I was sitting at my desk here at the office this morning and just typing like a mad person. It occurred to me that I write hundreds of words a day via texts and e-mails and things like that, but they become these ephemeral things that float out to the aether and don't really connect after the moment in time they relate to. Do you suppose there's a ( Read more... )

To quote Agent Smith from the Matrix films, "me, me, me..."  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNyHark4xk

Sometimes I post all this stuff about the family (not that family posts are bad) and forget that this journal actually started as stuff about me. Sometimes it can be about me - and not the family.

In the true sense of the "journal" I was taking a ( Read more... )

The waiting is the hardest part

I like to plan things out when I can. You know, spontaneity has it's time and place and all that...

So we're playing the waiting game now with administrative paperwork and travel arrangements for our exchange student. The latest thinking is the 8th of September. Yes, that's later than ( Read more... )

It was a weekend of ups and downs for me. Stress existed based on the fact that an admin paperwork SNAFU has delayed our exchange student... again. The loss of a childhood friend wasn't so good. The opportunity to spend time with friends relaxing and playing games at Glindebash was exactly what I needed. Talking over new baby stuff with a ( Read more... )

I can't remember who I have said things to, and who I haven't. *I* (we) have been so busy that I have been unable to keep track. It's something the family and I have been working on for a couple of weeks now - and it's kept me away from the computer a lot.

We're working toward hosting an exchange student this year.

This has meant we've done some ( Read more... )

I just wanted to post a quick note. I had a long, rambly thing in mind, but at this point I figure nobody else is all that interested. I’d love to tell wonderful tales of what I’ve been doing while I was away, but I’m afraid it’s far more mundane than all that. For the past 3 weeks I haven’t had a day off other than Thanksgiving. All those days ( Read more... )