Happy New Year

I snuck away for a minute while babies are engrossed in Grandma's player piano & a video and daddy is installing a new light fixture in the currently almost done being remodeled guest bedroom. :) Hah ha! I don't have long though.

I hope you and yours have a happy new year. For those of you coming to the PJ party tonight (it starts at 6 by the way. And PJs are optional-- you can wear other clothes, not optional like no clothes) we'll see you later. :)

XO
Kim

On the Road Again

We're about to leave for a week in Texas. We'll see family & friends that are almost family. We're going to the zoo tomorrow (most likely tomorrow is the best day). The kiddos are very excited about that.

We'll have Internet access while there, (we're staying at the Mother-in-law's place) but I don't know what all I'll be up to writing. Anyways. Have a happy New Year (if I don't blog before then!)

Accounting!! and Facebook!! And Bears!!! Oh My!!!

Can you believe Andrew actually has me doing ACCOUNTING for him?!? It's a really easy online program for our Real Estate stuff, but I can't believe I, Literature Guru, am doing Math. PFFFT. Blech. Ick.

I'm also searching for peoples I knows on Facebook. So I don't look so pathetic to be all students (not that there's anything wrong with students, but I want actual friends on there, too.) So if you have a facebook account and haven't told me about it, let me know. I'm on there as my Real Name so "friend me," or let me know who you are.


*Not to mention Lots Of Exclamation Points, apparently!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Addiction #5

Okay, by the way, I am totally addicted to this damn gum. The blue kind, which is pepperminty.

I need about twenty pieces a day. I saw a blog post that compared it to cigarettes-- the packaging, the pulling out of a piece in an awkward moment... and I agree. Good job creating a need, Wrigley's. Hopefully, it won't prove to be as bad for me as smokes.

My Break

After this crazy-busy semester, I keep feeling like I should be doing something. Surely there are papers I should be grading, somewhere. Just doing nothing on the weekend, minus the guilt, is weird. It's kind of a similar feeling to the years of "should I be writing on my dissertation?" that I'm also still not completely over. (Mostly over it. It just changed to "shouldn't I be revising my dissertation into a scholarly book?")

Anyway. We're not leaving for Texas until Monday, so we have a weekend at home with kiddos. Watching El Perro y el Gato on HBO. The kiddos LOVE it. I don't know if they're learning anything, but it certainly will help them understand Spanglish better, if not actual Spanish. I love how they show Texas. Anyone who hasn't been there surely thinks it's all desert & cowboy shops. (It's NOT.)