Gioconda has a job in San Jose and since she hasn't been anywhere for a while she decided to visit her son Julien in Berkeley and make a weekend of it.
She is certainly more housebound than I am, and so I was glad she made the decision to go.
It's hard for her to leave the kids, but sometimes a change of scenery is required.
This is the first time I have been alone the girls since they have been so mobile. I suspect they may be using of some sort of performance enhancer as they have become bigger and lighting quick in the matter of weeks, and lets not forget I'm old and slow, so its a lot-for really anyone.
Typically my "change of scenery" is the craps tables at Cesar's, and I'm sort of feeling that pull lately, so strategically it was a good move on my part to be supportive of this little trip.
There is so much that has to be done at my house every single day, a 24 hour reprieve is literally a vacation.
Two pooping toddlers, pooping dogs, cats, birds, rabbits...pig- who are BIG poopers..I bet I clean up ten thousand tons of shit each day....and then what makes the poop...feeding all these mammals ( and birds).
I'll bet if you lined up all the turds that occur at 2107 in any particular day it would reach completely around the world at least once, if you stacked each turd on top of each other it would be a turd ladder to the sun.
Last April my Grandmother died which required me to travel to Iowa for the funeral service, the girls were only eight weeks at the time. Although I did have a bit of guilt about leaving Gioconda with new born twins, with the uninterrupted sleep I felt utterly refreshed and re energized by the time of the service.
Those 72 hours I spent away from home were the most relaxing of my life.
It's not that I don't love my family and enjoy my pets, and I did miss my daughters during that blissful 72 hour period, yet at that point in time I felt as though I hadn't had a decent nights sleep in over three months. I knew Gioconda felt the same way, but she coped with it better.
Now, I feel like I haven't had a decent nights sleep since April of 2009.
Gioconda has been sleep deprived for years now. When I first met her she would fall asleep if she was sitting still for more than 10 minutes. Concerts, movies, a play, within the first few minutes she would be gone.
It seemed so strange to me at the time...how could someone ever be THAT tired...and then I found myself happy to be leaving town to attend a funeral.
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