Bah, summer cold. Yesterday I was achy, today I feel shaky and emotional. Anyone else cry easily when you have a cold? It's gray and damp today, which is perfect. Sometimes I find it offensive that the sun is shining so brightly, it's as if it's mocking me for wanting to be a lump for the day ( Read more... )

Try and tell me you won't be singing this one tomorrow

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Brian and I spent most of the day outside working on the yard. What a mess. God, it's going to take forever to get it looking presentable. The front yard isn't too bad and I am probably going to do most of the work there because the backyard is depressing. There is no grass back there, just bare patches and weeds. And one corner just reeks of cat ( Read more... )

Got over to the West Side Market so I could buy vegetables today. We also stopped into the Glass Bubble Project in the far corner of the market parking lot; it's a tiny little building where they make glass and if you are lucky you can observe them making beautiful things. Ivy could stay and watch them blowing glass for a while, but Miranda gets ( Read more... )

Today has already started much better, in great part due to my going to bed around 11:30 instead of staying up until 3AM. We're headed to a great park with some other homeschooling families--one of them has a daughter whom Miranda is friends with, so she will have someone to run around with. I say it over and over but--we really need to get out ( Read more... )

Bah. I thought I had a new Etsy order, but in checking over records, it appears a previous customer accidently sent me a duplicate email. And I was already planning how to spend the money. I had a string of sales for a while, and now it's dwindled back to nothing. Sometimes it's a little discouraging reading blogs of more well-known artists who ( Read more... )

Daylight savings time is really messing me up this year. I thought I would be glad to have the extra daylight in the evening, but I am utterly disoriented. I can't believe it's nearly 6PM. And it just doesn't feel right, it's still gray, no buds on the trees, no signs of Spring. I am such a creature of habit, it's hard for me to adjust my routines ( Read more... )

Guess what arrived in the mail today! The post office did forward my package from Yesasia.

Craft Cafe Kids ISBN 4529043320


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I explained to the girls that we could take the money we would spend at Chuck E. Cheese and there would be enough for a trip to Buildabear. Along with a 10.00 coupon I had been saving, they each got a new toy, and no bright lights and loud noises and pizza and misery over not having enough tickets to get one of the cool prizes. After that we went ( Read more... )

My Japanese books, the ones I mistakenly had sent to my old address, apparently were delivered to that house last Wednesday. I haven't heard from my neighbor as to whether or not the new tenants were able to pass on the package to her, and I am hesitant to call because 1. It's a phone call and 2. I really do feel as though I am bugging her, she ( Read more... )