Currently (November 2024 Edition)

Reading:

Celebrating: Zoe’s 12th birthday. Her actual birthday is today, November 2 (who knows what day it will be by the time I finish this post and publish it). We are having family over to celebrate tomorrow, and then Zoe gets to pick what’s for dinner on Monday. 

Wearing: black pants and a Stars Hollow t-shirt.

Eating: a chocolate dome from Kneaders.

Suffering from: second-hand teenager drama. 

Laughing about: this… which I’ll have to explain later…

Annoyed by: testimony meeting in our ward. It tends to be a series of monologues, prepared speeches, health histories, and rants each month. Today (it’s Sunday now) a guy came prepared with a prop and a handful of quotes on cards. 

Buying: ice. About six weeks ago our ice maker went caput (and flooded our basement), and I now have to buy a bag of ice every week.

Watching: 

Dreading: election drama and cold and flu season. 

Enjoying: long pants and not having to shave my legs if I don’t wanna.

Looking forward to: putting up my Christmas decorations. But I always wait til at least the week of Thanksgiving. I usually put things up before my kids are out of school for Thanksgiving so I don’t have “helpers.” But I let them do the basement tree so they can have the sense of satisfaction and involvement.

Worried about: my kids. Always. Right now I’m worried about their relationships with their peers. Particularly Daisy and Zoe. 

Listening to:

Craving: nothing because I just ate dinner and followed it up with an Andes mint. 

Needing: to clean up the birthday decorations now that it’s Tuesday. 

Drinking: water. I’m two days soda sober. 

Cooking: nothing. We’ve been out to dinner two nights in a row. Leave me alone. We had coupons. 

Singing: “Marrrrrrrrrrian. Madame Librarrrrrrian.”

Sneak peek

Procrastinating: paying $15 to the community college for Nicky’s concurrent enrollment. 

Loving: my neighbor boy’s Halloween costume.

I took him trick or treating for a while with us, and I couldn’t stop laughing at him running around like that. He definitely channeled his inner Ralphie.

Playing:

Technically we haven’t played yet, but I just bought it.

Grateful for: all of my working body parts.