The Blog With No Name

The daughter finally got her ears pierced the other day (here is a  photo for once snapped at just the right moment). The last time she had this in mind, I managed, by dint of motioning wildly behind her back, to get the guy having his ear pierced ahead of her in line act as though it hurt a whole lot. That put her off for, um, three years I think. Her friend has two sets of earlobe piercings and one cartilage (!ouch!) piercing, at the tender age of 11. Of course The Daughter is already thinking of ways to store the earrings she will doubtless accumulate over time, unknowingly abetted by my neighbor, who has a crafty daughter who makes jewelry storage systems out of picture frames and so on. It always comes down to containers, it seems.

Got rid of two vehicles’ full of hymnals and old old Bibles yesterday – very satisfying. My reward for relentlessly scouring the building for things to get rid of was getting first dibs on the empty cupboards! Yay! So I have rearranged various things so that all my old publications are in one place, also all the old council documents that previously were in three different places.  It’s a cascade effect. Once I get boxes for the old papers and can get rid of the 3-ring binders, it will all take up even less space. (But then I have a mountain of 3-ring binders to get rid of, sigh…)

I know this is boring as hell for you normal people, but I feel the absence of all those books in the building. It’s a glorious thing, emptiness.

No, not really. But he is really awesome! It dawned on him that if he took the kiddies to school 2-3 mornings per week, I could go to the gym at least an hour later and GET MORE SLEEP!!! YAY!!!! Isn’t he The Bomb?

As a result of watching the national news the other day, both of my children are expecting checks in the mail, made out to each of them personally, for $300. They are planning to purchase a Wii and a few games to play on said Wii. I almost don’t have the heart to tell them that all the money will come to ME. And no Wiis will be purchased.