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No Special Treatment

Not only did I take my vitamins today but I made a really great nutritious dinner and the result is I feel pretty energetic when normally I would be asleep by now. I will, however make it pretty short just so that I get to bed on time. Sage told me as she just went to bed “No special treatment, no whining.” In other words if Paul wakes up at 6:00, so do I.

Another wonderful day today despite another really brutally hot day - nearly 100 with heat indices in the 105-110 degree range. But we’re so much better at dealing with it here than we ever were at the yurt. Today when I was outside with Paul and a couple of other kids from the neighborhood we all just got in a huge water fight and all wound up quite soaked and much cooled. Not only that, it was still quite cool inside the house. Once again we didn’t need the air conditioning until the late afternoon though it’s still on now as it’s still stuffy and muggy outside.

Fun kid stuff we did today:

• Painted colorful abstract designs using fabric paints on white t-shirts. Note to self: don’t try to use the fabric pens next time or the kids just squirt it all out at once - next time squirt some on some fabric and use brushes
• More cardboard box play - so far those two cardboard boxes for the filing cabinets have provided two children with easily 8-10 hours of entertainment if not more with all sorts of creative made up games and crafts.
• We had dinner together - not just eating dinner together as usual but like real adults with not just a one-dish meal. We had Macaroni and Nutritional Yeast “cheese” served with broccoli and salad. After all that we cleaned the dishes right away. I know it doesn’t sound like anything spectacular but for us it was really quite a leap from eating dinner together on the yurt floor - or the house floor or couch for that matter.
• While Sage went to the auction, Paul and I worked together to make an extra large batch of pancakes. They’re still a hit in the morning and after an experiment I found out that they freeze well and heat well in the toaster. Move over Eggo.

Is anyone else familiar with “Liar” by the Rollins Band? It was popular about 5 years ago (maybe more now). Sage and I just rediscovered it this evening and once again laughed ourselves sick listening to it. I’ll never do it justice just writing about it here but Henry Rollins (of Black Flag fame), a pretty hardcore musician starts out with sweet music and talks as if he’s talking to us (as his girlfriend) and tells about how she thought she never was going to meet anyone then met this really perfect wonderful guy that said all the right things. And then he makes a brilliant transition - he says something like “And you never questioned why things were going so well - want to know why?” At that point the music turns loud and dark and he, in a nearly screaming voice says “Because I’m a liar”. Anyway, as I figured I am not doing it justice in the least but it’s an absolutely brilliant song that illustrates how so many women are taken in by creepy men. In the middle of the song it goes back to the original sweet music and voice and Rollins says something like “I’m sorry - I’ll never lie to you again” and sings a sweet song of I’ll-never-lie-to-you-ness but you know something’s coming because the music is getting a little more wild and loud and then it happens. Rollins screams “Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! SUCKER!” which sends Sage and I into hysterics every time. Neither of us really get how people can keep going back to the same creepy guys over and over again.

Oh gad - it’s 11:10 and I should get to bed soon. Tomorrow we’re off to the farmer’s market and then spending the afternoon in the town pool I think.

I guess I’ll end it here with a cosmic…

Little Gonkie McWortle and Paul are playing happily when Paul is moved to spontaneously doff his trousers and proceeds to gleefully run through the room in the nude.

“Eek! Eek!” Says Gonkie “You have no shorts - I mustn’t look. Todd - can you fix it?”

Todd proceeds to chase Paul around cheered on by Granny and Gonkie.

Granny encourages Paul to put his clothes on by suggesting an outfit change.

“Yeah really!” says Gonkie “Those flowered shorts are for girls”

Todd rolls his eyes and prays for Paul’s strength in the face of gender stereotyping…

I am such a sap.

King Friday