The Week in Review

Thursday - housework and shopping
Friday - floated the Buffalo River
Saturday - family stuff
Sunday - church and family stuff
Monday - helped with 40 oil changes and 8 tire rotations!
Tuesday - discovered that our freezer had been off all weekend
Wednesday - planned to come home and cook food that had thawed. instead, spent the evening chasing parts for L's truck
Thursday - baseball cancelled. maybe, just maybe, back to our somewhat normal schedule for a couple of days. then a couple of crazy weeks while baseball and dance class overlap. then possible trip to NM, but won't know until after this weekend.

Several possible jobs and other changes on the table. About to make some decisions about where to go next.

Daily Quote

I just realized that's not a bald head, that's a solar panel for a dumbass machine.
(Jon Stewart)

Crawdads and Crushes

I have a hundred things going on that I would like to write about it, in addition to just writing to write. But life is busy right now, so I will stick with the ever-popular bullet list of current highlights:

• Billy K was arrested as a suspect in Rae's death after almost a year. Not sure what new evidence was presented, but no one I know saw this coming. Must call P about this, he will have the dirt.
• My boss is a condescending b*tch and I am getting really tired of it. A (younger, hipper) acquaintance of mine has deemed my resume worthy and I have already started putting it out there, along with an online portfolio of my work.
• After adding that I have been selected to edit an anthology of work by my writer's group. In the words of my second favorite politician, "This is a big f***ing deal". More to follow.
• As a self-confessed political junkie, it is driving me nuts that I don't have time to read and respond to all of the information that is being out there right now. Probably best that I just skim and check "like" on the occasional Facebook post. And keep ignoring the narrow-minded bigots I go to church with.
• Speaking of which, a backhanded compliment about the power of the virtual reunion that Facebook provides. Through it, I have reconnected with several boyfriends and guys I had a crush on as a girl. Of the three that didn't work out, all I can say is "Thank you, God", for letting them die a natural death before I saw what jerks they became as adults. As for the other two, another thanks, for giving me the chance to get to know them as well as I should have in the first place. Both have turned out to be smarter and more interesting than I gave them credit for when I was younger and more shallow.
• In general news, family is keeping me busy. Baseball and activities (crap, just remembered that I was going to write about the crawfish boil that we went to) are keeping us busy. Memorial Day is going to be bigger than usual this year, then we are going to New Mexico for Ivan and Jennifer's wedding in June.
• And in the back of my mind, counting down the days until I have to learn to like Peyton Manning or at least pretend to.

It seems like there is more to add, but these are the things that on my mind right now as I head home for the day. The drive will be used to clear my head of work junk and to keep composing the piece I want to submit for the anthology.