I still feel awful, but I have a tiny bit more energy than yesterday. I might be able to get the pretzels and divinity done, and finish packing up the siblings' boxes ( Read more... )

Ok, the "friend" finally arrived, after making rumbling noises all weekend. I feel IMMENSELY better today. Maybe I'll get some useful stuff done, eh ( Read more... )

It's just our luck that we wanted THE HOTTEST Christmas toy for Kenneth - a Fisher Price Kid-Tough Digital Camera. No store in town has it, and apparently the manufacturer was caught with its pants down and didn't make enough ( Read more... )

We just got a mid-term report card for Rachael. Ones and twos across the board, no tardies, one absent (she was sick). She told Jay that she'd moved from the Blue Honor Roll up to the White Honor Roll. She just told me she should get Red Honor Roll next hexter. I'm SO proud of how she's turned herself around ( Read more... )

What is the meaning of Christmas?

Holiday kindnessOn Nov. 24, Black Friday, I joined thousands of other crazed shoppers in the early morning hours. My main focus was a drink-and-cry Cabbage Patch doll, which I wanted for my 3-year-old as a gift from Santa ( Read more... )

The tree is going up. It'll take a little longer than normal to decorate, but it'll get done. I'm still tiring easily ( Read more... )

I'm trying to think of something I can send to Jay's siblings for Christmas and I'm stuck. I mean - how many batches of Fantasy Fudge does one family need? Melanie always finds interesting little things to send ( Read more... )

I'm not sleeping well. I don't remember ever having this sort of problem before when I was stressed. Maybe I'm just more aware of it. I dunno. My legs ached so much that even Tylenol PM didn't do anything for them. It certainly didn't knock me out like I'd hoped - once I felt myself sliding into sleep, and for some reason I was afraid to doze off ( Read more... )

We were up FAR too late last night and I'm paying for it now. Jay's feeling run down ( Read more... )

I miss chatting with people. I don't have a lot of time to do it, but still. Freeverse (remember her, ya'll?) IM'ed me with some tech support problems that her ISP wasn't helping her with last night. within half an hour I was able to figure out what was wrong and direct her to the solution (Norton AV was installed on her computer and somehow got ( Read more... )