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Friday, September 26, 2003

don't want to fall behind

I am not feeling terribly articulate today, so don't expect much in the way of sparkly wit, but there's a lot going on so I felt the need to update now before I reach the dreaded death-to-journal point. You know, when you skip updating, and it seems like it'd be just too much effort to catch up right then, and the backlog builds up and builds up until updating is pointless. You know what I'm talking about, right? Anyway.


T got called out to a fire last night. No, he's not a firefighter; he's a telecommunications technician, so he gets "borrowed" from his usual job by the Forest Service or whoever is responsible for fighting the wildfire at hand, to go to their command center and set up communications. He fixes radios, sets up repeaters, that sort of thing. More than you needed to know, I know, but I have to stem the tide of reverence that always rushes toward me as soon as I mention him getting called out on a fire. ;-) He'll be gone for a minimum of a few days, and a maximum of two weeks, probably somewhere in between. The overtime from the 16-hour days will be nice to have but we really miss him.


Also, C's birthday party was to be tomorrow but we've put it off, not only because of her daddy's absence but also because she has been fighting a cold and it's not going away. I don't want to be The Bad Guy, sending her into a crowd, full of germs, infecting all her friends and cousins with my sinus whatever.


LT worked this afternoon on the piñata for the party. It's to be a barn. The party will have a horse theme but the kids (and I) objected to the idea of beating up a horse with a stick, so we had to figure out something else that could be made out of cardboard or papîer-maché that fit with a horse theme. He is outside painting it now; I'll see if I can make Snappy behave long enough to get a picture of it when he's done.


I was a baaad girl last night. Instead of getting a good healthy night's sleep, I stayed up chatting with a friend from eleven to three. I think I needed the chat more than the sleep, however, even though I'm a big on the foggy side today. And my hands are actually tired from their extensive workout; it's physically uncomfortable to type. Oh well, one benefit of my sanity lapse is that I'm sure I burned at least 300 calories laughing. ;-)



There's no Friday Five today! WELL! :) While I'm thinking about that sort of thing, though, I wanted to note that I'm working on a project which I hope will end up being a year of diary prompts. So if you have any ideas, email them to me, and I'll put them in, with credit (and links if applicable) to all who participated. Thanks. :)

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