Not sure if we did anything in that last few days. I think the last thing we talked about was going to Terrigal. We stayed home the rest of the week. Then again, I might remember something while I write this so you can probably ignore that last statement.
William is looking forward to his birthday. And by looking forward to it I mean his first words each morning are, is it my birthday yet.
We kind of made the mistake of asking him what he wanted for his birthday. Whenever we have asked Maeghan that, she always says I don't know. William is still listing things he wants and we asked him at least four or five days ago. He keeps adding to the list. I think he thinks if he asks for it, he will get it. His latest thing is he wants and Xbox. He went over to the grandkids house and they had a new game they were playing on their Xbox so he decided he wanted that game.
It might have been a good idea to get him one but Juanita has already bought a new one for me for Christmas and he does not know that. Maybe I will give him my old one. Then again, probably not. Mine is one of the original Xbox 360's. Probably four or five years old, maybe older. I am not sure when they came out but I know I got one soon after that. I use it mostly for watching TV and movies I have downloaded to my PC. Using media center is great, if kind of hard to get everything to work correctly. Once I set it up, I can download and watch anything on the TV. It's great. Kind of cuts into my game playing time as I have a huge backlog of things I have downloaded and have yet to watch but maybe I'll get around to it. Have a couple of games I got for Christmas last year that I have never played, so I don't get to buy any new ones until I play the old ones.
She got the Xbox for the new Kinect that came with it. I am sure I will have tales of us using that sometime after Christmas, but then again, probably only last of couple of months. We have the Wii and we play some games together on that, but not very often and not in the past year or so. William still plays it but we never seem to find the time to do it together.
Maeghan just got back to school and she and her friend are already planning on entering the talent show with something they have made up. They are calling it a play but I am not sure what kind of play it is yet. She only knew a couple of the things they are going to do so I am not sure if it is her idea or her friends.
They tried to do this a few months ago. Apparently, the school has this a few times a year. The kids have to audition for it and make up their own routines or whatever they are going to do. Last time, I think Maeghan and her friend had some kind of dance they were doing but they did not make the show. With this new thing, I am not sure they will make it this time either, but they love trying so that is the important part.
Maeghan has a few friends at the new school. She had friends at the old school but as they got older, they tended to run around and play games that Maeghan cannot keep up with, so they would leave her behind most of the time. Her friends at the new school have not done that yet and I hope it does not start to happen again. Her physical limitations keep her out of a lot of things she wants to do but just can't do as well as the other kids and they tend to leave her out of it. She has been trying a lot harder. The doctors told us to get her more exercise so we do some kind of walk almost everyday and we do not bring her wheelchair with us so she cannot sit and ride when she wants to.
She is slow and it takes a long time to get anywhere but she tries really hard and we are really proud of her for trying to do her best to keep up. We walked up to the shops the other day, her, William and myself. It is about a half hour walk for a normal person but we did it in about and hour with Maeghan. William got more tired that she did but we did take a few breaks that William did not take. He just kept running around instead of stopping and resting with us. By the time we got there, he was the one complaining the most. Of course, as soon as we got to the shops, he was running around again and trying to get me to buy him everything for his birthday.
Juanita came up later and picked us up in the car so we did not have to walk back. Not sure if they would have made it or not. Maeghan would have tried to make it but William would have complained enough to make it and unpleasant experience. We did get to get ice cream and chicken sandwiches while we were there, so they enjoyed that. William did get in trouble because he would not leave me alone when I bought them some lollies (candy) for later if they were good. He kept nagging me about them and trying to get them without me knowing until I told him he was not going to get any. Of course, I finally gave them to them anyway but it was getting close for a while.
Maeghan and I were going to go to some other shopping mall on Sunday, or I was going to go and Maeghan said she wanted to go but William said he didn't. Somehow, William got the impression we were going to Mingara and he decided he wanted to come too. After we got in the car and did not go towards Mingara he realised his mistake and wanted to go back home but we were already on the way so he had to come. Had to return something for Juanita at one of the shops that did not take the security tag off of it before she left. I got there and told them it was not my size and could I return it. Ok, it was bra's but the cashier got a kick out of it.
William and Maeghan got everything they wanted. Frozen cokes, play in the play area, chicken wings from KFC, so they were happy. Juanita also asked me to get her three face washers (I don't remember what we called them in America but I don't think it was face washers. Been here too long). I am not sure why three was the number she wanted but when I got to the place to buy them, they had three packs of six for $10, so I got her three packs. She didn't think that was funny when I gave them to her but now she has lots of extras.
We went for a walk after school yesterday and I used my new iPhone app that keeps track of where, how far, and how fast you are walking. It did really good, or I think it did. Today, when I used it, it was going good until I doubled back on where I had been because the coffee shop I usually stop at on my walks was not open yet and I had to go back to a previous one. The GPS got confused and said I had walked 10k when I had actually only walked about 2k. Not sure why it got confused but Juanita is coming over to go for another walk in about an hour and I will see how it goes then. It will post to Facebook if you want it to but I am not sure I want it to do that. Maybe after I get all the kinks out of it. It is supposed to be used for running but it says you can use it for any exercise, even stationary ones, to keep track of what you are doing.
I know, another fitness app that does not work or I will never keep up with, but if I don't keep trying, I will never be as healthy as I should be for a man in my condition. I am approaching 39 years old and that is getting just a little too close to 40 for me. Plus, I have the heart thingy, so any little bit helps. Which again reminds me to put the heart attack story in here. The kids weren't around back then so I am sure they will appreciate reading about it in later years. Alas, I am through typing for today so it will have to wait for another time.
I am going to be going now. Have to pretend to do some work or something that looks like I am working. Not sure why, I am at home by myself so no one knows if I am working or not. Then again, someone from work might stumble across this blog and find out what I am up to so I better say I do this on my off hours and not while I am supposed to be working. I think that covers it up for me.
So, until next time
Talk to you later
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