Sunday Football Day

Sunday Jan 17,2010


I woke up to the sound of his voice. Came downstairs to find my client, Mario, sitting straight upright. He found the remote to put his head up and got stuck in the upright position for who knows how long! I hope it wasn’t very long. I had to laugh though. He is feeling a little better than yesterday but keeps going to the bathroom. Well, that was his demise. I think he has a stomach virus because he has been shitting his brains out. Explosively! Good grief! He really did it to me today! One more day….One more day closer to John. Trying for that to be my mantra.

We are actually watching the football game. After watching all those MSNBC and WVIA shows with all those dopes arguing about nothingness, it is such a relief! John is watching the game at home. Somehow, it makes me feel closer to him. I am becoming a wussy female and I am not sure if I like that or not. Minnesota is kicking the Cowboys asses. Good! Brett Favre is on fire with Rice on the receiving end. 3 touchdown game by Rice and two field goals. Only a little bit left of this game. Cowboys have basically no chance of winning this game. They scored those 3 points in the first quarter and nothing since.

Ariel has been calling me nonstop all day. Well first it was just to say hello. Then it was the drama. I guess Ritchie got tired of looking at the girls playing their Ds’s and told the girls to put them up and go read a book. Well, that started it. Don’t tell Ariel she can’t play her DS or she is going to have a stroke. Why should she be “punished” when she didn’t do anything wrong to get her DS taken away. She reads at home and plays all she wants at home. Some of the games she actually has to read the stories! Well that was just the beginning…

Vikings with less than 2 minutes to go have 33-3 lead. Cowboys don’t have a chance! 4 touchdown game!

Ok back to Ariel’s drama…So, then I guess the girls got to playing loudly and not reading so Iyishia yelled at them that they weren’t reading and somewhere in the mix, Kaylynn yoked up Ariel and she made Ariel cry choking her. I am sure it was just playing but it got rough and Ariel was upset about the whole DS thing to begin with. So Iyishia said no more DS playing today and if they keep it up no DS playing tomorrow. Well, that sent Ariel into a tizzy and calling me to intervene. I asked Iyishia what the hell was going on over there and she told me the story. All of this could have been avoided if Ritchie didn’t bring up the whole reading thing. Ariel has her science project due on the 29th of January and I tried to redirect her towards her chipmunk book and reading up on the subject so we could do her science project when I come home. We will see how this whole DS thing pans out. Ariel is not used to someone else handing out the discipline when it comes to her DS. Sit her down, tell her no tv and go play, send her to bed…don’t mess with her DS.

Well, the Vikings have won the game final score being 33-3.

Ariel called me again. This time she had good news for me. Her little snaggletooth fell out. She said she was playing with Alicia and somehow (I don’t know how) hit her mouth and her tooth popped out. I told her to put it in a sandwich bag and put it in her luggage. She said she had to put it under her pillow and so I still told her to put it in a sandwich bag and then put it under there so she doesn’t lose it. Maybe Iyishia will give her a dollar. I give her a dollar. I will give her two this time since she was away from home if she doesn’t get anything from the Atherton tooth fairy.

Anyway, John is going to one of his friend’s houses to watch the Jets vs. Chargers game. I texted him and hopefully he will get it and call me and leave a voicemail so I can hear his voice. It makes me happy. He probably thinks I am a royal pain in the ass. But then again, maybe not. We will see. I will leave him alone while he is at his friends’ house. I am not that stupid. He will text me when he gets home. I will talk to him before I go to bed. So, back to being bored. Hopefully, I will get to see some of the Chargers game. There is really not anything on tv on the other channels. There are not even any good movies on TNT or TBS. He can’t wait until 60 minutes. That doesn’t come on until 8pm. Hopefully, I will be liberated by then. Please go to sleep early! Just one more day….one more day.

Well I got stuck watching Pennsylvania Outdoor Life (kill me now!) and then America’s Funniest Home Videos. That is semi-bearable. Now is 60 minutes time. I know it sounds crass but I am just about done hearing about Haiti. I understand that they are a third world nation and they are suffering but we are suffering too and now we are sending all this aide! Who is helping us? Who is helping our homeless and indigent? We are a super-power yet we are being crippled from the inside. We need to take care of our own people before we can help others. There are people who need food stamps and medical care. There are people who are unemployed and receive no unemployment insurance (like I was a few months ago). We have a shortage of nurses and doctors and now we are sending them to Haiti. Do these doctors volunteer for this stuff? Do they think they are going to save the world? One country at a time? I have a great respect for Doctors without borders. I wish I could participate in that program. Do I want to be knee deep in shit like those people are in Haiti? Not quite. I have a bittersweet appreciation for these situations. I want to help but I want help for Americans as well.

Now we wait for the boy. Ariel finally calmed down and Iyishia is a big softie and let the girls have their DSs back. I am glad or she is going to have crazy kids on her hands. Screw Ritchie! He can play around on the computer or talk to his trick on his iPhone but don’t mess with 2 seven-year-olds and their DSs. I am glad the girls have calmed down. They get along a lot better when they are both enraptured by their DSs. Now, we just need to get Kaylynn one and the trio will be complete. Apparently she knows how to play at the wee age of four.

Spoke to the boy before bed. Of course, I am tired and yawninf but can’t sleep so I took the great chance in seeing if I had internet access and I am capitalizing on it to post my blogs. I am keeping my commitment but when I am at work, the wifi is a little sketchy. Can’t wait til Thursday! One more day….One more day and I go home….