Weasel Of Doom

1. Watching “Caprica” on Hulu
2. Productive day at work, despite two meetings
3. Rain washing snow and salt away
4. Mel came over (on his birthday) to play with the kids
5. Kids all slept in their beds

1. Today is International Women’s Day
2. Almond Joy Pieces
3. Getting some things done, despite just wanting to hide my head in the sand and wish for everything to go away
4. Unemployment payments, because without them we would have lost the house by now
5. Getting out my spring jacket – going to be high 40s for the next couple days!

Learning Every Day: there are websites dedicated to old soviet postcards. Here’s a card from one of them:

1. Good talk with my parents
2. Kids having a good time with their grandma D.
3. “Kitty and the Midnight Hour” by Carrie Vaughn – will definitely order more of her books through the interlibrary loan program
4. Tomorrow is a new day
5. Sergey asking me to sing Russian songs to them at bedtime. Of course, he later spoiled it by saying he only asked me because I was upstairs, and thus available. Well, that should show me my place!

1. I won a copy of “The Dead Travel Fast” by Deanna Rayburn from LibraryThing’s Early Reviewer’s program – squeee! Can’t wait to get my hands on it!
2. Xavier seems to be feeling better
3. More library books! (even though I forgot my library card at home, because I am am idiot that way)
4. Sergey saying “Mama, can I snuggle with you?” – sure sign that he is tired :-)
5. Making the kids go and play outside

1. Chocolate Martini! (thank you, Shannon, it was tres yummy)
2. Another beautiful, promise-of-spring-to-come day
3. A meeting I was dreading went a lot better than anticipated
4. Night alone with kids not a disaster so far
5. Matt Bomer. So, so handsome.

1. Beautiful, gorgeous, sunny weather outside
2. Doing 80 mph on the freeway
3. Hanging out with Shannon while Bill gets some kids-free time
4. Sergey saying “I love you too, Mama” before falling asleep
5. Snuggling

1. It’s beginning to feel like spring!
2. Reading excerpts from “Undead and Unwed” to Bill, and laughing our butts off
3. RSS feeds
4. Even though it looks like the kids totally trash everything downstairs, it only takes an hour to put things back to rights
5. Clean kitchen floor

Sergey likes to talk.

[refusing to eat dinner] “I am allergic to meat” Really, kid? Chicken nuggets are meat… Well, quite likely meat… Well, definitely a meat product… Nice use of the word allergic, though. Didn’t know you had it in you ;-)

[as I am leaving for dinner and shopping with Shannon] “Mama, are you going to sleep with Shannon?” Ummm. Wasn’t planning on it. Pretty sure Shannon’s not that into me :-)

[playing on the swing as my parents watch on Skype, after asking them to count] “I don’t hear any counting!” It was the tone of voice on that one. The aggrieved “I am busting my butt entertaining you, and you can’t even count???” tone. Little brat.

[watching the Visa commercials during the Olympics] “It’s Shaun White!” The only athlete he identifies by name, because we forced him to watch the half-pipe competition. At first, EVERY snowboarder was Shaun White, including the ladies. In Sergey’s defense, the outfits were rather concealing, and Shaun White DOES have nice curly long hair.

[watching qubo] “It’s Obama! And Cash-for-Gold!” The cartoons on qubo all have the “be nice” message, but the ads they run are just sleazy.

I remembered so much more before I started this post, but now I am drawing a complete blank… Le sigh…

1. Sunshine
2. Amusing team meeting at work
3. Mel’s continued willingness to come over twice a week and play with my children
4. “Undead and Unwed” by MaryJanice Davidson – nice light read
5. Pumpkin Mastery (not to be confused with Super Pumpkin mastery; these are the Kent Clarks of pumpkins, so to say)

And here’s something else I am ganking from Violet:

Learning Every Day: There are pubic wigs. They are called merkins. Jesse Bering, the things I learn from you.

Anybody missed me?

Now I have a month of Grace in Small Things posts to catch up on :)

I’ll post something once I stop feeling that not killing myself back in 1996 was the biggest mistake I ever made. Closely followed by getting married and having children. It might be a while.

1. Pretty fluffy snow.
2. Bagels from Panera Bread.
3. “Silent in the Grave” by Deanna Raybourn – very nice mystery/romance set in Victorian London.
4. I did not collide with a minivan tonight, though we came pretty close. No more left turns for me.
5. Feeling a little better after physically craptacular and otherwise unproductive day.

1. Damien had a great time at his solo swimming class.
2. I took Sergey and Xavier to Target and the library with me. Sergey says he is going to tell his teachers all about it tomorrow. Here’s hoping he will omit the part about Xavier falling out of the shopping cart.
3. Bill survived his first day of the new daycare schedule. He is a better Mom than I am.
4. Found some nice picture frames on clearance rack. Give me a few years, and I will put pictures in them.
5. My hair is burgundy again. Now to see if anybody will notice. Based on prior experience, nobody will ;-)

1. Super Pumpkin mastery is mine! (big sigh of relief from my captive audience, I am sure)
2. Sleeping in.
3. Good talk with my parents on Skype. They like seeing the kids.
4. Mel came over and did his thing.
5. At 3:30 am, photos for Damien’s “Star of the Week” thing for 4K will be ready for pickup at Walgreens. He gets to decorate a board, and Sergey gets to be jealous. Oh joy. Xavier will be at daycare, or I am sure he’d feel left out, too.

1. Aside from taking Xavier swimming, I did absolutely nothing today. Bliss.
2. Then I felt vaguely guilty, so picked up kids’ stuff downstairs and cleaned the kitchen. No more sticking to the floor!
3. Mother-in-law came over, so Bill did not have to deal with the kids all by himself.
4. After YET ANOTHER snafu with super pumpkins, Zynga extended the deadline to Sunday evening. Two more harvests, and Super Pumpkin mastery shall be mine!
5. Nice and quite after the kids fall asleep.