The Little Mermaid

Yep, that's my boy! He cracks me up and I love him more than life. We took a little trip to Hot Springs, AR and went into a kind of curosity shop there. That's a stuffed real lion in the background. My boy thought I was ahead of him and was suprized when I turned and snapped the photo from closer than he though! The shot I missed was the one of his big cheese eating grin right after the flash went off!

We stayed three days, which was really two days too many. I was very ready to be home the third day, but I did get to use the time to read my book through. Wonderful book, by the way, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston. Yummy enough to eat with a spoon! Such brilliant, rich imagery, ". . . scents were crushed from the earth by his feet . . . ." Yes!

Also lost a few bucks at the horse races. My horse in this race was so far behind that he's not eve in the shot! He was 50 to 1. Didn't work out this time, but those are my kind of odds!

Now that I know how to put photos in here, I guess I'll do it more often.

Spring Break a Leg!

Finally! Spring break has begun! On the way out of the building today I caught my heel on a ridge in the sidewalk and down I went! Very embarrassing, but not really broken, just wrenched a bit so that it's painful. The Friday before Spring break last year, I went down a flight of stairs on my bottom and broke my tail bone! Such grace is surely rare.

I have to clean my house tomorrow. It's a pit, but I can't help it--I'm only here after school and have to feed my son, make sure he's had a bath, do homework of my own and grad papers, and whatever else I can get done before falling into bed. The house simply HAS to be the last priority. But the maintenance came in to "make a repair," though, I have no idea what needed reparing, and now I've got an ugly letter bitching about it. Bastids. I'm only one person, and I'm not actually a pig when I have a choice about it.

But then, Monday is for business and Tuesday I intend to be out of here for at least three days! My boy is really looking forward to the break, too and I've promised to play checkers with him a LOT! Yahoo! And when we come back there are only 5 weeks left--and one of those will be nothing but standardised testing! Almost done, baby! Almost!

Still have NO idea what will come after. No idea at ALL!