it's spring, and i want a car

fb isn't as wonderful as its potential. it's too trivial, banal, and i don't care if people are going to bed or heading to walmart or ironing (unless it's a rare event, like in my house...) I like skype because i can leave comments there and the people who i care about can see them, comments that if i were braver, i'd leave on fb, but i have too many "friends" who I don't really know or care about to leave those comments there. which begs the question why i don't delete those people from the list.

the girls are downtown for their last home ec class tonight. they're cooking a meal for us, don't know how many courses, but dessert is included! they get to sleep over, and we join them for lunch tomorrow. looking forward to it.

i've been dizzy lately, yesterday i actually fell down after standing up. not good. i've been in more doctors' offices this week than in the past 10 years. i'm on cholersterol meds now, finally bit the bullet and started, cuz i got the biggest scare with my last blood check - #'s were off the charts! not good, not at all.

bug is learning Spanish like crazy in his argentine school. i love his accent.

spring is here, including torrential rainstorms. there's no real drainage off the roof, just tiny 1-inch holes in the sides of the flat roof that quickly get covered with leaves.

it's hard to write this all in English. I have to stop and think of how to say things, not just mix Spanish in with my English. the one that always gets me is "ganas" as in "tengo ganas de" I have a desire to...but that's not how we'd say it in English, and i'm forever saying, "I so have ganas to..." bear with my muddled brain.

i'm missing 825 pt pines, and the people at 811...remind me again why we moved??? will this feeling ever go away?

homeschooling is DONE until after the new year. p's come from nj on tuesday and we're not doing any more. the kids can forget all they learned, forget all they haven't learned or finished, and just enjoy the pool.

we waited almost an hour for a taxi to take us back home from the dr's office today. I want a car and Yesterday isn't soon enough.

have I caught up for my laziness? just blame it on dizziness...