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April 21, 2006

This is what we currently have on loan from the library:

My Picks:
Firefly world factbook Lye, Keith
Checklists for life : 104 lists to help you get organized, save time, and unclutter your life Lagatree, Kirsten M.
Whistling and other stories Goldberg, Myra
The Berlin stories : The last of Mr. Norris, Goodbye to Berlin Isherwood, Christopher
Killer market Maron, Margaret
Eat the rich O'Rourke, P. J.
Reefer madness : sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the American black market Schlosser, Eric.
You can do it! : the merit badge handbook for grown-up girls Grandcolas, Lauren Catuzzi
The Home answer book Wissinger, Joanna
"A" is for alibi : a Kinsey Millhone mystery Grafton, Sue

Cole's Picks:
Stone soup : an old tale Brown, Marcia
Amazing whales! Thomson, Sarah L.
Luther's Halloween Meister, Cari
Mouse's Halloween party Modesitt, Jeanne
Halloween day Rockwell, Anne F.
DK big book of trucks Bingham, Caroline
Bugs are insects Rockwell, Anne F
Koi and the kola nuts : a tale from Liberia Aardema, Verna
Lemonade for sale Murphy, Stuart J.
Vaqueros Rice, James

Monk's Picks
Ancient Rome Simpson, Judith
Black water MacHale, D. J.
The not-so-jolly Roger Scieszka, Jon
Hey kid, want to buy a bridge? Scieszka, Jon
Your mother was a Neanderthal Scieszka, Jon
2095 Scieszka, Jon
The Roman Empire Nardo, Don
The land and people of China Major, John S.
The Korean war McGowen, Tom
Aztec, Inca & Maya Baquedano, Elizabeth

The Grateful Ten

February 5, 2006

Some things I'm feeling particularly grateful for today:

• Time to clean my living room, at last!
• Cleaing to The Cramps
• A totally unscheduled, unobligated, solitary weekend (not that I have minded the company, but it's nice to spend a weekend alone once in awhile.)
• Developing photos for Friends.
• LIbrary day!
• Discovering that Prickball is right across the street - even though I don't think I will ever ever join them.
• All that it has taken to get me here
• All that it will take to get me there
• Queer as Folk
• Sunday mid-afternoon walk, followed by Sunday mid-afternoon nap. Right after I post this. Yahoo!

Friday Random Ten - Version Full Weekend Ahead.

January 20, 2006

Lots of stuff planned this weekend. I wonder what the soundtrack will be like.

1. Sonic Youth - Green Light
2. De La Soul - Me, Myself and I
3. Jimmy Cross - I Want My Baby Back
4. Violent Femmes - I Held Her In My Arms
5. Nick Cave - Red Right Hand
6. PJ Harvey - A Perfect Day Elise
7. Cletus - Somewhere Down The Road
8. New Order & Depeche Mode - Bizarre Love Triangle
9. Eastern Dub Tactic - Brothers and Sisters
10. Portishead - Sour Times (Nobody Loves me)

Friday Random Ten - Version "LAST CHANCE TO DELURK!"

January 13, 2006

1. Bikini Kill - Suck My Left One (What an awesome way to start my morning!)
2. Neutral Milk Hotel - April 8th
3. Operation Ivy - Caution
4. Bauhaus - In the Night
5. Nicola Conte - Exotique Bossa Nova
6. Nappy Roots - Aww Naw
7. Phil Rosenthal - The Yellow Rose of Texas
8. Public Enemy - Can't Trust It
9. Cocteau Twins & The Wolfgang Press - I am the Crime
10. Leonard Cohen - Waiting for the Miracle to Come

Bonus Tracks:

• Dirty Three - Flutter
  
• Spearhead - Positive
  
• Fela Ransome Kuti - Power Show
  
• System of a Down - War
  
• The White Stripes - White Moon
  
• Bob Marley - Fussing and Fighting
  

The Grateful 5

January 11, 2006

Despite the fact that I thought I felt like crap coming home from work today, I took my dog out for our nightly walk. I couldn't help it. She's so freaking cute, and she just stands there and stares at me until I give in.

Anyway, the walk cheered me immensely, both physically and mentally. Here are five things I found to be thankful for, in no particular order:

• Dog-Faced Hermans
• Making out (which, since I've discovered that if I say something out loud I seem to get what I want every. time. My mission over the next month (or so) is to find a nice boy to have a hot one-night make out session with. I am loving being single too much to commit to anything more than that, but give me a dark bar and a boy with nice lips and I'll be happy to abandon singlehood for an hour or two...or five.)
• Clear and cloudless January nights
• My job (!) Yes. You heard me. My motherfucking job. It rocks.
• Sweet silly souls like cricket, Harold, Coley, Pansy, Clay, and my dog...among others. Too many to mention, actually...but you get the picture.
• Delurkers. Keep it coming! I know there are more out there. Lurking. Delurk! Delurk! I'll be here all week.

OK, that was probably more than five, and I have more besides, but I think I need to quit for the night and watch the rest of this Queer As Folk DVD. Ta!

Gratitude - Under the sea version

November 13, 2005

Some things I am grateful for today:

• Unexpected extra time with my children.
• My friend M's crazy-ass birthday parties for her son that feel like absolute hell while I am there, but that I'm sure the children remember fondly throughout the year.
• Having conversations with neighborhood acquaintances, even though through them I discover that everyone is struggling to make ends meet.
• bus adventure sunday.
• co-workers who are musicians and artists - or who are related to musicians and artists.
• Monk making Mosaics in the back room.
• boxes of nice smelling things from friends in Albuquerque.
• Spearhead..."All the freaky people make the beauty of the world."

I hope everyone is having a good weekend.

Gratitude - Version Homoerotic Soldier Songs

October 30, 2005

Ten things I am grateful for this week (in no particular order):

1. The Soldiering Life by the Decemberists* (and the sing-alongs it inspires)
2. Sweet Dogs Learning New Stuff
3. Dog Almighty
4. "Happy Halloween" (transcript coming soon)
5. Nice people to share Dog Almight with
6. The 11-year old playdate (silence, and no kids in sight) (I'm assuming they are in the backyard)
7. Partly Sunny, 77 degrees
8. A period without cramps (and I finally got rid of the headache)
9. Sunday
10. Coley didn't scream and cry in childcare today, so I could listen to the whole service.

The Soldiering Life
by: The Decemberists

Ambling madly all over the town
The call to arms you liken to a whisper,
I liken to a radio.
You were a brick bat, a bowery tuff, so rough
They culled you from a cartoon
Pulled out of your pantaloons.

But you,
My brother in arms,
I'd rather I'd lose my limbs
Than let you come to harm.

But you ,
My bombazine doll,
The bullets may singe your skin
And the mortars may fall.

But I,
I never felt so much life
Than tonight
Huddled in the trenches,
Gazing on the battle field,
Our rifles blaze away;
We blaze away.

Corporal Bradley of regiment five
In proud array standing by the bathing
Soldiers and the stevedores.
We laid on the mattress and tumbled to sleep
Our eyes aligned, swaddled in our civies
Cradled in our dungarees.

But you,
My brother in arms,
I'd rather I'd lose my limbs
Than let you come to harm.

But you,
My bombazine doll,
The bullets may singe your skin
And the mortars may fall.

But I,
I never felt so much life
Than tonight
Huddled in the trenches,
Gazing on the battle field
Our rifles blaze away;
We blaze away.
We blaze away.
We blaze away.

Gratitude

October 23, 2005

Some things I am grateful for this week...In no particular order:

• That guitar riff in "Let the Bells Ring" by Nick Cave
• A long, luxurious, kidfree weekend
• Coley turning 5 (on Monday)!
• Puffs Plus with Aloe
• Cold Fronts (there is nothing worse than having a cold when it is hot outside)
• Peeling myself off of the futon at midnight to take a brisk walk with my dog, even though I felt like ass (I actually felt better afterwards)
• Susan
• Several years' worth of writing curriculum for 1/2 price

Friday Random Ten - Version: Just broke up with my girlfriend

October 14, 2005

Linking up Jill's list this time:

1. The Smoking Popes - Just Broke up with my Girlfriend
2. Violent Femmes "Give me the Car"
3. A Tribe Called Quest - Da Booty
4. The Clash - Tommy Gun
5. REM - Drive
6. They Might Be Giants - Hello Radio
7. Rites of Spring - By Design
8. Erykah Badu - Love of My Life
9. X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
10. Pixies - Head On (Jesus and Mary Chain Cover)

bonus Track:

• Jets to Brazil - Sleep
  

"By Design"
By Rites of Spring

Time heals all wounds they say
But the self inflicted won't just fade away
And in these shifting tides of blame
why are you suprised to see your name? It's such a drag
Time got the best of you
Things you gave you say were taken
Explaination piled over excuse

And so the story goes
But by your own design
And if you look to me to find you
Then my eyes will pass right though

Believe me I had wished
We could have avoided this
Please dont ask me to explain
All the things that caused your pain
I only want you to realize
Passivity equals compliance
Let it slip right through your hands
Become the victims of other's demands

And so the story goes
But by your own design
And if you look to me to find you
Then my eyes will pass right though
Pass right through

Because I am cranky

October 10, 2005

5 things I am not grateful for. Not one bit:

• The annoying motorcycle guy (dude, you live THREE HOUSES from the stopsign. There is really NO NEED to get your bike up to 72.5 mph between the stop sign and your house, especially considering the volume of the rev that is the result of this unnecessary acceleration. I would really like for you to move.)
• Monk's dog (she sneaks under the fence, and once she's out, she's gone. If I witness her escape and call to her, she just keeps running. Never in my life have I lived with an animal I have despised more than this dog. I feel bad about it, but it's true. She is irredeemably irritating.)
• My ex (really. Enough said.)
• The person who thought it would be a good idea to shriek something at me from their car window as I was out walking the dog late last night.
• Too much work to do, too little time.

Gratitude

October 3, 2005

I keep forgetting about my gratitude lists. Here are ten things I am grateful for right now:

1. Good musicians (Nick Cave & Decemberists are topping my list right now)
2. Mulligatawny (it's fucking delicious)
3. My kids' therapist
4. The Family Allison
5. Coffee with bloggers
6. cilantro (particularly that which is in the mulligatawny)
7. Musicians (again) (particularly those who can pull off writing operatic masterpieces about vengeance in the belly of a whale that totally make me laugh out loud out of sheer delight.)(As well as those who can write songs that sound almost Neil Diamondish, until you listen to the lyrics and hear the words "cannibal" and "abbatoir" and "orifice" (in reference to the orifice of Orpheus)and variations thereof.)
8. Monk's hyperactive dance to "The Sporting Life."
9. Coley's toy gun made entirely out of plastic marble run pieces.
10. Mileage reimbursement checks.

Seven Things Meme

September 25, 2005

I've been tagged by Cleis...this is the hardest meme ever:

Seven things I plan to do before I die:

1. Raise two sensitive, strong, intelligent, considerate boys into men.
   
2. Write at least one novel
   
3. Hike either the Appalachian Trail or the Continental Divide Trail
   
4. Go live by myself in a cabin in a remote area for at least a month. Well, with my dog.
   
5. Travel cross-country with the kiddos and write a book about it.
   
6. Travel overseas with the kiddos and write a book about it.
   
7. Do both of the above by myself and write a book about it.
   

Seven things I can do:

1. Make a mean pot of soup
   
2. Teach a classroom full of adults from various backgrounds and with a wide array of abilities how to use a computer
   
3. Drive for 12+ hours, only stopping for gas
   
4. Give birth without any pain relief
   
5. Win countless games of dodge ball against 4 7-9 year olds
   
6. Drive cross-country without ever getting lost
   
7. Gosh, this is the hardest one of all...um...OH! I can also get totally lost in a public park in the middle of the fucking city!
   

Seven things I can't do:

1. Play any sort of musical instrument
   
2. Arrive late with any grace at all
   
3. Play poker
   
4. Sit still
   
5. Keep my house clean
   
6. Tan
   
7. Build a house of cards
   

Seven things that attract me to people of the opposite (and same) sex:

1. Self-awareness (including the ability to laugh at oneself)
   
2. Stability
   
3. Humor
   
4. Tenacity
   
5. Patience (which is totally hypocritical, because I have almost none)
   
6. A willingness to change and grow
   
7. Freckles and/or goofy glasses (which might just be the after-effect of last night's show)
   

Seven things I say the most:

1. "fuck" "fucking" "fucked" etc
   
2. "alrighty, kiddos!"
   
3. Various lyrics from Decemberists songs
   
4. "right"
   
5. "Oh, Lordy"
   
6. "You guys, Come ON, now!"
   
7. "I'm all done talking about poop now. Find something else to talk about, please."
   

Seven celebrity crushes:

1. Noam Chomsky
   
2. Ralph Nader
   
3. Howard Zinn
   
4. Colin Meloy
   
5. Brian Kinney (yes, the fictional character)
   
6. Melora Krieger from Rasputina
   
7. Nick Cave
   
8. (bonus Crush) Bill Moyers
   

Seven crush-worthy bloggers (I'm going to stick with strictly people who are not currently on my blogroll):

1. Well, Cleis, of course
   
2. Echidne
   
3. Amanda
   
4. Norbizness
   
5. Bitch Ph.D.
   
6. Shaula
   
7. Lauren
   + all of the people I have crushed on before on my blog.
   

Consider yourself tagged if you're crush-worthy. (The list isn't exhaustive, obviously, so if you know you're crushy-worthy, too, go for it.)

A most Excello to-do list.

March 25, 2005

Stuff I do every week

• >Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Get window fixed
  
• Get Containers for Garden
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get tiles for back room (after 4/1)
  
• Clean van exterior
  
• Find Monk's social Security Card
  
• redo budget (after 4/15)
  
• touch up paint in kitchen (after 4/1)
  
• Clean out Fridge
  
• Organize records and tapes
  
• Do more work on the office
  
• sign Monk up for spring camp
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• pay bills
  
• do taxes
  
• check on homestead exemption
  
• put license plates on car
  
• solidify childcare for next 2 weeks
  
• clean bedroom
  
• clean out freezer
  
• clean top of fridge
  

To-Do List: Version Spring Fairy

March 18, 2005

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Get window fixed (next week)
  
• Get Containers for Garden (next week)
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up (next week)
  
• Get tiles for back room (after 4/1)
  
• Clean van exterior
  
• Find Monk's social Security Card
  
• redo budget (after 4/15)
  
• Get copies of paperwork
  
• touch up paint in kitchen (after 4/1)
  
• Recycling
  
• Clean back room
  
• Clean out Fridge
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Change out CDs
  
• Organize records and tapes
  
• Get ready for the spring fairy
  
• Do more work on the office
  
• sign Monk up for spring camp
  

A Very Unfortunate To-Do List

March 11, 2005

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Get window fixed
  
• Get Containers for Garden
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Get new non-leather ass-kicking boots. Any suggestions?
  
• Clean van exterior
  
• Find Monk's social Security Card
  
• redo budget
  
• get pad for papasan for office
  
• Get copies of paperwork
  
• mail remaining winter mixes
  
• touch up paint in kitchen
  
• Clean office
  
• deposit checks
  
• cancel puzzlemania
  
• call ABC
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Clean Bathroom
  
• Clean Living room
  
• Mop kitchen floor
  
• Recycling
  
• Clean back room
  
• Mow lawn in backyard
  
• Clean out Fridge
  

This blog is becoming a strictly to-do list blog.

March 4, 2005

(not really, but I'm just not feeling like sharing lately. Maybe when one or two of the five hundred gazillion unresolved issues in my life finally get resolved, I will feel like writing again. Until then, it feels like I'm spewing the same drivel over and over and over again.)

On to the list!

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Paint living room (scheduled for Saturday. Yay!)
  
• Get window fixed
  
• Get Containers for Garden
  
• Move wire rack
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Get new non-leather ass-kicking boots. Any suggestions?
  
• Clean van exterior
  
• Find Monk's social Security Card
  
• redo budget
  
• arrange to have window fixed
  
• get pad for papasan for office
  
• Pay bills
  
• Get copies of paperwork
  
• mail remaining winter mixes
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• touch up paint in kitchen
  
• Make song list for spring mix
  
• Clean bedroom
  
• Clean office
  
• e-mail list of items for potluck
  
• deposit checks
  
• cancel puzzlemania
  
• call ABC
  
• Do family project survey
  
• order netflix
  

The INCREDIBLE SHRINKING to-do list.

February 25, 2005

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Paint living room
  
• Get window fixed
  
• Get Containers for Garden
  
• Move computer into back room
  
• Move wire rack
  
• Back up laptop and reinstall windows (um, botched it last week) (Thanks, J)
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Get new non-leather ass-kicking boots. Any suggestions?
  
• Clean van exterior
  
• send cd's for mix trade
  
• February/march Chore Chart
  
• Find Monk's social Security Card
  
• Send out birthday cards
  
• Fix login problem at fullbleed (scheduled for Sunday) (Thanks, J!)
  
• redo budget
  
• arrange to have window fixed
  
• get extension cord
  
• move craft table into office
  
• get bean bag chair for office
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Pay bills
  
• Hand in homestead exemption form
  
• Get copies of paperwork
  
• burn, package, and mail remaining winter mixes
  

To-Do List

February 19, 2005

Stuff I do every week

• >Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Paint living room
  
• Get window fixed
  
• prepare bed for garden (monk has opted for container gardening this year)
  
• Move computer into back room
  
• Move wire rack
  
• Back up laptop and reinstall windows
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Plan childcare for next 2 weeks
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Get new non-leather ass-kicking boots. Any suggestions?
  
• Clean van exterior
  
• package, and send cd's for mix trade
  
• submit homestead exemption
  
• February/march Calendar
  
• February/march Chore Chart
  
• Plan "Very Unfortunate" potluck
  
• Find Monk's social Security Card
  
• Send out birthday cards
  
• Fix login problem at fullbleed
  
• redo budget
  
• arrange to have window fixed
  
• get extension cord
  
• move file cabinet in office
  
• move craft table into office
  
• get bean bag chair for office
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• prepare for comic art class
  

Another To-Do List

February 12, 2005

You would not believe how helpful this list has been in keeping track of those larger and/or smaller projects.

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Paint living room
  
• Get window fixed
  
• prepare bed for garden
  
• Move computer into back room
  
• Move wire rack
  
• Back up laptop and reinstall windows
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Plan childcare for next 2 weeks
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Get new non-leather ass-kicking boots. Any suggestions?
  
• Clean van exterior
  
• package, and send cd's for mix trade
  
• submit homestead exemption
  
• February Calendar
  
• February Chore Chart
  
• Study PowerPoint Curriculum
  
• Plan "Very Unfortunate" potluck
  
• Find Monk's social Security Card
  
• Send out birthday cards
  
• Fix login problem at fullbleed
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• work on babysitting co-op
  
• prepare for powerpoint class
  
• redo budget
  
• arrange to have window fixed
  
• get extension cord
  
• move file cabinet in office
  
• move craft table into office
  
• get bean bag chair for office
  

The Weekly to-do list, I am so not getting anything done around here.

February 6, 2005

You would not believe how helpful this list has been in keeping track of those larger and/or smaller projects.

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Submit vacation request
  
• Paint living room
  
• Get window fixed
  
• prepare bed for garden
  
• Move computer into back room
  
• Move wire rack
  
• Back up laptop and reinstall windows
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Plan childcare for next 2 weeks
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Finish cleaning out office (I am almost done!!!!)
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• Get new non-leather ass-kicking boots. Any suggestions?
  
• Clean van exterior
  
• package, and send cd's for mix trade
  
• submit homestead exemption
  
• February Calendar
  
• February Chore Chart
  
• Study PowerPoint Curriculum
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Clean out refrigerator
  
• Plan "Very Unfortunate" potluck
  
• Find Monk's social Security Card
  
• Send out birthday cards
  
• Make birthday present for Zora
  
• Fix Movable Type/blacklist problem at fullbleed
  

The Weekly To-Do List, version - no sims2 until you finish your chores!

January 28, 2005

You would not believe how helpful this list has been in keeping track of those larger and/or smaller projects.

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Submit vacation request
  
• Paint living room
  
• Get window fixed
  
• prepare bed for garden
  
• Add Rail to Monk's loft, and move futon paid up top so kids can share Monk's room (yay!!!!!!!)
  
• Recycling
  
• Move computer into back room
  
• Move wire rack
  
• Back up laptop and reinstall windows
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Plan childcare for next 2 weeks
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Finish cleaning out office (I am almost done!!!!)
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• Get new non-leather ass-kicking boots. Any suggestions?
  
• Movable Type update for fullbleed.net
  
• Clean van exterior
  
• package, and send cd's for mix trade
  
• submit homestead exemption
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• February Calendar
  
• February Chore Chart
  
• Study PowerPoint Curriculum
  

That boring old weekly to-do list.

January 21, 2005

You would not believe how helpful this list has been in keeping track of those larger and/or smaller projects.

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  
• answer e-mail
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Submit vacation request
  
• take care of car registration
  
• Paint living room
  
• Get window fixed
  
• Get more copies of pictures of kids
  
• prepare bed for garden
  
• Add Rail to Monk's loft, and move futon paid up top so kids can share Monk's room (yay!!!!!!!)
  
• Recycling
  
• Move computer into back room
  
• Move wire rack
  
• Back up laptop and reinstall windows
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Plan childcare for next 2 weeks
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Finish cleaning out office (I am almost done!!!!)
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• Pay bills
  
• Write a love note to J for our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
  
• Get new non-leather ass-kicking boots. Any suggestions?
  
• Get new math book for Monk
  
• Look into Movable Type update for fullbleed.net (see if J can fix MT-blacklist problems.
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Clean van exterior
  
• burn, package, and send cd's for mix trade
  
• submit homestead exemption
  

To-do, to-do...sans the weekly locksmith rant! yay!

January 14, 2005

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Get rid of dishwasher (posted ad on Craigslist) HOORAY! I am now one dishwasher poorer, and $100 richer!
  
• Submit vacation request
  
• Clean van
  
• take care of car registration
  
• Paint living room
  
• Get window fixed
  
• oil change
  
• Donate more clothes and other items
  
• Get more copies of pictures of kids
  
• prepare bed for garden
  
• Get new cover for futon
  
• Add Rail to Monk's loft, and move futon paid up top so kids can share Monk's room (yay!!!!!!!)
  
• Recycling
  
• Move computer into back room
  
• Move wire rack
  
• package and mail winter mixes
  
• Back up laptop and reinstall windows
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• answer e-mail
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Plan childcare for next 2 weeks
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Finish cleaning out office (I am almost done!!!!)
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Pay bills
  
• Write a love note to J for our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!
  
• Schedule hair appointment
  
• Get new non-leather ass-kicking boots. Any suggestions?
  
• Clean out corner of kitchen that used to house dishwasher
  
• Get new math book for Monk
  
• Look into Movable Type update for fullbleed.net (see if J can fix MT-blacklist problems.
  

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

Ye Olde Weekly To-Do List

December 31, 2004

i feel self-conscious about these lists going out to the anarchoblog and feminist blog aggregators for some reason. Like I should only be posting Important Stuff now. But, oh well. Here it is anyway:

Stuff I've added for this week

(tonight)

• Bake Banana Bread
  
• Make Pizza Dough
  
• Make Pizza Sauce
  
• Put black-eyed peas in the crockpot
  (whenever)
  
• Plan childcare for next 2 weeks
  
• Get tiles for back room
  
• Plan potluck
  

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Call locksmith AGAIN!!!! to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)(I keep calling...they keep NOT fixing.)(AND IF THEY DO NOT FIX IT, CALL THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU!!!!!!)(ARGH! Every time I call, they act like they are going to do it, and then they don't. I wish they would just get belligerent with me so I could know that they are not intending to fix it.)
  
• Finish cleaning out office (I am almost done!!!!)
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• Get rid of dishwasher
  
• Submit vacation request
  
• take care of car registration
  
• Clean van
  
• Paint living room (this was just way ambitious for me to schedule the same week as monk's b-day party, and I'll have to do it new year's weekend. or something.)
  
• Get window fixed
  
• oil change
  
• Donate more clothes and other items
  
• Get more copies of pictures of kids
  
• prepare bed for garden
  
• Clean front yard
  
• Get new cover for futon
  
• Add Rail to Monk's loft, and move futon paid up top so kids can share Monk's room (yay!!!!!!!)
  
• Recycling
  
• Move computer into back room
  
• Move wire rack
  
• Print Winter Mix covers
  
• package and mail winter mixes
  
• Back up laptop and reinstall windows
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• plan redesign
  
• answer e-mail
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  

Vacation Time! Weekly to-do List

December 24, 2004

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Call locksmith AGAIN!!!! to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)(I keep calling...they keep NOT fixing.)(AND IF THEY DO NOT FIX IT, CALL THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU!!!!!!)(ARGH! Every time I call, they act like they are going to do it, and then they don't. I wish they would just get belligerent with me so I could know that they are not intending to fix it.)
  
• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• Get rid of dishwasher
  
• Submit vacation request
  
• take care of car registration
  
• Clean van
  
• Paint living room (this was just way ambitious for me to schedule the same week as monk's b-day party, and I'll have to do it new year's weekend. or something.)
  
• Get window fixed
  
• oil change
  
• Clean Monk's Room
  
• Donate clothes
  
• Take pictures of the kids, get them developed, send them to family members so they will shut up about it and leave me alone!
  
• make Winter Mix song list, and start burning.
  
• prepare bed for garden
  
• Clean front yard
  
• Get new cover for futon
  
• Refill prescription
  
• put up lights
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Get flannel sheets for Monk
  
• Add Rail to Monk's loft, and move futon paid up top so kids can share Monk's room (yay!!!!!!!)
  
• Monthly Calendar
  
• Quarterly Calendar
  
• Birthday list
  
• Bring boxes to garage
  
• Chore Chart
  
• Recycling
  
• Move computer into back room
  
• Move wire rack
  
• sort mail/bills/writing
  
• Print Winter Mix covers
  
• package and mail winter mix
  
• Back up laptop and reinstall windows
  
• Work on Curriculum
  
• plan redesign
  
• answer e-mail
  
• price high speed internet access
  

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

The ever-so-lovely weekly to-do list

December 17, 2004

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Write up chili recipe for M.
  
• Call locksmith AGAIN!!!! to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)(I keep calling...they keep NOT fixing.)(AND IF THEY DO NOT FIX IT, CALL THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU!!!!!!)
  
• pay bills
  
• taxes
  
• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• Mail out Autumn mix and kid mix (burned - need sending)
  
• Get rid of dishwasher
  
• Clean bedroom
  
• Clean bathroom
  
• Submit vacation request
  
• take care of car registration
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Clean out fridge
  
• Clean van
  
• Get paint & supplies
  
• Paint living room (this was just way ambitious for me to schedule the same week as monk's b-day party, and I'll have to do it new year's weekend. or something.)
  
• Bake cake
  
• Prepare for Monk's birthday party
  
• Get window fixed
  
• oil change
  
• Clean Monk's Room
  
• Go through clothes in my closet
  
• Donate clothes
  
• Call Arc of Texas for furniture pickup
  
• Take pictures of the kids, get them developed, send them to family members so they will shut up about it and leave me alone!
  
• make Winter Mix song list, and start burning.
  
• renew driver's license
  
• prepare bed for garden
  
• change out CDs
  
• Clean front yard
  
• Get new cover for futon
  
• Refill prescription
  
• put up lights
  

Weekly to-do list

December 10, 2004

Stuff I've added for this week

• Plan Solstice gathering
  
• Order gifts
  
• Sell some of the crap on my porch
  

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• take care of car registration
  
• Finish Planning Solar Tour Field trip
  
• pay someone to do the rest of the yard work for me
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Write up chili recipe for M.
  
• Call locksmith to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)(I keep calling...they keep NOT fixing.)
  
• taxes
  
• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• Mail out Autumn mix and kid mix (burned - need sending)
  
• Answer homeschool survey
  
• Get rid of dishwasher
  
• Clean bedroom
  
• Clean bathroom
  
• Submit vacation request
  
• Back Up MP3 CD's
  
• pay bills
  

Friday Random Ten

December 10, 2004

Rox Populi : Friday Random Ten - Really, Really Random Edition

Here are mine:

1. Metal Chicks Always on my Mind - Skateboard vs. Erlend Oye
2. Son of a Bush - Public Enemy
3. At Last - Etta James
4. Sexy Boy - Air
5. The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati - Rose & the Arrangement
6. Cheer Up - Peter Tosh/Bob Marley
7. il Quarto Giorno/Macchie Di Sangue/Musica - Air & Alessandro Baricco
8. What Goes On (Live) - The Velvet Underground
9. Have a Little Fun with me - Glen Phillips
10. Rock the Casbah - The Clash

Friday Random Ten

December 3, 2004

Rox Populi : Friday Random Ten - Where Would You Buy a Flak Jacket? Edition

1. Lost in the Supermarket - The Clash
2. AB/7A - Throbbing Gristle
3. 911 is a Joke - Public Enemy
4. Resolve - Beth Gibbons
5. OAK MOT - Crispin Glover
6. All I Need - Air
7. Man in the Moon - Voice of the Beehive
8. Act Like the Rich - Culturcide
9. What's the Matter Here? - 10,000 Maniacs
10. Chelsea Girls - Velvet Underground

Weekly to-do list

December 3, 2004

Busy Weekend Ahead:

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• take care of car registration
  
• Finish Planning Solar Tour Field trip
  
• pay someone to do the rest of the yard work for me
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Write up chili recipe for M.
  
• Call locksmith to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)(I keep calling...they keep NOT fixing.)
  
• taxes
  
• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• Finish planning Monk's birthday party
  
• Mail out Autumn mix and kid mix (burned - need track listing and sending)
  
• Answer homeschool survey
  
• Get rid of dishwasher
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Clean bedroom
  
• Clean bathroom
  
• Plan Solstice party
  
• Submit vacation request
  
• Back Up MP3 CD's
  
• pay bills
  

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

Friday Random Ten - on a Saturday morning.

November 27, 2004

Rox Populi : Friday Random Ten - Black Friday Edition

1. Complete Control - The Clash
2. Crew - A Tribe Called Quest
3. Californie - Air
4. Don't be Light (Neptunes remix) - Air
5. Check the Rhyme - A Tribe Called Quest
6. I Miss you - Bjork
7. Shred A - Le Tigre
8. Clampdown - The Clash
9. Fuck Yourself - Yeastie Girlz
10. Bulldog Front - Fugazi

Weekly to-do list

November 27, 2004

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• take care of car registration
  
• Plan Solar Tour Field trip
  
• mow the lawn
  
• pay someone to do the rest of the yard work for me
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Write up chili recipe for M.
  
• Look into health curriculum/co-operative
  
• Work on Geocaching curriculum
  
• Call locksmith to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)(I keep calling...they keep NOT fixing.)
  
• taxes
  
• clean out fullbleed inbox
  
• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Clean out the Fridge
  
• Complete Diary for UT study
  
• Plan Monk's birthday party
  
• Mail out Autumn mix and kid mix (burned - need track listing and sending)
  
• Answer homeschool survey
  
• December Calendar
  
• Call M
  
• List dishwasher for sale
  

Return of the Weekly to-do list!

November 5, 2004

Stuff I've added for this week

• Clean out the Fridge
  
• Decorate for Coley's birthday party
  

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

Stuff left over from previous weeks

• take care of car registration
  
• Plan Solar Tour Field trip
  
• mow the lawn
  
• pay someone to do the rest of the yard work for me
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Write up chili recipe for M.
  
• Look into health curriculum/co-operative
  
• Work on Geocaching curriculum
  
• Call locksmith to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)(I keep calling...they keep NOT fixing.)
  
• taxes
  
• clean out fullbleed inbox
  
• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  

Friday Random Ten

November 5, 2004

Rox Populi : Friday Random Ten - Music for the Apocalypse, Round II, Edition:

• Free Nelson Mandela - The Specials
• Autumn Reprise - Vanessa Daou
• Venus in Furs - Velvet Underground
• Highschool Prom (Playground Love - Rob Remix) - Air
• Running to Stand Still - U2
• Me Vuelvo Guajiro - Tam-Tam 2000
• Don't Call Me Baby - Voice of the Beehive
• 48 Hours - The Clash
• Rapture - Blondie
• Blood is Shining - Eastern Dub Tactic

Another Weekly to-do list

October 15, 2004

I actually got a lot done last week...

Stuff left over from last week

• Call locksmith to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)
  
• taxes
  
• clean out fullbleed inbox
  
• back up my data on my new backup drive. Yay!
  
• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• take care of car registration
  
• Plan Coley's BIRTHDAY PARTY!
  
• Find childcare for staff meeting, special event, and contract job.
  
• Plan Solar Tour Field trip
  
• Clean out Monk & Cole's drawers, do clothing inventory
  
• mow the lawn
  
• pay someone to do the rest of the yard work for me
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Work on Photoshop curriculum (looked at first week, need to print out and practice.)
  
• Make appointment at the vet for Twyla's annual check-up
  
• Choose and order Coley's birthday present
  
• Clean out the Fridge
  
• Straighten up recycling
  
• Price kitchen wall shelving (should cost me roughly 100 bux to do what I want to do)
  
• Get patches for clothes, and sew up skirt and pants.
  
• Change lightbulbs
  
• Write up chili recipe for M.
  
• Send out e-mails and schedule math games/playground games/geocaching
  
• Look into health curriculum/co-operative
  

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

That Zany Weekly To-Do List

October 8, 2004

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

Stuff left over from last week

• mow the lawn
  
• pay someone to do the rest of the yard work for me
  
• Call locksmith to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)
  
• Work on budget
  
• Clean out van
  
• Clean my room
  
• taxes
  
• clean out fullbleed inbox
  
• Schedule Freecycle pickups
  
• back up my data on my new backup drive. Yay!
  
• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• take care of car registration
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Plan Coley's BIRTHDAY PARTY!
  
• Take care of mortgage crap
  
• Do Families in Transition paperwork
  
• Find childcare for staff meeting and special event.
  
• Plan Solar Tour Field trip
  
• Clean out Monk & Cole's drawers, do clothing inventory
  

Friday Random Ten

October 8, 2004

Rox Populi : Friday Random Ten - Another Early Edition

1. Whip out your IPod or other MP3 device. 2. Set to random (mine is set to random on my "UK Playlist"). 3. List the first ten songs.

1. Sexy Boy (Cassius Radio Mix) - Air
2. Last Words with Michael Franti - William S. Burroughs
3. Nude as the News - Cat Power
4. Where Your Eyes Don't Go - They Might Be Giants
5. Ce Matin La - Air
6. Arranca - Manzanita
7. Army of Me - Bjork
8. Everyday People - Various Artists
9. Afghan Wigs - Lost in the Supermarket
10. Oh My God - Michael Franti & Spearhead

Oh My God
Spearhead

(chorus)
Oh-my, oh-my God!
out here mama they got us livin' suicide
singin' oh-my, oh-my God!
out here mama they got us livin' genocide

Slam bam I come unseen
but like gasoline you can tell I'm in the tank
like money in the bank
I smell appealing, but I'm toxic, can send ya reeling
without an inklin', keep ya thinkin'
'cause you gave cash to the feds, left your school district for dead
fucked you up in the head, but still they sayin' nothin's wrong
sellin' firewater but outlawing the bong
still believing the system is workin'
while half of my people are still outta workin'
anonymous notes left in the pockets and coats
of judges and juries from 'Frisco to Jersey
threats and protests politicians mob debts
trumped up charges and phoney arrests
stage a lethal injection, the night before the election
'cause he got donations from the prison guard's union
(chorus)

Listen in to my stethoscope on a rope
international lullabies, human cries
thumps and silence, the language of violence
algorithmic, cataclysmic, seismic, biorhythmic
you can make a life longer, but you can't save it
you can make a clone an then you try to enslave it?
stealin' DNA samples from the onborn
and then you comin' after us
'cause we sampled a James Brown horn?
scientists who's God is progress
a four-headed sheep is their latest project
the CIA runnin' like that Jones from Indiana
but they still won't talk about that (Jim) Jones
(People's Temple mass suicide) in Guyana
This ain't no cartoon
no one slips on bananas
do you really think that that car killed Diana
hell I shot Ronald Reagan, I shot JFK,
I slept with Marilyn (Monroe) she sung me happy birthday
singin'
(chorus)

Well politicians got lipstick on the collar
the whole media started to holler
but I don't give a fuck who they screwin' in private
I wanna know who they screwin' in public
robbin', cheatin', stealin'
white collar criminal
McDonald eatin', you deserve a beatin'
send you home a weepin', with a fat bill for your
Caribbean weekend
for just about anything they can bust us
false advertising sayin' "halls of Justice''
you tellin' the youth don't be so violent
then you drop bombs on every single continent
mandatory minimum sentencin'
'cause he got caught with a pocket fulla medicine
do that again another ten up in the pen
I feel so mad I wanna bomb an institution
singin'
(chorus)

Weekly to-do list

September 30, 2004

Stuff I've added for this week

• take care of car registration
  
• Cancel bug guy
  
• Deal with jury duty stuff
  
• Clean out the fridge
  
• Deal with the mountain of bills
  
• October Calendar
  
• Find childcare for meeting times
  

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

Stuff left over from last week

• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• mow the lawn
  
• pay someone to do the rest of the yard work for me
  
• Call locksmith to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)
  
• Work on budget
  
• Clean out van
  
• Clean my room
  
• taxes
  
• clean out fullbleed inbox
  
• Schedule Freecycle pickups
  
• back up my data on my new backup drive. Yay!
  

Weekly to-do list

September 24, 2004

Stuff left over from last week

• Finish cleaning out office
  
• Sort toys and games and curriculum in office
  
• mow the lawn
  
• pay someone to do the rest of the yard work for me
  
• send off summer mixes
  
• Call locksmith to get them to fix the fuck-up they made with my car (will have to do this on a weekday)
  
• Work on budget
  
• Change lightbulbs
  
• Change A/C filter
  
• Clean out van
  
• Clean my room
  
• taxes
  
• clean out fullbleed inbox
  

Stuff I've added for this week

• Schedule Freecycle pickups
  
• back up my data on my new backup drive. Yay!
  

Stuff I do every week

• Menu Plan
  
• Grocery Shopping
  
• Plan Weekly Activities
  

I am now going to bed

May 11, 2002

But before I go, I want to list 5 things I'm thankful for

having L home with us during the day

a hickey on my arm - I feel like a teenager again

m: the citizens are restless L: do you know what a citizen is, m? m: Yeah, dad...they're the residents of a city (!)

flea-free twyla

celebrating mother's day on the kids' birthdays instead of some arbitrary day in midmay

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