Queen of Rambles

A ten rating on the yuck-o-meter: Kid runs up to me shouting “Mrs. Possum, Mrs. Possum!” (I’m doomed to have a name that children can never pronounce. I look at him and notice his eye is extremely odd looking. “Mrs. Possum! I spent the night at my dad’s and he couldn’t fix my eye! You [...]

How pathetic is this. I’ve worked a total of 12 days and I’m already ready to quit. I guess I won’t since I’m a responsible person and know a lot of the frustration of the day has been amplified by that wonderful thing called PMS. I just hope tomorrow is better. There wasn’t actually anything [...]

I think I almost miss the snow. It’s been extremely cold out today, but not cold enough to freeze the copious amounts of rain gushing from the sky. I stepped in a giant mud puddle this morning, so my feet were freezing all day — a new experience for me of the hot feet. I [...]

I’m going to be an aunt! Of course, we already knew that but knowing the sex of the baby makes it seem much more real, especially since they’ve got the name already picked out. Braxton Kent. Unless they change their minds, of course. They were also thinking about Braxton Levi or Levi Kent. No one [...]

My wardrobe has been in a state of chronic disfunction ever since I gave almost everything away in preparation for the big move. Today that was remedied. Sort of. We headed over to Medford and I bought a total of 11 items, which isn’t as many as I wanted or needed but was as many [...]

When it’s time to get work done I am able to find the strangest tasks that must be completed before the real task is done. Today those mystery tasks included frying chicken gizzards. I love to cook, but never in my life have I ever imagined that I would find myself frying chicken gizzards. The [...]

Whew! I’m about all wrote out today, but have to do my ritual evening entry. I get panicked if I don’t get in my daily entry. Sugar and blogging–my vices. I got up this morning with the intent of working my butt of with MM stuff, but then I accidentally clicked on a short cut [...]

Time for another rant, only this time not involving work. I’m just about ready to give up on water aerobics. I love them, but I just can’t stand all the bitchy old women (and a few young too!) who aren’t there to work out and think I should slow down since watching me “exhausts them.” [...]

Oh, the humanity! (as one of my old students used to say. What on earth have I gotten myself in to? I know work places come with drama. Sometimes very bad, very snipey drama. But this place is out of control. Seriously. For some reason everyone is really mad at Rachel, the kind of gossipy [...]

I just looked down and realized I have the brown sugar container sitting on my lap. A spoon is in it. I’m eating it. Now, sneaking to the cupboard and having a bite of brown sugar never hurt anyone, but having the container on my lap with a spoon sticking out of it? I need [...]