Half marathon was this morning! ( It went both poorly and well )

So, last week seemed especially crazy.

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

Poor Jade is in a cone of shame. ( Her tail of woe )

Over the weekend, I ran my 5th half marathon. ( Sort of )

So, today was the semi-annual MASSIVE kids' consignment sale at the fairgrounds (indoors, but a huge building). It's common for me to spend several hours there, plus a goodly amount of time in line to check out. ( Today's finds included... )

First off, thanks to the 36 of you who participated in my confidential poll about first kisses/first sex. I'm even more thankful to those of you who commented openly, with your experiences and observations. I admit I hadn't thought about the effects of geography or regional ages of consent as colouring responses. And, definitely, the spread of ( Read more... )

Spring has only barely started here, but I've already been dealing with nasty sinus headaches. I took Claritin for a couple of days, which seemed to help, but then have forgotten the past 2 days. Subsequently, I've had a horrible pounding headache for the past 4-5 hours, and Tylenol didn't help. I've just taken a second dose in hopes that maybe ( Read more... )

This past week felt really long, like Monday feels about a million years ago, and yet I can't think of anything particularly stressful or bad that happened to make it feel so long (aside from my PREP kids being exceptionally dunderheaded). Still, I was really glad when the weekend came.

We took the kids (and Two's BFF) to see Muppets: Most ( Read more... )

( Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink )

Win for the day: I had $70 in Kohl's Cash between buying new, full-sized suitcases for the girls and some clothing Will had recently bought, another $10 coupon that came at the bottom of a Staples receipt, and a "bonus 20% off everything" coupon that came in email. I bought a small ceramic frying pan to replace our dying Teflon one, a dressy-ish ( Read more... )