Weasel Of Doom

1. Great lunch with Shannon at Sabor’s downtown
2. Beautiful day (70 degrees at 8 pm, what’s not to like???)
3. Nice talk with my friends in Minnesota yesterday
4. Crocuses and other early spring bulbs are blooming, so pretty!
5. Nice long walk with Damien and Sergey tonight

1. Sergey and Damien both did well in their swimming classes. Next session starts in two weeks. This time, they will go on the same day at the same time (Damien on his own, Sergey with Bill). Hope it works out!
2. Mini-Girls Night Out with Shannon.
3. Yummy soups and hazelnut-flavored coffee at Panera Bread.
4. Cute bunny ears for $1 at Target.
5. Getting some books I was looking for at Half-Price Books.
6. Nalini Singh’s “Angels’ Blood” – very enjoyable. Will definitely buy more of her stuff.
7. Friday night babysitters.
8. Zoo Interchange bridge got closed before it had a chance to break apart like the one in Minneapolis did.
9. Found the downtown train station it time to pick up mother-in-law.
10. Goofing off.
11. Going to a T-Tapp workshop with Shannon.
12. Actually getting to the workshop, despite road work everywhere.
13. Not running away from the workshop.
14. Buying a “Step Away The Inches” DVD that will hopefully provide a less stressful workout.
15. Bill and Mel taking the kids to the Easter Egg Hunt at work.
16. Long nap with Xavier.
17. Cream cheese cake for my birthday, courtesy of mother-in-law.
18. All-day headache eventually did go away.
19. Mother-in-law took kids to see a play, and spent the rest of the day at our house with them.
20. “Yarn: Remembering The Way Home,” a memoir by Kyoko Mori – thought-provoking and bittersweet. Made me think.
21. Bill remembered it was my birthday ;-)
22. Emails from friends who remembered, too.
23. Many many wall posts on Facebook wishing me a happy birthday.
24. Donuts.
25. Getting kids laundry done, kitchen floor washed, and downstairs carpets vacuumed.
26. “The Sharing Knife: Beguilement” by Lois McMaster Bujold – will be checking out parts 2 and 3 once I am done reading the rest of my backlog.
27. Trying to catch up on projects at work. One half-done, twenty or so left.
28. My bagel offering was greatly appreciated.
29. Dishes and adult laundry done, artwork from Thanksgiving and Christmas finally off the hallway walls.
30. Catching up on my “Grace in Small Things” posts!

(For those of you playing along from home, you are under no obligation to come with a list of thirty items, unless of course you really really want to :-)

1. Applied to get Damien’s passport renewed. Hopefully will have it in three weeks.
2. Lasagna.
3. Kids wanting to snuggle.
4. Bill went out to spend time with his friends tonight.
5. Ability to back-date posts.

1. Friends who listen to me vent and give me a shoulder to cry on
2. Nice walk to the bank
3. Finally depositing all the unemployment checks that were piling up
4. Damien did great in his swimming class
5. Falling asleep early (even if it resulted in a missing post yesterday)
6. Good talk with my boss
7. Elizabeth Moon’s “Oath of Fealty” waiting for me to read it
8. Melon mastery
9. Free coffee (even though it tastes like it costs)
10. Almond Joy Pieces. Mmmmm!

1. Nice talk with my aunt on Skype
2. Forecasted 7 inches of snow never materialized. W00t!
3. Ordered tickets to Russia for Bill and the boys
4. Xavier was in a much better mood after the bath (poor thing did NOT have a good day)
5. LibraryThing

1. Good time at Eric’s birthday party.
2. Yummy birthday cake.
3. Mother-in-law is really trying to spend more time with the kids.
4. Nice lunch with Peggy.
5. Long walk and good talk after lunch.
6. Finishing Cassandra Clare’s “Mortal Instruments” trilogy.
7. Sleeping in.
8. Friends having babies.
9. It is now officially spring. I shall try my best to ignore the fact that it is going to snow tomorrow.
10. Guy Gavriel Kay has a new book coming out in April – “Under Heaven.” I want.

1. Another lovely spring day
2. Nice walk with Shannon tonight
3. Funny things Sergey says
4. Actually finishing a project at work
5. Unemployment benefits extensions

1. I will be going to Orlando for some training in June
2. Parental units gave the OK to book tickets to Russia. Guess I was more persuasive than I thought.
3. Beautiful, beautiful day outside
4. Trying to be better at emailing friends
5. Snuggling up with the kids

1. Watching “Caprica” on Hulu
2. Actually made it to work before 7 am, as opposed to my usual after 9 am (did not accomplish much, but did put in 12 hours of quality time with my office chair)
3. Survived a meeting with consultant without screaming (though I did ask God to strike me dead afterwards)
4. More library books!
5. Registered for a T-tapp workout seminar with Shannon!

1. It’s positively spring-like outside (or so I hear :)
2. Clients like some of the work I did on the portal
3. Xavier and Sergey let me clean up while Bill and Damien were swimming
4. Free cookies at work (yay for people who bring treats on their birthdays)
5. Damien got a “mystery box” from school, with a letter M inside. The instructions said that he is supposed to find an item that starts with that letter and fits in the box, and come up with three clues as to what it is, so that his classmates would try and guess. Bill was going to look for M things, but I suggested we ask Damien first. We were both anticipating a long and torturous process, but Damien right away said “MONKEY,” told us where it was (in the pumpkin in the minivan), and came up with three clues (“it swings from trees, it has a tail, it eats bananas”). He was done in less than a minute! We were very proud of him.

1. Older boys spent most of the day with mother-in-law, so I could get stuff accomplished around the house:
2. Laundry is done and put away
3. Upstairs bathrooms are finally clean (they were getting scary)
4. Carpets are vacuumed (Xavier supervised the vacuuming)
5. Kitchen floor is washed (it’s like the definition of insanity – I keep washing it and hoping it will stay clean for a while, it keeps getting dirty right away, I keep washing it….)

1. Today is over
2. Blueberry Mastery (lame, I know)
3. Kids played nice together
4. Mother in law brought Bill a cake
5. Made it to swimming with Xavier after missing two weeks

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.