Girl is sick with strep…again. Certainly not her fault but frustrating nonetheless. Two days out of school. Two nights of not being able to sleep because her throat is so sore and she can’t breathe through her nose. At 12:30 last night I’m stumbling through Wal-Mart in my pajamas, bedroom slippers, and a sweat shirt to get nose spray and mentholated bath salts — it was as not pretty as it sounds, especially considering I was running on about 4 1/2 hours of sleep from the night before. Poor little punkin’. Poor not-so-little mommy who’s now two days behind on her work. :O We see the ENT next week. I’m thinking a tonsillectomy is just where we need to go for Spring Break. 
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March 7, 2006Sick — AgainMarch 5, 2006How Do I LookI don’t watch much t.v. I’m not sure whether it’s a matter of not feeling as if I have the time or preferring to read or maybe it’s because the dh is usually commandeering the remote and we don’t enjoy the same programming. That said, I have to confess that I love How Do I Look on Style channel. I’m not sure why I like it so much. Maybe it’s because the focus is on maximizing a person’s potential. Maybe it’s because there’s always a happy ending Actually, I have a friend I’d like to nominate for the show. She’s not gross or anything but she’s been saying for about a year that she needs to update her look because she feels about 20 years out of fashion. Every time I suggest we go shopping, she bails. I think I scare her. :confused: But honestly, I’d respect her sense of style and not try to foist my own on her because we have distinctly different personalities. So, I’ve thought about calling her in but I’m not sure at all that she wouldn’t be offended. Me? I want someone to sign me up on that Make You Look 10 Years Younger show. March 4, 2006Economics 101Yesterday when The Girl got in the car from school: Girl: Mom, what do we have going on this afternoon? Me: (immediately wary) Not much. Why? Girl: There’s a sale at Hollister. Me: Sorry. I don’t have any money to go shopping. Girl: But we had money to eat out. Me: Be glad you had money to eat. We’re not going shopping. Girl: Don’t you have your card? Me: (She’s talking about my debit card.) Sweetling, when you use that card, the money comes directly out of your account. If there’s no money in the account, it doesn’t work. Girl: Oh. March 3, 2006Great Read, Bad Girl, Lousy DictionTreat yourself and pick up a copy of Rita Herron’s IN A HEARTBEAT. It’s romantic suspense and Rita does an excellent job of blending a good romance with the creepy stuff. :satisfied: Uh…where did this week go? My daughter’s begun to taunt me by saying, “Wow, can you believe it’s already Wednesday/Thursday/Friday?” That kid needs a good smacking. And The Girl and I have been going around about the following. There’s a song out with the refrain, “I think I’m gonna stick with you.” Except they don’t sing it that way. It comes out, “I think I’m gonna stick wit choo.” I change the radio every time because I can’t abide that “wit choo” business. Girl argues that it’s just the fashion now. I argue that it’s just deplorable and I can’t listen to it. :crazy: Wit choo. I think I should respond with Gesundheit or something. Argh. It makes me shudder just to think about it. :hehe: March 2, 2006The Great and the Not-So-GreatYesterday was such a totally awesome day!! I met my cousin for lunch. I’m terrible with time lines and I’m not sure if it had been two years or three years since we last saw one another, but it had been too long. She’s really lovely, both inside and out, and it was a pleasure spending time with her. Then The Girl and I met my friend and her two daughters for dinner last night. We hadn’t seen them in…yikes…a couple of months…but it was fun and that’s the great thing about old friends — you can sit down with them and it’s as if you just saw them yesterday. :rolleyes: Well, the not so awesome factor yesterday was my computer crashed and burned. :O :( Thank goodness I’d emailed a backup of my current wip to my dh and at least have those files at my disposal and can work off of Girl’s computer until I get mine fixed or a new one. My dh is pretty sure it’s dead and I’m trying not to freak out over the thought of my hard drive not being recovered. Over three years worth of pictures on it. Books. My organizer with all of my addresses and phone numbers. Deep breath. Stay calm. Learn a lesson and back that stuff up. :crazy: It must’ve just been a bad day for my personal technology because my cd player in my car fritzed out too yesterday. I hate things that muck with my schedule and this book is due next week. ACK! :doze: March 1, 2006What a Relief!Not that I periodically waste time by reading dumb articles or anything but…the caption cried out to me…What Real Women Drive. Let me first explain that I am a self-avowed car whore. I can’t help myself. When I was a teen-ager other girls had posters of boys on their walls…not me. I had car posters. Sexy, European sports cars. And okay, one poster of Bruce Springsteen because what use is a sexy fast car without a bad-boy rebel to go with it. :hehe: Anyway…a couple of years ago I traded in the minivan that once upon a time I’d sworn I’d never drive for a car I really wanted. So, can you imagine my anxiety when I saw that caption? What if I was driving the wrong car? What if I wasn’t a real woman? In an instant my entire female identity was tied up in my set o’wheels. Heart pounding, hands clammy, I hit enter on the link button and anxiously read forward. Whew! I sagged with relief. Yes, I AM a real woman. Thank God and the automotive industry! Right at the top of the list was my car — a BMW 330i. |
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— I have yet to see someone in the end who didn’t look about a gazillion times better than they started out and more importantly you can see the increase in self-confidence. 
So, I’m about to log off of my borrowed computer and drive my car in. They’ll give me a loaner but it’s 45 minutes to the dealer. And then another 45 minutes back home. :angry: An hour and a half shot. Then I’ve got to get myself set up on my borrowed computer. Girl won’t be happy but I’ve got to move her desk. It’s bad feng shui where it is now. Fine for her playing games on it but not good for my writing. :confused: 