When I'm quiet here for too long, my dad calls me to make sure no one died. I always tell him that's just silly; if someone died, I'd have something to blog about, after all. (For some reason he doesn't find that as funny as I do....) Life and the school year continue to WHOOSH past me at an alarming rate. Rest assured that I am not holding out on you on the end result of the dueling posters situation; the kids swear they haven't gotten their grades back yet, and that particular teacher seems to not be using our online grade portal, so it remains a mystery. Of course, Chickadee did mention...
Alternately, Stuff I did while avoiding doing actual work. Or even, I am super productive when I'm procrastinating. * Missed seeing a friend on her birthday because I am so disorganized. * Apologized to said friend and made plans for later this week. * Realized I hadn't seen another friend in far too long; made more plans. * Talked with a third friend about future plans when she returns from a trip. * Spent a full five minutes marveling at how far I've come since my cave-dwelling hermit days because THREE FRIENDS! PLANS! SOCIAL! WOOOOOO! * Stripped all beds, washed sheets, made up all beds....
... that there are actually FIVE horsemen of the Apocalypse. No one really likes to talk about the fifth guy, though, because he doesn't technically ride a horse. He rides an elliptical. (He's in killer shape, but has a hard time keeping up with the other four. You understand.) I bring this up because I've apparently become one of those people who exercises. I'm not sure how it happened, but clearly it's a sign of the Apocalypse. Before the world ends, I figured I would write about it for Alpha Mom. The end days are nigh! Thank goodness I'll now have the stamina to run from the terror for a...
I'm having one of those "Oh, we are getting older and saggier and falling apart" sorts of weeks. To wit: I finally got my hair cut! It looks great! But I'm astounded anew by how gray it is. (Does that seem weird? I didn't so much get my hair trimmed as I had it... de-bushed. Thinned/textured/layered, so that after the cut it was the same length as before but there was half as much of it. And for some reason the gray seems more prominent now. Because OLD. Fortunately I am saved from feeling completely decrepit by the fact that Otto just got a new pair of glasses, and for the first time he's...
Questions on my mind today: 1) Will the kids ever have school again? 2) Will Duncan ever stop being perplexed by snow and ice? 3) At what point do I have to stop eating potato chips and resume regular living? 4) How is it possible that we've been holed up for days and I've still accomplished absolutely nothing productive? Truly, my mind is a deep philosophical well. While we continue with storm clean-up, I have a great vegetarian stuffed pepper recipe over at Alpha Mom that even the resident carnivores love. I made it last weekend, before the storm hit, because once you're iced in, you can't...
I don't know if I've ever mentioned this, but my life is pretty exciting. Try not to be jealous. On Friday I spent most of the day fruit-wrangling, because nothing says "marching band fundraiser" like a gazillion cases of fruit that need to be sorted and counted and loaded into people's cars and such. I was killing a couple of birds with one stone, really, because Monkey and I both went in to help AND we had a couple of teacher meetings in preparation for his January start at Chickie's school AND he got to hang out in the band room with some of the kids he'll be in class with next semester,...
You remember how surprised we were when Chickadee got her ADD diagnosis? All, "How in the world did THAT happen?" It's a puzzle, truly. You could've knocked me over with the proverbial feather, at the time, and yet... ... yesterday I had a lot of work to get done and so of course by lunchtime I'd wandered into the kitchen and laid waste to about three pounds of butter. Huh. But, uh, I was totally WORKING, see, because 'tis the season for baking, and I've got your holiday cookie recipes right here. I'm a giver. And that's totally what I meant to do and was completely productive. Or something....
Black Friday is my day to get up wayyyyy too early and dish out the deals all day long over at Want Not. Just picture me in a long, flowing cape (I mean, I'm wearing my polka-dotted robe, and that's practically the same thing...), bravely saving humanity from having to go out into the world to join the shopping madness, today. It's a public service, really. Our Thanksgiving was lovely. We had good friends, good food, and I was curious to see how Duncan would do with a houseful of people. As it was, we ate in the dining room while both dogs paced around the table, ever vigilant and hopeful....
There's big doings afoot here today---maybe---well, it's complicated, and I hope that tomorrow it will make a good story, but today I have to go do other things for a little bit. Plus I think it's a D&D day, which means soon my house will be filled with nerdlings and dice and lots of words I don't understand. While I'm away, why not make your family a big pot of chili? I'm pretty sure I've linked to all of these recipes here before, but now you can go over to Alpha Mom and find all of my favorites in one handy spot, just in case you're not sure what to have for dinner. We're having Karen's...
