Archives for ‘live’ entries
Yesterday…
- I baked a chicken for dinner, stripped the carcass, and made a big batch of chicken stock for soup on Tuesday.
- I spent a lot of time dealing with Illustrator (I hate Gaussian blur, among other things) coming up with some graphics.
- Madeline learned the word ‘pee’. She now grabs her diaper and yells, ‘Peh!’. I see a potty in her future.
Yesterday…
- I spent a lot of time fiddling with WordPress and templates and CSS and Photoshop.
- We went to Harbor Freight and bought Marcus a cabinet full of bins. He got home and started sorting his Legos into the bins… and off the floor. Yay!
- Rebecca picked out some multi-colored floss at the needlecraft store. Her stash of friendship bracelets grows daily.
Yesterday…
- I made muffins and eggs and bacon for breakfast.
- I spent four hours on the phone. Four. Hours.
- I made beef enchiladas for dinner. Extra hot and delicious!
- Strat and his sister came over for the Friday fooding. Rebecca gave his sister a friendship bracelet, and had her hair brushed. Recessive girl genes, I swear.
Yesterday…
- I awoke to the sound of vomiting. I had gone up in the night to settle Madeline and fallen asleep in the bottom bunk, and when Rebecca woke up moaning and groaning I told her to go get a bucket. She did, and then I fell back asleep, and then… vomiting. At least she had a bucket.
- I did a problem at the board, and it was a really nice one with completing the square within the square root in the denominator. It was my favorite from the homework, too.
- I stopped by the doctor’s office on my way home and got an MMR booster because when I was pregnant with Madeline, my titer for rubella was low and the midwives figured I ought to get it updated if we wanted to have more children.
- I went to Bloom and bought ingredients for beef enchiladas and Caesar salads and bananas and chips and salsa. Oh, and ginger ale and saltine crackers and rice noodles and white grape juice.
Yesterday…
- I got Rebecca out of the house and on her way to ballet with no major drama. None!
- I vacuumed Rebecca’s room. There was toy drama. Again.
- Marcus vacuumed his own room. I did not even start on the drama there.
Yesterday…
- I went to math class. I spent the first half of class doing the homework that was due. I spent the second half of the class doing the homework for the lesson he was teaching.
- Oh, and I went up to the board and did a very nice integration problem and got my final from the last semester’s class and life was generally good.
- Soreness abounded. Shoulder holster or business shirt, I’m not sure which, rubbed my neck the wrong way. My feet, my poor abused feet, were horribly sore from the stupid shoes of doom.
Yesterday…
- Matthew and I drove to Richmond to lobby our representatives at the General Assembly. I learned that wearing brand new pair of shoes to an event where you will be walking and standing for most of the day is a stupid, horrible, painful thing to do. I have learned my lesson. I swear, there’s a trail of blood across the marble floors in there.
- I also learned that lobbying means a lot of standing around. In lobbies.
- The baby was mostly sweet, and slightly sour.
- The children spent the day with Clayton and Katie; they played video games and went to Chuck E. Cheese’s.
- After all the kids were asleep, Matthew and I were so tired that we went to bed without dinner. Seriously. We’d intended to get up after a fifteen minute snooze to get food for ourselves, and I woke up around 2:30 in the morning and brushed my teeth and went back to bed.
Yesterday…
- Matthew and I watched Stardust together. It was cute.
- I packed my diaper bag and spent the evening getting things together for Lobby Day.
- The kids helped me clean up the house.
Yesterday…
- I mended Matthew’s dress pants with some black cotton fabric. Sewing black on black is horrific, especially if you’re using itty bitty teeny tiny stitches.
- I read way too much about IIS, MySQL, PHP, and MediaWiki. Ouch! My brain! It burns!
- I did one WordPress installation.
- Matthew and I stayed up late watching Sunshine. I was cool with it until it turned into Event Horizon. I did not sign up for Event Horizon. That kind of stuff keeps me up at night. I was highly unamused.
- So, I was already on edge from Sunshine turning into a crappy horror movie, and lo, banging from outside. Matthew saw someone trying to kick in the neighbors’ door and I told him to call 9-1-1 because it was one in the freaking morning. The police came. The next two hours consisted of our neighbors auditioning for the Jerry Springer show. Loudly. With plenty of police cars. And in temperatures below freezing. WTF, people, WTF.
Yesterday…
- The kids got up and rushed outside in order to properly frolic in the snow. They built the only snowmen on the block. They even built a snow dog.
- I made lasagna for the Friday fooding. Matthew had gluten-free baked macaroni. Same ingredients except for the pasta, yay!
- I went to the grocery store and stocked up, since multiple days next week have snow symbols on them. Joy.