There’s a lot going on, and while I really want to write, it’s hard to come up with a unified concept. So here are a handful of thoughts and recent developments that are not at all unified.
- Baguette had a low-grade fever for much of the weekend. It turns out that when she is sick, she avoids negative constructions–she would not say “I don’t want Mommy to go,” but would say “I want Mommy to stay.” (She was better yesterday afternoon and hence is at day care today.)
- I’ve been making simple syrup regularly this summer, and life is just so much easier when it’s around. Want to make that regular tea sweet? Want to make lemonade? Simple syrup to the rescue!
- We finally caught up on Sherlock. Why are there only three episodes per season? Why is the next season not airing until 2016? Whywhywhy?
- I need to write more, but my job doesn’t involve writing, but my bosses do give me the flexibility and support that I really do need right now. Yet still I need to write more. It’s a conundrum.
- We really should get new passports, what with ours having expired and all. Not that we have travel plans, just that we should have them. But why are passports so expensive? Again with the whywhywhy?
- Time to start working out. But how to find the time?
That’s it. For now.
For workouts, I’ve managed to find 15 minutes before I shower, and then 30-45 minutes over lunch . . . it gives me what I need (video coming to my blog, eventually, as soon as I don’t hate the way that I look as I work out).
For having stuff going on, but no posts — well, that’s my life, lately.
About the simple syrup? I miss sugar. Badly.
Glad that the little one is feeling better . . . but how funny that “not feeling well” leads to different sentence structures.
I could probably cut down on the simple syrup. And while I keep thinking that I could get 15 minutes in (even if it’s just a walk around the block) before Mr. Sandwich leaves for work, the problem is that I get so little sleep that it’s hard to get out of bed in the morning any earlier than I absolutely have to. I need to do it anyhow.
I love your title – works perfectly!
What an interesting thing to have noticed about Baguette – that is truly fascinating. I wonder why she does that? Do you have any insight? Hope she’s feeling better!
No idea! She’s used negative constructions before, although I think they’re a little harder for her to process. But she’s not sick that often (knock on wood), so I don’t know if there’s really a connection, or if it’s just a thing she’s doing right now, and the timing coincided.
Here is my big recent insight in my own life on workouts: it doesn’t work to find the time at a time that you don’t like working out. So, for me- morning workouts just don’t work. I can *sometimes* drag myself out of bed 30 minutes early for a run or yoga- but not regularly. So I had to find the time when workouts feel good to me, which is as a break in the middle of the workday or at the end of the day. I’ve bounced around between those times at various points in my life, but those are the times I can make stick. Anytime I try morning workouts, it just doesn’t stick.
Things I’ve done, some of which I still do: lunch time walks (15-30 mins), run after work (having paid someone else to pick up my older kid from school), 15 mins kickboxing in the office gym (30-40 minutes total break, with changing time), running in the middle of the day on my days at home (current arrangement- totally unrealistic before I quit and went to being a contractor).
Good luck. Finding time for a workout is HARD.
It is, isn’t it? Unfortunately, with commute time and ABA, I have very few windows. But I’m driving to work now, so maybe it’s time to carry workout clothes back and forth so that I can go to the work gym at lunch (it’s not free, but for a gym, affordable)