I can not seem to go back to sleep.  I only got about 4 hours, and yesterday was such a sucky day I really needed the extra sleep, but alas I am awake.  The fire alarm keeps going off, and even the kids keep waking up.  I really need to find someone to provide reliable child care when we need it.  My parents make too big a deal of watching the kids ( Read more... )

Made homemade corn tortillas, and then homemade enchilada sauce and made chicken enchiladas.  Next up Spanish rice and a salad with tomatoes from the garden.  I actually dusted, vacuumed, did laundry, did dishes, and worked in the garden, as well as reading with the kids.  I need to find out what I did to get the energy and bottle it for days like ( Read more... )

I haven't had any reason to post, because there has been very little happen lately.  Tony and his kids and parents came to dinner Saturday, along with Rob, Nicole and Ron.  Finally got to play some games that I really miss.  I think I need to go to Sarge's and/or Citadel this weekend to get Chez Cthulhu and zombie dice.  I also really need some ( Read more... )

Rich and I spent two hours last night scrubbing the kitchen, bleaching, mopping, etc. to get rid of sugar ants and what does Eliza do this morning?  Opens her chocolate milk and throws it on the floor, and then repeats the process with her watermelon.  She squeezed the juice on the floor then flung what was left.  Now I get to mop, again, in ( Read more... )

I just harvested my first head of broccoli, along with several beautiful carrots!  I have a single tomato turning red, and almost ready for picking, cucumbers that will be ready in a week or so, and tomatillos blooming like crazy.  I am thrilled that the garden is doing so well, and the kids love helping in it.  I can't wait for the rest of the ( Read more... )

I just had to move all my cookbooks, and we are talking a couple hundred.  All into containers in the dining room.  Yikes!  But in a weeks time I will have a new clean easy to mop kitchen floor that won't be cracking peeling up or tripping me.  I have my dishes in piles everywhere except the kitchen.  I hope we can finish the floor quickly and have ( Read more... )

I am so tired of home improvement projects.  Rich is currently tearing up the rest of the floor, while I get to keep the kids happy.  Luckily this consists tonight of watching Howl's Moving Castle and feeding them strawberry milk and fruit.  Unfortunately they can't go to bed till Rich is done working on the floor.  Which is loud and dusty.  Today ( Read more... )

It has been so long since I went to this page, I wasn't sure it was still active.  Very cool.  had a great time seeing a bunch of people this weekend.  Not too much going on right now.

I just talked to a very old friend whom I haven't spoken to in years. Still, like nothing has changed, we were able to talk for over an hour about everything. I love that. I miss it. I don't have that kind of relationship with many people. Only this one very gay man who has been my friend for over a decade. It was like a present at the end of ( Read more... )

I don't think I have ever felt this out of touch before. I am so totally on the outside of everyone I know. No one returns my phone calls, people have bailed on every thing I have tried to do. People call me to ask me to do something and I tell them I would love to and will call later in the day to find out that they are already at someone ( Read more... )