Yeah, so I haven't posted anything here in like 2 months. What can I say? Things have been busy and good ( Read more... )

So I've been plugging away rather steadily at my novel rewrite since mid-August. I'm at 15 chapters and about 180 pages. Not bad, considering that I started the rewrite in, like 2005 and was on a major semi-hiatus for almost a year somewhere between then and, oh, my wedding. I'm pleased with what I've gotten so far. I've added a couple ( Read more... )

It was a very busy weekend but lots of fun. On Friday night, Aaron and I tried out a couple recipes from the "Around the World in 450 Recipes" book that his sister got us for Christmas. We made chicken dumplings (the recipe was actually for pork dumplings but generally with most Asian foods you seem to be able to substitute your meat of choice) ( Read more... )

The children are whacked out. Let me just make that statement right now. And it's still two full weeks and two days of school till Christmas break. Suffice it to say, there will be little to no learning happening on December 22nd and 23rd ( Read more... )

The first three weeks of school were pretty crazy-like. I felt like I was just treading water in my classroom. I finally am feeling like I know what I need to do, and I'm starting to get semi-organized. I still haven't gotten myself to the point I was at pretty quick last year, where I could arrive around 8:15 and be out the door by 4:00. But I ( Read more... )

I have slept like utter crap since, oh, Sunday. This is partly because of the remnants of Ike creating such strong winds that it was actually whistling through the seal of my window (high pitched, loud, very annoying) which woke me up at 3. Then I woke up again at 5 and 6. We didn't have school on Monday because there were so many limbs and power ( Read more... )

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And here's what's left to do between work and class ( Read more... )

I'm in the middle of uploading NYC pictures to my scrapbook. It's a little tedious because I have about ten pictures of the same thing taken from the top of the Empire State Building, but because I was playing with the nighttime effects and the manual feature, some are blurry, others aren't very bright, and it's a little bit of a pain trying to ( Read more... )

I feel like I haven't slept more than 20 hours total over the course of the week. For some reason, though I'm not officially allergic to anything, I'm having allergies (stuffy nose, sneezing, runny nose, itchy eyes, coughing) because there's so much pollen in the air AND I've been breathing in a lot of dust and stuff at the house. So I haven't ( Read more... )