Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
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12:18 pm - Where I am instead
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Okay, just so nobody gets nervous about not hearing from me: this month I've got a baptism, a friend <3 to help move here from another state, Thanksgiving, and NaNo. So if I'm scarce online, one or more of those is why.
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Saturday, September 25th, 2010
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12:11 pm - I has a bicycle!
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Friday, September 24th, 2010
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8:41 pm - Random facts of the day
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I need to keep some kind of planner. Seriously. Paper or computer, I wonder.
As of today Flame is already totally caught up in trig and halfway there in English. He's going to need to pick up an extra elective if he keeps this up! Sure, it's only been two days, but still, I'm pleasantly shocked at how good he's being about sitting down and doing the work.
Went to the dentist today to check on my mouthguard, which of course is fine. On the way home we swung into Bookman and picked up a used copy of Huckleberry Finn for Flame, since that's next up for him in English. (This led to one of our Humorous Conversations. "You should enjoy it. Twain is smart, and funny, and this book is also a rare treat for a literature class in that it ends well." "Wait... it what? But who dies?") I also picked up a book on scrapbooking that seems to talk about a more useful range of ideas than they often do, and one full of mostly Victorian-style images to use in artsy stuff.
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Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
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11:44 am - By the Bi
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So: it's Bisexual Visibility Day. http://september23.bi.org/
For those of you who might have managed to miss it, I'm bisexual. I'm not straight; I'm not gay; I'm not transsexual or transgendered; I'm not a rampaging sex fiend monster with no brakes (so no, if you're wondering whether I was hitting on you and you're not sure, I probably wasn't). I'm lovingly and devotedly married to a guy, so if you didn't know already, you probably assumed I was straight. Nope, not quite!
There. All visible. **glows faintly**
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Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
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7:37 pm - Gratitude journal
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As traditional, I am grateful for Flame, who turned 16 today. We get along well enough (in a similarly quirky enough way) to be regularly mistaken for siblings. He's funny and smart and a good person, and I really like how he's turning out.
(In related news, he's also decided at the last second that he will be taking German instead of Japanese.)
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Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
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6:55 pm - Gratitude journal
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So let me tell you a thing about Flame's new online school: he will be doing Rosetta Stone Japanese. For free. BOOYEAH.
(And also trig. English class is reading "The Crucible." All good stuff.)
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
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7:03 pm - Gratitude journal
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Today I'm, ah. Grateful to be moving forward on Flame's school transfer, and for the amount of energy I do have for getting through what looks to be a busy week on, and for my beloved ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) twist_shimmy , who so seldom fails to be online to write and vent with.
Bright side, bright side. ;D
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Sunday, September 19th, 2010
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12:20 pm - Gratitude journal
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Whew! The party was beautiful and fun, everything went smoothly, everyone seemed to have a good time, the new friends got along with the old friends, all the presents and cards were lovely and I didn't have to feign enthusiasm for any of them. ;D And we looked fabulous.
And today I'm grateful that enough cleanup and borrowed-stuff-returning has already happened as of this morning, and there are enough leftovers, to make today pretty laid-back except for getting groceries sometime this afternoon. I am groggy but happy. :D
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
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8:48 pm - Gratitude journal
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I am grateful for the hard-won understanding that it is not my responsibility to flawlessly engage in logical debate, even when I have the knowledge to do so, if I am not enjoying doing so. Especially when I am in my own space rather than public space. Huzzah self-care!
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
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7:56 pm - Gratitude journal
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I'm grateful for a day of not going out or seeing people, just chillin in mah house. Also, we have an approval for Flame to go the internet school, and a ride to get him to the orientation and the assessment test without our riding the bus two hours each way. Yay!
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
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6:33 pm - Gratitude journal
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Good catechism chat today - I feel much more secure in thinking that my beliefs and ethics fall within appropriate parameters, so I won't be Lying Under Oath or anything. XD Also, everything is going to plan party-wise, and I got to see Jennifer and invite her, which I hadn't gotten the chance to do earlier because I didn't have her email and I wasn't running into her.
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
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8:30 pm - Gratitude journal
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Today we found an Indian grocery that JUST opened near us, and which - the bigger shock for locally - sells non-expired food. That still smells and behaves like food when you open it! Annnnnd they had rose kurti (ice cream) which was what I wanted to serve with the cake if only there was anyplace near me that sold it!
Oh yeah. Rockin' it Indian style.
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
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6:41 pm - Gratitude journal
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As per traditional, today I am grateful for my birth into a clever and loving family. Particular to this year, I'm grateful to have gotten out to my current favorite Indian restaurant with selyndria and gotten the catering order locked down. We hadn't even realized that they make T's favorite Indian thing EVER, which will now be one of our entrees. :D (Along, of course, with MY favorite thing ever. Plus a chicken thing the guy suggested as rounding things out nicely.)
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Sunday, September 12th, 2010
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8:46 pm - Gratitude journal
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For yesterday I am grateful for OMG NAPOLEON (the insanely rich dessert, not the Frenchman) and friends making them and lending me stuff and helping and all.
For today I'm grateful for the chance to see friends I hadn't seen in a while in a happy context (bridal shower).
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
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11:04 pm - Gratitude journal
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I'm grateful to have found out another cycling fan. In my state! In my circle of acquaintanceship! I've been so aloooooone.
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010
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7:25 pm - Gratitude journal
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I am grateful for the excruciatingly fabulous Tabitha, whose birthday is today. :D
I'm also grateful for happy coincidences. I ran into two women I knew when we were out to dinner. They were about to go to a book signing (next door, at the bookstore we'd been planning to go to anyway) by a woman whose stuff I may turn out to like - it's supernatural Victoriana with large helpings of sarcastic wit. (Gail Carriger is the author's name.) So I picked up the first book of the series.
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
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10:52 pm - Gratitude journal
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Today it's just general burbling over how I have a home and a family and friends and life is pretty good. It was autumnal today, overcast and just a hair drizzly without being really cold. Sweet. And I got an appointment set up with Brain Doctor for before the sleeping pills run out, so I will continue to receive delicious chemical sleep without interruption.
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
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7:20 pm - Gratitude journal
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I am grateful for the healing power of Making Lists and for 80's music. Yep. When nobody else is home, I do chores while singing Duran Duran at the top of my lungs, and no one can stop me.
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Monday, September 6th, 2010
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8:28 pm - Gratitude journal
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I usually save him until his birthday as the journal closer, but I'm grateful that my son is a smart, funny, decent person who likes us.
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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
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4:16 pm - Gratitude journal
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Today we went to a Civil War re-enactment fair with our new friends Tom and Beth and their daughter (whose name I have not seen spelled so I'm not going to try and fail). (Stick with me, this is going to arrive at gratitude.) The staged battle was a bit more realistic and darker-edged than I'm used to from Ren faires. It was kind of an odd experience. On this side of the rope border, a bunch of moderns gibbering about things they think they know, and cheering for a side, and trying to control their shrieking kids, and eating hot dogs. On the other side, it's all banging and smoke and firecracker smell, and boys playing drums and flutes while other boys shoot and shoot and shoot from their tidy rows, and sometimes it goes on and on and nothing seems to be happening, and then suddenly there's one more round of shots and boys suddenly fall over, "dead" or grievously wounded and left to lie there while the cigar-chewing journalist paces back and forth in the distance with no apparent concern, and meanwhile it seems like no one ever comes around to them with even a swig of whiskey, let alone any medicinal help, until the priest swings by with his big wooden cross to send off the dead ones in spirit while the wounded still lie there.
So I'm grateful I wasn't in the Civil War.
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