Priceless moment this weekend: the look on several people’s faces when I casually mentioned that when my brother gave his old PC to Katie, she installed Linux on it. Herself. (Okay, I think she had to ask sambear one question…
Poor Baby
Quiz sillness in an attempt to cheer up… What kind of LJer are you? Katie has a migraine again. She was looking for something in the car and apparently spent too much time hanging upside down looking under the seats…
Happily Boring Life
I’m really posting just because I wanted to use my new icon. Thanks tommydiablo! Not that the icon has anything to do with this particular post. Thankfully.
Movies?
Sparked by something ilexx said . . . The first movie I ever remember seeing was the animated Alice in Wonderland. We went right after my 4th birthday. I remember the theater—it’s near one of my Aunt Bet’s favorite shoe…
Kitties & Kids
Who Should Homeschool
The same woman who made the Shakespeare comment has a very different view of homeschooling than I do. This lady (who was really very nice) homeschooled one of her sons one school year, but it wasn’t by choice. He’d been…
Homeschooling Stuff
Insane School Schedule
R didn’t get home from school until just after 5pm! I actually called to find out where he was—they said the buses were late getting there, so they were late leaving. But not by much—maybe 10 minutes. And he has…
Not Much to Tell
R & G got off to school on time, happily. It’s odd not having them here. I always rather resent that. I feel “safer” with all my people here, somehow, and worry less about them when they’re home or with…
Like Mother, Like…
(sigh) R hasn’t been home 12 hours, and he’s already telling bald-faced, stupid, yes-he’ll-definitely-get-caught lies. Why does he do that? It wasn’t even about a big thing, but it wasn’t anything he could in any way be “mistaken” about. He…