November ends, at last

In a way, it went pretty fast, with me being NaNoNuts, at least the last half of it went by pretty quick.
Looking back, it has seemed to go by quickly, but when I was IN it, no, it was crawling, time was being passed by snails as if they were on acid. I'm not just talking November anymore, I mean this whole deployment.
Things have changed so much around here, everything from the work/remodeling/new purchases around the house (and in the garage) to things like holy crap, Alex is tall, Comet is enormous and our DVD collection has grown substanially.

One thing I want to be sure you understand honey, BEFORE you come home: there is NO eating downstairs. Not on the pretty new furniture. So dinner time is now a FAMILY event, attendance is MANDATORY. With our kids getting older, soon they will not speak to us, we will cease to be the coolest people they know, and we will be "the idiots who we live with" to them. I want to put this off as long as possible, so I really must insist that this ritual continue, we eat dinner together, everyone at the table. I know you like to eat in front of the TV, I remember, but I am talking about half an hour a night, sitting with your kids and trying to pry information out of them so that we can stay informed on the comings and goings of their lives.

Now I know when you first get back, this probably won't be a problem, you miss them, you want to be around them. I'm thinking of this spring, after you've been home awhile, and things start to settle back to "normal"...THAT is when I expect a little balking from you about it, and quite frankly, I don't give a damn, I do not want to hear it and I especially do not care if the Twins are playinng Boston, we WILL eat dinner together.

Wow, guess I had to get that off my chest, thank goodness it's over with, huh?

So our plans for the weekend are shaping up into something pretty sucky, if you ask me. Emma has a hockey game in Fargo (I do not know where or when, though) PLUS I wanted to take all 3 kids to get haircuts and decent clothes to wear the following weekend when we go down to Mpls. to see Mark in his first performance as a member of the Minneapolis Gay Men's Choir. It's their Christmas concert, titled "Don we now our Gay apparel"... Steven assures me that it is not raunchy or inappropriate for children.
So that's Saturday, hockey, haircuts and clothes shopping.
Sunday is more hockey, in Park Rapids... shit, two away games in one weekend, nothing like driving all over the friggin' state in the bitter cold to sit in a cold arena and watch our girls get stomped... gotta love that.

Oh, yeah, it got cold, forgot to tell you. It has not been over 10 since last weekend, maybe Monday. The windchill word is back... with a vengeance. It was -15 yesterday. We dubbed those kinds of days "Half smoke days" because when we take a break from class and go out to smoke, we can only puff down half of one before we give up and go back in.

I hope it will at least be tolerable when you come home, I don't think that kind of drastic temperature change will be good for you, you'll probably end up getting sick or something.

Mom brought up a good point, with my NaNo, she said I should finish doing the first draft before you come home for leave. She's right, if I let it go, it could easily be another 16 years before I touch it again. That would truly suck, and I don't want that. So I will try to finish it before you get here, and maybe do a quick edit, then give mom a copy of it and hand her a pen (but not a red one!) and let her have at it with suggestions.

I have a paper to write for extra credit for Marcus, and I have some Accounting homework, AND I have a Payroll test tomorrow that I'm pretty sure I'm not ready for. Plus Survivor is on tonight, and I'd like to watch that, so I really should get off my laptop and get to work. Oh, and I need to get the budget stuff figured out tonight since tomorrow I am in class most of the day, except for lunch, which I am doing with Mom, and Dave's daughter, Tammy and her two youngest kids. I get to meet them tomorrow. Things are very cool there, honey, Mom is really happy, and Dave is a great guy, I can't wait for you to meet him. You'll like him... better than Steven. Hell, I even like him better than Steven!

When you come home, ask Mom and I about our newest impression. We are funny, and now, we do impressions. Not of famous people, that is so over done... we do good impressions. Makes my sides hurt from laughing so hard, we are funny.

yaaaayy me!!

I crossed the finish line shortly before

4 pm on Tuesday, November 28,

just 16 days after I started this psycho thing.

Now I can get some sleep.

But wait,

I wrote 50,000 words, but the thing is not DONE.

I have to finish it now. Oh, screw it, it can wait until

December.

I have to get some work done

Ya ever notice how when you have some real work to do, like writing papers for school, in my case, you can always find other things to do?

There are several ways to procrastinate, some better than others, and I have found a wonderful way, which I will not discuss here, but JP knows what it is, he is responsible for it...

always and all ways honey, you are the best.

ADDED LATER, ALMOST MIDNIGHT: I just uploaded my daily total for my NaNoWriMo. I am over 45K. I think I can safely say that I THINK I will make it. I have been averaging around 2500 words per day, hitting a milestone every other day (15K, 20K, 25K, etc) so I think it's a good guesstimate that I will kick this thing by Tuesday. No, the novel itself will not be done, but I will be a NaNoWinner at the very least.
And my typing skills have vastly improved, too, so that's a plus!

Just a Quickie

I wanted to give you something to think about:

To help you get a grasp on the whole Eddie situation... it's a quick fix, it works when what I really need/want is not available. When what I really need/want becomes available again on a regular basis, I believe the quick fix will collect dust.

It's like taking over-the-counter medication for allergies, you know it may work, but it's not the same as what a doctor prescribes, and it will not have the same calming and lasting affect as prescription drugs.

Love you babe... always and all ways.

Four day weekend

Well, since we did our turkey day stuff on Sunday, I am left with a four day weekend full of nothing...

Nuthin' but NaNo Baby!!

I am just over 32,000 words... I am pretty impressed with myself, seeing as how I started this thing damn near 2 weeks late (13 days late...) I just may make it, too. With talking plots/endings with mom, who is the best idea bouncer I know...thanks to years and years and books and books read, I have come up with the ending, something I did not have for quite too long. Now all I need to do is get it out of my head and onto paper.

Getting from 25K to 30k was really hard, like pulling teeth... soon as I cruised over that 30K tho, it was smooth sailing until shortly after midnight, then I had to stop... I have class today at 8 am.

So I will stumble through my busy Wednesday full of classes, the price I pay for staying up too late to work on it.
We are getting into the 30's for 'days til I have you home'... I am getting really excited, I just can't wait!!
Love you honey!

Funkiller

Ok smarty pants! You got me...sort of.
Yes, I bought a vehicle, we only had one, and you will need one when you get back. The local dealership was having a huge sale on used vehicles, trying to get rid of some of their old stock. It's not the prettiest thing on the road, and certainly not the fanciest, but it will be something for you to drive while you're home on leave, and it will take you to work and back when you get home for good.

So, there, I promised I'd tell you if you guessed right, but now..
GUESS WHAT KIND.

If you want to start guessing at random, go ahead, otherwise, clues to follow.... stay tuned.

Been busy, sorry

Between NaNoWriMo and school, doctor's appointments, hockey practice, senate meetings, homework, and now conferences I have not had much spare time.
Like now, for example, I have just a few minutes before I have to run out to Walmart, drop off a prescription and head over to the Elementary school for Em and Eric's conferences. THEN I have to high tail it over to MY school because I'm already missing my Business Law class, and I will have to sneak in to the second half of it. Then I have to get Accounting work done that I missed on doing in class yesterday because I had to go to Fargo for a Dr appt. I have one hour between B.Law and Acct, I'm hoping that it will be enough time to do the assignment.
Maybe I will have more time tomorrow and I can do up a big week-in-review thingy... til then,
gotta run
Love you Honey!

JP thinks he needs help...

ok, so here's one that just may end the game. You may get this one, and then the fun will be over. I know, I know, you're not having fun, you're the one in the dark! But believe me, it's fun from over here!! And I almost hate to post it because I really think you will like the surprise of it better than knowing about it now. If you know now what it is, it just may make the wait til leave that much longer....

But, what the hell, you're gonna find out sooner or later...

But I will NOT answer questions or guesses in Instant Messages from now on, and I will not accept answers or questions in emails either. Blog only answers will be considered. And remember I told you (promised, actually) that if you guess right, I WILL TELL YOU...

Love you honey...

NaNoWriMo

That's National Novel Writing Month.
I read a blog belonging to a person living in Oregon. He tells great stories, really has a way with words. More often than not, Scott from Oregon just amuses me. There have been several days that I just needed a smile, a little giggle, or even a big tummy-aching guffaw. Scott does that.

So closer to the beginning of November, he mentions in his blog that he's doing this NaNoWriMo. I have no clue, but he's writing a story, so I'm reading it. It's not his usual tales of woohooohoo, stuff that happens to him. It's a work of fiction. Pretty damn good, too.

So I ask him, "What is this NaNoWriMo thingy?"

He sends me to their website. Turns out that it's a thingy alright! Not a contest, because there is no grand prize. Not really a competition either. Just a place to encourage people who have always thought of writing a novel to get off their collective duffs and do it. The goal is to write 50,000 words in the month of November.

I have pondered and wondered and considered away damn near half the month. Maybe deep down, I just know I work better under pressure. Maybe procrastination is just the way I do things.

So I signed myself up Sunday evening, and got started. Anyone remember (anyone who knows me) that "thing" I was writing 16 years ago, when I was a senior in high school? I've always wondered why I've always kept a hard copy of it in my trunk. Now I know why.
I pulled it out, and pulled up a Word doc, and started typing. I found myself editing and adding and revising as I typed. This old thing is 67 pages long... a mix of typed and handwritten. I am only 12 pages into the retype/revision/rewrite, and I have 21 pages on the new doc done.

The way NaNoWriMo works is that you upload your doc to their site, they do a word count then discard (so no worries about copyright infringement) and they post your progress. I worked on it a total of 4 hours, that's 3 last night and again for an hour this morning.

This afternoon I did my first upload. I am at 5,326 words. I'm not very optimistic that I'll actually make the 50,000 by midnight on November 30th, but at the very least, I will have awakened that in me which has been dormant for too long. Who knows what will happen, but at least I will have a nicer copy of it when it's all said and done.

"It's never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot

Sunday is SUPPOSED to be a day of rest

I'm not feeling very rested.
Alex's friends were here last night, horror movies all day and all night. I bought 8 pizzas to feed those boys, and by 8 a.m., there were NONE left... not a single peperoni, not a single mushroom. NOTHING. I also bought 6 2-liter bottles of pop, also gone, but that didn't even make it through the night.
They attempted to sleep in a tent last night. Between the horror movies all day and the fact that it's NOVEMBER in MINNESOTA... They didn't last long. Maybe 3 hours. When I got up this morning, I noticed a large number of shoes in my porch. I went downstairs, flipped on the light, not bothering to be quiet, and discovered one sleeping on the love seat, one crashed in the middle of the floor. I went into Alex's room and found the other 4, two on the top bunk, two on the bottom. Still wearing their coats, all individually wrapped in blankets and sleeping bags.

I have spent today (other than the few minutes I got to talk to JP) doing laundry and studying for my computer test tomorrow. It's a whopper, too. It is covering 3 chapters, mainly Excel, which I am a little scared of.

We got an interesting phone call today though. Dale, Mom's realtor down in St. Cloud called. I talked to him, since Mom was at work. He asked that I have Mom call ASAP since he has gotten an offer on her house. Oh, I'm sorry, I said AN OFFER ON HER HOUSE!!! I know it's hard for her and I don't know what to say or do. She and I both know it's a good thing, probably one of the best things that could happen for her right now. But it's also saying a final goodbye, and I can tell that's going to be hard for her to do. I'm not sure what to do for her, other than try to remind her that it really is the best thing, and be there for her as she says goodbye.

I am so tired of cloudy weather. I would just like to see the sun, ya know? Even if it's only for a little bit. Seasonal depression is caused by lack of sunshine. I don't think that's really an issue for me, at least not yet, but holy crap, how about a nice sunny day? Is that so freakin' hard?

Oh, well, off to do more laundry, then I'm back to the books. After I've done a bit of work on my Excel crap, I think I will work on my Accounting problem. I'm doing fine in there, and we don't hand in the daily work, we go over it in class, and I'm understanding it and all. So if I don't get it done, it's not a huge deal, but it's nice to stay on top of it, ya know?

We are almost Mid-November now, it's really getting down there. I wonder what I'll have to count down to once you come home? Maybe we can do the math and figure out how many days are left in your contract. (Is that what it's called? the time remaining until you get out... THAT day, let's count that down next--oh, wait, we don't know if it's gonna be a few months or a few years yet--we still have to talk that one out, huh?)

OK, well, hurry home honey, we all miss you very much.

New Look

Decided to try something new, do you like it? I was thinking the old one was pretty stuffy... and considering some of the topics of some of my posts, it seemed rather wrong for it to look like the Declaration of Independence... sex toy talk, drunken senators, things like that are a tad bit too light and fun to be written on such a serious note...
Besides, it's prettier now...
AND I was able to post a pic of JP and I on the side there, which is nice... not my favorite pic of us, but maybe this December/January when he's home on leave, I can get a better one taken and post that then.
Til then, this will have to do.

JP wants another hint...

Yeah, sure, NOW he cares. Now that I told him that the majority of the photos in the game are of HIS Christmas present....
Selfish little bugger, isn't he? Well, I don't blame him. Actually, it's kind of mean of me; keeping the secret, but telling him that I have this secret...
I'm not mean, you're just a sissy!
Well, here's another hint honey, good luck, and for crying out loud, if you have a guess, OR A QUESTION... please post it here.
Only 44 days til you leave Camp Shithole, and roughly 47 til you're back here where you belong... and until then PLAY NICE... or I'll return the gift, and you'll NEVER know what it was!

No, I would never do that, I've been having too much fun with your present myself!! I'd keep it just for me! Yes, it's "used"... but not used up!!

I LOVE NEW FURNITURE DAY!

Im so freaking excited!! I LOVE this stuff!! JP, you'll notice I had the delivery guys leave the plastic on YOUR recliner... so the kids don't get to touch it!
So? Is it ok? What do you think??

New Furniture Day!!

Damn, I thought it was Thursday

All day today, I was thinking it was Thursday. Even though my Wednesday classes are waaay different than my Thursday classes, I was still convinced... Shit, now I have to live through another Thursday. Two consecutive Thursdays seems like cruel and unusual punishment to me.

Our Indian Summer is drawing to a close tonight, right now, as I type. The wind has picked up, and the temperature is dropping. About a week ago, it perked up, got into the 50's, even hit 60 once or twice. Pretty late for an Indian Summer, but I'll take it. I don't remember the last one that hit AFTER we had already had snow! So it was nice while it lasted.

So that Marcus, my computer instructor... He's a real piece of work, I tell ya. I don't know, maybe it's me... Nope, I think it's him. He's a great guy, very nice, easy to talk to... But he talks so far over my head most of the time in class, I am just lost. OH! But in the halls, when I see him, he's very nice, and he's a big LOST freak, just like me... So we have that in common. I have him next semester, too, for Spreadsheet Applications. So basically, an entire class devoted to Excel, the one thing that is giving me fits this semester. I am SSSOOO looking forward to that!
(note the sarcasm? Yeah... )

I got a ton of homework done tonight, all I have left for the weekend is stopping in to Diane's office, and getting the assignment for next Wednesday. I had it, and I lost it. I know we have to turn in our notes from a couple of films she showed in class, and I think there's a paper to write, a short one this time, just 3 pages or so. But I need details, so I will have to pop in on her tomorrow and get more info.

We took the dreaded Payroll test today. I'm not sure how I did. Bad thing about the way I take tests, when it's over, it's gone. After the test, I was outside with Karmeen and Charity, and they were asking "What did you put for #4, the one about the W-4's?" Shit, I don't know. I answered it, and now it's over. I guess I will have to wait until Monday to see what I put for #4. I don't feel dreadful about it, but I'm not extremely confident either. I'll be happy with a high B, I guess. No, I won't be happy, but I think I'm expecting a high B. Only A's make me happy.

Over the weekend, I have to review the last three chapters in my computer book. We are having a big project/exam on Monday... Again, the lovely Mr Marcus. But I have to be ready for it, or I will not get my 4.0 GPA that I sssoooo want!!

Alex is having a ton of friends over this Saturday, a late birthday get-together. It sounds like they are doing horror movies and food, all day and all night. The new furniture will be delivered tomorrow, so they will not be doing those two things at the same time. I have warned Alex that if need be- I will be down in the family room the ENTIRE time, protecting that furniture.

I think Mom is going to be at Dave's the whole time, she has this weekend off. I don't blame her a bit, I wish I could escape. But there's furniture to be guarded, and Emma and Eric, too for that matter. I think the final guest list is standing at about 8 or 9 boys over during the day, and 4 spending the night.

I should go to bed, it's after 11, and I have an 8 a.m. class on THURSDAY, TOMORROW... AGAIN!!

I prefer to be on top

Of things!!
I prefer to be on top of things instead of playing catch up!!
I'm talking about my school work.
Today is Tuesday, one of my two easy days. I'm out of class between 10 and 1, and actually, it's more like 9 most times, because Betty hardly ever keeps us the full 2 hours.

So shortly after 9 this morning, I sat down with Karmeen and did homework. I finished up my continuing problem in Payroll, and studied for that test, both tomorrow.

I finished up my Accounting homework, due today... But with bowling last night, I didn't have time to work on it. So now it's done.

I came home around 10:30, wanted to take mom out for lunch for her birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!) But we were both wrong, she didn't work at 1 today, she had to work at 11. So instead of lunch, I got to sit down and do my Business Math assignment. It was assigned this morning, not due until NEXT Tuesday, and I finished it in just under an hour.

We are going out for drinks tonight, to celebrate Mom's birthday, Gina will be joining us. I haven't quite figured out how that will work, Emma has hockey, from 6:30 until 8. We weren't planning on being out very late, we all have work/classes in the morning, just a few drinks and enjoy some time out of the house. I think I could just as well drop Em off early, she is always begging me to anyway, and pick her up afterwards... Or she could find a ride home, she's pretty good about doing that.

Well, if I'm going to eat anything for lunch, I should get going. My countdown has begun and I'm so excited! When it's only 40-something days, it's not that bad!! And after he heads back, yes it will be awful and sad, but then I will look at the fridge, and those days (days til he comes home for good!) will be really down there by then, too!

I don't like to wait, but here's an example of it being well worth the wait. I love you honey and I am counting the days til we are together again.

Fucking Army..... Piss me off.

GO VOTE!!

Streaming on the 'net, and sex toy parties and pull tabs

I'm a happy girl... My favorite radio station, The Eagle 106.9 out of Fargo ND is now streaming on the 'net... So now I can listen to it while I'm online, anywhere! It's a little static-y listening to it on a radio in the house, just a little too far away. I've got Sonny & Cher singing "I got you babe" right now, just like Groundhog Day.

Last night I went to a sex toy party with my friend Gina. She got the invite from the girls she works with, and since she's new and doesn't really know too many of them, she asked if she could bring a friend, and I am it!
Wow, what a good time! Turns out the hostess of the party is Emma's friend Hailey's MOM! Hailey is in hockey with Em, and they played together all summer, they live just a few blocks away, and I had never met her mom. It was a really good time, and of course, I bought some fun stuff, too!
A few months ago, I think I may have posted exactly WHAT I bought on here, but since I've noticed the number of profile views going up lately, I don't think I'm quite ready to share THAT much with people I don't know. Suffice it to say that I am eagerly awaiting my husband's arrival in December.

OH!! THAT REMINDS ME!! Yeah baby!! He is leaving the sandbox on the 24th of December for his two weeks leave!!! It may take him 3 days or so to get home, but I don't care, Christmas can wait a few more days. I have finals the week before that, ending on the 22nd. The 22nd is my last day of fall semester, and I don't start spring semester until January 10th! Yeah, that means that his whole leave will be during my winter break! Other than the grocery store for sustenance, I will not have to get dressed the whole time! (Can ya tell I'm excited??) Holy Crap, it has just been too damn long!

MARCH!! It's been March since I had my man in my arms... Last December since I've had him in our bed where he belongs! TOO DAMN LONG!

So on a completely separate and other-subject type note, Steven and Mark were here today. They originally planned to come up this weekend to meet Dave, but Mom put the kebosh on that plan... Nobody is really ready for that yet. So they got here about 1:30 today, we sat and visited until 4 when Mom got home from work.
Mom made sure to tell Steven about my term paper, bragged me up really. It was so nice of her, and I just sat there all humble thinking "choke on it you limey bastard"... Maybe I do still have issues! Naw, fuck it, I'm fine!
Then we went to the Hunan Springs Buffet for an "earlier than the early birds" dinner. We were too damn hungry to wait for normal people dinner hour! Afterwards we dropped the kids off at the house, and went down to the Holiday Inn and had a few drinks, and we were home by shortly after 8. Gawd we are boring people. No, we're not, we are fun. I made a conscience effort to NOT be Steven's little sister, and in talking to Mom afterwards, I'd say it was a rousing success. I am my own person, and he is NOT better than me. I made an effort to not allow him to push my buttons, and it was actually fun. Of course, it was a very short visit, they are leaving in the morning, I won't even have to see them. That helps, too.

While we were out at the bar, Mark was buying pull tabs, sharing them with everyone. I got a $100 winner! I gave Mark $40, that's what he had put into the pull tabs, and I gave Steven 10, to help pay the bar tab, and so at the end of it all, I had dinner, drinks, self confidence and pride AND $40!!
It was a good night.

Tomorrow I've got to work on my Payroll homework. I swear, that class may be the Perfect GPA killer... But I will have nobody but myself to blame. I am going to buckle down tomorrow and understand it if it kills me!! I did so good Thursday and Friday on getting my homework for other classes done, so I can concentrate on Payroll. We are reviewing on Monday, and the test on Chapter 4 will be Wednesday.

I will have a nice end of the week next week, too. I don't have class Wednesday morning, so I don't have to go in until 11, and we don't have classes at all on Friday.

I'm going to bed now, but hey, JP... Just want you to know that I love you. I always have, even before I knew you. I always will love you, too. After all, you have my heart.

I had a good day, really good day

Today was a day of accomplishment, feeling pretty damn good about myself and being a good friend.
So, yeah, it was definitely one of the better days I've had.

I got back a Business Math test today, got an A on that.
I went down to the tutoring offices and got help with my computer homework, and I think I can safely say that Excel does NOT hate me... As I believed earlier this week. I have a decent grasp on it now, thanks to Mr Ebie, who is a genius.
I have been talking with/coaching a friend through the rough waters of asking a girl out. He actually asked me "What do women want?" Wow, Adam, such a big cliche from such a young guy.... But he called me at noon today with very good news. He has a date with the beautiful and until recently unapproachable Sara this weekend. He was literally floating, he sounded giddy. I told him to gush and giddy all over me, get it out of his system, because chicks SAY they want a sensitive guy, but giddy is just going too far. Get it out, and get it over with. But, yes, I am very happy for him, he's a good guy, and he deserves to be happy. Besides that, this girl, this Sara, she is freakin' hot!

While I was in the tutoring center, I was visited by Diane S, my instructor for my College Success Skills class. The synopsis of the whole course is to teach us to be better students. Last week--the big term paper--yeah, it was for this class. Diane came up to me while I was working with Mr Ebie and asked me if I could possibly get her another copy of my term paper. She said it was "Exemplary... Exactly what I was looking for" "If I could have given you more points on it, I would have"... (insert blushing Nik here) I told her that if she just wanted to keep the copy I turned in, that would be fine, after I look over her comments etc. She said she'd actually like a copy without all her writing on it. She first off, wants to read it to the class, to show them what she was expecting. She asked my permission to do that, and I gave it. She said she wouldn't tell them who the author was, but come on, they will know... I am not shy about sucking up in that class, I couldn't give a shit less what those slackasses think of me. So she will be reading that next week when she hands back everyone else's papers. THEN, she wants to keep a copy for next semester, next year... Whatever. To better show students what is expected of them in regard to this term paper. So in essence, my term paper is going to become part of the curriculum, it is the one to beat...
I've never been the GOOD example before. I've been the bad example plenty of times, but never the good one. I am actually honored, and humbled, and just a little vindictive and nasty and can't wait for Steven to find out.

I made the final payment on the new furniture today. I'm a little (a LOT) annoyed that they can't deliver it until next Thursday, due to deer hunting. OMG, talk about shitty customer service. Deer hunting is no excuse for lack of delivery. I wanted it all here before Steven and Mark come for the weekend, but now that's not going to happen. Oh, well, I can't have everything, can I? (wait, why the hell not!?)

I had an accounting test today, feel pretty confident about it. Afterwards, my friend Karmeen helped me with my Payroll that's due tomorrow. I did it again, slackassed through another chapter, and Karmeen really bailed me out. She didn't just give me the answers, she gave me a crash course on where to find the answers. I'm expecting the test to be Monday.

When she and I finished up with our homework in the commons, we just sat there and talked. She is really nice, and we had a good laugh about men and how ridiculous they can be. I'm sure if anyone overheard us, they walked away blushing. It felt nice to just hang out there, like I belonged there. Plus it helped that I was done with so much homework, I didn't feel bad for just hanging out and goofing off.

After a few minutes of that, I was jerked back to reality. I have the Senate Agenda to type up. It's not needed until Monday, but I had time, and I knew Slinger was in the office for reference if need be, so I headed down to the senate office to get another thing off the list. Slinger is sick. I mean actually physically ill. A head cold. He is taking some kind of OTC liquid for this, but he keeps it in his jacket pocket and takes a swig off it like a wino with his stash. I was sitting at the desk, working on the computer, he was lounging on the couch in the office. I was intent, working away, when I heard a singing whispering. The guy was talking to his laptop. It was not on, it was not open. That I could have accepted, I talk to my computer, swear at it when I screw something up...Blame the computer, not my fault! But Slinger was petting his laptop and whispering to it. When I looked up to see what he was doing, I realized that he was also playing with the microwave across the room. His reflection in the microwave door was distorted, and it made him laugh. He was bobbing his head, weaving from side to side, the microwave door was a fun house mirror. He had this glazed over 'asleep while walking' look in his eyes.

I realized that I would not be getting pointers on the Agenda from President Bonzo today. I did it all myself, and it looks wonderful. While I was finishing up, the sergeant at Arms came into the office. I asked him if he would babysit the President, or give him a ride home. Funny, I don't remember "mother" being in the job description for Secretary. Just another service I provide free of charge, I guess.

Emma has hockey tonight, and I will be making supper shortly, early eating due to her schedule tonight.

My plan for the weekend, other than Steven and Mark being here will be to do the final things I can get done and out of the way. I have an extra credit assignment available in Marcus' Computer Tech class, and since I think I will need all the points I can get, I'm going to do that. It's not due until December 1st, but I want to get it out of the way. I am also going to get started on my presentation due for Diane (see above) for the final in that class. It's a 10 minute interview about what we've learned. I think I can basically read my term paper to her... But that would be redundant, so I will come up with something else. She suggested making notes about things we want to talk about. I can get that started this weekend, hell, the way I'm going I can probably finish it.

Wow, lots to say today. I guess it was a busy day, even though I only had 2 classes today. Keeping busy is good for me, because HOLY SHIT, did you notice? IT'S NOVEMBER ALREADY!!!