So I think that I may have mentioned in passing that I have the dubious honor of being a PTA chair this year. I think that usually, women with a lot of time on their hands and/or who really are concerned about the welfare of their children volunteer for these sorts of things. I don't have much time and I'm guessing that if I REALLY cared about the welfare of my children, I probably wouldn't be sending them to public school. Also, I'm quite clear that I never actually volunteered for anything. Yet here I am. Hi, I'm in charge the monthly newsletter. Please send your fascinating PTA news items...
Despite your well-wishes for my new robot lover and I to live a long and dustbunny-free life together, 'twas not to be. After taking him apart and lovingly cleaning his brushes ("Ewwww... how did all of this CRAP get in here when the stupid thing only RAN for FIVE MINUTES??") and swabbing his sensors (yeah, baby) and reading his troubleshooting guide, I came to an inescapable conclusion: One of the wheels was kaput. Oh, he had the cliff sensors and the whiskery wall sensor thingie and height control and happy brushes and all, but one of the wheels was so jammed up that it just. wouldn't....
You people are lovely. Thank you for petting my hair and being kind even though I am a big dork. To reward you for being so nice, I thought I'd share that yesterday I actually managed a BATH. Thereby rendering myself CLEAN for the first time time since... Thursday. Why am I admitting this, I have no idea. Perhaps to say, I AM GROSS! No, wait. To say, I AM FEELING LESS DEATH-LIKE. I also ate FOOD tonight for the first time since Thursday. Woo! Complete recovery is right around the corner. Or perhaps after another nap or twelve. I have many thrilling things to tell you (not really, but let's...
In the comments on the previous post, someone asked if I am, indeed, dating. Of course, I'm not certain if that person was asking if I was dating or if I was airquotes, nudgenudge winkwink DAAAAATING, so I'm not quite sure how to answer. As for the former---it depends on how you define dating; and as for the latter; oh look! Something SHINY! But I CAN tell you that today my membership to geeFlarmony expired. Isn't that sad? It is sad. 6 months, no results. Unless you want to count TED. Ted and I were matched just this weekend! While I was away! And in the time it took for me to 1) access the...
My entire day has been devoted to preparing to pack and actual packing and checking lists (not The List, but other lists) and emailing with the eleventy billion people I'm supposed to be coordinating with and packing some more and eating peanut butter Hershey's kisses because I bought them to be all NICE and SHARE-Y with Chris during our flight, but she was all "blah blah blah milk allergy" and I was all "you aren't HUMAN" and now I'm eating them because she doesn't want any because she's a robot. *inhale* I may be just EVERY SO SLIGHTLY keyed up. From the chocolate. Wait a sec, I have to go...
People. PEOPLE. Poor Otto; he read the comments on that last post (and a few others) and turned to me, shell-shocked, and said, "People say THESE THINGS knowing that YOUR PARENTS read your site. The THINGS they IMPLY. I can't get over it." (This from a man who likes his LL Bean chinos with a side of innuendo. Hmph.) Anyway, he would still be indignant, I think, if either of us had the energy to care. Or move. Tonight is our last night together, and we are completely spent. I've been using muscles that I didn't even know I had. We are sore and exhausted from moving in tandem for most of the...
Today was a positively magnificent day. MAGNIFICENT. Superb. Stupendous. Roget would have a field day with the last 24 hours, so replete with fantabulous synonyms as it was. I got a decent night's sleep. Work is going well. The children behaved. I finished up a bunch of things I'd been putting off. People, MY HAIR LOOKED GOOD. I am so not kidding you about what a good day it was. In fact, I was even able to get my sitter on short notice for a choir rehearsal I hadn't known we were having tonight. This was a good thing, because apparently we're having some sort of Big Thing this summer for...
I am one to sit around and PONDER, because I am fond of the pondering. And the talking. I would be happy to talk while I ponder, or perhaps talk after I've pondered, or even talk BEFORE I ponder (just to warm up!), but if I could sign up for just pondering and talking? I'd so be there. So on the one hand, today was awesome, both because of my natural propensity for the pondering and the fact that my phone rang off the hook all day long with people who knew I'd had a ponderous weekend and wanted to know what I'd concluded. This resulted in talking, which led to more pondering! On the other...
I am having one of those transitional periods right now where I'm just on the cusp of Something Big, maybe, except maybe not. I mean, probably I am. But I'm not ready to talk about it and yet, it's all that's on my mind. ALL that's on my mind. Constantly. But we cannot talk about it, because I am superstitious and are you TRYING TO WRECK IT for me? What is WRONG with you? Look! Over there! Something SHINY! Actually, all I have to show you is not at all shiny. It smells bad, too. I'm sorry. So, um, Monkey's last day of school, they had Field Day. Which included all manner of activities, some...
