November 5, 2007

• Randomness, once again.

  I feel like every entry I post on here is so random. Has being a mommy fried my sense of paragraph structure? Geez, I hope not. So anyway, here we go:

  :: I went shopping again today, but this time I had Tristan with me. I had just gotten him asleep in the stroller (no small task!) when some lady's dumb cell phone went off right next to me and woke him up. So that was basically the end of that shopping trip. *sigh*

  :: I made a loaf of delicious pumpkin bread the other day, and what remained I had wrapped in cellophane, and left on the counter. Well, this morning, there was a small tear on the top of the wrap and a very neat half-golf-ball sized "bite" missing from the top of the loaf. Yes, we have mice. GAH! I am squeamish anyway (or I can be with some things, I guess) and the thought of mice running around on my countertops and eating my bread about sent me over the edge. So now I have to get mousetraps, but the thought of actually finding a mouse in one is almost worse than the problem. Almost. *deep sigh* I can do this. Or maybe... I can convince Dan to.

  :: I made meatball calzones tonight, which Will liked but Hallie did not. I can count the number of meals they will both reliably eat on one hand, and it mostly revolves around cheese. They love anything cheese-related: string cheese, mac n' cheese, grilled cheese,  cheese and crackers, sliced cheese...you name it. they love it. What is that about, anyway??

  :: I am going to be working for my dad a few hours (like 4-6) a week, which I am thrilled about. My cousin will be helping with the kids, so I can help my dad get organized in the office, something he desperately needs! I'm excited about putting my organizational skills to work somewhere that will a. be appreciated, and b. not be undone 5 minutes later by a preschooler!! I haven't "worked" since my post-Hallie days at the bucket. So yeah. This should be fun.

  :: Vicente Fox (ex-pres of Mexico) is in town tonight, speaking at the request of a local university. Dan is down there (working) and he called me tonight, and I could barely hear him over the chanting protesters. They were all about being anti-immigration, anti-Mexico, and anti-Fox... which is fine, but I mean... he is the ex-president. He really can't do a whole lot now that he's out of office anyway. I've always thought protesting is more about making a statement than about actually changing anything. I dunno.

  :: I am reading the first book in the Father Tim series, which is the follow-up to the very excellent Miford series. I am trying to read slow, savoring it and making it last longer. It's hard. I also saw a book the other day called mudhouse sabbath by Lauren Winner that I really want to get. It's about taking six (?) principles of Judaism and applying them to Christianity. It looked very interesting. I've always wanted to get my hands on a Jewish prayer book. I love the idea of praying the same prayers over and over throughout every day. It's very... romantic? Something. I also saw those two new books, The Dangerous Book for Boys, and The Daring Book for Girls that look just amazingly sweet. I wish they'd been around when I was a kid!! For real. I also saw (what is it with me and books, anyway?!) a book on how to make your own simple skirts, another on how to make sweet-looking funky shirts from old t-shirts, and another on making..... *sigh*: fairy houses. Which I must get sometime, maybe in the spring, for the kids. We live in the perfect place for building fairy houses! (I'd link all the other books too, but it just takes me forever with my slow dial-up. Sorry.)

  :: Wow, this is getting long. I had no idea that so much to say would pop into my head! Tomorrow is election day, and I will be voting as a PA resident for the first time ever. (I left for STL when I was 18, and although I had registered here, I never got the chance to vote.) Anyway, it should be interesting. Local politics always are good for an interesting debate at the least! It's funny, because I already know I'll be voting for at least a few Democrats who are running for local positions, though I usually line up more with the GOP on substance. *shrug* I like voting. And I don't mind voting for whoever I think the best person for the job is, regardless of their party. I think it's fair. (Though I must say that on a national level, being pro-life is the standard for me. I won't vote for anyone who is not, seeing as on the national level, you actually have the chance to do something about it, where as locally, you [unfortunately] don't.)

  :: So that's it. If you actually read this all the way through, congratulations! My laptop (which I'm using now) is 4 years old this month, and is just about to give out. I need to bite the bullet and either get a new one, or pay out and get all the replacement parts and upgrades I need for ol' faithful here.  Not sure, really, what I'll do. I hate to "waste" the money on this one, but a new one is certainly a lot more money, so...

  Anyway.
  That's it.
  Goodnight, y'all.

  • 9:49 pm
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