I keep having weekends and my life keeps not-sucking

[drwex]

This one was three days, due to Good Friday. I heard somewhere (NPR?) that this was the earliest Easter in over 40 years and another one won't come this early for a couple hundred more years. How weird is that.

Anyway, nobody took me up on my offer to do something Friday so I spent the day in pain and intense game geekery. A while back I did something to my back/shoulder and it hasn't properly healed up. Then I did something fun-but-not-good-for-my-back with Pygment and... um, owie. Sitting still at the computer was fine. Raising my arm over my head, no way. Shifting the gear lever so I could drive? You must be joking me.

Sorry for missing out on Friday evening plans folks :(

Much Vitamin I, heat, and massage made things better but I still made Pygment do the driving Saturday. And there was much driving. First to a baby shower where I sat in a chair that somehow set my back off again. Then to a kid-birthday party where I found various walls to lean myself against. AHF had kindly loaned me her camera but I wasn't able to hold it steady for many pictures. More Vitamin I seemed to do the trick so that by the time we got home to meet the sitter after dinner I was mostly functional. Which was good because the THIRD event Saturday was a dress-up party at which I had been specifically requested to take pix. It was a small party but many great people, much good drinking, and lots of laughter. I did take a goodly number of pictures, but have yet to upload them from the camera. And I think I can safely say that NOBODY's life was sucking at this party.

Unfortunately, somewhere around event #2 Pygment had a very bad allergy attack. This led to her having trouble breathing, being tired out, and generally not having the energy or wellness level to stay late at event #3. That was a bit sad-making, but *shrug* You do what you have to do.

Sunday was mostly R&R. Noodling on taxes. Right now it looks like we'll owe the Feds a large chunk of change, which is a strong motivation NOT to complete the taxes early. Outside was too frelling cold, which didn't seem to affect the kids' desire to be outside in the sunshine zooming up and down the street on their bikes. I think K is about ready to have the training wheels off his bike, which puts us on a slippery slope to taking them off L's bike, after which time Pygment has promised him that he can have a motorcycle.

THAT will be an interesting conversation...

EDIT: I am remembering that Sunday involved a major reminder that I am married to a hot seksay MAJOR GEEK. I love my geek, yes I do.

(I apologize for being somewhat cryptic with discussion of the events. I don't recall which of them were private invite and which were public and I don't wish to upset anyone.)

Comments

[rdhdsnippet.livejournal.com]

Pygment completely lost her mind???

[drwex]

Well, it's a negotiated compromise. L wants a motorcycle. Has for some time. Since, at five, his conception of time is not very evolved it probably seemed a reasonable response to his demands for a motorcycle to point out that he needed to be able to ride without them, and since he still needs them on his bike the motorcycle would have to come later.

Kids grow up fast, though...

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

No I have not lost my mind. All I said was that before he could consider a motorcycle he had to first learn to ride a bicycle without training wheels. I figure once he learns to do that and then asks again I can come up with another reason to delay this.

[rdhdsnippet.livejournal.com]

:)

[coraline]

I think I can safely say that NOBODY's life was sucking at this party.

there was totally sucking at that party! well, neck-sucking at least :)

[dpolicar]

Does that last bit ever actually work for you?

It's been my experience that people who are going to get upset by that sort of thing will get upset pretty much based on being informed that some fun was had, somewhere, by someone, that they weren't involved in. (And, sometimes, even if they were.)

Anyway: yay fun, boo back, yay party, boo allergies, yay no training wheels, boo bicycling on slippery slopes, and wtf motorcycle?

[drwex]

See my response above to rdhdsnippet in re motorcycle.

And, yes, sometimes it works. There's a difference between posting "I went to a party and had a good time" and "I went to $PERSON'S party and had a good time" when the reader knows $PERSON and might reasonably expect to have been invited.

Small social courtesies, I suppose, aren't intended to solve problems so much as demonstrate concern for the feelings of others. I do agree that people who want to be aggrieved will do so no matter what the cause.

[tisana.livejournal.com]

"It's been my experience that people who are going to get upset by that sort of thing will get upset pretty much based on being informed that some fun was had, somewhere, by someone, that they weren't involved in."

Unfortunately, you are correct. Nice condensing it down into one sentence, there.

But like Wex, I think being a bit vague about details makes it sound far less like you're rubbing it in the faces of those not invited, so I try to do something similar.

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Your geek loves you too. *SMOOCH*

[taura-g.livejournal.com]

And I think I can safely say that NOBODY's life was sucking at this party.

Yeah, I think that was a pretty safe statement. ;-)

It was good to get a picture with the two and the three of us. Can't wait to see how the others came out.