The Aerie
Okay, I admit it.
I haven't been writing this thing.
I know, I know, it's not as if my sole reader focuses his or her day upon whether or not I make blog entries. But I'm disappointed in myself because, of course, one of my New Year's Resolutions was to make more entries.
My only excuse is... it's been a tough couple of weeks. Okay, fine, it's been a tough month.
There are changes afoot -- changes about which I cannot yet speak. No, nobody's sick and the marriage is fine, thanks. Other stuff is changing, and I'm just not able to talk about it yet.
But it's depressing and upsetting and I've just had to work it through. And since I can't talk about it yet, I've had to stew on it alone. I guess I'm not one of those who can post a blog about tiny topic A when huge topic B is hanging over my head like an elephant up a tree.
But for this weekend, a break. We're taking money we can't afford and the wife and I are getting away for a weekend -- yes, TWO entire nights -- without the kids. Hopefully I can stop thinking about the elephant in the tree long enough to decompress and relax. Possibly the wife and I will be able to have Meaningful Conversations that may help ease my troubled brow.
Mary and Tam are going to be watching the kids: Mary because she's a very wonderful and nice person to whom I once gave an old laptop I was no longer using, and Tam because she's a very wonderful and nice person whose computer I have kept operational on and off for the past couple of years (I particularly liked the time that she and Paul tried to remove the motherboard from the bottom of the computer...)
And yes, I'm aware that was all one sentence, ok?
They shouldn't have TOO much trouble -- Mary's a mom of teens, first off, so she'll know how to handle them. And the twins and our youngest are fairly easy to manage, I hope. Tam may have a harder time because she won't have the battlefield experience of a hardened mom, but she'll probably be fine. If not, well, we'll be arriving home after her shift and we can untie her and reprimand the children.
So, with a small gap opening in the dark cloud of February, I bid you adieu for two days. Hopefully when I return some of the storminess of life will have subsided and the path ahead be made clear...
Posted by Albatross at February 13, 2004 1:26 AM