a gallagher tale
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Traitor
Sometimes I have traitorous thoughts. I have so many back up plans, I think I'm up to plan H or so. Plan H is traitorous. But sometimes when I'm lying in bed awake listening to my menfolk snore, I have traitorous thoughts.
Plan H goes something like this:
Supposedly land around our place goes for about $4,000 an acre right now. Prime real estate, folks. We could take that fourteen acre wedge in the corner of our property and sell it off. If we even got $2,000 an acre for it, we'd have nearly $30,000. We could build us a little place with all our utilities included for that. Granted we would only have 80 acres left. I don't know. It's traitorous, but there it is, in my head.
Plan I is to win the lottery.
In any case... there are some exciting things happening behind the scenes. Yes, that's exciting things with a plural things on the end. Unfortunately I've been sworn to a temporary secrecy. I swore to myself.
We've been pretty busy lately. Shane has been super busy with work, as usual. I go into the office every day and help out with what I can. I have a few daily tasks that need to get done in the mornings. Otherwise it's just a matter of keeping the Zaner occupied. That's not so bad. He's getting older now where he is getting to be a lot more fun to play with. I know it will only get better too. So that's pretty cool. He has so many cute games he loves to play, and it's impossible not to just laugh every once in a while, watching him. It's funny... in some ways he is so much like me, and then in some ways... he's just not. He loves an audience, for one thing. He loves to make people laugh. I am not very social at all, and I have no desire to be, but Shane is super uber social, and I guess Zane is taking after Daddy in that one. That's a good thing -- I've seen Shane's social skills pay off far more often than I've seen my antisocial skills pay off. ;)
It'll be good to get home and get done with work, though. Our lives, you know, it's like some other world. It's so crazy. Nobody does this crazy stuff. Nobody lives like us, it's crazy. It's too hard. We're lucky to be able to do it. It's just sheer stubborn determination most of the time, though. I mean, sometimes it's fun and we really enjoy it... travelling and being off just the three of us living this gypsy life. But sometimes it's hard and we have to fight it through and hate it and do it anyway. But we do it because we have to. We made the decision, jointly, a long time ago that we don't want to spend our lives working 9-5 for some pittance, some small retirement fund, when we turn 65. We both want to work hard for a few years and then not have to work except for a little bit here and there for the rest of our lives. We want to be with our kids as they grow. No school. No daycare. No babysitters. Now we have Zane and we're working hard on the road with no home and sometimes we wish we did have a babysitter, but it'll work out and we'll be glad for the path we've chosen. But there's a reason no one else chooses it, we know that too.
Still... sometimes I can't stop those traitorous thoughts from sneaking in. The lottery would be helpful.
This weekend we did not go jet skiing. For the first time since we bought that machine. Instead, Shane played music on Friday & Saturday. Saturday he kept Zane and I went shopping, but he was still playing music. I spent too much money, but I called Shane when I realized my arms were full of stuff and he said to shop 'til I dropped or 'til we ran out of money. I asked if I could use his money too and he said sure as long as I left him a grand. That gave me plenty of leeway ;) Sunday morning, early afternoon-ish, we went up to Pattison Park and we walked to the waterfall and then Zane played in the swimming hole. Today I took Zane back to the park while Shane worked.
But next weekend we are going out on the jet ski. No arguments allowed. I love that thing! I wish we had it back in Florida.
Here's an exciting tidbit I don't mind sharing: A week from today we are driving down the the Twin Cities, hopping aboard an airplane, flying across the sky for 1 hr 58 mins and landing in Nashville, where my mom will pick us up and drive another hour back to her house. Where we will stay for a week! I <3 nonstop flights. And vacations. And *HOME*. Also Zane's big Number Two birthday!
So anyway, last weekend we took Zane to the Burnett County Fair. Well, we were standing there and I'm like "I've never been on a ferris wheel." Shane's like, "I haven't in a while." So we decided to take Zane on it. So, long story short, it was terrifying. I am never going on a ferris wheel again. But Zane loved it.
I've got some pictures (from the D50) up on flickr finally but I am too tired to post them here tonight. I'll get to it tomorrow night. :o)
Goodnight for now!
11:57 p.m. - Monday, Jul. 16, 2007
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