Happy Day, Oprah!

I used to have a lot of traffic to my blog looking for Oprah Winfrey’s birthday. Since I switched blogging platforms and deleted the old blog, I rarely get traffic looking for Oprah.
People came to read this post from 2006, January 29 to be exact, when I wrote about Oprah’s birthday.
Today is Oprah [...]

long weekend

I’m really looking forward to this weekend. My plans include attempting to restore some dignity to my flourishing flower weed beds.
When I walked out to the car this morning, I saw a weed that was at eye level.  Eye. Level.  I’m not sure how that thing grew 2 feet overnight, but it was not there [...]

do you hear that squeaking sound?

Wondering:
Why do school personnel insist that J. does not need a 504 plan for her diabetes care?
When is school nurse going to return my calls about meeting with middle school administrators and teachers to discuss diabetes plan? I faxed in the diabetes care plan (signed by J’s endocrinologist) on the second day of school.  I [...]

Personality Test

I saw this over at Teflonjedi’s blog and thought I’d see how my test turned out.  It’s fascinating that 70 questions could pinpoint my personality so well.
Your result for The LONG Scientific Personality Test…
ENFJ- The Teacher
You scored 55% I to E, 37% N to S, 38% F to T, and 11% J to P!
Your [...]

dinner

Over the past year or so, I’ve made quite a few recipes from Kraft Foods and have really liked them. The kids liked them, too. This week, I’m feeling completely uninspired when it comes to menu planning, grocery shopping and food preparation, so I’m turning to Kraft to help me out. [...]

no bolus

Diabetes stinks. Having a twelve year old with diabetes stinks.
J. was very mean and not her usual happy self when I got home from work when I asked her to help bring in some things from the car. Then when I saw her having a snack- right before dinner – I asked if [...]

laughter yoga

Yesterday at the Farmers Market, Chrissie and I saw a little circle of people over to the side of the building taking deep breaths, making faces at each other and laughing. As we stood in line to buy some veggies (tomatoes, okra, eggplant, squash and cucumbers), we saw that other people in line were [...]

Saturday 9

Saturday 9: Children and and Ages of Bloggers
1. Do you worry about your next birthday? Not one bit.
2. Have you ever lied about your age in the recent past? If yes why? No.
3. Have you ever lied about your age when you were young? If yes why?
4. How much older have you been than a [...]

today

Stress at work.  So much stress that I feel nauseated. For a life-long stress-eater, this is a pretty big deal.  And also probably not a Weight Watchers approved method of weight loss.
Snakes and tarantulas in the 7th grade science classrooms.  J. thinks she absolutely cannot go back to science.  She doesn’t want to be around [...]

a big day

Today is the first day of school for my children.
It’s also the long awaited release of the latest Jonas Brothers album.
Get out your party shoes! 

the dreaded upgrade

I’ve been procrastinating about updating my version of WordPress for a.g.e.s. Expecting it to be a complete and total nightmare since I’m not very techie, I’ve read through the installation section of “WordPress for Dummies” several times, have read the WP upgrade instructions several times and still didn’t feel confident about doing anything without [...]

sighs

I can almost hear the sighs of contentment as my daughters rifle through stacks of notebooks and loose leaf binders and choose pens and pencils to take to class with them tomorrow. The room is completely silent (aside from the pecking of keys I’m doing) as they look over their schedules for the hundredth [...]

cake wrecks blog

I came across a blog today that is dedicated to cake wrecks.  I laughed so hard that I cried and my children thought I was losing my mind.
This particular cake brought gales of laughter.

Saturday 9

Saturday 9: Working in the Coalmines
1. What is your job and do you like it? I love my job! I work for a medical billing company.
2. What to you do to unwind after work? Go for a walk after dinner if it’s not 100 degrees (F) outside and/or read a book.
3. Who have [...]

contacts

For her 15th birthday, oldest daughter got contacts.  She has refused to wear her glasses for several years, so walking out with contacts in, she could see detail that she’d forgotten she was missing out on. It was really fun to see her noticing everything around her.