Wow. Really quiet overnight.

Too funny, Daniel.

Jars, that would be really awesome!

Ginger, your body is cruel. Cruel, I tell you!

I was awake at 5 because my parents and a cousin from Arizona are arriving later for lunch and my house is horrifying. My dining room is presentable so I am considering blindfolding them and leading them to the dining room where the wondrous quiche and fruit salad will distract them from the disorder in the rest of the house. It is a very good plan.

Parental units fly to NY today and leave me their truck. Sister flies down Friday and we (with Brandy) drive up Saturday. The schedule gets ever so much more complicated after that. Ugh. Bobby flies up on the 20th. DH & Brendon fly up on the 2nd. I'm not going to bother to bring a vehicle for us. We're in the mountains and we'll bring the bikes. My parents are next door with a vehicle. I kinda like the idea of being carless for a time. Stuck in a cabin in the woods unable to get to the big city. (with internet and cable tv of course) Doing the research showed it is far cheaper to rent an SUV one way to bring us back at summer's end than it is to drive both ways with fuel costs.

So yeah, I'm rambling, drinking tea, and avoiding doing the dishes.

So yeah, I'm rambling, drinking tea, and avoiding doing the dishes.

I approve. Good luck with all the craziness!

Ooh, I was awake at 5! D is in with us until we can get his a/c installed, and our room doesn't have blackout curtains, so we were all up with the sun. By the time I left at 7 he was yawning and rubbing his eyes and he hadn't even had breakfast yet.

Ooh, I was awake at 5!

us too.

gronkalicious.

I needs help!!

I have to type up two personal essays (both short thank goodness - 150 words for one application, 250 for the other) on my academic and career goals, as well as why I deserve these scholarships above and beyond other people.

Somehow I think "Lurkers support in email" and "I am pretty" aren't gonna cut it. I've never written these before.

Gmail is telling me that due to technical difficulties, my chat response may not have been sent, Sox. Just so you know, I'm trying out the Fluevogs today, in an effort to convince myself they fit. If not, they're yours for the bargain price of $30.

What does the actual prompt say, Aims? In times like this, I've found paper, a pen and writing down whatever comes into my head on the subject down is my friend. Usually after a page or two I've got some good stuff to work with. You might start with thinking about the trip through academia you've already had that got you to these goals and where your mind changed about things.

my chat response may not have been sent, Sox.

that was me, all day yesterday.

Just so you know, I'm trying out the Fluevogs today, in an effort to convince myself they fit. If not, they're yours for the bargain price of $30.

yippe! new shoes! Um. I hope they fit you though. Except when I don't.

Aims, Sparky is wise. I can read it when you're ready, if'n you want.

ION, my minion? who I'm prepping to take over for me part time in the not so distant future and full time at some point? Isn't checking her work (to the broken-links level) and is breaking all sorts of file naming conventions. Not helping the gronk at all.

Plus I had my first "yes, I'm going part-time by choice, not because I'm being pushed out" conversation yesterday. Hoo-boy. I'm sure going to look dee-licious on the resume. Now 100% more confusing to HR departments everywhere.

Oh! I meant to share this yesterday, and I forgot.

I have lost all of my good lipsticks, and I'm in want of a good lipstick for a couple of reasons that really don't need to be gone into at this point. And really, does a girl need a reason for a good lipstick? So, I was a good Bitch and went to Sephora yesterday, and they were very helpful. So, we found a couple of options, and I went to try them. They took me to the little area with all of the applicators and stuff. I grabbed an applicator, and it didn't work very well, but whatever. I figured out which lipstick I wanted and left.

It occurred to me later that I used the mascara applicator. To try on lipstick. You can take away my Bitch card now.

Wow. I killed the board with my disturbing and unBitchlike makeup practices.