First of all, I got myself a shiny new job!! Starting in September, I will be a preschool teacher! The director has been given permission to take over this absolutely HUGE room that is currently serving as a nursery once a week during Sunday School hours. I get to write lesson plans and play with three-year-olds and help rearrange this room to ( Read more... )

pfew! Long week! I did the half-marathon in St. Louis on Sunday. Finished in 2:34:31. Not exactly breaking the sound barrier, but it's better than I thought I'd do. My aunt shot off an email today. Two words "do another" and a link to a Lewis and Clark trail one in September ( Read more... )

Gacracktica ended. *trauma* But it was good, with the ring and the choking and what I assume was a Forrest Gump reference with the bird ( Read more... )

...and boy, do I have projects! First of all, my cousin Sami called me right after New Years to ask if I wanted to do a marathon with her and my aunt Monica. There's a half-marathon option, so I'm doing that. I've been doing pretty well. I only made half my goal on Saturday before I started wheezing and feeling gross, but I made it up yesterday ( Read more... )

So, last week, I went to St. Louis. Spent a good damn long time there. We had a blast.
( the stash )

The good news is that Tim-Tams have hit the U.S. The real ones ( Read more... )

Holy CRAP has the ferret been a busy girl ( Read more... )

My dad had spine surgery yesterday. They were going to replace a disk in his neck, but they ended up fusing a couple vertebrae up there. That's all I know about the surgery itself, and it's all I care to know. *shudder* All went well, and they almost discharged him last night. His blood pressure was a little high, so they kept him there ( Read more... )

So I'm in the Midwest. Y'know, the midwest that's been flooding like all mad hell. I'm nowhere near the actual flooding but it's been raining almost every day. I love the rain. Beats the hell out of the nasty, muggy, rainless heat ( Read more... )

Let's see if I can type a multi-paragraph post in twenty minutes or less. Women's Murder Club starts soon. Yay new fandom! Last few days have been nutters, starting with Mother's Day ( Read more... )