miukat

Ugh. I’m expert at this. These past two months, I have been doing OK. I did get a lot of stuff done around the house. I’m tired of living like a slob in a dirty house. Cleaning can be addictive. I watched Clean House on the Style network every morning on vacation, then spent the rest of the day working on stuff. I still have two incompletes at school which prevented me from registering this semester, so I really have to work on finishing that stuff up. I should be taping my bedroom with paint tape to finish up my paint job that I started in February. Oh bother. Procrastiblogging is much more fun.

I’ve been successful at home by always keeping a 2-liter bottle of homemade herbal iced tea and having another one filled with water in the fridge. My neighborhood has many people from eastern Europe, so there is a large variety of inexpensive ethnic foods around. I found loose herbal teas, like sour cherry, forest fruits, and raspberry for only 1.39 a package. First boil about 2 cups of water on the stove in a saucepan, add about 1/3 cup of tea and 1/2 cup of sugar, turn off the heat and let it steep for about 15-20 minutes. Then I strain the tea into the bottle of cold water from fridge. It’s ready to drink. I always keep a backup of cold water so if I run out, I can make more and it will be cold already.

I would like to adopt a child, between 3 and 5 from another, preferably Spanish-speaking country. I don’t think it’s possible for me to have children, but that’s ok, because the idea of pregnacy and babies is repulsive to me. I work with children and I love them, I just don’t have any experience with babies, and from what I see, they are life and soul-sucking those first few years. My stepmother raised me from when I was four years old, and I see her as my mother, so I’m not worried about having a child that’s a little older. Psychological problems I can deal with…crying in the middle of the night for months on end and super-poopy diapers, no thanks. I guess because I want to live in the country and have a farm, it’s natural to want children. In the city, I can’t even imagine it.