Effing figures.

The teenage boy is refusing to get out of bed to go to school, complaining of lack of sleep due to a headache that he told me the ibuprofen had taken care of when I checked in at bedtime.

Dude. The husband and I have a date here at 11. Go. To. School.

He started angling for this last night, and I said no then. I'm working from home and ( Read more... )

Well, the x-ray shows a very bad sprain and a partial fracture that I need to watch out for. Came home from work the past two days and elevated the foot, wrapped in bags of frozen corn, and read the latest Annie Dillard book...taking notes because gracious this one triggered some stuff in my head.

It's good to sit like this and let the to-do list ( Read more... )

What's your cure for the common cold?

Is there a cure?

I've tried it all...sleep, vitamin C and echinacea, hot tea made with fresh lemon, honey, ginger and cayenne, miso soup, garlic broth, sleep, water, sleep.

Sometimes I can catch it early with kold kare, airborne or a similar product.

There's always a six week period of the late fall/early ( Read more... )

Ooosh.
I
 had such big plans for today. The weather is spectacular and I got a bunch of inside chores knocked down early, walked Lila over to play with her friend Fatou out back, then started cutting out the dead stuff in the perennial garden. When I grabbed the full buckets to walk over to the compost, with the plan to fill the wheelbarrow with bark ( Read more... )

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Testing out the livejournal xposting feature...oh...a year late.

I've been missing the connections I was starting to make here and there and am a little slow on the uptake. Turns out I can do both at the same time. Whee!

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So I finally came up with a name for what the hell I do over here...a name to use for the website/blog which will be moved to its own domain very soon. I got the idea from my NaNo novel. I tell you, I feel this last month as if I’m just being led along, that if I pay close enough attention, the next thing will be right there waiting for me ( Read more... )

Lila just fell asleep on the floor under my desk chair. I wish the camera battery was charged (for this and so I could have gotten a picture of the hunormous ring around the moon last night) but I keep forgetting to charge it. Dummy.

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So I got up early (5:30), and over the course of several hours wrote 2100 words for day 1 of NaNoWriMo. I logged my word count, reached for my water bottle, and knocked it over on my keyboard. Now I’ll stop bitching about the fact that I bought a tower instead of a laptop ( Read more... )