Hello my much-neglected people. I will just come right out and admit that I've been unfaithful to you. Not only have I put my children before the blog - we have a Connect Four contest going on which takes up rather a lot of time - I have also started to play the piano (I can play Greensleeves already!) and I've been out socialising in the sunshine.
Luckily God punishes quickly but fairly, as they say over here, and I have once again been smitten with a feverish and snotty baby. (This is how you can tell I'm a true narcissist. I mean apart from the fact that I blog about my own life. The lesser, or wannabe, narcissist would have just felt sorry for the baby, or in extremis thought the baby was being punished - perhaps for pooping out of the side of his nappy. Not this woman. Even my baby's sickness is all about me!)
I would promise to be more faithful to you from now, but while socialising in the sunshine I ran into a lovely English lady who very casually mentioned her expat book club, after which I wagged my tail and rode her leg until she invited me along to it. The next meeting is on Tuesday, and I have just in the last half hour taken delivery of the set book. I now have to read all 411 pages of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Tuesday night, in between taking Charlie to the doctor, socialising some more, playing the piano and beating my children at Connect Four. But I still love you!
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A life away from the blog !! Socialising in the sun! What's going on over there! Outrageous. Hope said snotty baby gets better, you find time to read the book (after all that leg humping!), play Connect 4, and enjoy the sunshine too. Happy weekending!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds excellent :)
ReplyDeleteSounds lovely, more importantly should I read this book?
ReplyDeleteAnd we love you and urge you on! We know we will always be your first love. Right?
ReplyDeleteI listened to that book on tape. It was something. Or maybe not. Maybe it was another book. Whatever.
Have so much fun in the sun or the book club and I hope Charley feels better soon.
I hope you let the kids win the odd game!
ReplyDeleteThe Yiddish Policemen's Union ?!!! I've got a tenner on you being back here by Sunday :p Enjoy that life you refer to as 'life'...I may have to go investigate it myself!
ReplyDelete@Victoria - And a happy weekend to you!
ReplyDelete@Jo - It is! (It would be even better if I had the odd hour of sleep in between, but hey I can't complain.)
@Muddling Along - I think so, judging from the back flap, but I keep falling asleep whenever I try to read. No reflection on the book, just chronic sleep deprivation gone mental recently.
@Ms. Moon - You will be. Always.
@Helen - They win when they play better than me. I genuinely never let them win. (It's a combination of competitiveness and compulsive honesty.)
@Kelloggsville - Because it's good so I'll read it fast or bad so I'll toss it aside? Oh so cryptic! Don't do that to me!
A social life sounds wonderful, go for it, just don't forget your first loves (us of course) just remember we have been here through thick and thin with you, with snotty, poopie, leg humping times with you. :) :)
ReplyDeletex Sandi
Sunshine and books. You lead a very decadent life!
ReplyDeleteGood for you! It sounds like you're and enjoying life (except the snotty fever part). We all need more of that. And less Internet, probably.
ReplyDeleteWhat a rare blogger you are - putting your family before your blog? Unheard of.
ReplyDeleteAnd you call yourself a real blogger...shame...shame... ;)
ReplyDeleteMwa, if you get beyond page 20 of the book you've done better than I did, just never got into it.
ReplyDeleteAnd spending more time with your kids is an excellent thing for a blogger to do, they are an endless source of material.
Lola got Connect 4 for xmas, we love it :)
ReplyDeleteI love Connect Four! I highly recommend cheating.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could kill several birds with one stone and read said book to the kids for a bedtime story ... or not!
ReplyDeleteI started spending more time with the kids and going to a book club, and now look at me. I'm rarely online. They took me hostage. But the worst of it is I feel in love with my captors.
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE to learn to play the piano, you seem to be getting on really well! What age can children start? I always said I'd take lessons when Emm does... Of course I'd also have to get a piano... And find space for it... How wide is a piano?
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