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October 17, 2007
My Morning
Today is Western Day for Ashley’s school:
Let’s face it people; it’s just an excuse to wear blue jeans:
You know how detrimental wearing jeans are to your education, right?! … Don’t even get me started on dress code.
It’s 8:33 AM. I have taken Ashley to school and I am dreading my reading! I started reading the book Firestarter by Stephen King last night and it’s SO interesting. I’m only on page 14, but I really want to read that. Instead, I get to read a chapter out of my history book. I am on chapter 10 this week. Surely there can’t be that many more chapters to go!
Kevin told me he has seen the movie Firestarter, but never read the book. I am in total shock that I am reading a Stephen King book he has never read. I thought he had read them all and was the authority. Now I know his dirty little secret! I have never even seen the movie, so it will all be a surprise to me if I ever get to read it!
I have to link to Ross Mathew’s Talky Blog where he and Nikki Boyer VISIT TARGET. (Click on the VISIT TARGET link.) It’s so much fun! His official website is on my sidebar. I hope to do a Talky Blog every weekend for you guys. It could be posted Saturday or Sunday depending on how busy we are, so I hope you liked the first one.
12:24
I finished reading chapter 10 and I have to say, it wasn’t boring. It talked a lot about Baptists, Methodists, and Mormons and the role religion played in general around the 1830’s. As in chapter 9, it talked more about slavery and the issues that arose with that. It was interesting reading that books written by woman, which male writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne described as “a damned mob of scribbling women”, dominated the marketplace. Uncle Tom's Cabin written by a woman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, sold more copies in the 1850’s than any other book. This must have really ticked those men off!
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News on mom: She will come home today, eventually. First though, she will have to have two bags of blood. I will tell you; this process takes hours upon hours. The doctor said she would also have her indwelling catheter removed because it was, once again, the source of her infection (some strain of e-coli) and has the potential to become a superbug. She will have something temporarily placed until a new catheter can be more permanently inserted on Friday, probably in her arm. The doctor would like Home Health to begin visiting her three times a week instead of just two.
As you can tell, I have been on the phone, read emails and blogs, eaten lunch, and been driven mad; mad by that little creature we call Guido. The freak cannot stand to see a bird in the backyard. I have explained this to you. So, a little while ago, there was a bird on the wire that refused to move. The thing could have died up there for all I know. I tried to stomp and clap my hands to make it fly away; all the while, Guido is barking at it like a freak (I did not look like a freak whilst clapping and stomping. No, I did not!)
I finally just came in and left Guido barking at the back door at the bird that never flinched. When the time was right, I called him in here and distracted him with his blanket and toys. When he realized he had tired himself out, he got a drink of water and fell asleep.
Here he is now, probably dreaming about birds:
** By the way, if you didn't watch until the very, very end of my Talky Blog, you missed out!
Posted by tami at October 17, 2007 1:35 PM
Comments
I must have missed it. What are you going to school for?
Posted by: ellice at October 17, 2007 3:30 PM
School dress code that restricts blue jeans? Yikes! I went to a small school in Ohio, and thank goodness we did not have to wear uniforms. The dress code was pretty lax too, although I was sent home in the 2nd grade for wearing a sleaveless top. Yes - 2nd grade. I guess I was too sexy for my grade. LOL!
Posted by: Tammy at October 17, 2007 4:21 PM
Ellice was answered in an email.
Posted by: Tami at October 18, 2007 6:36 AM
I love those pictures of Ashley.
Posted by: Lori-Lyn at October 18, 2007 12:17 PM
Ashley is a great hat person! Some people are born to look wonderful in them. I am not one of them!
Posted by: gw at October 18, 2007 9:43 PM