Stupid Human Tricks
Specifically, stupid human mental gymnastics. I have been beating myself up a lot lately. It has to do with the house not selling. The latest lookers liked it, but not enough. It’s very demoralizing, along with my other emotional sadness…
Admissions and a snippet
I admit that it’s been a hard day. I had a bit of a meltdown actually. The culprit is Valentine’s day. But not in the way that you might thing. My husband and I don’t usually do much for V…
bububbbbbb
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…
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…
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…
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…
Book Club Poison Study
I finished reading Poison Study last night. Can’t wait to talk about it. Really looking forward to the discussion too. How are you all doing gearing up for Saturday’s discussion? I’m going to set it up to start in the…