Thirteen Things about Organic Mama’s Life: |
1. Really, the impending trip to Canada has me very preoccupied as I gather all the things my daughters have requested, such as lozenges, socks (I spent 40 bucks on socks at Target yesterday which is, sadly, not hard to do) and warmer clothes for the ladies to better withstand the Canadian hinterlands. Canada? in July? Brrr.
2. Socks again. WHY have I diligently saved every blessed divorcee sock in my household? The dryer does its best to part these multicolored cotton matches made proudly in the US and I save them, just on the off chance the time/space continuum vortex in my dryer (where else?) eventually coughs them up.
3. Since pooches did NOT manage to keep fluids and solids really much more appreciated INSIDE their furry bodies on their visit to the kennel the other day, I cannot begin to tell you how much I look forward to the repeat drive tomorrow morning. Benadryl may be my salvation, because my car may not smell right for a LOOOOOOOONG time. Fortunately, I did anticipate their difficulty with motion and placed coverings on all surfaces in the back; however, some furred one found a spot I missed. Joy.
4. Slugfest. Ok, the incessant rain and humidity of late has resulted in an abundance of nasty, slimy slugs who are dining, with impunity, on my broccoli. I managed to salvage a few heads, but the rest are now so much slugfood. Sigh.
5. Leaving one of my classes in the very capable hands of Mrs. Chili, I am attempting to micromanage every moment of class time so that time flies for my dear friend. While I do not doubt for ONE instant that she will direct compelling and fun class periods, and could teach COMP in her sleep, I find myself neurotically writing excruciating details in my plans. I will give myself a tiny break in that this is the FIRST, le premier temp, that I have ever used a sub for classes, especially, at two weeks into the semester, classes still undergoing dynamic establishment.
6. My other class, Critical Thinking, will be taught by another adjunct with her own section of this course. She took the proposed syllabus and morphed it into something far more dynamic, based on a course she had taught before to college freshmen in FL. Part ethics, part outdoor ed, part life coach, her approach to this course is exciting. For example, she will teach students about multiple intelligences and personality traits using an exercise of eating an apple; making observation of all the components of the experience and applying the observations to how each student best learns. I look forward to expanding my horizons and absorbing new approaches from her.
7. Tomorrow to Montreal will be a smuggling-free venture across the border. At about midnight on Friday, Bob and I will stop and declare the 13 boxes of stuff we’re bringing in for family. So not worth risking being barred from ever going back to Canada for 300 bucks worth of Pottery Barn stuff.
8. My sister downloaded every one of the 746 pages (individually) of the new Potter Book and then when asked to confirm my guesses, revealed the ending. IF it was a true copy and not a fake, I know how it ends (but nothing else) and I am not telling. Now I am anxious to CONFIRM what I may or may not know.
9. Send good energy to GrammarSnob and her husband. As I type this, he is having open-heart surgery.
10. Since Bob purchased his popgun, we have had at least one or a set of deer come looking for a nosh each evening. “Will there be a target for me tonight?” he muses each dusk as he stands before the slider, barely stifling an evil cackle. It may be getting out of hand.
11. I am an unabashed lover of NPR and have found, since listening regularly for several years, I am a more rounded, (lefty sympathizer), more informed (from at least one perspective), and someone who goes around saying the sonorous names, “Senya Peeaseki” and “Lakshmi Seng” in her head.
12. I have reconnected (after two years of silence) with a dear friend from my past who has undergone dramatic and life-altering changes, to the point where my own worldview has been rocked. Has that ever happened to you? Subject for another post!
13. It’s been raining for 4 days and I am so done with humid hair.
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Oh my god, you’ve made me physically ill. You skipped ahead to the ending? WHY? HOW? I can’t look.
This behavior is COMPLETELY foreign to me. I was asked if I’d look forward to the end. My answer was, GOOD GOD, NO! I don’t peek for Christmas presents, and I DON’T open books to the last pages to see how they end. EVER.
Ladies, what I may or may not know is merely what MAY be the ending, not any details of the plot. I know NOTHING (really, as this may turn out to be one of the three bogus books) with so much to find out, which I am so looking forward to. All this said, I will get my copy on Wednesday when I return and will work my way through start to finish all the way through, with no peeking.
AFTER ignoring all the reviews and news articles.
Re: Number 11.
I thought I was the only one who did that.
I once heard that the government spent millions of dollars and did a study on the differences between slow and fast-pouring ketchups… Perhaps we could get a grant and do one on the mysteries of lost socks in the dryer.
Welcome Spookyrach! Thank you for telling me I am not the only one! Seriously, I find myself murmuring their names after I hear them as they fall off the tongue so easily.
Tense, Holy crap! I prefer the slower ketchup, wouldn’t you say? I did a little searching - did you know that, according to informationliberation.com, the government just this month, “Confirmed that an Ohio Air Force laboratory had asked for $7.5 million to build a nonlethal “gay (in its original definition) bomb,” a weapon that would encourage enemies to make love, not war. The weapon would (theoretically) use strong aphrodisiacs to make enemy troops so sexually attracted to each other that they’d lose interest in fighting.”
In this case, where’s the grant money to A) prove the existence of that space/time anomaly and B) get my damn socks back!