Queen of Rambles

So where are all the trick or treaters? It’s almost 7:30 and we haven’t had a single one yet! Of course, if I lived in this town I wouldn’t take my kids to a crappy apartment complex for the trick or treat action. I’d be out in Georgetown knocking down the doors of the rich [...]

It seems that Saturday in the city is just one giant rush hour. Ugh. For some reason I got the brilliant idea that it would be Fun and Exciting to go down to the big Ikea retail area and take care of some business. It was not Fun or Exciting. Ikea didn’t have a single [...]

Finally! A day has arrived where I don’t feel it necessary to imagine my head exploding. I haven’t had to have a single violent fantasy involving electricity and a child’s bulging eyeballs. I haven’t had to raise my voice at all in fact. Amazing! No one’s shot me either, or even looked like they wanted [...]

The laptop saga continues. Now it won’t power up if it is plugged into the AC adapter. It will go on for a few seconds and then blink off. If you power up with the battery only it is fine, but the second you plug in the AC adapter it goes off. Then people wonder [...]

Who knew that I would ever consider seventh graders as mature, intelligent beings? They are much better than fifth graders at any rate. I only had to send one to the office. The rest were pretty nice, even if we did read an extremely bad four page adaptation of the full Bram Stroker Dracula. Four [...]

I’ve reached my capacity for elementary students today. I don’t think I can possibly go back to an elementary school for at least a week. They are just so exhausting and tattle-taley and loud and needy and ugh ugh ugh. I had fifth graders again today, only at a different school. I don’t like this [...]

I did something quite unlike me tonight–stepped out of my comfortable little box and went to a nano writing meet up. There were only three of us, but it was useful to actually have live writerly feedback. I must admit I couldn’t help but wish I could get together with all my MM, LJ, and [...]

Is it possible that Spider solitaire is the root of all evil? Or is that just wishful thinking. You see, I’ve been raging for the past few days over something so upsetting that I couldn’t even write about it here (and I feel bad for building this up like something terrible because there are people [...]

I’d heard about this event but didn’t realize it happened an hour away from my home town! My mom is a big Bush supporter and mentioned Bush was in the area. She wanted to go to the rally, and I said I did too–to protest! I think I would have been arrested. I am sickened [...]

Seems like my period must be on the way. I’ve been an emotional wreck all day today and have had no reason for such behavior. I told Mike I thought I was having PMS and he got this strange look in his eye and said “you think?” Poor boy has had to put up with [...]