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March 14, 2006
what I'm doing over the break
The perfunctory list. I am
1. teaching monster toddler how to work a mouse so that *he* can click on the cartoon clips he wants to watch on the cartoon network website. Then I don't have to get up from my machine when he wants to switch. So far, he can't hold it still long enough for the click to take. He moves the mouse to what he wants, but the click is unsteady and so he gets *mad* when it doesn't work.
2. copying recipes from magazines. It's one of my favorite time-wasting things to do. I checked out several issues of Cooking Light and Vegetarian Times from the library yesterday. Cooking Light is not as good as it used to be several years ago when I had a subscription, but Veg Times is pretty great. I'm gearing up for a new curry dish this week!! YUM.
3. slowly realizing that last week's taste o' spring was just THAT. A tease, a taste. It is now SNOWING big fat UGLY flakes.
4. doing laundry, the bane of my existance. It takes me a days' worth of loads just to finish the kids' clothes. I can do laundry ALL DAY and still not have any clean underwear of my OWN.
5. closing comments and trackbacks on ALL MY OLD ENTRIES. I cannot run a close comment script since my blog lives on an MT that hosts a whole department's worth of blogs. I am ::this close:: to shutting the whole operation down and opening up somewhere else (again). But, for now, I've done 80 or so entries, and I've got about 200 to go.
6. planning the FINAL camping trip of troop #28. I know I've said it before, but I mean it this year: I am done being a troop leader.
7. trying to find summer work. I foolishly missed the deadline to apply for summer teaching at SU. So far I have THREE gigs, hopefully their total remunerations will pay the power bill and the mortgage for the three months I will have no real paycheck. I'm thinking if I can stay on top of my bills, we can play "Survivor: A Backyard in Parish" and the kids can root for grubs and wild onions. I'll just wait until the lettuce comes up and eat that.
8. thinking about Cs next week. Honestly not looking much forward to the traveling part of it. Looking forward to being with friends, visiting my aunt, uncle, and grandparents, and getting a chance to meet Clancy and other cool people; not looking forward to leaving my family for nearly a week. I'll miss them a lot, and I worry that Brian will probably be a big ol' stress ball when I get back.
9. waiting for the next episode of Grey's Anatomy. Man I am a lame-o.
Posted by mryonker at March 14, 2006 02:17 PM
Comments
Thanks to cgb, who has saved my tail from having to manually close the rest of the comments/trackbacks. I should have asked him first!
Posted by: madeline at March 14, 2006 03:35 PM
Yep, I was going to give you the directions he gave me. The man is a national treasure. Regarding that weather hoax: I share your angst. You'll be glad to know that I scampered out early this morning and got in a half-hour ride before the snow & wind it. Right now we've got a coupla inches on the ground, and I for one am pissed.
Posted by: senioritis at March 14, 2006 11:15 PM
*before the snow & wind hit
Posted by: senioritis at March 14, 2006 11:16 PM
How is it that we have the same life?
laundry: ditto
last week run outside, this week blizzard: ditto
grey's anatomy addict: ditto
okay, I admit that I'm not a troop leader NOR am I going to 4Cs, but the rest of it is the same. And I *wish* I was finding new recipes. But for now I'm just fantasizing about possible meals and cooking the same old baked potatoes and disregarding the other food groups.
I did just get back from AWP in Austin, where it was 90. Yes, 90.
Have fun at 4Cs. Hightouch Megastore will be there, as will various other slc bloggers.
Posted by: Lynn KK at March 15, 2006 07:04 PM
Except, Lynn, you're living in a town with cool restaurants and a gorgeous public library. Ms M, of course, is an earth mother in an alternative universe. And I think you're both really really cool.
Posted by: susansinclair at March 15, 2006 09:46 PM