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( Oregon Trip, Round II )

Thank you to everyone who offered support and hugs to my self-pitying post the other day. ♥ Still struggling somewhat, but I've had a few better days lately. I ran 3 miles on the treadmill yesterday morning, the first 3-mile (~5km) run I've managed since I injured myself at the half marathon in early November ( Read more... )

So, I guess I haven't done a proper, non-trivia-quiz update in over 2 weeks. Oops.

Driving: ( A few lessons still to be learned )

So, last week seemed especially crazy.

Tues: ( Freshman orientation, library work, dog shelter and other stuff )

So, the mild snowstorm forecast for tomorrow has the potential to be a lot nastier; they've tentatively pre-canceled school for tomorrow. Given that MiniPlu had zero time for homework until, like, after 8p and she collapsed into bed shortly after, I do hope that she gets her snow day tomorrow. Thankfully, I wasn't called to sub today, so I went ( Read more... )

First, let me back up to Monday. So, we drove to PA on Monday morning, so Will could put in an "in the office" day. The kids and I did some back-to-school clothing shopping, grabbed lunch at Wawa, and then went for early check-in at our hotel, in hopes of spending part of the afternoon by the pool and watching the eclipse (75% here). I had made ( Read more... )

So, uh, life has been happening. With the houseguest here, I never really felt able to spend much time online in the evening, hence the radio silence. Let me sum up ( Read more... )

Both kids went to school on Thurs, although only MiniPlu went today (more on that below). However, I got called in to help out at the school library at the last minute by the mom who usually takes Thurs am; her kids were sick so she had to stay home with them. Story of my week: I have a list of things I want to get done, and then one thing or ( Read more... )

For those of you on the East Coast (USA), let's just get this out of the way: this coming weekend is all my fault ( Read more... )