Randomness

Noth­ing con­tributes so much to tran­quil­iz­ing the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intel­lec­tu­al eye. — Mary Woll­stonecraft Shelley

Derive hap­pi­ness in one­self from a good day’s work, from illu­mi­nat­ing the fog that sur­rounds us. — Hen­ri Matisse

Nev­er despair; but if you do, work on in despair. — Edmund Burke

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. — William Shakespeare

20 Days With­out a PC was a sur­pris­ing­ly inter­est­ing arti­cle. I even read the charts at the end of the article.

More of that good old Chris­t­ian love in action.

lit­tle­fire­fae, shad­owkatt and sam­bear watched most of a movie on TV last night—the sec­ond of those Mum­my movies with that Tarzan guy, Bren­dan some­body? I was in front of the TV at one point but it just did­n’t hold my atten­tion at all. sam­bear fell asleep and final­ly took him­self off to our bed. lit­tle­fire­fae had seen the movie before, but was enthralled any­way (TV is like that for her). shad­owkatt had­n’t seen it before, but she’s my girl for sure—she was mak­ing cynical/sarcastic com­ments through­out about the stu­pid things char­ac­ters did. 🙂

real_pochacco is off spend­ing time with his best bud­dies. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, he and sam­bear did­n’t refer to the cal­en­dar when mak­ing plans, and for­got that the boy is sup­posed to see the eye doc­tor tomor­row morn­ing. I specif­i­cal­ly sched­uled that to take advan­tage of the school hol­i­day tomor­row, so I don’t want to change it. I know the boys will real­ly be dis­ap­point­ed, and I can’t help feel­ing some­what guilty about that, even though I did­n’t do any­thing wrong.

Maybe we could offer to bring all three boys back here instead—but that will result in leav­ing the two guests here alone tomor­row morn­ing when we go to the eye doc­tor, as I don’t think I can fit all five kids in my car. (Okay, tech­ni­cal­ly I can—but it’s dif­fi­cult to dri­ve with lit­tle­fire­fae tucked up under my right arm, and I don’t like hav­ing lit­tle peo­ple in the front seat even with seat belts. And it would be unkind to invade the doc­tor’s office unex­pect­ed­ly with five kids.) Of course, if I leave the boys play­ing Star­craft head to head while we’re gone, they’re unlike­ly to even notice our return until I pull the plug or some­thing. Hmm. I real­ly don’t want to dis­ap­point the guys—real_pochacco has been such a sweet­ie late­ly that he tru­ly deserves some fun, and I like to facil­i­tate as much fun as pos­si­ble for peo­ple I love.

lit­tle­fire­fae is itch­ing to get back to her paint­ing now, so I need to make sure the car­pet is safe­ly covered!