From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Things I Will Not Miss About This Trailer Park

September 26, 2008

Things I will absolutely NOT miss about living in this trailer park:

Crazy neighbor lady’s pot smoke seeping in through my paper thin walls.
Incessant banging and pounding and swearing, which accompanies taking down the horribly dilapidated trailers that are being replaced with new ones (presumably).
Crazy neighbor lady’s filthy flea-ridden cats leaving dirty kitty-prints all over my [...]

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It's My Own Fault

September 26, 2008

Yes. So. I have been doing Nano every year for three years now – even though last year was HORRIBLY hard and I ended up being so exhausted during that month that I barely remember anything except, of course, not winning. *sob*
This year, I am going for it again, and not only that – [...]

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Five Months Married, YARRRR!

September 19, 2008

In honor of National Talk Like a Scurvy Scallywag Day – I mean National Talk Like a Pirate Day, here are the long awaited photos of MY PIRATEY WEDDING!
ARRRR.
This isn’t all of them, by far – but these are the ones that one of my lovely best friends, Sarie, took (I did a few, but [...]

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Reason Number One

September 16, 2008

…why homeschooling is the best thing I’ve decided to do for my kids this year:
Joey is beginning to realize that being taught at home means not having to do his math too fast – and get it all wrong – just to avoid making his teacher upset.
This doesn’t mean that he’s all cured from being [...]

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EVERYTHING IS WET, AUGH

September 14, 2008

It has been raining SO MUCH here.  I don’t think it has let up since day before yesterday – and it’s flooding all over.  I only managed to get Troy halfway to work before we had to turn around because there was water all over the road, and if there is one thing I CANNOT [...]

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In Which I Am In Dire Need of Help

September 13, 2008

HALP!!!

I am picking colors with which to paint the walls!  The walls of my new soon-I-will-be-living-in-it house!  That I walked through and squee’d over this morning!  That has awesome hardwood floors and some nastyass carpeting that needs to be steamcleaned!
I have here a photo for you, which I helpfully uploaded to Flickr and then put [...]

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