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Missed FallFest
A big part of my life these days involves sifting and sorting, deciding what has the highest priority for my limited time and resources. I have two teens. The youngest is 14 and the other will be 16 next month. I'm a home-based charter school Learning Coach for the 14 year old, my 16 year old has special needs involving a lot of doctor ( Read more... ) -
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Can't get LJ cut to work right. Comes out bold, underlined and run togehter. Can someone remind me how to use correctly, or point me to a guide? Thank you. :) -
Curry Heaven
Found a lovely little Indian market on the way home from Ehren's dance class. Tonight's dinner was channa dal samosa with sweet mango chutney, meatballs kafta curry over basmati rice, and curried spinach with chickpeas. There was naan too, we had purchased it frozen and thawed it in the oven. Homemade would have been better but we were in the ( Read more... ) -
More On Sleep Hygiene
Last night, as the children were preparing for bed, I made a batch of dream tea with stevia. I let it steep a good long time, and then after drinking it, decided to have a bath ( Read more... ) -
Sorry, folks
I've having an ongoing problem getting the lj cut to work properly. -
Ahh, sleep
Winter break was glorious. We slept as late as we liked. We spent the few days after New Year's Day trying to get back on schedule.
But when the alarm went off yesterday morning I thought I had been hit by a truck. The cats had been unusually rowdy in the night, and I don't sleep well to begin with. After the kids left for school, I tried to go ( Read more... ) -
The Visitor, Five Fingers, State of Play
We watched three DVDs this weekend:
The Visitor
Five Fingers
State of Play
The Visitor was the best of the three. It's about a middle aged widower whose life is no longer very meaningful to him, and the young sweet couple that he befriends and helps. The friendship leads to the man finding new meaning in his life.
The next best of the three was State of ( Read more... ) -
Rolling Up My Sleeves
For the next three days my tasks are: Rent the biggest monster of a carpet steamer I can find. (Our carpet steamer is too wimpy.) Steam the room. Let it dry. Repeat until the color of the walkways resembles the parts that were covered by furniture. Wash the walls and prep for painting. The color is La Fonda Flamenco Pink, and while it sounds ( Read more... ) -
Ay Yi Yi!!!
I've been receiving a lot of internet hoax spam lately. Yesterday I got one. I do not know the person who sent it to me. It was a petitiion for Congress to stop them from paying social security and medicaid to illegal aliens. Like they are a bunch of loonie fools and we have to stop them from ruining the country ( Read more... )