These are blogs I made but never posted when I was on vacation during 4th of July. They are a bit skewed in perspective, because when I wrote them, was when I was sick of everyone in the room fighting. I really thought I should capture it in text though...
Monday, July 3rd, 2006
Day started off with a big fight between Tracy, and her dad. It was the meeting of the minds, and when they finished, they still both believe they are right. What they really need to do is learn how to listen to one another, instead of shouting out orders to each other.
Chloe is doing really well up here, taking a nap while I write this. She really knows how to push the buttons and get what she wants these days. Her newest thing she likes to do is pull you by hand to do whatever she wants you to do. Really cute to watch, until she pulls you over to something she wants but can't have. Then it gets messy... She is also learning to make more sounds, some words come out of her mouth with such clarity now, it almost makes you think it was fake. For so many months now, the indistinguishable mumbles were getting so typical, but to hear actual consonants and vowels feels surreal at times. It has been a couple of weeks now since Chloe has had the tubes put in her ears. She is doing real well with it, I can already tell it is making a difference for her. I do have to admit that I never want to have to relive the trauma of watching Chloe get knocked out with the anesthesia. That was a eerie thing to watch when its your own daughter holding your hand when they do it to her.
I am having the worst fight with Clover in my yard. That's some really tough crap to kill when your trying to save the grass around it. I read somewhere that Clover seed can live dormant in the dirt for up to 20 years. That's tough stuff....
The job is going really well, it sounds like ITP is going to hire me in and make me an offer very soon. It has taken them 8 months after my contract had ended to get this offer together. I can already imagine them making some sort of crappy initial offer, maybe 5-10k less per year than what I make now. That would be my luck. If that is the case, it may be time to have the recruiter come up with some new assignments. I would hate having to leave, considering all the new projects currently going on, like VMWare ESX Server, and Cisco Call Manager. But I can't make that the one tie that binds me to this. That's what Frank liked to do to me.
I hope the rest of my vacation goes better than today, the last thing I want to hear more of this week is more bitching out of the family. Its also the last I need Chloe witnessing too. My recommendation is already in to go home. But I know Tracy, she'd rather stay here and suffer, just so she doesn't end up being the "bad guy."
Tuesday, July 4th, 2006
Before we all went to bed last night, Tom managed to fit in his next 2 bits worth in Tracy's face last night. This proved to me finally that 1) we really should leave now, and 2) Tom is not capable of having the sort of "heartfelt" that they both need right now. The bickering is quite childish and really not worth it on a weekend like this. It also puts me in an uncomfortable position of defending my wife from her own father. The type of discussion that would be handled "one-on-one" in my family. I hope she chooses to leave this and let us go home so we can enjoy the rest of our vacation. I can't help but reflect on their fights, an imagine what I would do. I know I sure wouldn't be letting Tom treat me that way for sure
Besides all the drama, it really has been a beautiful vacation weather-wise.
