure there are other critisisms of this story out there on the net.. and I will look it up today. That little kernel from Derek struck me as odd, as I am usually the one to think more about the meaning of things.
Random ramblings of a weary mommy
I can’t wait for school to start.
I said it.
There will be a resounding ‘Hooray’ from the parents on Monday morning here in Pearland. It will happen at 8 am. Listen for it.
It isn’t that our children are bad. Maybe I shouldn’t speak for all parents, but I am sure most feel the same way I do. You get engrossed in a magazine article? ‘Mommy Mommy. Come see what I did!’ You start dusting the living room? Mommy Mommy… come see me splash in the puddle on the sidewalk!’ You start doing *anything* and you hear… Mommy, Mommy, I’m hungry (thirsty, the dog is licking me, I want the dog in my room but she won’t follow me in there [smart dog]…) ARRGGHHHH
Dont get me wrong, I have enjoyed this Summer. We accomplished our goal for this Summer-learned how to swim independantly. Last year, it was learn to ride a bike and we did that one too. We are 2 for 2 on the Summer goals. We spent a million dollars at Space Center, read about 150 books, and practiced our midline grabbing. (you can ask me what that is if you dont know already) I am just DONE for this year. Summer goodbye.
With the coming of a new school year comes the promise of another holiday season. I am already thinking about how I want to decorate, the fun times that our little family have driving around our neighborhood looking at the lights, Thanksgiving. What will Ethan be for Halloween? Last year he had the BEST costume-a dinosaur. He said he wanted to be a toilet (of all things) this year-this will not come to pass if I have a word to say about it. It just isn’t kosher.
It has been a difficult day today. I just feel cranky. I really don’t know why. I just want to be alone. Not mad at anyone, I just need to decompress a bit.
My doctor sucks-and other random thoughts
My doctor sucks. I am never going back to her again. See, I got a clean bill of health and that is great news. Two pages of bloodwork… all normal. I’m happy about that, but that isn’t the issue. I went in initially to get paperwork together for a lap band procedure. She was upset and whispering to her assistant because she will be required to do MUCH more than she regularly does for my lap band doctor. ‘Scuse me for making you work… She said she would call me back today and I KNEW at the time she was looking me in my eyes and saying she would call back on Thurs… she wasn’t going to. It is 4:10 pm and she hasn’t called! Sucky doctor. I want so badly to go back to my old doctor. I miss him. Alas, he is too far away now. The search will continue….. I don’t think I’m going to get the lap band though. I will have some trouble qualifying. Jazzercise anyone? 
Derek just asked me, ‘If you had any super power-what would it be, and why?’
I would fly. I wouldn’t need to use a car… no gas. It would be 100 times faster with no stop lights and roads. Danger? Just fly away from it. Yes, i believe flying is superior to all super powers.
Derek said he is going to start a blog. I hope he lets me read it. It always fascinates me to read other’s blogs. You see things in them you didn’t see just ‘knowing’ them-if that makes sense.
Birthdays, birthdays…
Well today my brother had a birthday party. My ‘kid’ brother will be 30 tomorrow. I was recollecting my younger years here recently, and you know, I don’t really miss anything about my past to tell the truth. I am happier than I have ever been. I hated school, we lived in the country, so it wasn’t like I could just walk to my friends house two doors down. There was about a quarter miler between us and the next house. That sucked. I was chubby for most of my younger years-and I don’t care who you are-if you are a fat kid you are a teased kid. That sucked. So, no, I didn’t like growning up TOO much. I have very fond memories, of course, but growing up just sucks.
Anyway, Pete’s birthday was good. They BBQed and we had cake and ice cream.
I have to go to the doctor on Tues. She is going to go over my bloodwork. I don’t think I have anything wrong with me, but you never know. I always get a bit ansee (sp?) when getting results to any test that there might be an ‘unknown.’ I just walked in for a little checkup-but get so much more than I bargained for. I can imagine it now… ‘Laura, I am sorry to tell you that you have this really rare sort of blood condition that is only curable by drinking water blessed by a tibetian monk on Tuesdays with a vernal equinox. That will not happen for another 20 years. You will not be around that long.’ Crying from me ensues and life is shattered. Oh, I better not jinx myself.
Happy day
Yesterday Ethan and I went with Julia and Jayden to the neighborhood pool with Mom and Mary. Everyone had fun. We are very sad J and J will have to be going back to Washington this month. We will miss them.
I think I jinxed myself with the blog about the weather. There is a Tropical Storm hitting today..Eduardo, I think it is. Anyway, we are calling it the ‘Fail Storm’ because it is really not bad at all. As of this moment, the trees look like there is a light breeze making them sway with the wind… and of course it is drizzly and cloudy. NOT what you usually see with these things. I might get to the grocery store after all. I can then say. ‘I went grocery shopping in a tropical storm.’ Check that one off my life to do list. 
Mother Nature
What is the scariest experience you’ve had with Mother Nature?
The #1 scariest experience with Mother Nature I have had was during Tropical Storm Allison. It was during the 2nd coming of this storm, and it rained an rained while the ground was already saturated. I wasn’t living in Pearland, I was living in a God awful city at the time, and Ethan was about 6 months old. The water started getting higher and coming into the house at about 2 am or so. You feel powerless and it isn’t any feeling I would want to have again. Thank goodness Ethan slept through the whole thing. Everything turned out okay. I on’t even like to think about it, so I won’t go any further.
I have witnessed a few tornadoes-that is a bad feeling as well. You see this HUGE mass of clouds coming at you, and you are in awe of it, yet there is this feeling in the pit of your stomach that you need to just RUN.
During hurricane Alicia in 1983, the eye came right over us and I remember it was all dark and serene. A surreal feeling washes over you. I remember looking up into the sky, and birds were flying-no sound mind you. The winds were so strong, the rain water was being pushed under the walls of our house. My family rushed to towel it up, and being only 10 years old, I couldn’t keep up with my spot-compound this with my parents obvious concern, it was memorable. The electricity was off for a couple of days, and of course it was during the summer and it was HOT. Lucky for me, my dad had a generator, so we ran the fridge and my little black and white TV off it. We were hot but we had food and TV! We all slept in the livingroom-I’m not sure why exactly-but we did. School started (if I recall-it was my 5th grade year) a few days later and still some people had no electricity. No fun for them. Ours got turned on pretty fast. I recall my dad saying about 100 times, ‘It was all okay until the wind went the opposite direction after the eye passed.’ So I guess he attributes the damage done to his shop and what not on that.
Back to Town Center
My mom, brother, and Derek hadn’t been to the Town Center, so we all went this morning. It was HOT! TOO hot to be outdoors shopping. We were all sweaty by the time we got from one side to the other. The only thing we bought were some Yankee Candles. Even Pete (my brother) bought some. He gave the bag to my mom, as he didn’t want to walk holding a Yankee Candle bag. He said he is turning gay because he likes the smells. We all went out to lunch and ate at Los Cucos, and then we promised Ethan we’d get some ice cream, so we got TCBY too. After the jaunt finally to Circuit City, we all came home. All in all, it was a good day.
I had one of those embarrassing moments in Circuit City. I thought my brother was checking out still with his TV stand, and so I picked up the guitar for some Guitar Hero action. There I was, jamming to Pearl Jam’s Evenflow, and I look over-8 eyes were watching me. Pete, Ethan, Derek and Mom! They were all waiting for me to leave! I was so engrossed in the jam, I lost track of them! Embarrassing! heheheee
Mom told me I was killing the new tangerine tree. I don’t have a green thumb at ALL. I hope it lives. Poor thing. 
August
What are you most looking forward to in August?
I hate hate hot weather. Unfortunately, August has the hottest temperatures for the whole year. I like the fact that when August is OVER the hottest temps will also be going with it. I like that my brother will be turning 30 mid-month. I won’t feel so old when around him, not that it really comes up… but now we are in the same age bracket. He hasn’t gotten into my checkbox yet, however. You know the ones where you have to give your age on surveys? I graduated into the 35-44 box in February. That stinks, but it isn’t THAT bad really. I like that school will be starting. I love having Ethan here with me during the day-don’t get me wrong. I just get frazzled having to drive him to activities and keeping him busy all day… blah blah. It gets taxing. It makes me all the more happy to see my wonderful husband walk through the door at 4:30 though.
