Friday Confessions
What, wait, it’s Friday? Hell, it’s still very early Friday morning, but that was fast. I had a bunch of stuff I meant to do this week. It didn’t get done.
Not done:
Phone to get an appointment for a pap smear. (I am religious about this, believe me! I’m doing this as soon as I wake up. You can’t screw around with cervical health).
Make an appointment for more contact lenses. I am down to my last pair and although I love my glasses, I feel more confident in contacts. I wish I could change that, but I can’t seem to.
Phone my dad. I want to tell him about my week, but every time I think about people to phone, friends or family, it is later than they are awake. Like now.
Incidentally, I am awake because I have just been dancing around the living room to Youtube videos. I guess that’s a confession on its own.
Okay, make me feel better, please. Tell me you didn’t have it all together this week.
Some Stuff | Liz October 17, 2008
By rachel, October 17, 2008 @ 11:59 am
I confess to being dumbfounded at how effortlessly B repeats back whatever they say on our Learning Japanese CDs. I mean, I KNOW kids are supposed to pick up languages quicker than adults (and I can FEEL, in my own brain, this impenetrable wall in front of my language acquisition circuits that I know didn’t used to be there). But B has a certain amount of difficulty pronouncing English, let’s be frank, and that’s his native language, so I was a bit skeptical.
But there he is, not just repeating the words back but repeating them back with NO accent (that I can hear). Nobody told him the sing-song tonality was important, he figured that out himself, and he does it effortlessly.
Ok – I also confess to being envious of his supple young brain. Mine feels like a clanking steam engine, by comparison.
By stephanie, October 17, 2008 @ 12:09 pm
Cervical health is so important. I am with you on that.
My week started out high with the New Kids concert. But then it went steadily downhill. Now I have a cold and I am home sick with a massive, awful sinus headache.
Since the New Kids concert, I have been watching their old videos on YouTube. So you are not the only one who dances to YouTube.
By rachel, October 17, 2008 @ 1:28 pm
New Kids on the Block?!
OK, Stephanie is shaming me into confessing that I, too, dance to YouTube, and that I can go one lamer this week: Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love”. Why did I even look that up? Could it be because I am LAME??
By Beth, October 17, 2008 @ 4:28 pm
I confess that even though Monday was a holiday, and I took yesterday as a sick day because the pace of my life was overwhelming me and wearing me down, even though I actually only worked 3 days this week, I am still incredibly glad that it’s Friday.
I really do love my job and I can’t imagine doing anything else to earn my living, but still and all, it’s work. So TGIF!
By elswhere, October 17, 2008 @ 6:37 pm
I confess that I reduced my child to blubbering tears by re-arranging the living room furniture. Which sounds like some kind of tasteless Helen Keller joke (well, is there any other kind?), but is, I swear unto you, absolutely true.
By Liz, October 17, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
Rachel, I know of the wall-in-front-of-brain. I teach the little sponges, but I have not osmosed that much Korean. Also, I can’t blame you for the Steve Winwood, but I have to admit “Higher Love” is not a favourite of mine. Not with the Blind Faith and the Spencer Davis Group in the running.
Stephanie, I really hope you feel better soon. And you have the New Kids, I have my beloved Duran Duran. No one can take them from us!
Beth, I know that feeling well. TGIF!
Els, was it because she could no longer jump from chair to sofa and vice versa?
By elswhere, October 17, 2008 @ 8:49 pm
Something like that. Though when I offered to move the chair closer to the sofa, she was not appeased and just cried harder. At which point I closed down negotiations.
By cheesefairy, October 17, 2008 @ 9:04 pm
“Tell me you didn’t have it all together this week.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Yesterday I sang all the words to a Luba song that I heard on the EASY LISTENING station.
The moon is full, y’all. The moon is really damn full.
By Liz, October 18, 2008 @ 9:20 am
Els, that was the right negotiating step, I am pretty sure.
Cheesefairy, the easy listening is sneakily, well, easy. And Luba lyrics have access to our hind brains. It’s a plot or something.