7 Quick Takes

Last updated on: November 3, 2015 at 12:29 pm by Anne Kennedy

7 Quick Takes 2015-11-03T12:29:44-04:00 Anne Kennedy

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One

There is SO Much snow and its still coming down at a good clip. Have been thinking all kinds of snarky things like, ‘Al Gore must be in town’, and ‘Praise God for Global Warming’ and….well, basically just how much I hate cold weather and that its not that pretty. No one else shares my feelings. All my children are in love with it. Yuck.

Two

Spent Thursday entirely in bed entirely in pain. My left ear has always had something funny about it but usually this sort of thing only happens when I fly. (Maybe its climate change! heh) Amazed to find myself feeling really lonely for my kids, but not so lonely as to assemble them around me. Poor Matt coped with everything and listened to me complain, by text.
‘Pain Horrible, require soup’ and
‘Pain Horrible, please remove child from me’ and
‘Can’t cope with pain, don’t you care at all?’
These were just some of my many texts all day.

Three

Am having an increasingly hard time listening to NPR. Offended almost every day. Whatever day Terry Gross was talking about the Tea Party Movement I had to turn it off. Of course, of course the best way to understand something you strongly disagree with is to get someone who agrees with you to explain it to you. Then the two of you can wonder and be amazed that anyone, like a Tea Party supporter, could be so stupid. Turned off Morning Edition just now because of the manner in which they were talking about James Dobson, again with wonder and disdainful disbelief. Oh, and yesterday the evening program had a whole segment about ‘Fundamentalist Christians’ in Congress and how they have a special house or something to meet in. Its the tone of voice I can’t stand, and the stupid questions asked, and the underlying premise. Need to just plug in the ipod in the morning instead of turning on the radio.

Four

Felt angry with MCJ for not posting one day this week. Rely on him to Post Every Day, especially if I’m suffering through trying to listen to NPR.

Five

Had a long two hour showdown with Gladys on Tuesday. She looked me in the eye and said, ‘Get me more milk, Anne.’
To which I replied, ‘You call me Mommy. You say, please may I have some milk, Mommy’.
She then dissolved into an immediate and sudden tantrum. I shortened the requirement to just ‘Yes Mommy’.
‘Say Yes Mommy’ I said over and over while she screamed.
‘Do I have to say Yes Mommy?’ She would scream. ‘Maggie is in the kitchen.’
‘I know Maggie is in the kitchen, say Yes Mommy.’
Round and round for hours while she cried and pointed out unhelpful things.
Finally won.

Six

For Lent Matt signed us up for Netflix so that at night we can sit side by side with our separate computers watching separate movies. Its so cool. I love Lent.

Seven

I did give something up, though. I gave up the very addicting game on my phone. So now while I’m listening to the Bible in the morning, I have to play plain old Majong. I’m really loving Leviticus and Numbers. The list of gifts for the consecration of the altar in Numbers 7 is so soothing.

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