My weekend invokes writing narrative comments for 68 students. Whee.

Eta: ha! Whee x-post is funny.

Oh, right. And I have to go get a notarised letter so my family can crack into my abandoned bank account in Jamaica. Thanks for reminding me, Jessica.

And I was gonna go try go electronics shopping, but I might not have that in me. I have nothing in me right now.

eta: Some guy tried to give away a free surround sound system at the gas station a few days ago. He just didn't try to give it to ME. What's up with that?

Jessica, is it a million dollars???? Cool!!

I am seeing Juliana's play tomorrow night and am very excited! Also, a New Hampshirean (what are they called?) friend just emailed me that he's out here for a conference and do I want to have dinner on Sunday. So Sunday might be a lemon-picking afternoon visit by the Mayhems followed by dinner with Doug. We shall see. So far I haven't done well on the meds and hobbling around for two days in a row of social-ness, but I am going to try.

I am going to Charleston, with the kids, and meeting my mother there. We will probably eat shrimp and grits, since that is what one does in Charleston.

Right now I am cleaning toilets so I can go to Charleston, which is somewhat onerous.

"Hookers and blow!" said Juliana, as if it were the most natural thing in the world...until she realized that not everyone she knew was a Buffista.

I got it, though. She was glad for that.

YES! Though I felt we should then put rubber chickens on our heads. Though, if I had said that last night, they would have thought I am even more crazy.

flea, I've heard such nice things about Charleston. I hope you enjoy your visit!

I have Pilates (which I haven't been to in a month--bad Scrappy, no biscuit), going to see Rango with a friend and his kids, and working.

We just saw the tsunami! I took pictures. It was a mild wave by the time it hit us, but it's amazing that we could feel it over here. A giant butterfly flaps its wings in Japan...

First, I'm going to get over being super irritated at the presentation that I chose to go to (WHY?!) about Health Care Reform given by the guy from the company that...I don't know...is our benefits administrator? WHY didn't I realize how biased it would be??? And I know enough to be like WRONG! MISLEADING! but not enough to put forth a coherent counter-argument. UGH! I really, really wish I was a smarter person sometimes.

AND the one person in my company whose presence I cannot abide was there and made a "joke" about people getting cancer and then getting married to get their spouse's health insurance. WTF? Why would he think that was approrpriate?

feh...now am shaky and nauseous and i have thinky work I have to do today!

Oh, and one VERY cool thing is also going to happen this weekend. You remember how we had our house madeover on TV? The reason I got interested inth e show was seeing them stain a concrete patio on an early episode and being amazed with how wonderful it looked. I actually said to Jason "Wouldn't it be great if we could get that woman to do OUR yard?"

I finally decided I felt ready to stain our (mostly concrete) backyard and contacted Carmen to ask what products to use. She said, "You do the prep and buy lunch I'll come over and do the staining. I like doing it and it will be great to see you guys." This is LITERALLY a dream come true for me.