Losing my cool - or - I need more pants
So, I was cleaning Birdy's ears when she decided to throw a fit. Ok, fits I can handle. We sat down, I held her, the fit went on for a while. She, in the midst of fit says "I have to go potty," while still screaming, kicking, etc. I told her to hold it... because usually it's a ploy. About three minutes later she peed on me. She should have been able to hold it until she was calm, but she intentionally chose to pee on me. Normally, I'd just deal, stick her on the potty, change our clothes and go back to what we were doing... but it didn't work today. Today I'd been up since she tried to climb into my sleeping bag at 4:50 am. I had gone to sleep a little late so I was under 6 hours of sleep on the night... not so good. And to top it off, I was wearing my second pair of jeans (as my first pair were already dirty cause I wore them earlier this week). This shouldn't be a problem, most people have more than two pairs of jeans. I don't. I have two pairs of jeans, one pair of concert-black dress pants, a pair of obnoxious green pants that weren't like what I thought they'd be,a pair of thin blue hiking pants that are missing, and a pair of thin whale blue corduroys. Now, it's not that I hate my blue corduroys, but they're a little warm for August. I have two long skirts (both clean) and three short skirts (two/three clean) but none of these really went with the shirt I was wearing/ were business clothing. So this left me NOT HAPPY. It's really hard not to yet at the kid who peed on the only outfit you actually wanted to wear. I've been working really hard on keeping my cool and not blowing up like my Mom used to at me. I don't want Birdy to grow up with that, but sometimes it just doesn't work. So I was angry, for about five minutes. I didn't do anything mean, I promise, I put myself in time out (although the only place I could go was all of two feet from where she was). Still, I'm in a mildly rotten mood, and on top of it Zanadu just scratched me. Sigh, I think it's one of those days.
So, someday, after the great stuff retrieval, I need to go pants shopping. I think my clothing tastes have changed (again) and I'm hankering for something other than what's in my closet for the most part (not that there's much there). Shopping list: one pair of khakis (mildly straight legged or slight flare, medium camel color), one pair of knee length "khaki" shorts (cargo type, not necessarily khaki colored, I'd be happy with a gray as well), one pair of calf length pants of the same type, striped knee socks. I know, not what was exactly expected, huh? At least with three more pairs of pants I wouldn't be scrambling for something to wear, therefor maybe, just maybe, I could keep my cool next time I get peed on!
So, someday, after the great stuff retrieval, I need to go pants shopping. I think my clothing tastes have changed (again) and I'm hankering for something other than what's in my closet for the most part (not that there's much there). Shopping list: one pair of khakis (mildly straight legged or slight flare, medium camel color), one pair of knee length "khaki" shorts (cargo type, not necessarily khaki colored, I'd be happy with a gray as well), one pair of calf length pants of the same type, striped knee socks. I know, not what was exactly expected, huh? At least with three more pairs of pants I wouldn't be scrambling for something to wear, therefor maybe, just maybe, I could keep my cool next time I get peed on!