I was driving back to Waukesha last night and thinking about my virtues. I don't guess that I have all that many, but I do have one, I am able to change. Like someone says I should do something differently, and I pretty much just do. Though I still have some lapses, of course.
Like this: Karla had complained that I never did dishes. So I started doing them at least once when I was there. During the Christmas break I was there two weeks and did them several times, the first week, and during Karla's illness a couple times, but towards the end of the time I slacked off, and then left a pile of them when I left. Not cool of me. The hardest thing about going up there was always leaving, and I couldn't get myself to do dishes that last night.
Sad because I'd joked earlier that all I really needed to do was daily dishes and I'd be the most valuable member of the household. Lol.
Some story.
Anyway, Nathan called last night. Lost his backpack and his Mom thought he might have left it up North. He didn't, he'd brought his stuff in a hefty bag instead this last time. We talked for awhile and he reminded me of me so much, talking about how he might have left it somewhere and was walking right past it all the time now. Absent-minded like his father. He asked where his boots were, and I said, you wore them home! Then he said: Guess I'm not the sharpest tool in the box. Funny. He can be the most wonderful kid sometimes.
So at the house, I shovelled the driveway, and pet the dog. Talked to my Mom for a minute. Thinking about how we had to put off Christmas because Karla had the flu. My Mom still has all the decorations up, and I noticed some of the little things she'd done for that day. Made me really sad. Bunch of gifts under the tree, little odds and ends for the kids. I wished there'd been a way to work something out at the time other than leaving Karla home, but I couldn't think of one. Maybe sometime soon.
Stayed off Ebay, though it was hard. But the only way is cold turkey. I have some auctions ending on Friday, but I don't have to look until then. So I won't. Nothing I dislike more than having someone say I'm addicted to something, and then realizing that they are probably right. Sucks when someone knows you that well. Then again, it can be a really good thing too.
Btw, how come it snowed in Milwaukee and Waukesha but not in Menominee? What a rip!
See you tomorrow!
CZ
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