the usual amalgam of mostly misc
I'm going to give up on beginning my posts with "zomg I haven't updated in so long, how will I ever catch up, so much has happened," because it's going to get tedious really fast. :( The thing is that I hate doing one-line summaries of stuff that happened when I have the ten-paragraph version in my head begging to come out. But I never get the chance to actually write the ten paragraphs. So then I end up not writing anything at all....
Anyway, so I'm going to try one-lining it for now, and kid myself that I'll come back and do longer versions later. sigh.
On Saturday we went to a brunch thingie at Isaac's soon-to-be kindergarten school. It was really nice. I got to chat with some of the other parents, Isaac played beautifully with the other kids, and Ruthie, uh, well, she didn't kill herself on the big-kid playground equipment, so that's a plus. ;) It was really funny that there were two other Isaacs there. One was the younger brother (age 2) of an incoming kindergartener, and the other was actually a "former" kindergartener who'll be going into first grade. It's so weird to hear other parents yelling "Isaac!" across the playground.
Yesterday our soon-to-be-former babysitter, Kara, came over for probably the last time before she moves to New Jersey to start med school. It was nice. The last time she came over was right before Isaac's birthday and she brought him a present and he was in a terrible mood (due to being hungry) and he threw a fit and told her he hated the gift. :( :( I felt awful about that! I knew that she understood, but still! So it was nice that she came again yesterday and got a much better reception. Isaac hurled himself down the hallway to tackle-hug her as soon as she walked in. :) She stayed for about 4 hours. I used the time mostly to goof off, which was awesome. I went to my mom's house and took a long, beautifully uninterrupted shower, said hi to her kitties, then took myself to a diner for some brunch and a leisurely read. Then I did a little grocery shopping and went home. So that was very nice. I so rarely get time to myself like that...!
Then last night the Red Sox game took for-freaking-ever to end -- thirteen innings! And today I am blaming it for my not having gotten done all the stuff I meant to get done yesterday, like cooking some stuff for my lunches this week, and bathing the kids. *facepalm* Oh well.
This Thursday I am participating in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge, which is a 3.5-mile road race for charity, where teams of coworkers sign up to participate together. Before you decide that I've totally lost my marbles ;) let me add that I will be walking, not running, the race; and this is perfectly acceptable for this event. They encourage walkers, in fact, to increase the numbers of people participating. A coworker of mine who's into running has organized our company's participation. It should be fun. Unless it's raining, in which case, it will probably suck. ;)
Also, I have signed up to be a guide at ChaCha.com, thanks to beetiger who mentioned it on her LJ! ChaCha is a service where basically you can send in a question via text-message, and a real live person, called a Guide, does a web search and texts you back an answer. It's perfect for a situation where you don't have the option of sifting through a bunch of web results yourself -- like if you're out and about, or whatever. You just send your text to 242242 (ChaCha) and the reply comes back usually within a few minutes.
So I signed up to be a Guide and passed the tests, and spent much of the weekend doing it (in the off-moments when the kids were asleep or occupying themselves). The beauty of it is that they don't care if you sign in for ten minutes or five hours at a time, so it's the perfect "second job" for someone like me who can't necessarily commit to a certain amount of time on a regular basis. And, it's FUN! Granted I've had a lot of lame-o questions like "what's your favorite color?" or "is my girlfriend bi?" and a lot of kinda boring logistical ones ("where can I get a motorcycle helmet in Salt Lake City?" "is there a 24-hour car wash on the West Side of Manhattan?") and so forth, but I've also had some really interesting ones and learned some fun tidbits of info along the way. And I've already made $22 in just a couple of days (they pay 20¢ per query).
Anyway, so if you feel the urge, try the service out. Just enter any question and text-message it to 242242. And if you think that being a guide might be your cup of tea, go to ChaCha.com and sign up to take the test. If you do, be sure to put me down as having referred you (p1sces at englishchick dot com). ;)
Heh, for what I said would be the condensed version of the things I wanted to post about, this got a bit long, eh? Well, I'll post more later about stuff I've been reading lately and whether or not I'm going to upgrade my cellphone service and get a new free phone, etc....
Anyway, so I'm going to try one-lining it for now, and kid myself that I'll come back and do longer versions later. sigh.
On Saturday we went to a brunch thingie at Isaac's soon-to-be kindergarten school. It was really nice. I got to chat with some of the other parents, Isaac played beautifully with the other kids, and Ruthie, uh, well, she didn't kill herself on the big-kid playground equipment, so that's a plus. ;) It was really funny that there were two other Isaacs there. One was the younger brother (age 2) of an incoming kindergartener, and the other was actually a "former" kindergartener who'll be going into first grade. It's so weird to hear other parents yelling "Isaac!" across the playground.
Yesterday our soon-to-be-former babysitter, Kara, came over for probably the last time before she moves to New Jersey to start med school. It was nice. The last time she came over was right before Isaac's birthday and she brought him a present and he was in a terrible mood (due to being hungry) and he threw a fit and told her he hated the gift. :( :( I felt awful about that! I knew that she understood, but still! So it was nice that she came again yesterday and got a much better reception. Isaac hurled himself down the hallway to tackle-hug her as soon as she walked in. :) She stayed for about 4 hours. I used the time mostly to goof off, which was awesome. I went to my mom's house and took a long, beautifully uninterrupted shower, said hi to her kitties, then took myself to a diner for some brunch and a leisurely read. Then I did a little grocery shopping and went home. So that was very nice. I so rarely get time to myself like that...!
Then last night the Red Sox game took for-freaking-ever to end -- thirteen innings! And today I am blaming it for my not having gotten done all the stuff I meant to get done yesterday, like cooking some stuff for my lunches this week, and bathing the kids. *facepalm* Oh well.
This Thursday I am participating in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge, which is a 3.5-mile road race for charity, where teams of coworkers sign up to participate together. Before you decide that I've totally lost my marbles ;) let me add that I will be walking, not running, the race; and this is perfectly acceptable for this event. They encourage walkers, in fact, to increase the numbers of people participating. A coworker of mine who's into running has organized our company's participation. It should be fun. Unless it's raining, in which case, it will probably suck. ;)
Also, I have signed up to be a guide at ChaCha.com, thanks to beetiger who mentioned it on her LJ! ChaCha is a service where basically you can send in a question via text-message, and a real live person, called a Guide, does a web search and texts you back an answer. It's perfect for a situation where you don't have the option of sifting through a bunch of web results yourself -- like if you're out and about, or whatever. You just send your text to 242242 (ChaCha) and the reply comes back usually within a few minutes.
So I signed up to be a Guide and passed the tests, and spent much of the weekend doing it (in the off-moments when the kids were asleep or occupying themselves). The beauty of it is that they don't care if you sign in for ten minutes or five hours at a time, so it's the perfect "second job" for someone like me who can't necessarily commit to a certain amount of time on a regular basis. And, it's FUN! Granted I've had a lot of lame-o questions like "what's your favorite color?" or "is my girlfriend bi?" and a lot of kinda boring logistical ones ("where can I get a motorcycle helmet in Salt Lake City?" "is there a 24-hour car wash on the West Side of Manhattan?") and so forth, but I've also had some really interesting ones and learned some fun tidbits of info along the way. And I've already made $22 in just a couple of days (they pay 20¢ per query).
Anyway, so if you feel the urge, try the service out. Just enter any question and text-message it to 242242. And if you think that being a guide might be your cup of tea, go to ChaCha.com and sign up to take the test. If you do, be sure to put me down as having referred you (p1sces at englishchick dot com). ;)
Heh, for what I said would be the condensed version of the things I wanted to post about, this got a bit long, eh? Well, I'll post more later about stuff I've been reading lately and whether or not I'm going to upgrade my cellphone service and get a new free phone, etc....