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EIT.
Pooky was out late last night "networking" (i.e. drinking with a cow orker) so Beth and I had a cozy domestic evening: I baked, she sewed, and we talked for hours during it. I core dumped a bunch of stuff that had been percolating, and she core dumped a bit, and we realized we weren't crazy because there was a lot of crossover.
Resolution #1: We will not enable pooky's laziness-driven helplessness. He is a smart MIT boy and can figure out directions to places in Manhattan, for instance. He can also make a decision instead of wibbling until a default happens. (To be fair, he has shown some initiative recently, as witness the impeding cleaning lady and the appointment with a Culligan rep this morning. But two swallows don't make a spring.)
Resolution #2: I need more pooky time. There will be alternate-Monday pooky nights, and the occasional pooky-only weekends.
Resolution #3: If he won't take us on dates, we'll find places where we can go out and be fabulous. :)
Resolution #4: I'm going to stop knuckling under to my mother-in-law's holiday neediness when it starts to shortchange MY family, members of whom are far less able to travel than she is. She's lonely and I'm sorry for it and for her, but that is in good part the result of her own choices; I will accommodate as I can, but me and mine have needs too.
Also last night, we looked through museum store catalogs (and bulb catalogs, but that wasn't with an eye towards holiday presents). It's even more fun now than looking through the Penny's and Sears catalogs to make your xmas list was as a kid. :)
The cake didn't turn out bad but it's not how I envisioned it, either; the panels on top aren't sharply defined enough. Beth mentioned that there is a well-known cake decorating course that you can take all over the country--maybe I should look into it.
I'd really like to be able to take about two months off and just get all kinds of stuff done around the house--not just cleaning, but reorganizing, building, pitching, sorting. Yes, I'm sure there would be days of BG2 mixed in, but I think at the end of it my world would be much more maintainable at current levels of activity.
Resolution #1: We will not enable pooky's laziness-driven helplessness. He is a smart MIT boy and can figure out directions to places in Manhattan, for instance. He can also make a decision instead of wibbling until a default happens. (To be fair, he has shown some initiative recently, as witness the impeding cleaning lady and the appointment with a Culligan rep this morning. But two swallows don't make a spring.)
Resolution #2: I need more pooky time. There will be alternate-Monday pooky nights, and the occasional pooky-only weekends.
Resolution #3: If he won't take us on dates, we'll find places where we can go out and be fabulous. :)
Resolution #4: I'm going to stop knuckling under to my mother-in-law's holiday neediness when it starts to shortchange MY family, members of whom are far less able to travel than she is. She's lonely and I'm sorry for it and for her, but that is in good part the result of her own choices; I will accommodate as I can, but me and mine have needs too.
Also last night, we looked through museum store catalogs (and bulb catalogs, but that wasn't with an eye towards holiday presents). It's even more fun now than looking through the Penny's and Sears catalogs to make your xmas list was as a kid. :)
The cake didn't turn out bad but it's not how I envisioned it, either; the panels on top aren't sharply defined enough. Beth mentioned that there is a well-known cake decorating course that you can take all over the country--maybe I should look into it.
I'd really like to be able to take about two months off and just get all kinds of stuff done around the house--not just cleaning, but reorganizing, building, pitching, sorting. Yes, I'm sure there would be days of BG2 mixed in, but I think at the end of it my world would be much more maintainable at current levels of activity.