You can do other things with your gourd-of-the-month club membership. You can do etching, bas reliefs, painting and wood burning. Why stop with just carving?

It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers. [link]

Well, I got more sleep than planned, but that meant I had to come back to the house to finish getting ready for work. Which I'll still be at early.

Parents are off, it was an awesome visit. I kept them and me busy, which I think is key to me not getting irritated. Also discovered that having people over when they are visiting is an utter balm for me & makes me able to enjoy them more. I always figured it would be more exhausting (more people=more exhausting,) but I think it allows me to offload the need to entertain them, which means I get more pieces of me to put in reserve. I know, they are my parents and they'd have been perfectly content to sit around my house and read all week, but I cannot help but need to keep them engaged. And engaging 2 people 15+ hours a day, no matter who they are, probably moreso parents, leaves me fried.

OK, time to go to work.

And engaging 2 people 15+ hours a day, no matter who they are, probably moreso parents, leaves me fried.

Oh yeah. I'm glad my parents don't always want to engage... Sounds like a good visit, though!

It is a lot of annoying when my employer makes it impossible for me to actually get my daughter to school so I can get to own my job.

Seriously! Sheesh.

I woke up at 5:30, and should have just gotten up, because instead I went back to sleep and dreamed about working with some bonus apartment-hunting thrown in. I'm exhausted from it!

I love that Sue's link says:

"The next thing I’m going to do is carve one of the longer gourds into a perfect replica of the Mayflower as a shout-out to our Pilgrim forefathers. Then I’m going to do lines of blow off its hull with a hooker. "

It all comes back to hookers and blow!

Knee is 50% less agonizing. I actually walked up and down one flight of stairs yesterday with only 2 or 3 major twinges in the hinges. And I didn't fall. It doesn't hurt to just walk, which is good. I think Saturday the issue was that I sat in a training for 6+ hours and it locked my ITB up.

I cannot be zen about today.

Zombie poodle.

Health ~ma to Hubs.

And to Kat, and Bartleby, and anyone else in need. (Except maybe the zombie poodle.)

Oh, that poor dog.

All kinds of ~ma to Hubs, Fred. And hang in there, Kat.

I have one of those stupid twitches under my left eye, and I've eaten my banana. I want it to stop now, please.

Health~ma to Hubs, Fred, and strength to you.

Lots of get-and-stay-healthy vibes sent Hubs-ward and to everyone else who needs to feel better!!

I just need to stay awake for the next 12 hours, at which point I should be home from class and can crash. I ended up getting a 75-minute nap before waking up at 6:45. At least I was able to print out my bibliography just now at work (my printer from home ran out of ink after printing out the PP slides).

Coffee--lots of coffee...

Coffee--lots of coffee...

I still have half a cup. It's kind of tepid, though.