The house is mostly empty (except for sleeper couch) and it is cleeeeean!! (Thanks cadency ( Read more... )

I feel like a bad mom because my younger two children are actually wearing storebought costumes. But I guess this won't affect their ability to survive to adulthood ( Read more... )

I have mentioned before (perhaps not here, but definitely in person to my RL friends) what a real piece of work my only living grandmother is. Some moms think their kids can do no wrong. My grandma thinks her kids can do no right. Which explains why she once berated my father, calling him stupid etc., in front of his kids, at his 60th birthday ( Read more... )

On this day I logged in to the 'net from 41,000 feet. Southwest satellite Wi-fi: WOOT!! Connection speed is pretty fast. Some day my kids or grandkids will say, "What's the big deal about surfing the web from a plane?" But right now it's pretty amazing.

Originally we were just going to pay Home Depot to take out our old (grimy, dark purple) carpet and replace it with something new. But then they told us that they wouldn't install over wood floors, and we happened to have the original-to-our-house parquet hiding the carpet. We knew the parquet was not salvageable (it had sustained damage from ( Read more... )

I realize it is stupid to post this here, since all of my friends here are of the very tolerant variety, but I don't have the balls to post it on Facebook. Here goes ( Read more... )

There is a big moving truck parked in our driveway right now. After picking it up this morning, we took it up to Public Storage; Alma, Lehi and I emptied our storage unit (with minimal help from Nephi). I think Moving Truck Tetris is easier to play than computer Tetris--though I seem to be pretty good at both ( Read more... )

One thing I always disliked about California was the lack of seasons. (I don't count "dry" and "monsoon" as seasons.) So I was pretty excited about moving to a place with four distinct seasons. I did worry, though, as a chronic depressive, that lack of sunshine would affect my mood for the worse. But hey, this is Colorado!! It's rare we get ( Read more... )

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Just wanted to say that I got the Outstanding Teaching Assistant award.

It's nice to be good at *something*...