You know there’s a problem

when you read your child one of her spelling words and she says, “WHAT??”, not like she didn’t actually HEAR you, but more like she has never heard the word before.

Or, more like she can’t believe she has to spell that word.  AKA… “Where did you find THAT word??”

Me:  “Ummm… your spelling list?!”

This has been the first week in awhile where the words’ meanings weren’t readily apparent, like “legislature”.

Me: “Do you know what a legislature is?”

Her:  “No”

Of course, it didn’t help that spellingcity.com said that “fiction” was a “large division of something”.   “Faction”, I could see.   I suppose “fiction” COULD be a large section in a library… depending on the size of the library.  

Ergh

Don’t Wanna/It’ll Be Fine

I’ve been nominated by one of my ornery peers for our company’s “Employee of the Year” award.   I have no idea who it was.   “The alien” (as I’ve begun referring to Ian) keeps saying I deserve to be nominated as much as anyone else does.  I think only someone on psychadelic drugs would nominate me to be employee of the year.   They obviously didn’t see me all stressed out on help desk last week (but oh how quickly working help desk makes the day pass).

The nominees get to have time scheduled for an interview with one of the company VP’s.   I told Ian, “I don’t want to go.  Can I remove my name from the list?   Would that be wrong?   I don’t LIKE to talk about myself!   Waaaaaaa!”

He said, “Just go in there and be yourself.  Tell them you’re a bit nervous.  They’ll understand”

So I did.   

It worked out fine.  

I don’t know who they’ll pick.

I was nominated last year, too (yes there is more than just one of us working for the company!) and I did get a free box of Wheaties.   They decorated the box to show our faces on it, because typically Wheaties has pictures of people on the box… and because “they could”.

Drive-Thru Breakfast

This morning, we were making our usual mad escape from the neighborhood, when the car in front of us stopped.  There was a golf cart at the side of the road with people milling about. 

A manager from the apartment office came up to our car window, so I rolled it down, totally having forgotten that it was “drive-thru breakfast day”, a kind of thank you for living at our apartment complex.

We received two of these yummy chocolate muffins and two bottles of orange drink.    🙂

Feelin’ Good

One of my favourite songs, sung by Nina Simone and featured in “Seven Pounds” which you may want to run out right now and rent.

    Feelin’ Good

Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Reeds driftin’ on by you know how I feel

It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me
And I’m feeling good

Fish in the sea you know how I feel
River running free you know how I feel
Blossom in the tree you know how I feel

It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me
And I’m feeling good

Dragonfly out in the sun you know what I mean, don’t you
know
Butterflies all havin’ fun you know what I mean
Sleep in peace when day is done
And this old world is a new world
And a bold world
For me

Stars when you shine you know how I feel
Scent of the pine you know how I feel
Oh freedom is mine
And I know how I feel

It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me
And I’m feeling good

Focus on the good. Try to toss the rest away, as best you can.

Odd Dream


I had a dream that I was in some airport, catching a flight with my daughter to see Ian.    I forgot to print off my boarding pass, so at the last minute, I went to the counter to have it printed.   In the back of my head, I was thinking “I hope the seats aren’t all assigned already!”

Starting to panic, I attempted to speak to the counter girl.  She decided it was humour day and I just wasn’t getting it.    She finally saw that I was humour-free and actually had a mission to complete in a very short amount of time, so she shifted me off to a counter across the room.    Everyone seemed busy helping other customers.    It was finally my turn to speak to someone.

He thought he was funny, too.   I indicated that my flight was about to leave and I needed a boarding pass, and one to board my flight in Chicago, too.   As he handed me a boarding pass for the flight to Chicago, he wrote down the name of some car rental company and handed it to me (it’s because dreams don’t need to make sense, I guess) as a resource for getting my boarding passes onward from Chicago.

I looked forever for my black luggage so I could wheel it to the gate (because who needs baggage check-in, eh?)    I finally found the luggage, which I remembered putting in a particular spot as I was speaking to my grandfather (who passed on years ago, but was seeing me off at the airport).

So, collected my bags, corralled my daughter and proceeded to the gate.

Oh crap!   I forgot to get her boarding pass.    I’ll just plead totally daft at the gate…. where they ended up just letting her on the plane without question.

I’m sure this all means something.   LOL

Happy Easter, people!

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