Yes. For once, I feel no guilt in looking forward to the weekend. The girls get a breather from me and school and go to their dad’s and I am shutting down shop at 5pm on Friday and won’t be working until Monday morning. Because I am forcing myself to forget what I need to do and just kick back, enjoy Piano Man, spend some time with D who is coming home from NYC for the weekend…we’re all heading to the piano bar on Saturday night for a big shebang. Remember D’s auntie who loved a piano man once? Well, along with her, we’ve got a gang of about 8 going to belt a few out. Yes. I can’t wait. We’ll be shutting down the season with a bang.
I took a photo of the mural I painted at the elementary school the other day. I mean, that was yesterday. How I lose track of time WHEN I’M ON THE HELPDESK WITH APPLE AND MY REGISTRAR FOR FIVE HOURS ALL DAY! Yes, that was today.
I nearly cried when my helpdesk guy figured out the problem and actually FIXED it. And now, my new website is up, people can see my art. I can sell now. It looks good. I can stop stressing.
Seriously though, by the end of the second hour on the help chat thing with Apple, I was offering the guy cake. I told him “if you fix this for me, I will send you a cake.” He didn’t fix it. It was the THIRD guy, a few hours later, who gets the cake. I said to him “YOU GET CAKE! The last guy doesn’t get cake!”
I was choked up, I was so grateful. And then I went out into the sun and breathed for a bit before going up the street to pick the girls up from school.
And I was rewarded with love from them when they told me I was the nicest mommy in the world and how happy I must be today because I allowed them to watch tv after they did their homework. Banning tv since the weekend was the best thing I ever did.
Piano Man just let me know he found out that the apartment he is staying in while playing out of country in December and January, has wi fi. Which means, we can have ichat sex in desperate times. Just kidding. Okay, no I’m not. It will just be good to not be paying a fortune to talk on the phone while he is gone and to be able to talk to his face on my computer screen as I do now. What a difference it makes the long distance thing.
Last night I couldn’t sleep so I got on to Amazon and ordered the kids’ birthday and Christmas presents. You can buy anything on Amazon. Did you know that? ANYTHING. And I got what I needed, could track the spending, count things and look into details on things. I even got BLENDY PENS. (the girls have seen the informercial and keep asking me to buy them for them…I will never buy something from an 800 number off the television but I will order the same thing from Amazon.)
Lastly, our driveway was finished today, being paved. The guys doing it were great. They did a great job. As I was leaving the house to get the girls from school, the head dude, who owns the paving company, was getting ready to pack it in. They were finished with the job. I had given them the check an hour earlier. I went to thank them and he says to me “SO, HEY ARE YOU MARRIED?”
I was taken aback and said “um, no, not anymore!”
And he goes, “Well, you’re such a pretty lady! I should come up here for a drink sometime!”
This cracked me up because his business and home is about an hour and a half south of my town.
Yeah, right. Man.
And these were not guys who you wanted to be working throughout the day in your driveway without their shirts.
I have been reading you blog for a while. I think the picture is nice. I like how you painted the curtains to look like they are hanging there. I paint oil paintings. I have sold a few of my paintings but I have not painted for a while. It goes in spurts for me. Tell the driveway guy that you don’t drink if he ever shows up. Those guys probably drink a lot. I was once married to a concrete guy. All he did was drink. I divorced him.
The mural looks great. Enjoy the weekend with Piano Man.
that’s a pretty ‘window’! 🙂 and you big flirt- 😉
it’s so hot here and i have two weeks off from tennis coming up…i’m thinking.
Your going to pass up an opportunity to date a man who works with his hands as opposed to one that “plays” with his hands?
Have fun this weekend.
I’m picturing the hilarity that could ensue, if you were on hold with tech support somewhere, and you started having isex chat with Piano Man to help pass the time, and then you got all mixed up, and before you knew it, you were giving a virtual bl** job to the man at Apple.
Good for you for looking forward to the weekend without guilt. Sounds like you have a great weekend ahead of you – enjoy!
I’m ROFL at Joclyn’s post!
I love the painting of the window. :O) I’d like to have one of those in my baby’s room. She has a big window…but two big walls I’m not sure what to do with. A watercolor window would be great.
Yay for the downtime! Enjoy your D and Piano Man this weekend!
I’ve not heard of Blendy Pens, so I clicked on the commercial. I am so glad that commercial isn’t over here. How very annoying!
But I probably would have wanted Blendy Pens when I was 7 too.
Your window is a very girlie bathroom window! So much nicer than a boarded up window. Well done!
Cool mural. Have a great last weekend with the Piano Man at the piano bar. We’ll understand if you don’t come up for air for a few days while your girls are gone.
I love the way the paving guy just says he should come have drinks with you. As if you’re desperate or something. lol. He couldn’t say, “Gosh, you sure are pretty *and* smart! Would you care to have a drink with me sometime?”
I hope you enjoy the weekend with your friends and loved ones. You deserve it!
My children and I have been painting watercolors this week and each time I think of you! 🙂
NIce. You still got it. Perhaps you could offer him some phone sex too?
I love the window that you painted. I worked as a cook at a daycare a numer of years ago. The kitchen was in the middle of the building, so no windows but there was a huge bulletin board on one wall. I used butcher paper over it and turned into a graden window with a huge tree canopy hanging into the view. I used the kids handprints to create leaves on the tree. The little handprint leaves would change color throughout the year as the teachers had kids paint throughout the seasons. That was so much fun to do.
I am still in the process of organizing my life enough right now so that I can do the creative things that I want to do. The way you have your life organized. All of the moments that you are able to capture ~ they are inspiring.
You sound like you are doing very well; I can hear the smile in your writing. :o)
I am glad that you are looking forward to the weekend. I am late tot eh party but, I hope it was a good break.
The blendy pens are pretty neat. I found them at Wal-Mart of all places and got them for my girls last weekend. They really enjoyed them.