So, I've been feeling a little out of things, and I came to the realization why: I semi-consciously pulled myself out of communities because I didn't have time to invest in them. however, I realized that I was gettin a lot of my adult socialization from those communities, even if it was in tiny doses at a time. Between us all being sick for six ( Read more... )

DH found a board that is used with a LeapFrog Tag pen. We don't have one of those. However, we bought the board anyway. The reason we bought the board was that it had rows of adjectives, adverbial phrases, nouns and verbs with which to make sentences. My children have taken to this like they take to sugary substances, that is to say, extremely ( Read more... )

This will get long and rambly, probably, so I'll stick it under a cut.
( Discussion (read - rant) about my eyesight )

So, once again, if you're interested, leave me a comment saying so, and I'll give you seven questions to answer in your journal. Here are the ones magdarko gave me.

1. Your top five Gibbs/DiNozzo must-read ficsThis is hard.  I have a lot of must-read fics.  However, the ones I keep coming back to are these.  It might be cheating  to use series as one, ( Read more... )

Okay, kiddos, here's how this works: comment on this post, asking for seven questions to answer, and I'll ask them to you.  Then, you post this in your own journal along with the answers.  ferneberga asked me my seven, so ( here you go: )

Tonight has been really really good.  Well, the whole day has been pretty awesome. 
( Cut for length. Rambling about my day. )

My friend B and I were chatting over Twitter, and we were discussing the care and rearing of small children. My words to her were "yup. somedays... they're angels. Other days, you look for the ducttape. :D ( Read more... )

It's been awhile.  R is considering (very seriously) changing jobs again, because he is dealing with some of the same stuff that ... encouraged him to leave before.  Promises being made, and said over and over (like yeah, we'll give you some time off after you do this really huge favor for us) and then retracted (oops, no time off until maybe ( Read more... )

I am 35 today.    Yesterday, I was 34.  But yesterday carried its own milestone.   Yesterday I celebrated ten years of marriage.   So, I'm sitting here thinking about life, my age, the times, and what it means to have a decade of marriage under my belt ( Read more... )