December 7, 2009

1. I helped with St. Nicolas’ visit today at church.  That is always fun.  Mommy was away, and so entrusted me with getting St. Nicolas ready and assisting him.  I think she is testing me out to see if I have what it takes to inherit the St. Nick cope someday.
2. Got a Christmas tree.  A plump and happy fellow.  Though I have enjoyed the move to colored lights in years past, this year I am going with white to set off the colored baubles I purchased in an attempt to have my tree that generally looks like an ornament yard sale, look more like and ornament yard sale with uniting colored baubles.
3. It’s always nice to wake up in the middle of the night panicking about all you have to do for school (writing this at 4:00am)
4.  Weekends are too short.  Everyone knows that right?
5. Having Chris and Melissa and Michael around is pretty fun.  Brunch yesterday and window shopping. And cupcakes!

December 1, 2009

1. I bought a pair of green socks that I like very much, but my overall shoe situation is weak.  Can’t seem to find shoes that fit the old corrective orthotics without looking like Frankenstein shoes.
2. I agreed to help chaperone the middle school women’s chorus trip to New Orleans in June.  Small group, no boys to chase out of their rooms, and I like the  chorus teacher, she is a fun gal.  Sounds like a good scenario.
3. Bit by bit I grasp at rung to pull myself out of the hole.  Still many things not done, but some things, done. Amen.
4. A to do list is not effective unless you go back and look at it.
5. I have pretty low self esteem, but I usually like my hair, and it has been looking craptapular of late, so I am really glad that I had to reschedule my Dec 19 haircut, and was able to move it to this coming weekend.  because without the hair you see, I am nothing.

November 29, 2009

1. I wish I could dream of some adventure.
2. I wish I could knit an earflap hat.
3. I wish I could defeat injustice.
4. I wish I didn’t think about food so much.
5. I wish I lived on a farm and could take in stray shelter cats.

November 17, 2009

1. My friend Jeff has joined the communion of saints.  That is fancy Episcopal talk for “that bastard of a beast cancer roughed him, and he  fought as hard as he could, but he died.”  He was a fun and good friend. So many things have been said about him lately, I really don’t even know what to say anymore, except I don’t like thinking about him not being in the world.
2. This event, which I was privileged to witness, has thrown the fragile balance that was school into a bit of a flurry, what with missing a couple days, and then the vacant staring.  I also just wonder, and maybe I’d be wondering this anyway, even if Jeff was still here, if I am doing any good, or if it is all just a charade, and all the students will remember someday is some vague fact that doesn’t really matter.  I mean, “infill and smart growth?”  Really?  How important is that?  I find it interesting, but do they really care and are they paying attention?
3. I feel very lucky to be in the communities I am in.  My crazy school with the children, who make you breakfast to make up for their behavior at a dance .(The “Apology Brunch” I heard one kid call it.)  My Church, where we eat food, and love Jesus. Paul who wakes me from where I have fallen asleep on the couch, coat still on after returning from vestry, and sends me up to bed.  My friends who understand pretty much everything.  My family, who I hope know that I love them, even when I don’t write.
4. I have a great life.  I know that. Still feel bad though.  I guess that is ok.
5. Ali says life has been standing still and that is an apt description, even in the bustle.  Standing still.  Waiting for a bus, a flower, a rain, a spark, a reason.  Something to get things moving again.

November 9, 2009

1. I
2. am
3. a
4. little
5. lost.

October 27, 2009

1. Slept late, took a nap, going to bed early.
2. Dinner with AB.  Good.  She travels a lot.  We’ve been friends for a long time.  I’m lucky.
3. Rain. Needs. Too. Stop.  Also boo to the coming daylight savings.
4. This summer I want to get an RV and travel around the US visiting National parks, family, friends, and state fairs.
5. Chris should be leaving Afghanistan, Sunday!  Hooray!

October 17, 2009

1. I don’t just love Glee.  It turns out I am obsessed with it.  I’ve just spent way to long looking at old episodes and future clips, including the smoking hot Puck singing “Sweet Caroline.”  Yowza.
2. It is cold and rainy. Yuck.
3. Oklahoma lost to Texas.  Boo.  Texas Bites.
4. Good mission retreat at church today.  Aside from the unheated building a productive time. Not sure what’s next for me, though I think I agreed to do at least two things.  Oops.
5. Whoever is in charge of keeping my house clean is doing a crappy job. 

October 15, 2009

1. I love the show Glee.
2. Last night I was feeling headachy and thought this was either plague, or that I hadn’t had enough water to drink.  Paul brought me a big glass of water that I was sipping on while I was dozing off, and sometime in the middle of the night I woke up suddenly, and poured it all over myself. 
3. I also got a crick in my neck. Or I am achy from the coming plague.
4. I stayed at work until 7 tonight.  If I could do that for a few weeks I might be able to get caught up.  As it is, tomorrow I will be only mostly behind, instead of completely behind.  Victory!
5. I have nice cats.  They are especially cuddly now that cold weather is around.

October 14, 2009

1. At vestry I had the yarn with which I am going to make Jeff, who is very ill, a hat, and we sent it around the table so each person could lay some good mojo on it.  It was very touching, the meeting still kept going, but each person held it in their hands for a little while and when it got back to me it was all warm and full of power.  I want to finish that hat by next Monday, when I am scheduled to take dinner to his house.
2. It made me glad I went to the meeting, even though I could have gotten out of it, because I had a school meeting that lasted until 7:15 and I had said I didn’t think I could make vestry.  But I battled with my conscience a little while in the school parking lot, and went anyway.
3. Got some cases of swine flu at school.  Is my time coming?  Will I dodge it? Certainly would be embarrassing to have a sub, because my desk is such a mess.
4. Trying to hold on until the 24th, which will be the first Saturday since school began that I don’t have stuff to do.  Also trying to wake up at school and get some stuff done to get ahead, but non classroom things are filling my time.  Also, disorganization.
5. I need a personal chef.  Where are my waffles and fruit, Chef?  Come on!

October 12, 2009

1. Yesterday was the day of many small church activities Read at 7:30, Sub for Sunday School, Greeter after the 11:15 (hello, hello) and read again at the 5.  Also gave a stewardship talk and mentioned that sometimes I begrudge the time I spend there.  That’s right, I am not always a cheerful giver.
2. Spent time this afternoon grading with Liz at a local coffeeshop/bar/restaurant, with a mojito in one hand and grading pen in the other.  Made the experience more tolerable.
3. After grading and dinner, Paul and I went to see Capitalism: “A Love Story.”  It was very good, and got me all riled about the evil!  EVIL! A priest in the movie said so. One example: Some companies take out life insurance on their employees, without their knowledge, so they profit when people die, and if they die young they get even more money.  What. The. Hell?
4. I organized my yarn today.  I have lots of yarn.
5. Being withdrawn is tough.  You have to avoid eye contact.