National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)

begins at 12:01am November 01, 2005.
I won’t be staying up until midnight to begin writing. I will be writing during lunch each day & in the evenings after work. I had originally thought I’d stay up tonight to write.. but… I’m not.

Bon Jovi tickets

My sisters & I got tickets for the Bon Jovi show coming to Oklahoma City in January. We’ve been fans since the first album and have seen them in concert each tour that comes thru Oklahoma City… or Dallas.. or Little Rock, AR… or Shreveport, LA. (anywhere that’s within driving distance)
Anyway.. we were all excited [...]

Colder than hell

I think that is one of the dumbest things to say. How cold does it have to be to be colder than hell? I mean… really.
My image of hell, probably from growing up in the Bible Belt, is fire & brimstone, lakes of fire.. and THAT, my dear friends, is pretty [...]

Tonight

The girls are spending the night at our neighbor’s house.. birthday slumber party.. my son is going to a church event with a neighbor from 6-9. Am I going to do laundry & get this place cleaned up???
NO WAY!!!!
I’m going to Mom & Dad’s house to hang out & visit!
Gotta have [...]

Nightmares

I don’t really remember having nighmares in the past couple of decades. I remember dreaming that I was searching for a bathroom when I was about seven years old. I kept having to run up wooden winding staircases. When I got to the top, there’d be a door. When I went [...]

thyroid

I started taking the formulated thyroid medicine this morning. It is a combination of T3 and T4 based on the blood test that I had last month. The test measured free T3, free T4, thyroid peroxidase antibodies, and total thyroid. I think that is everything. It turns out that I have [...]

freak accident

This lady who is a relative of someone Mom works with had an accident yesterday afternoon & I’m just floored by it.
Here’s what happened:
This 33 year old lady was going out with her children yesterday afternoon. She put her four children in the car, ages 11, 8, 5 and 3. When [...]

relaxation

Refreshment of the body or mind.
What do I do to relax?
sleeptake a really hot showerstretch read a booklisten to an audio booklisten to favorite songscall/email a good friend
What would I like to do to relax?
an hour long massage attend a yoga classgo running (if I could actually [...]

Successnet

The elementary school that two of my children attend has just begun to use a new program called Scott Foresman Successnet. It is really a neat program. I am able to see my son’s fifth grade math and social studies books online and can print out worksheets if he “forgets” to bring them [...]

100 words

I’m still doing the 100 words entries.. and am enjoying it. Several new posts here are entries, since I like to keep track of them.
It’s fun to see how much I can say with only 100 words.

Visit

My friend Ginger and her daughter came to visit last weekend. After becoming friends thru an online forum and talking on the phone, meeting her was like seeing an old friend. I wondered if it would seem uncomfortable or awkward at all, but not one minute did. Our children got along [...]

Reading

Youngest daughter is reading a chapter book aloud across the room from me. Berenstein Bears. The story has a bully. She’s asked me what “thug” means. And what “throwing his weight around” means. Next was “scrapping.”
The part she’s reading now is about the bully boy or bear smoking [...]

Knitting

I am sitting at my desk. Behind me, my oldest daughter is sitting on the couch. It sounds like she is breathing funny. I just asked her what she is doing. She is waving around her knitting needles around, pretending to be a band director. I am not sure what [...]

Stew

I’ve been using the weekly menus from the crock pot menu mailer a lot. Probably four nights a week, we try a new recipe. Tonight, the recipe was called Southwest Crock Pot Pork Stew. It had pork loin, zucchini, red bell peppers, salsa, chicken broth, cumin, garlic and a little salt. [...]

Gene Autrey

Did you know that there is a town in Oklahoma called Gene Autrey? Well, neither did I. Until Saturday. A couple of friends and I met halfway between our homes and decided to see some local stuff. We wound up seeing three museums. We saw a doll collection that is over three hundred years old, [...]