Today is a day to recover from yesterday.
Yesterday, I bicycled to and from work for the second time this week. Eight miles, round trip. I had a stiff head wind going home, so that wasn’t fun. But I did it, and I’m proud of myself.
As I noted in yesterday’s post, I watched my recording of the Royal Wedding with Snookie and her oldest daughter, and Sarah. The “party” started at 8 and ended at 10:30 pm. I don’t think my kids got to bed until close to midnight. Mostly because they wouldn’t go to bed. Today I have cranky kids.
I’m just plain tired. I’d like to be off by myself somewhere. But the kids aren’t letting me. Sarah, in particular wants to go-go-GO! I swear she’s hyperactive, really I do.
John wants to go off to a music thing this evening, which would leave me with the kids. Sarah wants me to do my usual Saturday stop at the coffee shop — of course taking her and her sister with her — or go to Snookie’s church for Game Night. I said no, because of all the crankiness and bickering. I know it will continue if I take them anywhere. Plus I’m tired.
Now Sarah’s mad. Oh well.
Maybe she and her sister (who’s looking at this over my shoulder right now — Rachel, you shouldn’t read over people’s shoulders, it’s rude!) should learn not to wear their mama out with their fighting. Oh well. Again.
It’s time for me to make some supper. It’s egg salad sandwiches tonight. Leftover Easter Eggs put to good use.
If anyone has tips for dealing bickering kids that DOESN’T involve large quantities of duct tape, let me know in the comments.
My various UK scrapping associates are all blogging about The Royal Wedding. It’s fun getting the “hometown” perspective on the event.
I’ve been caught up in it, too. I recall Diana and Fergie’s weddings, watched them with zeal. I’m not missing this one, either.
My DVR has been recording the wedding, via BBC America, since 2 am. It will stop at 2:30 pm. Tonight, Sarah and I, and possibly my friend Snookie (the original Snookie, BTW) will watch what’s been recorded.
I may need to make a Trader Joe’s run for snacks after work. It should be fun.
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Bought a can of Trader Joe’s whipped cream yesterday. It’s the only spray whipped cream I’ve found that doesn’t have carrageenan in it — that’s the MSG derivative that gives me migraines and makes Sarah even more hyper than usual.
If there is any cream left after Easter Dinner, I will bring it home. Then Sarah and Rachel can stand in front of the open refrigerator and spray whipped cream into their mouths. It makes them happy, and makes me smile.
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Does this picture look like an inch of sloppy, wet snow?
I don’t think so either.
It’s official. I’m sick of winter. Or the threat of snow.
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I was taking a quick run through my “Professional Development” folder in Google Reader, and ran across two absolutely stunning pieces of art. Do yourself a favor and view these blog posts:
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Note to those of you subscribed to this blog, my family blog, and my creative blog: Yes, you are seeing double. These two pieces are too good to be missed, and I wanted to make sure all my reader subscribers could experience the power of these two pieces of art.
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I will be talking about public speaking and presentations in my class tonight. Some basic principles of organizing a good speech and using presentation materials. I’ll also have some tips on overcoming jitters. So I thought I’d use this little graphic in one of my slides:
Oh, and I’m going to use the movie trailer for “The King’s Speech”, too.
My message for the evening: Anyone, even a King, can have problems speaking in public. With help and practice, we can all improve our public speaking skills.
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This will be the new site of The Walls of St. Paul, sometime around Memorial Day 2011. In the meantime, you can read about us on our Blogger web site.
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Check out these cheeky pups!
– Sydney and Macalester with evil glow eyes
– Laddie sticks out his tongue at me
Man’s best friend. Ha!!
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I thought I’d share with you five of my ‘must read” blogs that I have set up in my Google Reader. These are blogs that aren’t in my bloglist at the side of the blog — that list is reserved for my blogging friends. These are other blogs that I enjoy.
- Profgrrrrl: I started reading this blog about a year after I started teaching. At that time, ProfGrrl was getting ready for the tenure process, hanging out with her boyfriend, and writing up a storm of amusing and thoughtful posts about life and teaching. Over time, she’s got tenure, married, had a baby, and still writes amusing and thoughtful posts about life and teaching. As soon as I see a new post in my reader, I pounce on it.
- Baseball Nerd: Back in my childhood, I was a huge baseball nerd, thanks in part to my mom and her love of all things Minnesota Twins. Out in New York, there was another kid just two months younger than me, who was a baseball nerd, thanks in part to his mom and her love of all things New York Yankees. Through Keith Olbermann’s Baseball Nerd blog, I get to revisit some of those good ol’ days of baseball that were so dear to me, plus learn about the newer generation of players too.
- StellaCommute: Stella writes about being a telecommuter, and occasionally about some quiz game she and her buddies play at a local bar on Tuesday (or is it Wednesday?) nights. While her posts are short, they are fun to read, with just an edge of snark.
- CakeWrecks: If you can’t decorate a cake to save your life, this is the blog for you. The horribly decorated cakes that are featured here six days a week will make you feel a thousand times better about your cake decorating skills. And on Sunday, they turn the blog over to photos of absolutely beautifully decorated cakes, that you can’t imagine ever eating. CakeWrecks always leaves you wanting more.
- Passive-Aggressive Notes: Actual notes left by real people, displaying all their passive-aggressiveness to the world. This one is always a good Friday-afternoon-at-the-office read.
I hope you have a chance to check out a couple of these blogs. If you have favorite blogs to recommend to me, leave me a note in the Comments.
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