# The last episode of Glee until next APRIL is tonight. I'm excited to see what happens and totally saddened that we can't see it again until APRIL!!! Clover said the DVDs of what's already aired are coming out very soon...so I suppose I'll buy them. If I don't, I'm watching them all again online at the very least. I am just about as crazy about this show as I was Queer as Folk, which I never expected to happen again! Haven't given a thought to fandom or fanfic though, that's definitely only a QaF phenomenon!

# It's SUPER cold for Texas today...it was pretty cold last week, but it only got up to 35 here today and it's supposed to be even colder tonight. I've been walking anyway for most of that time (I just bundle up), but there's no way I'm walking tomorrow if it doesn't get at least into the low 40s. Ugh...which means I'll have to go to the gym. I hate the gym. So much...

# I am so ready for the music program for 2nd-3rd grade at my school to be OVER. I'm not the music teacher, but I am the assistant for programs, which means we've been practicing with them for two weeks and haven't had art at all for that time. I've missed FOUR weeks of art with 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade so far this year because of other activities...makes it really hard to get things finished!

# We're in full holiday mode around here right now...got all the outside lights up last weekend *and* the tree is decorated. I've done most of my shopping, mostly online and probably will finish that up in the next day or two. I can't decide if I want to make my "famous" sugar cookies this year. It feels weird to be diabetic and make dozens of SUGAR cookies, but I probably will anyway. People will get upset if I don't...I'm not even that great a cook, but people say they wait all year for my cookies. Go figure...

My First Blog Post

It may seem odd to have a blog in order to keep active at Insane Journal, but here I am, doing just that.

I'm thinking that if I start making a habit of coming online to blog about the mundane things in my life, I'll want to keep IJ as my fandom place. Makes sense to me, but perhaps to no one else. Which is ok. It's a little weird even to me, but I've thought about it a lot lately and I think it might just work.

TODAY'S THOUGHTS

# I hate having to enter my students in the Fort Worth stock show art contest. The deadline is too early in the year to adequately "showcase the art program at my school," and besides, *my* art program is NOT western/stock show art oriented anyway. So, I find myself scrambling at the last minute to enter projects that are NOT indicative of the art my students learn and we never win a damn thing anyway. I swear every year I'm never doing it again, but it's in the campus improvement plan, so I have to. I really need to get my shit together and ask to have it removed and let us enter something more suitable LATE in the school year.

# Clover and I are coming to that point in a mother/daughter relationship where we are *both* ready for her to leave for college. So many things she says does annoy the FIRE out of me lately and I know she feels exactly the same way. She'll deny it to the end of time, but her three favorite words to describe me are "weird, ridiculous and freak." I wonder what mine are for her? I guarantee I have them and I bet it annoys me as much as her words annoy me.

# Vacation in the Davis Mountains was FAB. I had such a good time and everyone else seemed to as well. Our Thanksgiving dinner was delicious and bountiful and I even ate dessert for the first time in well, months, and my blood sugar stayed at good levels the entire trip. I walked every day through the street (yes, singular) of Fort Davis and really enjoyed the mountain air and the quiet of the town. We saw the Marfa lights, visited the Marfa bookstore, ate at the tiny little Mexican place, waiting over an hour for not-so-special food...all "standards" of our trips to the area. We also toured the ruins of Fort Davis, which was something we'd not done before...that was cool. There was a new little grocery store open next to our tourist court and it was totally organic and made wonderful breakfast foods and coffee and we could just walk over anytime for snacks...everyone loved that. We all read a lot and BK took his laptop, so Clover could get on Facebook every day. Watched a lot of football (UT vs. A&M and the Cowboys) on Thanksgiving Day and the Mavericks when they played...so we weren't lacking for anything. I think the kids are ready for something new next Thanksgiving, but I could go every single year and be as happy as a clam.

# Bought Adam Lambert's new CD with an iTunes gift card I got for my birthday and still haven't listened to a bit of it...I really should do that soon.