close the window, calm the light

You know, I started a post in my head last night, as I was falling asleep, and it was witty and funny and you really shoudda have been there.

Gawds, I really wish you had been because I’ve got NOTHING here.  Still no word from the employment place and I need a real kick in the ass to get back on the hamster wheel of transcription.  I am LOVING the ancient history track we’re taking this year and especially Susan Bauer’s Ancient History spine.  It isn’t your everyday dry texbook – I really don’t think it is anything like a textbook.  We’re still very slowly finishing up Indian and Chinese culture and I’m hoping that by the time we make it through the Egyptian time period we’ll be done with China. I need to make a confession to my unschooling friends.  I finally decided to make the jump and no longer consider myself an unschooler.  I am requiring schoolwork from the kids and you can see just how far I’ve fallen in the homeschooling blog.  I’m not sure how I feel about this.  I’m disappointed in myself because it is truly a failing of mine, but at the same time I’m relieved because homeschooling is so much EASIER than unschooling.

I finally broke out of my weight plateau yesterday and hit 77 kilos.  Today I’m back up to 78, but at least I managed to get out of that 78-80 rut.  I think I got in a junk rut and have really tried to get back to the healthy diet I had before Christmas and TDay.  My leg feels back to normal and I’m hoping to start running again tomorrow.  I think I’ll drop back to week 5 of C25K and I really need to start the strengthening exercises.

I started a facebook account after my BFF (dayum, am I up on the lingo or WHAT???) setup my 14yo on facebook.  I really resisted because I have a blog and really, who needs more online presence, but I wanted to see what it was about.  I figured it was just stupid blog stuff but more interactive.  And I got completely and utterly hooked.  I’m in contact with my very first boyfriend’s sister (oh, and him also) and finding people I’d met and connected with and then lost in the wilds of the internet long ago.  I’m not sure how long I’ll keep the facebook account, because Jesus H Christ, that is a LOT of personal information out there, but I guess you’re supposed to control that with friend access?  I really need to learn more about it before I use it even more than I am.  Which is WAY too much.  Hey Jonna, bet you can’t resist…it is a time suck from which you will never recover.

I have been trying to move all my stuff from my T30 to my T43 (and got all email over there) only to find that the T43 has started having internet connection issues.  I think I finally nailed it down to Net 3.0 but I’m not sure.  So that’s too much fun figuring out.

We’re blindly pretending we didn’t buy a house in Merida because we simply do not have the money to put into it and live vicariously through Jonna and Mimi and pretend their house is ours.  Because we want the exact same dealio.    But I SO want to be there and not here.  Except I want our beach at our Merida house.  Gawds, but I’m demanding, eh?