Well, I hoped to put up my NaNoWriMo participant icon here, but MSN spaces won’t let me. NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. I’ve signed up for it and the goal is to write a 50,000 novel in thirty days. I’m off to a good start: 2080 words today so far. I’m doing a modern day fantasy, plus I started chapter 12 of Overtures. Report cards came home today, and it was as I expected. Both boys had all As,…
We’ve hardly had any trick or treaters come to our door tonight and we bought lots and lots of candy to give out. I’m afraid that the kids will be taking chocolate in their lunches for the next two weeks! For the first time, we let the boys go out trick or treating. Boy #1 went out dressed like a mailman (surprise, surprise!) and Boy #2 went as a cowboy, wearing the hat and guns he got in New Mexico. …
The thermostat on the heater hasn’t been working for the past couple of days, so I reset the stupid thing this evening and now it’s working! All day long it was in the low sixties (possibly lower) inside the house. I was so cold I made and drank two pots of coffee (4-cup coffee maker). That might have been the reason I had heartburn later in the afternoon. We went to the Harvest Happening at church this evening. Hot dogs with…
Hubby’s father called yesterday evening and told us he’d gotten the poetry book with Boy #1’s poem in it. Then he talked for a bit with the Girl (the boys were at AWANA) and with Hubby. While he was talking with Hubby, he turned the phone over to MIL, who also talked with Hubby (I wasn’t upset or anything about not speaking with her; I’m usually the one she ends up talking to when she calls during the day). When…
Son #2’s school has quarterly “award” ceremonies where they give out certificates for perfect attendance, citizenship, and the two honor rolls (A/B and All A). The local Kiwanis club also comes in and gives out an award called a “Terrific Kid” award. I’m not sure how many they give out per grade, but last year my boys, as wonderful as they are (and terrific as their teachers thought they were), didn’t get one all year. At each little award ceremony…
Cheating here, cross posting from my live journal. Cold night, cool day. No school for the kids so they played outside for most of it. Hubby has turned the furnace on to see if the pilot light remained on during the summer. (It has.) Now to wait for things to warm up a bit in here. My parents called to ask if it would be better for them to come down at Thanksgiving or Christmas. They’re bringing a couple of…
We just received our copies of The Teacher’s Selection Anthology of Poetry. This particular book focuses on fifth graders’ poetry and our volume contains poetry from across the southeast, from Maryland to Alabama. Son #1’s poem is the only one from his school, and only one of two from Greenville. I know there were other poems nominated, but there were probably parents who didn’t return the permission slip to the publisher. We did, and ordered two copies of the book,…
I picked up my new specs today. They are progressive lenses, which means I have to “point my nose at what I want to see” for distances, and drop my eyes but not my head when I want to read. Hopefully it will make reading what I write online easier. We also ordered and got new lenses for the Girl, putting them in her old, still stylish frames. She’s been complaining about not seeing the overhead projections and her prescription…
Like my blog entry of the 9th and the two “comments” attached to them. It seems that a person can’t write to their personal blog without running the risk of being flamed into the next county. It also seems that people have been “monitoring” me to see what I’m up to. As a result, I’ve had to limit my blog to those of whom who I can count on as friends. It’s sad, really. I do have issues…
Saw my GP yesterday and got prescriptions for a powerful decongestant and an antibiotic since this sinus thing was heading into infection territory. The decongestant has made a BIG difference in how I feel; I can even smell again, which is a blessing. The throat is sore today, which it wasn’t yesterday but I’m doing what I can to deal with that. Had my eyes tested today and will look around for prices on the progressive lenses that I’m…