Jul 27 2007
Single Motherhood
I.T. Catholic Mom’s blog has been collecting dust this week. Why is ITCM’s blog collecting dust this week? you ask. Well, here’s your answer in bullet format, because ITCM is all beleaguered and can’t drag a well-thought-out blog from her sorry brain right now:
- Catholic Hubs has been out on assignment all week halfway across the continent
- Catholic Mom has been left to maintain a household and rear 2 children during Hub’s absence
- Catholic Mom’s IT job outside of the home requires her to be onsite maintaining technology for a Regional Community of Catholic nuns
- During which time she’s in the process of launching a new website for an important client with her IT firm
- And 2 very big meetings requested her presence, sitting her in the ‘hot seat’ and causing her to sweat bullets under what seemed to be a very powerful microscope
- To top it all off, between shuffling the CK’s around for daycare, she was forced to dispose of a dead rabbit that presumably died from heat exhaustion after being trapped in a 100+ degree
furnacegarage. (The smell!!) - Fill in the blanks here.
Now where’s that feather duster?
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Oh man! Whatta week! I hope Hubs comes back home soon and that no more innocent rabbits will succumb to the heat in your garage. Glad that your hotseat meeting is in the past. Phew!
Sounds like a HUGE week for you! I travel once a month and should probably consider the impact on my hub…
What’s your time split now between your day job and your own IT enterprise? Sounds like the latter is really growing.
@mannyed: I know! I’d much rather be in NYC, but it’s just not happenin’. Hubs will be back in a matter of hours, and I know he’ll be so proud of the way I handled the rabbit remains. (It was such a cute one, at least before the flies started circling the carcass… ok EWWWW!)
@JeriM: HUGE it was. Extremely. I didn’t want to bore you with the details of how my meetings included a President, CFO, CAO, an Executive Director and several other top brass. It’s one of those times when I remind myself of how those people put on pants one leg at a time like the rest of us.
The time split? Seems like the scale is teetering more toward the latter percentage-wise, yet not paycheck-wise. (Although VERY close.)
Was it a pet rabbit? My kids have rabbits..or I should say I have rabbits. We put ice jugs in their cage to get them thru the summer heat.
For what it’s worth you are handling it well. I have help and I’m still to busy to have a blog.
@T_B_N: No thank God it wasn’t a pet rabbit. Hubs would’ve had a personal distress call from home if it had been. I hope the ice jugs are keeping your pet rabbits alive… it’s just brutal out there!
Am I handling it well? Hmm… well if anything work has been a good distraction. Oh and reading Harry Potter w/CK’s.:)
Wow and I thought I had a busy week. Hopefully Catholic Hubs will be home soon. Sorry about the rabbit. How very sad. We had baby rabbits in the yard last month. Very cute indeed. They now live under the shed and run from Luci. I checked out the website and I’m very impressed. Relax this weekend and enjoy the Harry Potter book.
Doesn’t it seem like there is always a mess when the MAN is gone??
And it’s like a need to re-enforce that WE need them???
Not just to dispose of dead things but as moral support, and kid dropper offer, hot seat lotion applier!!
I think you handled yourself very well! NO lost children, lived thru meetings, and no more rabbits!!
High Five, Chick!!
I do feel for you! I’ve had way too many summer months/weeks when my hub was also away enjoying himself at meetings in a beach resort. Must be tough work, eh? The website is beautiful!!
I feel for you and the bunny issue. It reminds me of a time when during my middle school years. We awaited our bus every morning in a driveway. We never saw the owner of this house once, but we did see their cat. The cat was frozen to the driveway for weeks!
Again, I am more seriously considering a move and am taking into consideration your past advice. Have any more? It’s tempting to go with Blogger just because it’s more . . . my words are failing me not unlike your own sorry brain . . . visible?
@Pam: We need a Luci.
And yes, I did exactly what you suggested—relaxed and enjoyed the HP book.
@Nadine: *high five* to that!
@JM: Thanks on the website compliment.
Even though I outsourced the design, I will take credit for the technical stuff.
What a sad cat story, a horrible thing to witness.
And blog services? I’m all out of recommendations for now. But I’ll let you know if I find anything worthwhile. Meanwhile, Blogger seems to be popular amongst former MSN Live Space bloggers. It’s worth checking out anyway.