{"id":2116,"date":"2011-04-22T09:45:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T04:05:30","slug":"reality-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherbarton.com\/?p=2116","title":{"rendered":"Reality Bites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its been several days and I’m STILL trying to accept<\/span> <\/em>get back to Reality after Coachella.\u00a0 That’s probably a sure sign that a vacation wasn’t long enough, but I can do nothing about that.\u00a0 I can just go on.. into reality.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Well, Reality kinda sucks! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I’ve managed to create a life of PURE multi-tasking.\u00a0 Its almost like I cannot do just ONE thing… I have to do several.\u00a0 I have to have several projects going\u00a0 on, all in various different stages… as if once it’s ALL completed my “job”\/”life” will be DONE <\/em>and death will feel free to take me.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is half due to my personality (I’ve ALWAYS done at least 2 things at once… since I was a child!)\u00a0 and half due to having 3 kids.\u00a0 Every birth a woman grows brain neurons in the area of multi-tasking.. cuz you gotta!\u00a0 Juggling multiple kids isn’t really hard, nor exhausting (its not like I’m actually, physically JUGGLING them!!) but it IS mentally challenging. You have to constantly be aware of them, switch gears from one age group to another and balance your orders\/reminders\/screams with your need to let them be more independent\/grow\/learn to do it themselves.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Okay… so it is a little exhausting!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And it seems crazy to ADD this type of style to ALL of the aspects of your life.\u00a0 Juggling the care of finances, job, filing, housework, socialization, blogging, dating and every other little niggling “to do” part of your life.\u00a0 But that’s what most of us have done and I’m one of the worst!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Okay.. not really.. just sometimes it FEELS like I’ve become really BAD at Reality.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Coachella was so wonderful it didn’t really help much with this Bad Reality, either!\u00a0 My kids were ecstatic to see me, even though they had fun at Grandma’s cuz she took them out to breakfast both days.\u00a0 But they tend to really miss Mom.\u00a0 Not just cuz with me they have the house they are used to and my cooking and space to move.\u00a0\u00a0 Luke revealed they miss the fact I show them love.\u00a0 Which their very Asperger’s “humans are confusing”<\/em> Dad has a lot of difficulty with.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But that Monday was hectic and crazy.\u00a0 I had to try and get my taxes done, help with homework and take Luke to his shrink apt.\u00a0 And the taxes were NOT cooperating!\u00a0 I was stressed and freaking and finally just finished it in a rush of “cross your fingers”.\u00a0 Add to that I couldn’t FIND the mailing address AND just then my printer began to hiccup problems PLUS the kids are “we’re hungry!”\u00a0 By the time I rushed them all out the door at 7pm to find a post office I was a bundle of adrenaline\/stress hormones!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ah but fickle fate isn’t done with her Bitch.. nooooo!\u00a0 In the rush down the street of our canyon home a deer tries to commit suicide-by-car.\u00a0 Yup!\u00a0 Ran RIGHT across the road\u00a0 in front of my car.\u00a0 GOD those are dumb animals!\u00a0 Squirrels have more sense! <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I saw it coming and tried to factor in that it should stop…\u00a0 might serve… Holly Shit It’s going to cross right in front of us!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The boys were all… “What is THAT!”\u00a0 “Oh No!”\u00a0 “What is a DEER doing here!”\u00a0 etc. in the back & front seats.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lovely Fate giving me something NEW to deal with, spice up my life… yeah.. thanks.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I hear this in the back seat.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Conor:<\/em> That Deer’s lucky he’s not a squirrel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Evan:<\/em> Yeah.. then she would have gunned it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Luke:<\/em> Mom, would you really have tried to hit the deer?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Me:<\/em> Of course not….\u00a0\u00a0 that would damage the car too much!\u00a0 Did you see the size of that thing!
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Gotta keep the humor up when you’re Fickle Fate’s Bitch!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


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