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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Random Things That Don't Quite Warrant A Post On Their Own (because obviously if they did I'd have been posting about them... right?)

1. I am thisclose to getting my hair cut to my shoulders. I had been thinking I'd do it when I lost ten pounds because I have this thing about my head being tiny and out of proportion to my body and that being worse when I'm heavier, but it occurred to me this morning in the shower (where the world's geniuses do all their best thinking, obviously) that since my hair is always UP, in a little clip on the back of my head (because it's totally unsightly down, truly), it's not exactly lending my head an illusion of added size. So there goes that reasoning. Maybe when I get back from #2:
   
2. The Ladies' Retreat is this weekend. Oh my gosh I hope it's better than last year's, which was about organizing and simplifying our homes, which, OK, yes, I need to learn (funny how these people never take into account a husband who's even more of a pack rat than you are... am I supposed to throw his stuff away while he's not looking?), but it wasn't exactly spiritually reviving like the year before. And also, plus, six meals no planning no cooking no cleaning. And 48 hours during which nobody says I'm hungry to me as if I'm expected to pop out food like a snack machine. And nice walks among the tall pines with my mom and my sister-in-law and JENN WE WILL MISS YOU. Waah. :(
   
3. School's going pretty well overall. It's a lot of work this year, for me.
   
4. I've decided to do TWO years of US History and TWO years of World History, rather than one of each. This is, of course, because that way the kids will retain it better. Not at ALL because I had no idea how I would cram everything into half that time without giving homework, which considering I'm a homeschooler would be rather odd.
   
5. I think fall is finally really truly here. [does happy dance.] Yes, I know that it's officially here as of today, but in California that doesn't always mean much.
   
6. I successfully shopped for clothes last week. I spent more on clothes for myself than I had in five or ten years. That isn't saying much, trust me.
   
7. I'm putting off writing The Family Letter even though I totally shouldn't or it will end up sitting above my computer for months and months. Explanation: My mom's family (six sisters and a sister-in-law, plus their mom and now assorted adult female cousins and cousins-in-law) started a round-robin letter in the mid-80's. It usually takes about three years to get around even though they are constantly -- in EVERY cycle -- resolving that it should take no more than six months. My last letter in it is from 2002. I really should be doing that now instead of this.
   
8. I have a crick in my upper back which has been periodically causing my neck to clench up in the most amazing cramps I think I've ever had. The other night it was so bad that I took a muscle relaxant, which made me so sleepy that I was in bed at 8:00. PM. I think in my post-kids life I've gone to be at 8 AM more often than at 8 PM.
   
9. My kids have been getting videos of the Ramona series from the library. I am hopelessly addicted. Why did they make only one season? For most women my age, Must See T-V involves, I dunno, emergency rooms or deserted islands or something. For me: the antics of an 8-year-old Beverly Cleary creation. I am so happening.
   
10. I have read so many library books this month. This means that:
    
11. I have been sadly neglecting my Librivox commitments. Next week I promise.
    
12. C's birthday party is coming up in a week. Well, a week from Saturday. To say that she's excited would be a vast understatement. She will be seven. Fortunately her brother has blazed this trail before her, so that number is not so terribly shocking as it once was. She's actually almost as excited about getting to ride in the front seat of the car (see: California's oppressive Big-Brother-style laws) as she is about having a party.
    
13. We have a 'school-year reading program' which mimics the library's summer reading program. For each (appropriate-length) book the kids read, they get a treat or points toward a big prize (25 books' worth of points = a trip to the Monterey Aquarium, for example). Plus every thousand pages they get to buy a new book. I'm thinking that last bit is going to break us. They've each already earned a free book, and if they continue at their current rate (which would, you know, totally break my heart) they'll be getting one every two weeks or so. Maybe it's time to start visiting the SPCA yard sale.

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Posted by: debi at September 21, 2006 11:30 AM

Posted by: Jenn at September 21, 2006 10:58 PM

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