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Thursday, May 29, 2008 Family

Just a quick note.. have been knocking my brains out trying to do budgets and proposals to get funding for work… otherwise there’s less than a month’s worth of operating funds left. Nothing like facing no paycheck to make you grovel!

Just finished watching Click with Adam Sandler, and I’ll be the first to admit that I turned it on because I expected a laugh, but I didn’t expect it to make me CRY. I haven’t cried in a movie in lord knows how long. Wow, it was great. Phil was blowing his nose.

Haaaaa, you should see him out on the patio now, making sure his herb and vegetable garden plantings are out of the reach of the 489734546 snails in the yard. He brought home a bunch of things to plant for a kitchen garden, and the first night the snails went to town and ate half of what was there. Tonight he was picking them off the plants (EWWWWW) and put the containers in the garage until we can get them in the ground and build a moat of snail bait. Geeerossss.

In other news, someone just reminded me that BlogHer is in my neck of the woods this year, so I really have no excuse for not going. I just can’t believe how expensive it’s gotten, and I know it’s because it’s so expansive, but jeepers. I remember stuffing the binders for the very first meeting and discovering to our horror that we couldn’t use the backpacks donated by Google because they were in that trendy, narrow-at-the-top shape and we couldn’t zip them up around the binders. That was a fun moment. And a fun afternoon–I hadn’t met Lisa, Jory or Elisa before and volunteered to help because I lived in the neighborhood. I had no idea that the conferences would get so big that I can now walk down hall after hall before seeing someone I know there. Remember when we all knew each other? Like when there were only about a thousand people on the continent aside from the Neanderthals? Back then? Gah.

Time for bed so I can get up and work a bit before going over to see the art show the kids’ school is putting on. Can’t wait to see what my kids have done, and can’t wait to see if I can’t grab ‘em for a hug before they get on the bus to after school care. They’re with their dad til Monday. I hate these long weekends. Thank goodness I had them last weekend when mom was here. That was really a special time for all of us. Aside from the horrific pain, discomfort, and plumbing issues, that is.