Happy Casper Day everyone!!

And to celebrate Tiny Pied Puppy.

I wish Sally, or someone else on the show had bothered to read an essay, because it was so obvious that they did not. Paperdol, you sounded so much more intelligent than they all did!

Happy birthday, Casper!!

Thanks, Sue and Aimée!

Off to see what I can find on that site.

gronklies! my body, she is aching. this (probably) means one good thing. we will be getting some much needed rain.

thanks for the paperdol interview link, Sue. will have to listen when it's not so obvious i should be working.

I'm loving the interview, paperdol! I'm glad SJR seems to have gotten the concept and is focusing on the connection aspect of the book.

I gave a copy of Vampire People to a friend of mine here and she loves the book. She's the one that had gastric bypass and had joined an online support group before the surgery and she told me she can totally see the whole thing with her online group that I see in b.org.

9AM, and Word has crashed twice. It's going to be a lovely day.

Is it sad that my lunch is the big event of the day that I'm looking foward to? It's whole wheat orzo, dried cherries, arugala, and feta cheese, to which I've added ground pork, mushrooms, and onions.

I have to go by a Borders to buy my first textbook, and what am I going to be doing about notebooks for note-taking, anyway? Must go by a Staples, too, then! Life suddenly seems so complicated.

Thanks for the birthday wishes! Casper woke up with a wet bed (unusual for her) so we started the day with laundry. Now she's at school (second day) and they are going to do a ceremony called "walking around the sun" where she carries a globe and walks around the circle once for each year of her life. mr. flea will be there to talk about milestones and show pictures. Apparently this is a Montessori thing.

After school ends at 12, to the Museum with grandparents, then we'll have her (family only) birthday party when they get back. She is getting clothes, Tinkerbell panties, a bad animated movie about horses with Bryan Adams music called "Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron," a bike helmet, and a bike, and several other things that I don't know what they are yet. Seriously, a zillion presents, and they are only from immediate family (parents, 2 aunts, 3 sets of grandparents.) Imagine if we'd invited her whole class to a birthday party like some people did!

Is it sad that my lunch is the big event of the day that I'm looking foward to?

I hope not, because I'm looking forward to lunch, too! I have chicken and linguine in garlic and olive oil, pine nuts, peas, summer squash, tomatoes, green onion, and parmesan, with fresh blueberries for dessert.