March 16, 2010
Irish in Chicago
The thing about Chicago is, when someone says, “Hey, let’s dye the river green!” they actually do it. Not half-ass, not green-ish, not a tinge of green. They make that mofo green.
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March 13, 2010
ChiTown and Val
I’m sitting in the wonderful Chicago flat of my friend Val, blogging. This is like a mondo beyondo dream come true.
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March 8, 2010
Mondo Beyondo
I’m taking another class.
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March 7, 2010
More vacation pictures
Blogger is cooperating this morning, so here are more photographs from our vacation. Zozer’s fever broke sometime early this morning, and she’s back to her normal self (although desperately in need of a bath due to the innumerable rounds of night sweats she suffered last night). I have lots more images from our trip, but these are the best of Zozo and what her grandparents care about, so here they are.
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March 7, 2010
Love
Whirlwind of activity…virtually nonstop since arriving home. It’s amazing how two days of near comatose inactivity in a car can be just as exhausting as rushing to and fro once arriving, but it’s all adding up to a big dose of tired. Top that with a sniffly husband and a preschooler who is downright sick (temp of 103.9 under the arm which means you have to add a full degree making it 104.9 making me worried as hell and calling the exchange) and waking up every 45 minutes which means none of us gets any sleep…it all feels like too much.
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March 6, 2010
Beach Girl
I have many, many more images to share, but Blogger is being difficult tonight and it’s taking forever to upload even one. So I uploaded only one. One of my favorites, taken the first time Zozer ever saw the beach. She loved it. Loved loved loved it. Much to M’s dismay, I’m sure, since he hates the ocean (freaks him out, it does).
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February 28, 2010
The future’s so bright…or maybe it’s just Florida sun
The weight has been lifted. It’s another time of uncertainty in my life…which is compounded by external environmental factors (hello, Mr. 10% Unemployment), but I am not worried. I am not mired with pangs of self-doubt while continually berating myself with “Did you do the right thing? Did you?”
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February 23, 2010
The bigger things
I think it’s amazing how when your life seems to be crumbling around you, something happens that snaps everything into a sharp relief where it’s so incredibly easy to see what’s really important.
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February 18, 2010
Hoot speaks out
Last week, for Valentine’s Day, Zozer’s class had a Teddy Bear Tea Party. Each child in the Bunny Room was instructed to bring a teddy bear for the tea party. M and I got the note from her teachers and eyed each other warily. “Can Hoot go?” Zo, as you know, is not a traditional teddy bear kind of girl. She much prefers owls. “I dunno,” I told M, “I’ll ask tomorrow.” I asked the teachers and they glanced at each other and replied, “Well, we guess so, but it’s really supposed to be teddy bears.” Oh, for the love of Pete.
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February 16, 2010
Will work for mochas
Sometimes the shit hits the fan, and all you can do is duck and defend yourself. Which is exactly what I did on Friday resulting in yours truly getting shitcanned from her job.
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