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All Hail Dr. Horrible!

Go here. Now. See it quick before it's gone!!!

Well, actually you'd just have to pay a nominal fee to download it. Which I just might. Because it rocked.

Dude. I didn't know Doogie could SING too! Damn!

Enjoy!

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Quiet...

It is summer. Has been for a couple of weeks now, actually. We celebrated Summer Solstice by having a luncheon feast, playing outdoors, and making some simple, summery crafts to brighten up our house. Meanwhile, the "spring" decorations went back into their box. It seams we don't have a lot of "summery" items to distribute about, which I will have to work on. Fall stuff is easier to come by, and we seem to have plenty of Winter and Spring stuff, in their boxes oddly-marked as "Christmas" and "Easter". *cough* I really need to go 'round with a sharpie now and again and clear that up.

Summer also means no school for Jareth. While Kayla still has a few weeks of Parent-Child class, I decided not to go ahead with any classes or camps for Jareth. I thought it would be nice to have him home and we could relax and settle in before we start the hectic fall schedule, and Kindergarten. I also thought that we would have ALL THIS TIME to do the beach, play in the yard, see some sights (Jareth wants to go to the zoo and go on a train ride this summer) and maybe have Brian use up one or two or maybe even THREE days of his "vacation time" from work to do fun stuff with us. I was also figuring I'd have all this "extra" time that I normally spend shuttling Jareth to and fro for school. Extra time to spend working on jewelry.

And yet, it seems that so far the only chance I get to get into my studio is to water my spider plants. Which need hanging. They have baby spider plants growing on them and I'm afraid they aren't getting the right sort of light just sitting there on the ledge at the window. One of these days I'll find time to get the hooks and put them up. I suppose I could have been doing that now, instead of blogging, eh? Ahh, well...

What I AM having time for this summer is my kids! I have been playing with them (in-between all the Errands and Other Important Tasks), and doing my best to set some things up so that we will have "family time" available on the weekends. Last Saturday, we all hit the local beach and everyone except Kayla came back sunburnt! We were so involved with making our great Sand Lake and filling it with water until a wall burst, that we entirely forgot to put on sunscreen! Kayla was less ambitious about playing in the water, and thus stayed in the nearby shade more.

Of course, you'd think we'd learn from such mistakes. I spent the week staying inside mostly, attempting to avoid getting more sun on our already blistering backs. Lotioning up Jareth to try and keep him from peeling - although it peeled anyway.

But we're big, opposable-thumbed APES, really. We went out there yesterday again - more beach, more sand, more... that's right, say it - SUN! And, yes... more sunburn on Brian and I as a result. Somehow, as Brian was slathering sunblock on BOTH of our children, it never occurred to him to say "gee - should we have some of this on too?" And I LOATHE getting all slimy from the stuff so I seem to have been in avoidance mode. Fortunately, we were only out there for about half the time as before, and not at the prime burn hours.

Meanwhile, back at the... well, actually I don't live in a Ranch-style home at all, so I guess I can't use that line. Hrm. Anyway, I've been feeling a bit flummoxed (not sure if that's the spelling, but I don't know what anacronym to throw after it to show that I'm just feeling too lazy right now to look the bugger up) and frustrated. I'm trying to figure out why every morning it feels like I'm having a mild drug reaction even though I haven't changed anything in the mix lately. Grrr. I also noticed that it was HUGELY different the morning after allergy shots, which makes me wonder what's up with that. It's just never pleasant to wake up early in the morning, take some pills and pop back into bed for another hour or so and then practically NOT be able to get back out of bed because your hands and feel suddenly feel swollen and pins-and-needles! Anyway, needless to say, I should be getting off my ass and seeing a doctor. I keep trying to do things to diet and exercise instead, trying to convince myself that if I could just lose weight maybe it would make me feel better and I wouldn't have to worry about it. Except I seem totally unable to actually lose weight - I'm fighting over the same eight-pound range over and over again each month. I may have technically, finally lost a dress size in the last six months, but I am really frustrated it hasn't been better. Especially since I don't actually have any blue jeans that are actually IN that particular size. I'll have to go shopping, come Fall, and it won't be for my new "skinny wardrobe" at this rate.

The only good news is that my old, ugly swim suit actually fits me this summer. Fortunately, it's mostly black and tends to draw the eyes to the front, where the ample cleavage will distract most people from the fact that if you turn me sideways you'll see that my profile is considerably LESS of an hourglass shape than if you look at me front-on. *sigh* Back to relying on the "girls" for distraction again. God, I hate being so cliche...

For the most part, though. It is a quiet summer in. Time for me to figure out which direction I want to take a couple of things in the Fall. I'm considering applying to a college in Chicago so that I can finish my degree - this time in Fine Arts. I'm not sure that we'd be able to swing it just yet though, so it might get put on the back burner until Kayla starts school too. I am also working out how the schedule needs to start working to get my jewelry & art stuff back into gear more. I have at least three projects waiting to be finished in there and more in my head that need to be begun. I am also looking to be more involved at the school my kids are going to - They seem to want to start up a school blog, so I'll at least be involved with that. Possibly more though. There have been some issues within the works of the school - most of which I don't have enough info to really make my own opinions about - that seem to lead to a similar need for more communication between different areas of the school, if nothing else. Perhaps the blog can help facilitate that. Perhaps we will be getting involved in other ways too though, to make sure that if the school is not always what we wanted it to be, we can still have an effect on it being what we expect of it.

Okay, done rambling again. I have tons to say. Tons of pictures too. But I've spent all the time on the computer for today pretty much rambling. Bah. Maybe I'll upload some pics tomorrow. We'll see. Then again, I think tomorrow we plan to hit the beach again... Cross your fingers we remember to use the stupid sunscreen!

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