by Mir | Apr 10, 2006 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Today was my first day teaching math enrichment in Chickadee’s class. Someone else actually handled the first session (last week) and had already caught me up on where they were and what should happen next and all of that. I arrived with plenty of time to spare...
by Mir | Apr 9, 2006 | Growing
My eBay auctions are over, and the most memorable part that will remain in my mind was a woman mailing me to ask if my shipping cost on an item was a typo. I mailed back that it was not, and she responded telling me that she hoped I could sleep at night, despite the...
by Mir | Apr 8, 2006 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
It is amazing what twelve hours of continuous sleep followed by a bowl of off-brand Froot Loops will do for your outlook. I’m still sick, but now when I cough up chunks of stuff I sort of feel like maybe I am just clearing out the remnants of whatever virus this...
by Mir | Apr 6, 2006 | My name is Grumplestiltskin
Quiz time! No peeking at your neighbor’s paper. 1) I hurriedly put up some eBay auctions to get rid of the outgrown matching dress sets Chickadee and I had. (Hush up in the back there; I mean SHE outgrew her dresses. Mine still fit.) a) Will they fetch a grand...
by Mir | Apr 5, 2006 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!
I spent most of my evening trying to transfer some files from my old dinosaur of a computer over to my shiny new(ish) computer. I thought I’d transferred everything to my laptop before I moved the old computer, but I thought wrong. The ONE file I wanted tonight...
