Leg cramps.

Trying to figure out how to sew the perfect applique without it being all crooked and bunchy like it was last time (sorry, Audrey and John.).

Too much thinking about work.

I should write more essays and make more lessons.

My legs hurt.

Someone is snoring in my bed. I'm glad there's at least one person in the house sleeping.

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My dad, the media darling.

On Friday we drove down to Huntington Beach State Park. Our plan was to rent bikes at Pawley's Island and ride the bike paths at the park, but we decided it was too much trouble to drive south, rent the bikes, ride for a couple of hours, and then take them back. The state park would rake in the dough if they rented their own bikes and kayaks. So no ( Read more... )

I haven't said much about Myrtle Beach yet, mostly because I tried to avoid it. We picked Myrtle based on it's total and utter cheapness. We got a decent condo on the beach cheaper than we could have stayed in an Arkansas Motel 6. Tacky, crowded resorts aren't my thing, and there's absolutely no way you'd ever get me there in the middle of summer, ( Read more... )

We went fishing. It was cold (48 damn degrees) and windy and cloudy, and I didn't catch a damn thing. It didn't help that the man fishing next to me was some doddering bastard who couldn't seem to keep his line from getting tangled with others'. Plus he intruded on my personal space. Steve caught two sea bass after I retreated to the boat cabin ( Read more... )

I hate shopping, but I loooove outlet malls. We spent the whole day here (since it was too chilly and drizzly to have any fun outside), and it was not crowded at all. Best shopping experience of my life, plus I wiped out the clearance racks at the Gap.

I also headed into Motherhood Maternity, not because I suddenly have a need for stylish maternity ( Read more... )

We packed up at 1:28 a.m. Monday "morning" to leave for South Carolina. Steve slept all day while I packed, and then once we were on the road, it was my turn to sleep.

I fell asleep in North Little Rock and woke up in Birmingham. Then I woke up, politely offered to drive he next leg of the trip, and after Steve declined (crazy man!), promptly fell ( Read more... )

I'm home all by myself tonight! Steve's at the AC/DC concert with our crazy neighbor,Geneva's with John...I am so excited I can't stand it! I got to sing David Bowie songs in the shower and eat Cheetos for dinner, and no one bothered me all night. I also started planning my garden for this year. I googled subjects like "unique seed catalog" and " ( Read more... )

I really feel like I should say something profound (you know, to make up for the lack of profundity the last few weeks.), but all I have is fragments. It's a start.

I've been doing more cooking, and holy crap, I am completely floored at how the grocery budget has quad-frickin-drupled since Steve came home. I mean, he's only one person (albeit one ( Read more... )

I started this as a comment to Jen's blog, but decided a multi-paragraphed comment would be a little too overzealous for someone else's blog. So I've got it up here instead, even though I didn't intend to write about the election today.

When I first saw the subject line in Jen's blog (she gave us fair warning that the blog was about politics and ( Read more... )