Sometimes it's so good to be a parent. Not a better feeling in the world than outsmarting a kid who thinks they've pulled one over.
Christopher left his homework at his dad's this weekend so his dad's girlfriend called here to make arrangements to get that in the proper hands. I'm thinking C. knew last night that she'd be calling. He spent an awful lot of time when he returned home trying to subtly convince me that she and I don't get along. I assured him that she and I got along famously and he was rather insistent that no, we didn't. Now I know why. If he'd have succeeded in getting me to believe that she had a problem with me, I'd have been less likely to engage in a long conversation with her when she called. Makes sense.
Since he didn't get me convinced you can imagine his disdain when she called and I was able to talk to her. Not only was I able to talk to her, I cleared an hour and an half to talk to her. Learned a lot of things, cleared the air, compared notes, and formulated some new plans for keeping consistency between the two homes. Where C. is concerned his upbringing is not a disjointed effort between four people. It's a team effort between four people who love him and want what's best for him. Right now he's pretty sure the two moms are ganging up on him. au contraire... it's two mothers who love their children and will get along with each other to spite them all.
The rules between the two places are somewhat different but the behavior expectations are the same. He will be honest, respectful, and decent. Four sets of eyes and ears are upon him at all times. Poor kid can't escape. Can't pit us against each other. He's gonna have to grow into a fine young man like it or not.
Opinion time. I bought justlisa.com in 1999 on my birthday so it's time to renew the name and the hosting. This site is really boring the way it is now. I have tons of photographs but no time to upload and make any sense of them. It also seems that when I have time to really post something with meaning, blogger is down or screwing up. Now is the opportune time for me to upgrade my hosting so that I can move to greymatter or moveable type for the words. If I upgrade the hosting I can also try out some of the php/mysql solutions for displaying my photos.
I go back and forth in my mind. With money being a huge issue right now it would be more financially sound to just drop the domain and the hosting and kiss justlisa goodbye. At the same time I'd really love to display more photography. It would give me more reason to practice my hobby and would get me away from this damn computer. I am absolutely terrible at making decisions like this. My brain screams at me to be responsible while my heart encourages me to do something fun.
Now I know my friends who visit here will encourage me to listen to my heart but seriously, is there really a need for yet another photolog? I've also been tossing around the idea of building a community like pixelpile with the difference being that anyone could share photographs. There's probably something like that already on the net and I just don't know about it yet.
Grrrrrrrrrr.... I just don't know. Any comments/suggestions would be most appreciated.
