Weasel Of Doom

1. It’s Bill’s birthday. He survived :-)
2. I was feeling very out of place at work, and then my coworkers invited me out to lunch and we all hung out together for the rest of the day and had fun.
3. T-Tapp training session is coming to Milwaukee at the end of March, and Shannon and I are going to try to go.
4. Qdoba
5. Fixed my LibraryThing widget so it actually shows books again

1. Karen and Shannon are looking for good things every day with me :-)
2. Damien’s IEP meeting (for special ed) went well. He is meeting and exceeding his goals, and his teachers appear happy with his progress.
3. Snagging some good quality coffee at work. Mmmm, so that’s what the good stuff tastes like!
4. Eric, Shannon, and their kids came over tonight. It’s nice to meet with friends on a regular basis.
5. Shannon and I braved the fog and went for a walk.

1. Driving to work in the rain = somewhat cleaner car with zero effort on my part
2. Watched “White Collar” finale on Hulu – can’t wait for new episodes coming in the summer!
3. Downstairs is clean (at least until the kids get up), and it only took me until 2 am :-)
4. Turns out Xavier has an ear infection, hopefully that’s what was causing the extreme neediness.
5. Damien and Sergey came downstairs of their own free will to say Good Night to me.

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.