It's Criminal

Don't know what's more annoying - my own family forgot my birthday, or my mom posted my age on Facebook. Not feeling pitiful, actually kind of laughing, with a little help from the song of the day:

You Were Always on My Mind

I have been feeling kind of nostalgic for college. Probably because we just came back from Tulsa and because school is about start. That plus a recent thread with my FB friends about the old Starship Records and Tapes and it's sister store, the head shop.That right there is a whole post in itself.

Some random stuff:

• RIP Maeve Binchy, one of my all-time favoriate authors
• how it's a good thing I never liked Chik-fil-A anyway
• how twice now I have gotten to know somebody way better through FB than I ever knew them in person, and they are both pretty cool
• how much of a tool Rob W really is
• how much my week changed because of a conversation and a comment
• a shower moment, with a big o, and weird vision of someone I used to know

And finally, music stuck in my head or otherwise speaking to me this week:

• It's Over, by Civil Twilight
• Everybody Talks, by Neon Trees
• Imagine, by John Lennon
• Shake You Down, by Gregory Abbott

Hot and (sort of) Ready

Wow, it has been so long since I posted that I sort of forgot how to log in. It's not that I haven't had plenty of things going through my mind, just no time to sit down and write. Of course most of those things are the usual - work, family, crazy life in genral.

Yes, work is the same is always - one crisis after another, thanks to a mess of a boss, on top of being genuinely busy, thanks to Jerry Sandusky (bad) and Obamacare (good). The biggest difference is that I am actively job hunting and feeling good about the prospects. Change is all around in my little work community, with things opening up, and a few allies who know what my workplace is like and that I am capable of more and they are willing to help me get it.

L's work is about to change too, I think. After two years of trying, and I mean really trying, his business is paying for itself, but not paying him a salary. He is thinking seriously about taking A up on his offer to drive a truck. He had passed part of the test and is working on scheduling the rest. Not sure yet how I feel about this. We talked about it for a long time yesterday, and if it goes as planned it will be good for our family. Problem is that nothing ever goes as planned for us. More on this if and when it happens.

School starts in a couple of weeks and I am so not ready. Ready for the twins to start school, yes, because they are going to love it. Ready even for B to start junior high. Looking forward to him playing football for the school and not just for parks and rec. But schedule- and home-wise, everything is in an uproar. I really should be in working on B's room, but I am not that motivated.

It was a long weekend, with a quick trip to OK on Friday, back late Saturday night. Then yesterday I helped L do cars. Today the kids are back, and it doesn't feel like I have had a break yet, not even a weekend. Plus, it is just way too hot to want to work very hard. It was 107 today, and supposed to be even hotter tomorrow. Ordinarily I would just take time off and work on projects, but not this year.

OK, break time over, time to get the kids ready for bed. Maybe tomorrow I will feel like making a stab at all of the things I have volunteered myself for.