Frog and Goat

I know that it is nearly the end of January and it is a little late to declare resolutions. That’s why I’m not going to declare my actual resolutions. I don’t make them because I never keep them. What I’ve been thinking about are resolutions that you might just be horrified to hear someone declare.

1) I’m going to be more sanitary in 2005.
2) I’m not going to pass on my syphillis this year.
3) I’ll swerve the other way when I see the neighbor’s dog in the street.

I’m sure there are others out there. Everyone always nods nicely when you hear someone telling their resolutions but if you were to hear one of the ones above you’d eventually think about what that person has been doing up until now.

Since it snowed like crazy for a couple of hours the roads are in horrible condition. That’s ok with me, though, because I am at home. The joys of working for yourself.

I’m using an old laptop from the office now at home in my very own room. Last night we got into the serious business of setting up the computers (yes, plural-we’re geeks) and this is the first time that I’ve had a room of my own since we got married. I acted all excited but then kind of sad and the better-half told me it would be ok that we’ll see each other. That struck me as hilarious since we’re like 10 feet from each other but we each have a door to shut should we need to have a little alone time.

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From the Yay Science! Department: I saw this concept listed on BoingBoing this morning. Is that super cool or what?

The office adjacent to ours is used as storage for one of the building’s tenants. Occasionally workers enter that space and then start tossing around fully loaded paper boxes. Today is one of those days. I can only assume they are packing up 2004 records. It is a pain in the ever-loving ass because the throwing of fully packed paper boxes is really loud and it shakes this part of the building. We can’t be the only other business affected by their antics. The better-half has asked them to be mindful before but it doesn’t really seem to stick so neither of us has walked over there to complain today. I thought I’d snark about it here. Take that noisy office neighbors!

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Yesterday afternoon a friend of mine picked up a piece of furniture that we didn’t want or have room for in the new dining room. With the piece of furniture taking up so much room in her van, I got to transport her youngest son.

Since it was a warm day I had the moon roof open and I have yet to meet a kid who doesn’t love the roof being open. He asked me to roll down the back windows so he could enjoy as much wind as possible. As we drove towards the interstate he was pretty chatty telling me to kick in the afterburners. All of a sudden he was silent. I looked into the backseat and he was sound asleep.

Even though I was really tired last night when I got into bed, I wished for the ability to fall asleep like that. I could do without the whole slouching way over that kids do when they fall asleep in the backseat but the ability to fall asleep that quickly would be killer.