missed the bus...

because it was too early?! since when are school buses early? but score one for modern technology the girl at the bus stop with C got a phone call from a friend already on the bus at a later stop informing girl & C that that had in fact missed the bus. Kiddo called me & headed back to the house I think under the impression he was gonna be in trouble (which he was not). Luckily timing was such that the drop off lines at school had not hit the maximum insanity levels quite yet and drop off occurred with little muss & fuss.

and so it begins

there is a girl....he's likes her but won't give up anymore information other than she is nice.
In the meantime I am trying my damnedest not to pepper him with a zillion questions

a spot of heavy breathing

the dog has started this new thing where he exhales loudly at the base of the door to signal when he wants in the house or in a room. I think I might actually prefer him jumping on the door to get my attention

and I thought Paranormal Activity was a bad movie

well Paranormal activity 2 was even worse....
and not bad in a oh this is so bad it's good sort of way

middle school here we come

giving the kiddo the middle school pep talk with the slap in the face that these three years will fly by too and the high school pep talk is so much closer than I realize.

where did the summer go?

technically it's still summertime by the boy's summer vacation pretty much over he starts back to school with a 1/2 day on Friday! there was all sorts of plans for summer break and poof it's over we did none of them..oh well next summer will be here before we know it I suppose

operation green thumb update

things are still alive yet no actual vegetables seem to be growing per se...ah well trying some miracle grow today let's see if that helps, fingers crossed I am not ready to throw in the towel just yet!

now I remember why I hate wearing glasses

I got my first pair of contacts when I graduate high school in um well 1985 and have not worn glasses with any sort of regularity since then. Last year I did get a updated pair of back up glasses but since insurance wasn't paying I went for cheap cheap cheap which meant basically coke bottle glasses but I like the frames a bunch and they were just for emergency purposes. Right in the middle of the holidays and David's medical crises my contacts were giving me fits and I could not wear them for much longer than an hour or two at a time and time was not something I had a lot of so I quit wearing contacts altogether. The glasses oddly do not bother like they did years ago except the whole fogging up when you come in & out of a building in the heat or cold it drives me nuts! Can't they invent glasses that don't do that?

garden is not the only thing growing

my hair is starting to grow back in, kind of anyway....
not all over & it is of course all white growing in the bald patches but it is hair and that is why hair color was invented. I won't be hat or wig free for some time but at least things seem to be moving in the right direction.

operation green thumb update

the spices have seen better times so I am not expecting much out of those, tomato plant is growing & looks good but nothing that looks like a tomato is happening, cucumber bush the same look good no actual vegetables in sight but the pepper plants I see a tiny pepper starting to sprout!!