"Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied." -Douglas Adams
Ah, the quiet…
The reason Zach’s not in the picture with the other kids is that now as a middle schooler, he’s up and out the door about a half an hour before the elementary school kids. Which means I’m up and out of bed a half an hour before usual…
And as if today being [...]
So I like to knit socks. It’s kind of a weird thing to do, I know. I mean you can buy socks for like a $1. But sock knitting is the best way I de-stress. Something about making lots and lots of itty bitty loops with yarn and 4 pointy sticks [...]
So as most of you know, I’ve been dealing with a lot of “stuff”. Stuff out of my control and stuff I could really do without. It’s tough because I don’t like drama or unknowns or things that make me feel uncomfortable emotionally. (Or uncomfortable financially but that’s another day.)
I’ve been seeing [...]
So I’ve had the same 4 things on my To Do list for like two weeks now:
go to the fabric store (a ‘getting out of the house with or without 5 kids’ issue)
order sew-in business labels (requires a phone call to the West coast hence the procrastination)
call the “travel doctor” to [...]
School Supplies for 2009
144 pencils (sharpened)
8 pink erasers
2 boxes of 24 count crayons
10 glue sticks
2 bottles of 4oz glue
4 pairs of scissors
3 small supply boxes
1 long supply box
6 boxes of 8 count washable markers
3 water color paint sets
3 boxes of colored pencils
12 black dry erase markers
4 packages of 4 count dry erase markers
1 dry erase [...]
It’s so nice to be writing again. (Oh wait, I already said that.)
It’s so nice not to be puking.
Um yeah, at 31 years old, I’m still occasionally an idiot when it comes to alcohol. We went to a concert Friday night with a neighbor couple and the neighbor wife and I may have [...]