SPC-less tuesday

January 22, 2008 gkgirl

due to technical difficulties in the geek household,
there will be no picture today....
all of my pictures have been saved to a separate hard drive
that i can't access from the laptop
and i have nothing worthwhile on my camera to load
(which tells me i have to get the camera out again!)

i have been having a hard time with the celebration theme
anyway
especially this month,
which has left us thinking there is not a lot to celebrate...
except good health...which, really, is cause in itself.

but everything else is dragging us down.
broken furnaces, freezing cold temperatures,
lack of money, but not a lack of bills for sure.

anyhow!
:)

things will lighten up,
it is just the heaviness of winter
bearing down on us...

tomorrow it will go up to -6....
hurrah!

snippet of a saturday...without pictures...

January 19, 2008 gkgirl

-creative everyday
journaled (almost) every morning
doodled (trees, girls with big heads, balloon words)
made impromptu bookmarks for my current "book of lists"
decorated the rubber bands that holds my current book of lists together
knit (very little)
tried a new recipe involving bean sprouts (which we have never bought before)

-reading
finished lullabies for little criminals and hol-eeeeee, did i like that book.
gritty and sad, funny and real, poetic and honest...
it stayed with me for hours after.

-listening
don't laugh...but i have been listening to this and this and this on youtube at work

-watching
nothing...i even missed greys anatomy this week...
but going to see juno very soon and thinking i would like the see
the first season of this

sorry for no pictures but sadly, i have none uploaded to the laptop...yet...

in need of a grateful friday post.

January 18, 2008 gkgirl

the way this morning has been going
has put me in real need of doing a grateful friday post...
a friday-i-love...
a friday-remind-me-of-all-that-is-good
because this morning has been so bad.

first.
a quick vent of the bad:
8's getting in trouble at school for not
staying in the same place
in lineup for the bathroom
and apparently he had already rec'd two pushpins
(their "warning" system) which no one saw fit to let
us know about...i have no problem with discipline
but i would like to know about it before it reaches
detention...it annoys me when people preach parent
interaction but then don't hold up their end.

then, the small things:
pms-cranky, still cluttered house, cold feet, bills,
missing nail clippers, no milk, slight headache AGAIN,
8 missing his hat and gloves, 12 forgetting to wear her
boots home and having to walk to school in her indoors,
husband's computer just stopped working.

and now...
my friday i love...friday i'm grateful.

- pink tinged clouds this morning
- it's friday
- the car is full of gas
- bought a new journal in anticipation of doing this
(which maybe, i will get at on the weekend)
- tomato juice, ice cold with a smattering of salt and pepper
- no shovelling...yet anyway...
- the thought that even on a rotten morning...things could
be so much worse...to remind myself of that.

happy friday to you...