Yikes.

Music: Trouble - Ray LaMontagne

Well my ego has taken a bit of a blow this week. Looks my plans for the future will not be happening. I've mourned the death of one too many dreams this year. Can I get a break? But I'm thankful to have an excellent job right now and for the summer. This week I will have worked 3.5 days and made $400. Love it. In other news, I have a zit that popped up yesterday and is going to ruin my life. But you didn't want to know that. Anyway, I've been up since 5:30 am and I still have to go downtown to do bible study and break the news that everyone's prayers were not answered in the way I hoped. Maybe I'll have some uplifting things to say next time.

nice weather

Music: Gravity - John Mayer

So finally it seems that spring has sprung, and hopefully this time it is for real. I took my winter jacket out of my backseat and bought a new pair of sunglasses. I hope this nice weather lasts, since it's a mood elevator as well.

Still no word from schools...apparently MSU is "overwhelmed" with applications. Whatever. I renewed my gym membership today, so that's 185$ down the tube. I'm nannying a lot the next two weeks though, so that will replenish my checking account. I bought a few new books at my favorite used book store downtown and so far the one I started is good. It's called "Lives of Girls and Women" by Alice Munro. I woke up today and turned on my computer and was chagrined to discover that my sound isn't working. And I opened up volume control and it said it no longer existed and that a mixer must be installed. Wtf? I use my comp and it's volume every day. Every minute I'm in my room I have a dvd or music playing. So now I had to turn on my alarm clock radio to listen to music, and it's a little fuzzy. That's one of my huge pet peeves, when a radio station is fuzzy. It sounds like nails on a chalkboard to me. Also good news - I found out that I don't have to report for jury duty on monday. Woohoo! This is like the third time I've gotten summoned and haven't had to report. Excellent. And I don't have to nanny that day either so maybe I'll have the day off. Unless I'm feeling strange and decide to sub, which would be unlikely. Anyway. I guess that's all for now.

Ah yes.

Music: Sinatra


I feel compelled this evening, April 12th, at approximately 10:43 pm, to update my blog and announce that I think Spencer from 'The Hills' is the biggest tool ever to be seen on television. Seriously. I want to punch him in the face, rip off his little pimp chain from his pasty white neck, and inform him of his massive toolage. Then I want to take his girlfriend Heidi aside and tell her that she is an idiot for dating him, sleeping with him, and moving in with him. I don't like Heidi either, but that is largely because she's with such a douche bag for a boyfriend. Spencer makes me lose faith in the male gender. That is all.

I should be at the gym, but I'm blogging instead

Music: Riding Shotgun Down the Avalanche - Shawn Colvin

I babysat today for the family that I'm going to nanny for this summer...it was fun. The kids were adorable. They sang a song for me in Polish and then I told them how to count to 6 in Japanese. They also have a Sheltie too, but he's really old and has major arthritis. I'm technically on spring break right now, since the Ann Arbor schools are and the family I nanny for right now are in Arizona. With this other nanny job plus this Healthy Schools health screening thing I'm gonna do, I pretty much won't have to sub ever again. Thank the Lord. Now if it would only warm up and actually feel like spring.

Still no word from grad schools...it's very disencouraging. My mind goes on overdrive at night when I think about it, and I try to create a Plan B and C if the unthinkable happens. But maybe ignorance can be bliss too.

In other news....who's the baby daddy??? Today is the day, and I'm on the edge of my seat, although I'm pretty sure it's Larry Birkhead.

Kids say the darndest things, part II

Music: No Ordinary Love - Sade


Another conversation between four year old Jake and I, from this afternoon:

Jake: Do you know Emily?
Me: Yes, she's my sister. How do you know Emily?
Jake: Because she's a poopypoopypoopypoopypoopypoopypoopyhead!
Me: What? How come she's a poopypoopypoopypoopypoopypoopypoopyhead?
Jake: Because she's a poopypoopypoopypoopypoopypoopypoopyhead! And she has white eyeballs.