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- The wind is blowing so hard it woke Erik up. Stupid wind! Don’t you know you’re not supposed to wake my kid up? Don’t you know I stab ice picks through the brains of people who wake up my kid? Come ‘ere, you evil wind. I have some stabbing to do.
- I decided to not be stressed today even though I have plenty to stress about. Mike is working tonight, so will have tomorrow off and I will hole up somewhere and finish my work. I’ll save the stress for that. Instead, I decided I’d better make the birthday block for the birthday quilt block swap I’m participating in since the person has a birthday on Feb. 29. The block was already mostly done, so I finished it up and let out a cry of frustration. I have made bad blocks before, but never quite this bad. It turned out a half inch too small all around, none of the seams matched up (weird, since it was paper pieced), and the fabrics that looked so good together in the rough did not look at all nice together in the final block. Now what am I going to do? I guess send her a note of apology for being late and try to get an extra super-cool block done next weekend. I would be very disappointed if someone sent me the block I made today which means there is no way in hell I will send it out. If you are just dying of curiosity you can see the ones that I’ve made so far HERE.
- A long time ago I entered some Mosaic Minds short stories and poetry into a “best of the web” contest over at Sundress. I really thought some of our contributors had a chance at winning, but I just checked it out and no one won. We did have one story make it to the finalist list, though. Congratulations to Lisa Plantico Carlsson for Dog Out of Water. I was getting pretty pissy that we didn’t win more prizes until I looked at the biographies of the winners. A great majority of them are published writers–the competition was much more stiff than I expected!
- Erik and Mike had a great time with Mike’s old Swedish buddy yesterday. Erik was so thrilled to have a new friend that he jumped out of the bathtub while he was still soapy so he could come downstairs and play some more. I don’t know where that kid gets his predilection for socializing from but I think Mike and I are going to have our hands full in a few years.
- Speaking of MisterE, the social beast. . . . One of the playground (not playgroup, I just see her randomly at the playground a lot) mom’s was at the gym today. I saw her but she didn’t see me. I only noticed she was there because her monster was in child care. I try to be a nice, normal human being and not make weird demands of the daycare workers, but I had to say something about this boy. I’ve seen him be totally nice to most kids, but there’s just something about Erik that gets on his nerves and he pinches and kicks and slaps him. I warned the workers that it might happen, but tried to sound normal and nonchalant and told them maybe it was just a playground thing. My favorite gal (and Erik’s too) said she’d keep an eye out on things and not let anything happen to her favorite boy. I don’t know if Erik really is her favorite or if she just says that to all the mom’s, but I really like her and she seems to really like Erik. Everything went ok so I guess I was worried for no reason. I know I can’t protect Erik from everything, and I hate to be a busy body, but why not say something if it might possibly help? We socialize with two little boys that have it out for Erik and I don’t like it. Bah on naughty boys! I think they’re just jealous that he’s so cute.
- I think I’m about to be blown away. The wind is whistling down the chimney and I don’t like it! What if it blows a bat into my house? Or an alien? Or a shark? Or an alligator????
I guess that means I better go brush my teeth and go to bed and hid under my alligator repellent covers. I had something else to say about the overwhelming cuteness of Erik, but I can’t remember what it was. The wind blew it right out of my brains.