So I have two and a half weeks to go.  Two and a half weeks!  If I follow tradition (my own, personal, tradition) this will spin out into four weeks.  I am enormous.  My feet are distant memories.

But no time for that today.  Today we're seeing a play with the kids.  Exciting!  It may be my only play this season. 

I stopped buying cold cereal about a year or so ago.  Cold cereal is interesting in terms of social history and marketing, but it’s not a particularly good breakfast food.  It’s also really expensive and full o’ the excessive packaging.  The local grocery store flyer has various cold cereals on sale for $3.99 (regular $5.99), for boxes of 385 to ( Read more... )

After the aforementioned mango chutney and today’s nine pints of mango salsa, I think I am finished canning mangoes.  The salsa called for green mangoes, and that was good because that’s all that was left at the grocery that had them on sale for 48 cents each.  I have about nine of them left over and the plan is to wait until they’re ripe and then ( Read more... )

 
During the summer of 2006, I canned a couple of things.  In 2007, I canned a lot (we had a farm share that year and I was frequently overrun with produce).  Last year, I canned nothing.  This year, I plan to put up more food than ever before.  Our garden will be bigger than it’s ever been (still quite tiny) and my schedule will allow for ( Read more... )

My sister just had a new baby, so welcome to the world, nephew! He’s seven pounds and twelve ounces of cute (apparently - I haven’t seen him yet -- but why would they lie about that?).

I think that I get panicky that I may not have money to spend in the near to distant future, and want to spend some now, while I still have the chance. Here’s a quick round up of things I have bought that have brought me varying degrees of pleasure:

A record player

Everyone go out and buy one right now! Record players are awesome. All of those ( Read more... )

Oh, Family Day!  What a rip-off.  Not only is this during reading week, making the whole thing null and void as a holiday, but it cuts into the actual reading I have to do because the children are all home.  And will be on Friday since it’s (yet another) PA day.

I’m going into Toronto tomorrow and I demand to have a fantastic time.

was just telling me about his writing project at school.

"It's going to be so cool!  At the very end, on the last page, it's going to say "'THE END', but there's also going to be a question mark!  So it might not really be the end."

Rock on, kiddo!

Pick up the last transcripts from the registrar’s office.

Write the statements of interest for the last two schools.

Send application packages by courier.

Finish reading a novel (1/3 done) for tomorrow’s class.

Send a discussion question on the novel to the professor today.

Do some research for the R.A. job.

Think about the topic for my seminar in two ( Read more... )

Pick up the last transcripts from the registrar’s office.

Write the statements of interest for the last two schools.

Send application packages by courier.

Finish reading a novel (1/3 done) for tomorrow’s class.

Send a discussion question on the novel to the professor today.

Do some research for the R.A. job.

Think about the topic for my seminar in two ( Read more... )