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1. I go to bed at 8 o’clock.
2. My idea of a hot date is sipping decaf coffee on the couch and watching the stuff stacked up on our DVR (see “I go to bed at 8″, above).
3. Most of my instructions to [...]
So here it is, a day late, but it brought a couple extra dollars with it! It didn’t really start until 3 am, and our district waited until 5:45 to make the call, but the right call was made.
We had about 3 inches by 9am, and it’s snowed steadily ever since. We rarely [...]
Usually, the school districts seem the last entities to jump on the “snow” band wagon – the first being Jim Forman, school kids, and network weather. But for the first time in (my) recorded history, we had a snow day today with NO SNOW.
Sure, school has been closed for reasons other than snow before: [...]
I know I owe you a cookie recipe, and a thought or two, but we had another family emergency. My mom had a stroke on Friday. Thankfully they are pretty sure it’s “just” a TIA, or mini-stroke, that she should fully recover from.
I literally collapsed into tears when I got the news. [...]
I was a reluctant baseball fan. I did not grow up with a love of the game. In fact, I thought it was boring and pointless until the ripe old age of 25. I’m not even sure why I fell in love with the game. [...]
As has been my (unfortuntate) custom, my blog has been quiet while the rest of my life has been very very busy.
My mom was in the ICU for a few days (Good news: she did not have a heart attack and her heart is healthy. Bad news: she has atrial fibrillation, serious GI issues [...]
Here we are at Legoland!
We’re back from a family vacation in not-sunny California. Sorry I didn’t tell you ahead of time, but I thought it might not be prudent to announce to the Internet that my house would be mostly vacant. (Unless y’all are the kind that like to do guerilla gardening. [...]
Today to family yoga class, I wore my “revenge” shirt and both my boys wore camo.
This is truly my sluff post – and on the last day of NaBloPoMo, too! I did it (posted every day in November), with varying degrees of quality. I plan to do a better recap on Sunday or Monday.
I’m off in 30 minutes to visit my mom for the weekend (who had oral [...]