Time flies.
So K is 4 now and she's giving me challenges I didn't think I'd have to worry about for another decade. But every once in a while she throws in preschooler fun to the mix: This evening she has gotten up no fewer than four times in the two hours since she was put to bed, and tomorrow she HAS to get up early for the company picnic. So yeah, this'll be fun.
It's summer so our family has a huge gear shift; we're no longer all out of the house by 7ish; most of the family now sleeps until 8 or later, and the kid stays up later in the evening because hey, no school tomorrow. The best bonus of summer is that the husband is doing all the dishes.
I'm rabidly watching the weather, both because of tomorrow's picnic but also the whole flooding thing. Our house was fine, but our next door neighbor had some water in their basement. Our street, formerly Deer Creek until it was paved over before 1900, was almost reclaimed during the first big rain, and the husband's route to work was wholly rained out, so he'd do a 10-mile detour out to the interstate. Watching Iowa on the news was heartbreaking; both of our families spent generations there.
At work, I sit next to an NRA-member Republican.
My iPod shuffle bit the dust. It was a gift at work a few years back, I used it a couple months then put it into storage until last month, when some girls on the bus were depressingly explicit, and I needed a way to block out the sadness, so hey, what's not to like about '80s pop and foreign language lesson podcasts. So I bought a new one yesterday, the bright red little shuffle, and I MANAGED TO LOSE IT WITHIN 3 HOURS OF PURCHASE. I even brought my laptop to work so it would load and charge, and at some point between my work desk and home, I misplaced/LOST it. I've retraced steps, checked my ride's car, looked all over the office.
Damn.
At last the annoying high school girls aren't on the bus right now.
It's summer so our family has a huge gear shift; we're no longer all out of the house by 7ish; most of the family now sleeps until 8 or later, and the kid stays up later in the evening because hey, no school tomorrow. The best bonus of summer is that the husband is doing all the dishes.
I'm rabidly watching the weather, both because of tomorrow's picnic but also the whole flooding thing. Our house was fine, but our next door neighbor had some water in their basement. Our street, formerly Deer Creek until it was paved over before 1900, was almost reclaimed during the first big rain, and the husband's route to work was wholly rained out, so he'd do a 10-mile detour out to the interstate. Watching Iowa on the news was heartbreaking; both of our families spent generations there.
At work, I sit next to an NRA-member Republican.
My iPod shuffle bit the dust. It was a gift at work a few years back, I used it a couple months then put it into storage until last month, when some girls on the bus were depressingly explicit, and I needed a way to block out the sadness, so hey, what's not to like about '80s pop and foreign language lesson podcasts. So I bought a new one yesterday, the bright red little shuffle, and I MANAGED TO LOSE IT WITHIN 3 HOURS OF PURCHASE. I even brought my laptop to work so it would load and charge, and at some point between my work desk and home, I misplaced/LOST it. I've retraced steps, checked my ride's car, looked all over the office.
Damn.
At last the annoying high school girls aren't on the bus right now.