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I don’t know what happened to me this morning. I passed out after I sent the kids to school and slept for three hours. Three. Hours. WTF? I then managed to get some laundry done and cleaned the fish tank…
and another thing
I forgot to mention that I won a book on GoodReads Giveaways! It’s the new, not quite out yet Seanan McGuire novel Midnight Blue Special. It’s an Incryptid novel and I really like the first one, so I’m excited to…
Life Happens
Today was the first day of my professional development block, which means I don’t teach for a block. Instead I do professional development, which in my case is write. Of course I didn’t write a lot today, since I still…
Reading and Food and Orchids
I really hadn’t realized how little reading I’ve been doing of late. I buy tons of books and then don’t end up reading them. So my TBR stacks of actual books and ebooks are really large. Massive. Enormous. Anyhow, I…
Book Club Selection
And the next book club reading selection for March 2nd, is Moon Called by Patty Briggs. Voting went: Moon Called IIIII IIII Temping II Between IIII Alchemystic III Unholy Ghosts III Now let’s hope everyone can read and be there…
Children and Other Strange Creatures
Sometimes children are marvelous creatures and very unexpected. Today in the afternoon, I told the kids they could play some video games once girlie finished her reading homework and boy finished his clarinet practice. This countermanded a day before timeout…
Vote on a book for Book Club
What do you suppose the first rule of Book Club is? It can’t be that we don’t talk about it. I mean, what’s the point of book club if we don’t talk? Incidentally, it’s been a night of drama at…
On the Roller Coaster Again plus a snippet
Somebody is coming to look at the house tomorrow. This is where I frantically clean (actually the house was mostly ready, but I did work on the kids’ rooms and some straightening. I will do some kitchen maintenance in the…
Call for Book Club Nominees
All right then. Time to take on more nominees for the next reading round. I’m so excited! Unless it doesn’t seem workable, I’d like to do the next discussion on March 2nd. Since Magic Study was more of a traditional…
Superbowl
It was a really good game. Actually, the first half sort of put me to sleep, but the second half–wow. It was wild. I was rooting for the 49ers, but I couldn’t be sorry for the Ravens winning. The second…