Man, I can�t believe it�s almost Christmas. Jackie counted the other day and she said we had 13 days left. I thought to myself: �Really? Only 13 days?� It seems like Christmas is much further off. Time really flies.
I know it�s been a week since I updated. Not much has happened. Okay, some things have happened, but nothing I felt up to writing about. I must be dealing with some sort of writer�s block because the place I�d run for when things happened was this diary. I�ve not been running to this diary to update much lately.
I have therapy today at noon. I have to go. Part of me wants to make an excuse and get out of it because I hate driving downtown and I�m paranoid I won�t put enough money into the parking meter. But I want to start feeling better and deep down, I know this is the process I must undergo to do so.
Jackie has therapy on the 21rst. I think it is doing her some good but she is still obsessed with Ariel. She talks about the girl constantly. After talking about with MY therapist about my obsessive-compulsive behavior I realize where Jackie gets it from. I know when a person feels victimized they sometimes become fixated on the person who did it to them. I�m fixated on Rodney and Jackie is fixated on her bully, Ariel. Therapy is going to help us both pull that focus off of them and back on to what�s important in our lives.
Jackie was sniffling Friday and running a very slight fever. Knowing that the nurse would sense Jackie home in a heartbeat, I took off work and she took off school. Jackie felt well enough to drive me nuts, and I only made it alone with her in the house until about 11 a.m. I decided there was a lot we needed to do so we ran some errands.
I had to run to Target. I am loathe to enter a retail establishment like Target during the holidays, having been burnt from the one time I went into Wal-Mart a few years ago around this time. It was nuts in there. I didn�t go back into Wal-Mart for another two years.
It wasn�t bad in Target.
But I wasn�t happy to be there either. Someone emptied the cup on our bag less vacuum cleaner and accidentally threw out the filter. Anyone who has a bag less knows how expensive those filters can be. $25 friggin dollars. I begrudgingly picked one up and put it in the cart. $25.00 down the drain.
We picked up a few more things and we were out of there.
Next we went to Marshall�s and did some Christmas shopping. I got the items for Jeff. He�s the guy at work that I�m a Secret Santa for. Last week I scoped out a few of his buddies and found out that he likes coffee and dark chocolate. I found his some gourmet coffees and dark chocolates. I also checked last week to make sure he wasn�t Jewish so that I could get him a Christmas ornament. I was pretty happy with the coffees and the other items I got for him.
After we left Marshall�s, we did a few more errands and went home. I called Lisa to let her know what was going on. We agreed that Jackie and I would meet her at her house and shortly after we�d go pick up Jake from school.
After we picked Jake up, we headed out to Gravois Bluffs to do some Christmas shopping. We hit Gordman�s. At Gordman�s I found this gorgeous Christmas wreath. The wreaths were 33% off. Since it was damaged (a bulb was scratched) I asked the cashier to take off some additional percentage. She did. So I ended up paying $11.00 for a $20.00 wreath.
It is gorgeous, pink and girly. I love it.
The kids were starving, so we headed over to Steak N� Shake, or Shake and Spank, as the kids call it. We had a gorgeous waiter. Lisa surmised he couldn�t be a day over 17. I felt dirty. For a moment. He was too cute. I couldn�t help but smile like a buffoon every time he came to our table.
Of course dinner wouldn�t be complete without the fart jokes. Jackie and Jacob have heard hundreds of times that we don�t fart at the table. But there Jackie went and said, �It�s coming�it�s coming�.aah. I farted,� with a big smile on her face.
Of course Jake said really loud, �She farted�, and Lisa and I were mortified.
These children are our future.
Scary.
After dinner, we hit Linens and Things. It�s a really neat store. But my experience was sullied by an incident where I went to the bathroom and accidentally stuck my hand in the toilet. Who knew the water was 2 inches from the toilet seat?
After cursing aloud and washing my hands furiously for five minutes, I continued around the store. It was really neat. My favorite section was the massage chairs. Oh man. Do I need one of those or what? Talk about heavenly. It feels like real fists massaging your back.
Oh, and I found chocolate covered espresso beans. I�ve only been looking for those for 5 years. They sold them in Jacksonville, Florida at this coffee place called Barney�s. But I�ve never seen them in St. Louis. I bought 3 boxes. One for my niece (who covets them also), one for me and I gave one box to Lisa. Man, you only need a few of those espresso beans to get going.
We went back to Lisa�s house. We got online while �The Ghost Whisperer� played on the TV. The kids played in their room.
Once again, I went to EBAY and looked at the MTV �Fe*ar� DVD�s. Fear is a show that used to come on MTV about 4 years ago. There was like 6 kids or so. They�d go to these supposedly haunted locations, like penitentiary�s and insane asylums, and do these dares. They�d take EMF readers, night vision goggles and record EVP. It was really scary and I loved it. Well, I have looked high and low for these episodes. I looked at Best Buy last week. But all they had was the game.
I was looking at the EBAY page again and while I really wanted to buy it, I couldn�t justify spending $35.00 at Christmas time on something for myself. Not while I still had people to shop for.
I must�ve stared at it for 45 minutes, hemming and hawing. Lisa ended up getting it for me. I wrote her a check to hold until payday.
That was so nice of her. God knows, I wouldn�t have done it for myself. The site had a shipping time of 1-3 days. And the seller had an excellent and long track record.
Lisa and I are going to watch them one night while the kids play. I can�t wait!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Lisa!
Saturday wasn�t so fun. We did laundry, and ran to Value City to get a wreath hanger. By the way, I don�t think I�ll return to that store. I got some really rude service. I waited in line for 15 minutes and I finally got to the cashier. She turned her light off and said, �Sorry, I�m closed�.
Witch.
That�ll be my last time in there, I promise.
We didn�t do much Saturday, except wrap gifts. I did talk to my sister Melinda. I�m glad to say she did not threaten to disown me when I talked to her. I do however, think that she does not understand why I talk about the case and deal with the media. She deals with it by not thinking about it. Unfortunately, my brain doesn�t work that way. I�m so glad I called her.
I stayed up until 1:30 a.m. doing giftmas stuff and tidying up the house. It was blissful because Jackie had fallen asleep on the couch around 9.
The weekends go to fast.
Sunday was more of the same. Except I took a supplement called �Go Juice� and misread it. I thought it said take 3. Instead, after feeling jumpy, wiggy and weird for a couple of hours I realized that it said, �Take one at 10 a.m. and one at 3 p.m.�
Man, I felt crappy all day.
And now it�s Monday.
Yuck.
9:29 am - December 12, 2005
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