Real talk how concerned would you be if you rolled up and your elementary school student’s teacher was rocking a full yeehaw howdeedoodee cowboy outfit in a very irrelevant region of the US? I have been towing the line a bit but I just found a PERFECT old roper shirt at the thrift store and I get sad when I can’t wear it. I’m autistic and get really fixated on certain clothes. At the same time I don’t want to weird out my students’ parents.

We just covered British imperialism in NZ, Australia, South Africa, and Canada in our homeschool history class last week. I’m always impressed at how the kids engage with and respond to this stuff. We talked about self-determination, who got that right and who was denied it, dividing and conquering native populations, all that stuff that kids love.

Our oldest will probably need to go back to public school next year (in NC which is trying its damnedest to kill public schools), so I have to cram in the rest of modern history this year.

So what’s the potty training strat? My kid’s totally defiant, refuses to even entertain the idea of using the toilet. They’ve got their own special one with a pretend flusher and a special seat to sit on the big toilet. We’re closing in on 3 years old here and I’m sick of changing poop

Last week of dad leave, returning to less flexible work arrangement than I left

Definitely not as punishment though, no sir

Our week went pretty well. Felt a lot like it was back to normal. Nothing drama to really report.

I had a “hiring event” style interview for the local hospital. I made a post about it. But I get there and wait in line for 45 mins to finally get to the actual interview and like 5 mins into it, they tell me the position was actually filled 3 days ago because the person that quit asked for their job back. So yeah big fucking waste of my time.

I am attempting to network to try and find clients and I’d really like this to just fucking take off so I can make websites for people and have an income because I think I’m basically done with the job thing for now on. Working is a fucking joke. But yeah I"m trying to get out of post-interview funk. I applied an IT position for a local gas station chain and I guess I’m on their blacklist for getting fired from there 10 years ago when I was working as a cashier and the firing was over a miscommunication. I was fired because coworkers didn’t understand delegation of duties but the lady that was stealing cartons of cigarettes got a promotion. Such is life.

Moving on, me and the oldest have our first scouts meeting tonight. We missed last week’s. They are already planning a camping trip so I need to plan for easy vegan snacks for that weekend since I don’t wanna be that guy. I am already prepping for 2 whole days of masking(autism, not facemask) so that is going to be draining.

Had our first “big kid” birthday party recently. Everything went pretty well, but wow is this kind of thing just exhausting to manage lol. Going to need to book myself a long weekend just to recover from this every year.

6 and a half month old has parainfluenza and it’s gone to us (mum and dad). This sucks

Last weekend I did a foolish thing and attempted to unstuck our riding lawn mower after a wheel came off the ramp into the shed and the mower couldn’t back up.

I managed to move it using wood I had laying around like a lever, but in doing so I fucked up my shoulders and neck. On top of that I have been sick, low apatite and a cough. Yet on top of THAT, kid 2 gave us about 4 hours of sleep last night.

I’m dogging it. No fevers at all, so not sure what I have, but probably something from either daycare or work (students are back, with all their summer germs).

Here is hoping for better sleep tonight.