All these kids growing up and leaving elementary school! The passage of time, man, I don't know.

I've been using a cabernet-scented soap all winter, Tep. It's pretty nice, did not make me smell like I'd been boozing it up every day. At least not to me and no one else said anything. I think someone would have.

Hmmm. I do work at home now, and sometimes Tim is the only other human being I interact with for DAYS (I go out and take walks, but those are not Interact With Hipsters time). So if I smell like wine, this is the time to find out. Good point!

Graduation here today. Am trying to get my shit together and write all the words before I have to go be has-her-shit-together-mom. My face feels like someone stuffed a hedgehog in my sinuses. And I do not have my shit together. I just hope certain members of my family are on time for the ceremony.

Doing hair here too, Burrell. Lower School ends at 4th here, so next year is middle school for HPF. I am amazed and so not ready. She is though. She's totally ready.

Ok. To take afrin or just to drink this bottle of hot sauce and hope it helps me breathe.

Middle school in 5th? That seems crazy young to me, but I'm sure I'm just projecting because my girl is such a young 10yo. Happy culmination to HPF!

Fifth grade seems young to me, too - I didn't do middle school until 7th!

Doing well Ginger, how about you?

The annual mini-Sturgis takes over my street starting today, so I think I'm going to pick up Pacific Rim from the library and turn the motorcycle noise from a bug into a feature.

Smelling like beef seems bad.

My work is making me crazy--big deadlines coming up but we don't yet know exactly wen and my boss is trying to micromanage in a way that really won't help. Ugh.

And yes, many of the people I work with work from home...not sure about IT type people though.

Matt! How are you doing?

Ginger beat me too it. Seems like it has been a while since I saw you post. Busy watching hockey?

I didn't do middle school until 7th!

We didn't have middle school. Finished elementary school (without the fanfare of graduation) then on to high school. t old

I went to elementary school until sixth grade, then started junior high in seventh. The year I was in eighth grade, though, the junior high became the middle school, and the sixth graders started going there rather than the elementary schools. (Our junior high/middle school and high school were one building. Roughly, the jr. high/ms used the front of the building, and the high school used the back of it, but there was just one auditorium, one cafeteria, one library, and a few other things that were shared. This also meant that we had to eat lunch in shifts, since the cafeteria could only hold two grades worth of kids at a time. When I was there, seventh and eighth graders had lunch at 10:27. We were starving by the time school was over.)

What Hil said for me, although our junior high was 7, 8, 9 and our high school was 10, 11, 12.