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May 22, 2006 Writing
More work to do today. Lots of faxing to do today. Lots of phone calls. Grocery shopping (heh, I wrote “hopping” first by mistake) with the kids. And writing group tonight.
My bookwork site is mostly put together but I think the survey has a glitch and now I have to rewrite the whole thing if I want to fix it so maybe I don’t want to fix it so much. Also I need content and am wondering when I’ll have time to provide that.
I need to send out emails to mom’s groups to beg them to let me come talk to them (need the experience and also am hoping to drum up people to fill out the glitch-full survey). I need to get further on my sample chapter (it’s still at 1200 words).
I need to chase some work this week, too.
This weekend we pruned the hell out of our bushes near our property line to make way for a fence we’ve been wanting since we moved in. It will mean that poor Peanut, our once swift little pup, will finally get to run free again and rid our yard of the squirrels that are chewing their way into our garage. (Damn squirrels.) Then Brett chipped up about 1/3 of the pruning leavings and so we put mulch around our patio where the kids run the grass away. The rest of the mulch will go on the front yard. The surveyors came and said yes indeed the bushes can be inside the fence, which is a huge relief because the fence guy thought not and advised said survey. Otherwise we would have lost the two Roses of Sharon, the Lilac and Madison’s Birthday Bush (forsynthia).
Yesterday in particular we chased the children around, yelled at them for teasing each other, distributed popsicles, mediated disputes over whose popsicle was superior (this was Noah’s argument; Madison just screamed), vetted Noah’s superhero comicbook in process and his demonstration of heroic tricks on the swingset and finally walked to the local pub to eat fish and chips outside. It’s 8:13am and Madison is still asleep, which I attribute to this busyness and to the fact that she walked home most of the way from the pub. She’s usually up an hour earlier.
Still haven’t seen Jessica to give her her mother’s day present. She is a busy girl these days but we are going to try to hook up this week. She and her boyfriend are working on being vegan so maybe I’ll make soba noodles with peanut sauce if they come for dinner.
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