Halloween is my favorite holiday, and was actually what inspired Paul and I to change our minds from not wanting to have children to deciding to do so and subsequently having Jimmy (we saw the cutest little boy dressed as a bumble bee the year we lived up in Seattle). So I've always sort of forced Jimmy to do the whole Halloween thing, even though ( Read more... )

This week was Jimmy's first week at his new school, and I got good reports home each day. He was a little freaked out when he came home on the first day, but all the subsequent days have been fine ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had two job interviews within the Round Rock school district. The first one I was able to rule out the job right away based on the hours. It was for a job coach position with one of the high schools' special ed departments, and the high school hours are later than the elementary school hours, meaning it wouldn't have worked around ( Read more... )

We had to put our old cat, Parker, to sleep today. He had been spending most of the last few weeks since we moved here sleeping in quiet, rarely-inhabited rooms like the guest room and upstairs formal living room, so I know he was going downhill. Then last week Tuesday I took him in to the new vet for his scheduled annual vaccinations. The vet ( Read more... )

New observation - Texans can't drive in the rain. Much like when I lived in Southern California, when it rains here the roads get really slick from all the accumulated oil, so people suddenly drive much slower ( Read more... )

I have noticed that in subdivisions like mine that seem to have a lot of manual laborers doing any number of manual labor type tasks at any given time, they have little food trucks that come around and sell food to these workers. I remember similar "roach coach" type things in California that would come around popular areas like colleges and ( Read more... )

Well, we have been here in Round Rock, Texas almost a month now - Sunday will be exactly a month. For the most part, I'm really liking it here. I could do with slightly cooler temps, but I knew about the heat and humidity going in ( Read more... )

Ok, Paul said he was going to post this entry, but since he hasn't I will instead ( Read more... )

Well, we are down to just days left before we leave for Texas. Needless to say, I have bitten my nails down to the quick, that is how anxious I am. I'm just a high-strung, neurotic person, I guess ( Read more... )

Here is a story of a teacher in Florida who it sounds like thought it would be a good idea to try a mock "Survivor" episode with her students - who are Kindergartners ( Read more... )