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.
