One would assume that Grad school is much like upper level classes. I knew I would be required to write and read a great deal. Wrong! It also requires catering a whole meal to your fellow class mates on your designated night. The first night of class a food sign up list goes round the room and each student takes a night and brings food i.e. ( Read more... )

Stir crazy with the tropical storm that hangs over my house, dumping water on every thing. I decided to go to Disney with oldest child. We thought with such horrible weather that hordes of people would stay away from the parks. Wrong! I imagine if you pay thousands to get to Florida to have a Disney world vacation rain or shine - tropical storm Fay ( Read more... )

Chris - Yea! made it to Fourth grade. All that intensive tutoring over the summer did the trick. Chris loved her - she treated the class like a puzzle to be solved - and the little man loves puzzles ( Read more... )

Exercise in rain soaked Florida is a challenge - every time and I mean every time I take the children to the pool or the water park even after consulting the weather report - it storms. The kids believe a large thunderstorm tracks our movements around central Florida. Yesterday while at Typhoon Lagoon - it rained for one hour of our visit - I ( Read more... )

Weekend before last I spent a decadent and fun filled week end with NO kids. We drove down to Sev and Lisa's to visit their new house and partake of their more than beyond good cooking.

Saturday a.m. we traveled down to Sarasota and toured the Ringling - got to see my favorite painting in the whole world again. "The Blue Madonna"

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Your result for The hardcore SCA Test...
The Queen's Champion

You are really involved in the SCA. You probably have some really cool garb. You put a lot of work into playing the game and making sure its fun for others too. For a lot of folks an event wouldn't be the same without you. You probably have a tendancy to over do it sometimes ( Read more... )

I had a great time - To name a few highlights of the weekend ( Read more... )

Our weeks have been pretty much non stop socialization. Out of town friends staying at the house. Even got a call from India from one of my proteges yesterday near lunch time. It seem strange to talk to some one half a world away - with no time delay. This weekend holds even more of the same for my birthday weekend - Swamp Thing event Saturday, ( Read more... )

I understand out in the blogespheare that some of you are suffering - this mercury retrograde is particulary bad for some. Good news its almost over!! I of course am mostly immune as I was born during mercury retrograde ( Read more... )

1. Don't bit into a uncrustable "peanut butter sandwich" - that you've put into the microwave for twenty seconds. The boiling hot sugar is like napalm. note the burned lip ( Read more... )