Pokemon

12-17-13

I don’t know why I would win an Emmy.

Most of my dreams are based in some kind of reality in the idea that they share common fears or truths. Me being at a huge party in which I won an Emmy makes no sense. I am guessing that there is more to it and that I don’t remember key points. I do have vague recollection of a few naysayers, and I do have this strange feeling as though it was almost like being at a high school reunion, so who knows what all of it means. Of course, it may mean nothing.

Maybe my brain was still relaxing. I was in rare form yesterday afternoon, in the idea that I truly didn’t do much of anything. I sat around, dinked on the net, watched some Daily Show with Ken and had a nice afternoon. I should have cleaned up the kitchen a bit, but I have today.

Today does also bring me some errands in the form of shopping. I need to go get pretzels for Dax’s class along with a book for his book exchange. I am going to hit up Savers if I can’t locate the books in our garage. It doesn’t have to be a new book, just one that is appropriate for the age group. I want to pull out our books anyway since I would like to make them available. It will give us an excuse to get them out.

I also need to pull out my box of desk items since I think the gift card to the aquarium is in there and I wanted to go there on Monday. I wish everything was already put away. Then again, I am ok in a lot of ways since the Christmas madness is upon us, which means I can’t put out my normal things anyway. I love Christmas, but I will be happy when I can put away the decorations.

I have decided the boys are old enough to stay up till midnight on New Years with us. It should be interesting, but I figure we can watch movies and be all kinds of cozy and if they fall asleep, no worries. It isn’t like we do a whole lot on that night. I suppose in the next couple years we could have some kind of shin dig at Steve since it would be a nice kid friendly environment.

I now have guilt. I had let Ken’s family know we were not coming up this Christmas time. I wanted to stay at home this year and just nest at Steve. I also know that the time off should be spent working on Eydie a bit. I also just didn’t feel like driving up there, knowing that I still have to come in for reports the week after Christmas. I know his family helped a lot with the house, and it isn’t that I don’t want to see them. I would rather them come down so they could see what we have done as opposed to us having to set up a house sitter and to drive up and all of that chaos right now. I had planned on going during Spring Break for a few days, but right now doesn’t make sense.

Sadly, I also have been feeling rather frustrated that Ken’s mom is angry at us for not coming up. She seemed more snippy in the last few emails (not just to me, either. She sent one to all the kids and it just seemed, I don’t know, off?) and I of course am the type of person to get defensive quickly. Mama Bear kicks into high gear and I get growly, for sometimes the wrong reasons. Either way, I think that it has been settled since Papa Bear (that would be Ken) has calmed me down. He in so many ways reminds me of the king in Brave in the idea that he knows how to settle the sometimes stiff queen.

I need to do Christmas inventory today, too. I have to determine what Santa has obtained for these kids and see what else is needed. I took care of the stockings this weekend, and I think there might be just a couple other things to get. I still have to get some other presents, too, so perhaps today I will be out and about while Ken handles the whole homework thing. Go tag team!

Pokemon is now on Cartoon Network! Like the old one that we used to watch! I was quite pleased. I don’t know that the boys were as amused, but I certainly was last night. I think it may be time to bust out the card game!