So, I have never been sadder to mark an item off my 101 in 1001 list than I was tonight. I just finished #12.

I so wanted to know what was next.

in the spirit of spring break, i am thinking about what i will do with all my free time this summer.

i have decided i will catch up on the photographs. j asks where the pictures of him are. oops. i do have them, but not in books. so there's that.

then, i'm going to figure out how to vid, once and for all, because i have forty gazillion ideas for vids.

i'm also going to watch a lot of tv. finish buffy. buy more quantum leap and watch it. and i think i'll start on x-files. i watched the first few seasons of it and i've been meaning for a few years now to go back and just watch it all. netflix those.

it was warm here yesterday. today it was chilly. weather needs to make up its mind.

for once i am tired before midnight. this is an accomplishment, this week.

So Gillian has lost both of her top two front teeth, now. One last Saturday morning, the other this Saturday morning. This, of course, means that I spend time trying to make sure I have an actual dollar in cash to put under her pillow, and then I spend the evening hoping that she's going to fall asleep quickly, but not on her pillow, and then hoping that I actually remember to put the dollar under her pillow.

Luckily, she hasn't gotten to the stage of comparing notes with others about how much they get for their teeth. I figure a dollar is a fair enough amount. Isn't it? I would do just fifty cents, really, but putting paper money underneath the pillow is easier somehow than coinage.


We finally started watching season four of Buffy. We bought it right before November sweeps, and November was busy on top of trying to watch brand new shows. Then there was the holidays. I can't remember why we didn't get a chance to do it in January. Then February and again, brand new shows. So now it's the end of February and we're finally watching again. March is a dead month as far as television. The evil hiatus and all such as that. So there's that to watch. In addition to the other things I have to watch. :)


I really ought to pick a candidate to support for the Democratic nomination. Research. Ugh. I hate using their official websites because they don't really say very much. Anyone have any recommendations for other places to look for information? I have actual money to give away, people! I have time I could contribute! Not that any Democratic presidential candidates will come to my state after the primaries are over, since, you know, we're dumb redneck Republicans down here. Fuck that shit. I ought to write a nasty letter to Dean. "I gave money to your 2004 campaign! Send real people and real money to my state! We are not as lost as you think!"

At least I hope we aren't.

Yesterday, I decided to go with the plan of 'watch Buffy.' I think I watched a total of seven episodes before I went to bed, which puts me with only nine left before I reach the end of S3. This is exciting, but I won't be buying S4 and getting to watch it until my birthday which is a good twenty days away, so perhaps we'd best pace ourselves from here on out. :P

My books were shipped from amazon this morning. Yay!

I am feeling oddly out of sorts today, though I can't put a finger on why. I don't have anything I precisely have to do, which is nice. Just random things halfway hanging over my head, and me with my fingers in my ears. I'll think about that tomorrow.

I can't go to the bank today (which I need to do, times three). I can't convince Gillian to do some school ahead of time, which is too bad, because we have four days of work for everything but Latin, math, and recitation, so if we did, say, grammar and spelling today, then we'd be done with grammar and spelling for the week on Wednesday. I also can't go to the library today to pick up the books that are on hold. I feel stymied.

I can plan the week's school on our lesson plan sheet, I suppose, and I ought to work on this week's assignment for the HGP, which is the master bedroom/master bathroom. The really exciting thing is that I don't have to do the actual cleaning, just the decluttering and sorting. Thursday is cleaning service day. I cannot wait, I tell you. Absolutely, positively cannot wait.

My Blue Canoe co-op order should be here tomorrow or Tuesday, minus the three things that were discontinued in the two weeks between when I ordered them and when the wholesaler processed the order. All the Blue Canoe shirts that are left (that I don't already own) all have very defined bust areas, which are exactly the kind of shirt I cannot wear. I really hope that the one top I ordered will even fit me, as it has an inside bra. It's not overly defined on the outside, though, so I live in hope. I'm going to be getting shorts, a skirt, and another pair of pants, too. I am slowly making my way towards my 101 in 1001 goal of having seven organic tops, but it was dealt a blow with the discontinued shirts, so I only will have four when my order comes. I bought one from Under the Canopy at Harry's/Whole Foods the other day, because it was 30% off. It is a very light cream and has a turtle design on it and says "Change the world." I like the sentiment.

On the plus side, with my refund from the Blue Canoe co-op, I ordered some books from Amazon. I was totally irresponsible and only ordered books for myself. That's not entirely true - I bought Gillian a $5 Building The Pyramids sticker book. The other four books are just for me and totally superfluous. It's so incredibly nice to be able to get something totally superfluous.

Maybe I will just take a shower and then settle in for some Buffy. If I started soon after my parents leave (in about 15 minutes), I could watch six episodes or something like that. Yay Buffy.

Why did I not watch Buffy when it was first broadcast?

That is to say, I am loving this show. We powered through S2 in about three weeks. We got S3 last Friday (before we had finished S2), started it on Monday, and we're about to go watch 3x06. Yay! I had planned to buy one season a month but perhaps I will just plan on getting two per month. We shall see. I can't decide who my favorite character is yet. Hee. This is fun.

Yes, Kelly, it means I haven't been watching DS. I watched B5 last summer, though, and you still haven't watched CSI:, so I figure I'm still ahead. Right?

In other news, my shift key is only working sporadically. I can credit this new development to the amazing Jacob. So if there's a missed capital anywhere, it's because I didn't press down on shift like there was no tomorrow.

I love books. Sometimes I forget how much I love books, because I get all tapped out or I binge and then I feel all sick from all those words. Does anyone know more about hyperlexia? I need to learn more about both it and Asperger's. I can't really say why but I'm sure some of you could figure out if I were to tell you I need to learn about it for the thing that I lead every Thursday night. ;)

I made this "Brownie Pudding Cake" tonight, just to try something different. It was pretty good, but since we've only had it once, I found myself wondering if there was a way to make it 'healthier' - whole wheat flour, maybe, and something to substitute for the refined sugar. I know I could sub applesauce for the random cooking oil. It wasn't so utterly fabulous this time that changes would just be tampering with perfection, anyway.

My birthday is just three weeks from Sunday. Yay! I get childishly excited about my birthday, but I think all adults should. I mean, really. It's the only day of the year (in theory) when it's all about you (in theory). I already know that I will get my favorite meal and my favorite cake and there have been hints from Sam about at least one present. From the hints, I know I will like it. :D

Okay, Buffy time!

I no longer have a primroseburrows; we dropped her off at the airport not too long ago. We being, of course, Gillian, Jacob, and I. Her first flight was delayed, so hopefully she'll still make her connecting flight, and if not, the counterperson made her a reservation on a later flight, so she's taken care of either way.

I have to attend a Girl Scout recruitment meeting tonight. "Have to" sounds a bit more negative than I want it to sound; I do want to go, and I do want to have more girls in the troop, but I also am pretty tired from the past week and a half, and I'd really love to sit at home and watch BTVS. Did I mention that after the GS meeting, I have to go by the Mothers & More meeting to pick some things up? Also, before I can attend the GS meeting, I have to type an 'introduction' to our troop and get that, plus registration forms and the like, together. I suppose I should have taken care of it at some point in the past but I'm not really sure when that would have been.

So, I'm thinking I need to list when the troop meets (days, times, how often a month), where we meet, what our 'goals' are for the girls in the troop, and a few basic other things, plus maybe a copy of the troop calendar for the next month or two. I contemplated treating tonight like a parents' meeting as well as a recruitment meeting, but I think that I might do better to focus on one thing at a time.

Gillian & I are 'behind' on school, in the sense that we are not at the place I thought we might be in the content areas. Then again, that's not really a big deal, so I guess we're all right. I've known all along that next week was going to be my nice, slow 'rebuilding' week. We'll go to her Thursday classes, ballet on Monday, and Jacob's swimming class on Monday and Wednesday, but that's it. I don't anticipate doing anything else all week except rest, school, and clean. I mean, we'll play some games and stuff, but I'm not planning any big trips out of the house, nor any big events hosted at my house. I may be crazy, but I'm not that crazy, yet.