I missed a day. Darn it. I was just beyond exhausted last night, and I don't even know why. I slept late, and then we were home cleaning house and stuff, and my parents and aunt and uncle came for dinner, but it wasn't like I worked myself to death for that. I fell asleep at nine, and thus didn't get to post last night, breaking my longest ( Read more... )

Today was supposed to be back to work and school, but we had a light dusting of snow and subzero temperatures, so it was canceled. Tomorrow, too. I must admit that it's pretty nice to have extra time off at the end of a vacation, but I will be bummed at the loss of those random extra days off that our school district has every month. They start ( Read more... )

I went to meet my parents for lunch and shopping today, and as I was leaving, I told M that I was going to buy stuff, a lot of stuff. "I am going to party like it's 1999!" I told him, because I am a nutjob. He gave me the eyebrow look and said, "1999. So, when you were 20. You are going to buy two books made out of paper and maybe a Counting Crows ( Read more... )

Tonight, we came home from a full day (and evening last night) with my parents. It was well past Evie's bedtime, and the house was cold because we always turn it down when we're away overnight. I told her to get ready for bed and then I got a phone call, so I sat down at my desk and she came back when I was finished and climbed up into my lap. I ( Read more... )

I post all the time in my head. Then I look at the calendar and realize that posting on your head is not actually enough. I wish I had started nanoblmo. Is that what the bloggy one is called? Alas, I did not think of it in time and of course you can't start late with some completely arbitrary project like that, you know ( Read more... )

I don't want my kid to spout off with offensive language, but I also haven't been too vigilant about protecting her from ever hearing it. I kinda figure she's got to be a resident in the world the way it is, to some degree, and she needs to know that some words are not for children. How will she learn what those words are if she never heard them ( Read more... )

So I have joined the early 2000s and finally have a smart phone. That means that I am sitting outside of Evie's violin lesson and I am looking for an excuse to play with my phone. Umm.. I mean, I am excited about posting to my journal while I am away from home. Yeah. No, but seriously, I am kinda loving my new phone. It is a Samsung Galaxy S4 ( Read more... )

You guys, I have unearthed a piece of our internet history. I went looking for a specific post and found this: post about Facebook in November 2007. I wrote some funny things and then received funny replies from carrieb and lizardek and reebert and e11en and ms_jacket and ozswede and ellyll and geeklibrarian. We seem to feel a little differently, five years later ( Read more... )

Oh, how glad I am that the election is over. Yesterday, I was daydreaming about leaving Facebook entirely because I was just so darned tired of everyone thinking that they have an opinion that needs shared. Not just political opinions! It's the constant onslaught of hearing from people in such different stages of life and situations and people I ( Read more... )

"I am sick" posts are the second worst posts ever (the first being "Let me tell you about the dream I had last night...") so I have been trying to spare everyone from hearing it. Yes. That's why I haven't posted anything in a month. I am THAT generous, people. And now we are segueing neatly into the third worst posts, which are, "It's been so ( Read more... )