Today I had this great idea to go to the wildlife refuge--where we haven't gone since spring--and pick pecans (pick them up off the ground, that is). It was a cool fall day, rain is coming in tomorrow, and it seemed like the perfect whimisical outing with a good dose of nature and solitude. Will wanted to wear his Grumpy tail, so I tied it on for ( Read more... )

In this evening's workout, for warmup,  we had to do exercises that correlated with the amount of calories you would have to burn for one fun-size candy bar. So we'd grab a square of paper that said "Baby Ruth, 240 jumping jacks" or whatever and you and your partner would have to split the exercise together before grabbing another ( Read more... )

One of Will's favorite phrases lately, along with "Halloween is coming up!" and today, "Will has a tail! Luna, Will has a tail too ( Read more... )

The weekend downpour finally turned into a thin, chilly drizzle today--brought me straight back to Oregon nostalgia. Especially when the droplets collected on all the my fine hair and all kinds of frizzy curlies emerged until I had a legitimate frizzy halo. I definitely had my best hair while living in Utah ( Read more... )

Today I was thinking that it would be fun to be able to do New Game + on my life. I'll get old and die and stuff, the usual, then go back to being a baby/toddler/kid and growing up again, but with all my skillz and knowledge intact. It would be so fun and empowering! I'd just love to repeat that time when my first grade teacher punished my best ( Read more... )

Today continued to rain. Will and I went on an hour-long walk, where he literally lay down in the gutters and went "swimming" (I would have taken a picture if I hadn't been on the phone at the time). Alas, I only have the ones where he's on his feet.


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Rebecca Black's "Friday" has just come unbidden to my head. Quick, turn on some different music ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning at 3:50, thanks to my phone buzzing like crazy because 9 delayed text messages all decided to make an early morning entrance. I was really confused at first because I had set my phone alarm for 4:55 so I could do the early CG workout. So I sat and stared at it for a while trying to figure out if it was time to wake up, and ( Read more... )

Our plan: to go to the renaissance festival near Houston with some of our D&D friends--Ross and his wife and son Nathan, and Jeff and Amanda (and their 5-year-old daughter Anya). Jeff and Amanda were going to camp with us at the adjoining campground while the other family were going to get a hotel, and we'd join up the next day. Then we were all ( Read more... )

I was going to finish up talking about the Ren Faire tonight, but I'm out of time with too many papers to grade before tomorrow, so I'll have to put it off. Plus I don't have all my pictures yet (Amanda and Jeff have some on their camera). Hopefully I'll get them by tomorrow ( Read more... )