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Archive for August, 2007

Thought of the day

Posted in Blabber, What the--? on August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

If bald people use less shampoo, does that mean skinny people use less soap?
I would say yes.
No wonder I have to buy the mega size bottles of shower gel.

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Hooray for school!

Posted in Controversy, Motherhood, School, Teachers on August 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »

My entire morning consisted of school orientations. Here’s a quick overview:
8:30 — leave for school
9:00 — Kindergarten orientation begins for C
10:20 — leave school
11:00 — hurry up and eat lunch
11:30 — leave for school
12:00 — 3rd grade orientation begins for B
12:45 — leave school
We survived. Thank goodness we live close to the school.
C’s Kindergarten teacher [...]

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3 strikes and you’re out

Posted in Uncategorized on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

This is my 3rd attempt at this post. The first time I had a nice long post and D hit a button on the keyboard and it went POOF!
The second time I nutshelled the original post and hit the publish button and I lost my connection and it went POOF!
This is my last time, dagoneit. [...]

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Banned Books Aplenty

Posted in Books, Controversy, What the--? on August 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I’ve been reading up on banned books lately. It’s quite interesting really. There is even a week dedicated to banned books. September 29 through October 6, 2007. That’s this years week, it’s the 26th anniversary of Banned Books Week.
There are many books on the top 100 that I’ve read. And there are LOTS that [...]

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The Hair Up There

Posted in Uncategorized on August 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »

At least once a year I go through a “I must change my hair” mood. I’m currently in the middle of this. Unfortunately I probably won’t be able to act on my mood until after school starts.
Until then I’m trying to figure out what I want to do. My hair is a pain in the [...]

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Swimming with the fishes

Posted in Fishing, Pictures, Those Darn Kids, Vacation on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

We recently vacationed at Smith Mountain Lake. It was our first time visiting there and it was great. The boys went striper fishing. What big fish you have!

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Mid-August? How’d that happen?

Posted in Blabber, Comments, School, Those Darn Kids, Weight Loss on August 22, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I needed a kick in the pants. I got it when someone finally commented on my blog (thank you!!!). Here I am today. Hopefully I’m back up and running but do not hold your breath as I have a tendency to get bored easily. A day or two of blogging at a time is sometimes [...]

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