I forgot to categorize it. Might mean something. Probably doesn’t.
She’s so proud of herself. She had a good day today, her teacher was so pleased she emailed me. I’m happy too, but I really don’t think it should be a huge deal that Hope actually behaved herself today. Ah well. One step at a time. Vacation is getting closer, thank God. So since some […]
Maybe this is how Bush got re-elected. Because too many intelligent people were just too run-down to give a damn. Hope spent half the day with me at work. She was, I’m happy to say, bored out of her mind. She begged to be allowed to go to my friend’s house for the afternoon. I
Today apparently Hope’s teacher asked her to do something and she refused. Hope continued to be defiant and difficult, even in the principal’s office. Hope got sent home. Hope was told not to come back on Tuesday. Hope got unofficially suspended from school in the first grade. Hope’s mom was just a tad upset.
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sigh. I need a vacation. An actual vacation, where I don’t have to interrupt whatever I’m doing every ten minutes to yell at the kid, save the dog, protect the downstairs neighbor’s ceiling from water damage, ignore the phone, answer the door, fraternize with the bird… I knew there was a reason to stand firm
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‘Cause I don’t wanna. I’m tired and I’m grumpy and I’ve nothing much to show for my day. Sure, we did some housework. But it’s all messed up again already. I posted another damn good chapter, but I don’t care today. I’m tired of the fanfics, I want to write my own stuff. But I
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Hope met me at the bottom of the stairs this morning with the news she had a “tummyache” and had been up most of the night. I question “most,” but I’m willing to believe she lost sleep. After she threw up, she felt fine, but she still had a temperature so I decreed a return
Finally I got that blasted plot bunny detached. Have I explained plot bunnies? Hang on, I like my friend’s explanation better than mine. Plot bunny: the basic idea of a story, the first point when your brain looks at something and goes, “HEY! That’d make a neat fic!” (story) Called plot bunnies because they breed
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