Kids Day at the Park, Library Visit, and Other Thoughts!
Click to viewHello readers, I hope you all had a great day because me and the kids certaintly did. I was so drained yesterday I stayed at home with the kids...like almost everyday and today I felt like taking the kids to the park to let them out, let us soak us some much needed sunshine and take some pics of the kids playing for Stephanie. At first we went to the usual park off the mountain in Redlands, it's the kids favorite. A lot of kids were there today but thankfully it wasn't much of an issue. There was a family with bubbles and my kids actually got a turn to play with the bubbles. Delilah at times goes crazy over bubbles so after a bit I took the bubbles away so she could have time to play. Ofcourse she was a bit mad but hey what can you do, it is a parents job to make tough orders. Also with her attitude I noticed a HUGE PAIN IN THE BUTT QUALITY she has. When she gets mad she usually tells me "You are not listening!", "This is Rediculous!" or something to say or prove that I am wrong and she is in the right...gee I remember someone that did that...HER MOTHER!!! I am trying not to sound mean about it but at times I find it funny because I tell Stephanie that it is like you never left because at times she is just like you at times. Which is not a bad thing, at least I know she is independant, stands up for herself and will be a pain in the brusky for any guy that dates her. Getting off that subject, Ethan at first was slow to start playing because he woke up from his car nap right when we got there. When he got energized he went right for the big kids playset. To think about it, it didn't take long for him to step up to the big play set. But the play time wasn't that long, a little over an hour they wanted to leave and were a bit hungry. I only had enough money for drinks and gas but spent some food money for arkansas for a easy snack that the kids tried for the first time and loved them. I always wanted them to try the Babybel cheese on them, seemed like a good choice for them and luckly it was a good one because they ate them and was satisfied. I had some myself for the first time and will definetely consider buying them again.
Back on the mountain I looked at the time, it was around 2 so still early in the day. So I decided why not go to the local park and let them play there. Two park trips in one day, what fun! Well...not so much. They played for like 30 min until Delilah wanted to go to the local library to look at books. Normally I deny it because we came there for the park not books. But I thought about it more, she has been reading a lot more lately...so why not. Went inside and what do the kids do...go on the computer and play learning games. Ofcourse they would, hundreds of books to read and yet play on the computer. But I decided it will be smart to get a library book so incase they did find books they wanted to read we might as well read them at home. Mind you I have never ever recalled going to a library out side of school...shoot barely even than. Only when we had to get books for classes. Anywho I got a library card, sure enough the kids picked out one book each to read at home. Ethan, with my help, picked out Snowball Soup from the My Little Critter Series. Delilah has a craze for Dr. Suess books so she got One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
Guess What!? For the first time ever...well what I can/can not recall...I actually chose a book of my choice at a library. I never had interest in books unless it was assigned to me. Yea I have a book that I bought that I have read a little here and there but it was only to help me with my imaginitive mind being ADHD and all. Anybody want to guess what it is? The complete tales and poems of edgar allan poe. Weird...yes but it was the only book that kinda spoke to me. Plus with me trying to get better on my writing in livejournal and for my own self I thought it would be nice to spark up some creative pieces and help me write great entries here to keep my readers interested. Yea ofcourse it is mostly about my life and events but hey anything counts and helps. The other book I was talking about that I bought for myself was Splinter Cell Endwar This Missing. From what I understand it is about a war between russia and other fractions in the future and soldiers in various parts of the world fighting in this war ending up in different scenarious and such. The only reason I got the book was to feed my ADHD of my high pulse and adreniline thoughts of myself being in war like atmosphere. Yes I do day dream myself about being in the service, fighting and even in most cases being in tier 1 fighting and in some cases dying in the war. In high school I tried to enlist in the service for the Marine corps but just simply annoyingly couldn't pass the written test and didn't have the drive to pursue it. I do have regrets at times not being able to enlist and put in my part being in the service but life goes on. It still at times annoys me because I passed the practice test with flying colors and passed all cashee tests in school easily but the damn real test for the military I couldn't pass...GRRRR!!!! But than if I did go to the service I never would have had my kids and right now they are my most precious light I have left in my time of depression. Hopefully soon that will change and I will have other great things to look up to in the future and put myself in a great position in life.
The trip is getting closer...still worried as hell as how it is going to go. At this point I know it will be good/bad at my part because again the only good part is that Stephanie and the kids will have a great time together and Ethan gets to have a birthday with his mommy...the rest I don't know. Were leaving on the 1st with a rental car and leaving the 9th. Yes it will be sad to have the kids leave stephanie but soon after that I will get a job and work my but off to move to have them closer to eachother again. Yes it seems crazy to do all this just so they can be together but to be honest all I want is for them to be happy, to have us out of this house, me have a job and to work up going to school again and that is it.
Before I call this entry a done deal I want to ask you readers a question...a randomn one but a question that we should all answer because I am sure all of us have a good descision about my question. Here it is...What is on the top of your bucket list? For me it is to participate in a well-known fun high pulsing motorcycle race. I have two of them that I have in mind...the Baja 1000 and the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy. The Baja 1000 plain and simply is a desert race in the penninsula of Baja California and you race 1000 miles in less than 32 hours to Ensenada Mexico. The Isle of Man TT happens in Northern Ireland and is a race that takes place in public roads. You race super bikes in a time trial like race to pretty much grab a hand full of throttle, go fast as hell and go for the fastest time. Crazy and dangerous...absolutely but OMG just participating in either race would be amazing. As a motorcycle guy those races are the most prestigous. I will post videos to give you an idea of what these races look like so I hope you enjoy. Have a good one readers.