Halfway done with another semester, the time is flying. The work is really hard but fun as well. This semester I'm taking Women's History and Intro to Women's Studies since my main goal is going to be specializing in helping women and girls and my minor is Women's Studies. The most heartbreaking thing in these classes has been hearing so many women ( Read more... )

Our ISP has been supposedly upgrading our service to the 21st Century...they're a teeny little company who are used to serving people who generally don't care about speed or service, they're just happy to have a phone out in the middle of nowhere. Apparently the company found some incentive to give us more than like 100kbs/down, so yay! But, it's ( Read more... )

It's been a hellish two weeks, lots of doctor appointments. Everyone but me got the Cold From Hell so lots of okayu and miso soup on the house....wait...do you get fevers with colds? Everyone's been running high fevers so I guess it's whatever virus that causes that ^_^  If I make it through this without coming down with it I'll give credit to the ( Read more... )

I have the luck to react to any number of biting or stinging bugs. Nothing serious, thankfully, unlike my kids and uncle-in-law, I don't have a major reaction to bee or wasp stings. But I do tend to have mild reactions like swelling, intense itching, stinging, burning and sore throat when I'm bitten or stung. Until the other evening when I was ( Read more... )

You know you should probably follow your gut feelings. I told the kids I had a feeling that we should take it easy today and we were doing pretty good. Bu (who now insists everyone call him "Bubba" because it's such an hysterically delightful "southern-type" name), fresh on the success of finishing the Evil Trio* pen decided to go ahead and start ( Read more... )

So, we went to the hospital today. It's weird to go to the hospital for my husband and not me. The feeling is different. I can be brave when it's for me. I joke, make up funny stories about things, chat with the other patients, techs and nurses. I'm a one-woman party when the appointment is for me. But for him ( Read more... )

Ok, just catching up here. The last two months since Carlos' death have been pretty intense. Not only do we all feel the weight of his loss so much, other crazy things are going on. My sick cat turned into a dead cat and further broke my heart. If there i a bright side to it, the vet we took him to asked us if we were open to bringing home some ( Read more... )

I wake up every morning with the mind of an 18-year-old and the life of a 40-year-old! I'm starting to understand why my step-grandmother seemed so grumpy all the time - mind and body do not communicate. The last few months have been pretty hectic and sad, our two oldest dogs passed on which was hard on the family. The most recent, Junior, was 15 ( Read more... )

It's fair to say I suck at the whole Social Media Revolution thing. I start out well enough and then Real Life gets in the way. I think I would have done fantastically at all this had it been around when I had more free time. As it is, I'm still trying to find a way to juggle it along with our amazing unschooling lifestyle, family health issues, ( Read more... )