Ms Elizabeth's Journal, 24 April 2014

We have progress! Er... butt kissing. I'll take butt kissing over an attitude any day though. Thank you everyone for your comments, advice, and well wishes yesterday. I had to laugh though when someone called my forever punishment a little severe and not enforcable. Um.. its an ipod. She becomes a zombie whenever her nose is attached to the thing. I kick my kids out of the house to play on a regular basis and it sounds bad.. but I was 95% sure she would walk straight into a tree because she'd be too into candy crush to notice it in front of her. I can't think of a single way that it an Ipod is going to improve her life. The only hard part taking it away forever is the whining.
What's the lesson here? Simple. Make your child think you've gone completely off your rocker so they have no way of judging what you will do next. Tonight she wants to negotiate in an attempt to keep me from A) Giving her Ipod to her almost 2 yr old brother. B) Giving it to the farm hand. or C) Simply selling the thing at a yard sale for a nickle. These were all suggestions I gave her when she whined I couldn't take it away. Bull poopy. I can do alot of things. Hubby called to warn me she is now keeping a log of all the times I've said good job since she got into trouble. Hmm.. she could be a lawyer some day. I see defense strategies and evidence logs in my future.

In a completely unrelated but more appropriate topic. I messed up. I had a lunch meeting with a few co-workers and we went to a new chinese place. I was good. I ate half my lunch. Saved the other half for today. I didn't blow it. I wasn't exactly great but I was good. I discovered something though... they make crab rangoo from scratch and they are like little clouds of heaven. Heaven I say! I wanted more today. I had dreams of them last night. Pregnant + little clouds of heaven only a block from work = yes please!! I was good though.. I got a giant fruit salad from the store instead. And I've thought of the little clouds of heaven every second since then. Crap! Maybe I should take up jogging.. I could jog for food then burn off the offending food.. as I eat it.. on the jog back. Like they would last till I got back to my desk. *snort* I'd end up on utube though.. someone would have to take video of the round chick inhaling food while jogging.

Reminder to self.. workout more. You're going to need it to make up for all the trips to the chinese place.