The random thoughts that flutter through my mind...
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My birthday: April 17
My anniversary: April 25
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If I had a billion dollars, I'd give a million to each of my friends and family. I'd have an indoor gym and pool built at my college. I'd pay for teachers aides at my daughter's school. I'd buy every book Nora Roberts ever wrote, and I'd fly to her next book signing so I could tell her thank you for saving my sanity by giving me an escape from reality for a few hours at a time.
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1,000 Shades of Fool
American Girl
Buddhists Do Scratch Their Heads Too
DJGroovySlug
FlyLady.net
He Wrote, She Wrote
I choose not to believe
I Was Just Thinking...
Jill Shalvis
Long and Writing Road
Miss Snark
Passionate Chaos
Pub Rants
Questions Asked, Questions Answered
Running With Quills
Still I Rise
Sublime Vacuity
The Steal-Me Book
Turn the Page
Woodland Rambles
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Taken from the ALA website
Books I have read are italicized.
The kidlet tank is complete. She insisted on putting it on the instant I finished weaving in the last loose end. (I think she likes it!) I tried to take a picture, but the camera doesn't seem to want to cooperate today. I'll try later.
Again. I finally got my sleeping baby dragon tattoo. Last night, actually. It's absolutely gorgeous, and it's exactly what I wanted, and it's an original piece of art- I told him what I wanted when I made the appointment and he drew it up. I had to make the appointment almost two months in advance- that tells you how good this guy is. Absolutely amazing. It only took an hour and forty-five minutes to do- which is amazing considering how detailed it is.
Okay, enough babbling. It's finals week around here, so I've been a little busy. I finished the baby afghan, and Ethel's tank top is at the armholes, and I'm at work so I need to get back to it now. Time to go make coffee. 
knitting obsessively. I've made like ten dishcloths, a gorgeous black and grey scarf, and one lone coaster. I'll make more eventually. Right now I'm in the middle of a furry yellow scarf that looks, as K so eloquently put it, as if Big Bird was shaved to make the yarn. I've also started a tank top for Ethel- that looks like this. I'm even doing it in the same colors, because she liked them so well. Haven't made much progress on the purple sock... oh well. It's not going anywhere. Oh, and I finally decided to finish a granny square baby afghan that I started about seven years ago. I made all of the squares but never finished putting them together. Well, one of the girls I work with has a teenage daughter who is expecting a little girl soon, and the squares are a pretty pastel varigated baby color, so it seems like a good idea to finish it for her. It'll get it out of my UFO (unfinished objects) pile and it will make her happy. Seems like a win-win situation.
Other than that, I have an appointment on Thursday to get my new tattoo (yay!) and my mil is coming Tuesday to spend the night with the kids so we can celebrate our anniversary. Nine years of marriage. Jeez... that's a loooong time. Oh, and my new drug is finally working quite nicely. I didn't realize just how far down I'd gotten until I started climbing out. But things have been much better lately. I feel like a whole new person, or at least, a better version of myself. Now, my knitting is calling- I have to go.
He laughed. A lot. Amazingly, I didn't come in today to find my chair buried.
Today I spent an hour wrapping my boss's monitor, keyboard, phone and chair in lots and lots of newspaper. He's been on vacation for his birthday- so we decorated his office to welcome him back. 
If someone takes pictures, I'll try to remember to post them.
Wow. I've been on this stuff for two weeks now. Not sure how much of an effect it's having yet. I know it can take four to eight weeks to work, but shouldn't I be seeing something by now? Okay, so I've not been quite as depressed part of the time, but I"m still angry a lot. Sort of a low-level simmer. Picked George up at daycare and one of his teachers had left the coloring sheet they were supposed to do today with a note saying 'color both sides and return' and I got absolutely pissed. Who the hell does she think she is, giving my son homework when she's too fucking dumb to even teach the D'Nealian manuscript? The school districts here all use D'Nealian, but she's still teaching block letter printing. This classroom is a joke- they have little notes all over the room labeling things like the door, the book corner, the blocks... and the pencil sharpener one is misspelled. Okay, I freely acknowledge that I am far from perfect, but come on! Don't you think it's a good idea to make sure things are spelled right if you're gonna post them? The notes they send home are misspelled sometimes too. I confess, I have never really liked these teachers- so maybe I'm over-reacting, but still... it drives me nuts that these idiots are teaching my son- and teaching him wrong, at that. I can't wait until they move him to the next classroom.
Not to be a bragging mommy, but he can already count to 100 by ones, to 1000 by hundreds, write his name and several other words, recognize other words- he can actually read a little bit- he can color inside the lines... in other words, he has already mastered all of the skills that they are expected to learn by the middle of kindergarten, plus more, and he isn't even in kindergarten yet! He's way ahead of most of the other kids in his class, several of who can't even write their own name or color inside the lines yet. I have to confess, it really isn't helping my anger issues that I have to deal with these schmucks every day.
Other than that, not much is happening. I appreciate the positive words- I was having a pretty down day when I posted last. It's nice to have friends like all of you.
I have become the kind of blogger I despise. One who never says anything thought-provoking, and constantly whines about her life... when not babbling about pointless day-to-day crap. Sigh.
The baby shower is over, and I told my entire family that I would NOT be throwing any more of them. End of discussion. My aunt came over last night, and I was in such a pissy mood that she stayed for half an hour or so and then left (and took mom with her). I forgot about Lishy's birthday, which was Friday. I'm a lousy excuse for a friend. I even talked to her for a long time that day. I'm going to go mop my kitchen floor. I probably won't be blogging again until I think of something good to say.
