I'm Back!!!

From...the couch.  Sorry!  I've just been so BUSY!!!  We can blame Anne - at least for yesterday's postless day...I had to take her and Madison to the airport.  And she isn't around to dispute her guilt because she's in France (that bitch!).  She and Madison went together with a group from Madison's school.  I won't say that Madison is a bitch because this is an opportunity for her...for Anne?  She's been to Europe before so that constitutes her being a bitch...and she didn't take me so I can call her what she is...a bitch.  Of course I've been to Europe before too...hee hee hee.

So other than my airport trip, what have I been doing?  A lot of thinking.  Thinking about making lists for my PIB trip...thinking about all the things I could be doing but choose not to because I'm still recovering from my school year.  I did clean my house!  And I finished chalking and pinning my quilt.  I started sewing it yesterday...that's going to take FOREVER!!!  It's so big! I need a giant, standing hoop thing (like at left) to put in front of me while I sew...something easy to turn.  Oh, and I think I may need "readers"...you know reading glasses...or as Kim calls them at work - "purples" (that's the color of the readers she uses at work).  I was trying to get a knot out of my thread yesterday - something that use to be a cinch - and I couldn't because I couldn't see the GD thread!!!  I may go to Walgreens and get a low powered pair - Maggie's suggestion - and then when I get back from the PIB, I'll go to the eye doc to get checked.  It's been about 2 or 3 years.

While I sewed yesterday I watched the Sorcerer's Apprentice.  I'm not a Nicolas Cage fan but it was pretty good.  (Although I did love him in Valley Girl...I could watch that movie over and over again...I sure wish my Netflix had it available on my Wii...bunch of hooey!) I also watched a documentary on some guy and his nutty mother.  Get this:  So this guy's mother, Renee, when she was about 13, she was playing around and jumping off her roof (we used to do that as kids).  Well, I guess she jumped off and when she landed, she didn't bend her knees and it left her paralyzed for 6 months.  During that time, her parents decided the paralysis might not be "real".  So a neighbor tells them to get her some shock therapy (this is the 60s by the way).  So they do and after that she's nutso.  Then several years later, she's on a bus from Chicago to Texas and she gets kicked off the bus for acting weird...they take her to a mental hospital and give her MORE shock therapy which basically erases any of her personality.  After that, she's treated for schizophrenia with Lithium which she "accidentally" overdoses on and that leaves her with some pretty severe brain damage.  Why do I watch these things?  It was so weird. 

I finished the 2nd in the Hunger Game series (Catching Fire...I'll review here in a bit).  I decided NOT to read the 3rd right after...I don't want to finish them too quickly...I want to really soak it all in.  It was really really good and I can't wait for the movies!  If I teach LA to my kids next year, I really want to read The Hunger Games, The Help and one other book.  I was thinking of One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest but I've never read that (I've seen the movie) and I don't know if it will be appropriate or not.  I know that it's on lists that schools read but I don't know if my kids will be able to deal.  We'll see...maybe I'll make a trek to Half Price today to get some books for next year.  I sure wish I knew if I was teaching LA or not.  I could just send an email asking but God forbid I know anything in order to plan for next year! 

So that's all I've got for now.  I have lots to do in planning for PIB.  I'll start making my lists today (meals, grocery etc.) and then clean tomorrow and shop on Saturday.  K - later!