P&P, FMN

Spent the day at a friend's house watching Pride and Prejudice with several ladies while our kids played together. Yes, it was the REAL one, the 6 hour one. AWESOME DAY!

I just finished the synopsis of Forget Me Not. It was written but needed to be tightened up, made more interesting, and formatted properly. So that's done. Maybe tomorrow I can get the query letter done. Maybe not too. lol

I am soooooo tired that I am actually dizzy. Maybe I should go to bed, eh?

Emily Turned Eleven and Misc. Other Stuff

Art class was cancelled today due to snow - at the teacher's home which apparently is south of us. We didn't get a lot of snow, not even what was forecasted.

We also did not go to the creation science seminar. It was raining Monday and I was not inclined to go anywhere. Since the kids did not complain, I was happy to just stay home. You might not believe what a homebody I've become since I HAVE to leave the house Monday-Friday for work.

Emily's 11th birthday was Tuesday. I have pictures, but they are still on the camera. We had a cake and ice cream for lunch and pizza! After lunch, she opened her presents - Suzy had wrapped up some little things for her, and I had a gift for James to give her. I had chosen a jewelry box for her gift from her dad and me. I also chose a small selection of jewelry to put in it. She is also getting her ears pierced.

I have to type in the stuff I have written on the new novel! I have quite a few handwritten pages done in my notebook. I think I have a handle on my main characters now - that was my struggle before now. They were not real to me. What I needed was their motivations and now I have it.

I have also written a synopsis of Forget-Me-Not (my first novel, in case you forgot). It's way boring though, and I need to tighten it up and make it more compelling. Synopses are apparently required for submission to either a publisher or an agent, rather than the actual novel. Then comes the query letter and off it goes!

I am LOVING Pandora internet radio. If you have a high speed connection, check it out. It's free.

Installed the second RAM card into the computer, so now I have 1GB RAM. It took all of maybe 5 minutes from the moment I opened the package to the moment I restarted the computer. And it was less than $30. I highly recommend this upgrade as something you can easily do yourself for cheap!

Have been listening to Pride and Prejudice in the car. Was called a 'nerd' at work (in a "loving" way, heh) for reading the humongous doorstop volume entitled The Annotated Pride and Prejudice. Also there was much derision from the men toward the movie version, especially those men whose girlfriends or wives had forcibly requested them to view the movie with them. LOL I need to post David and Emily's 'reviews' (for lack of a better term) of the movie. Will do that on Cornerstone Academy blog, I think.

Oh yes, here's something interesting. A police detective knocked on our door this morning. Apparently someone with a car like mine robbed a bank in a nearby town the other day. He showed Bob a picture of the bank robber and asked if we let anyone borrow the car. Um. Nope. And no, we didn't rob the bank either. lol

Emily's Rummage Sale Finds

Clikits by Lego

Ello by Mattel

Both are building toys aimed at girls. Or as Ello calls itself - a "creation system".

Off to begin our observation of Jane Austen Day Continued (aka - let's watch Pride and Prejudice! heh)

Grumpy Grumpy Grumpy, But Still Blogging

I was such a grumpy person today. And Friday morning too, to be truthful. I think my family would have chosen a different word. I've got to shake that tomorrow.

We went to Walmart today and I bought a DVD/CD binder - hope it works well. It looks more sturdily constructed than the smaller kind I had before for CD's. We also bought the Veggie Tale - The Wizard of Ha's, which we watched tonight. Cute!

And, I bought something I have longed to purchase for years and years now - the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice on DVD. Ahhhhhh...... I've never wanted to spend the money on it, but even on ebay it goes for a high price all the time, so I've never found a great deal. So, I paid retail for it at Walmart and it will be Worth It. One day this week, Cornerstone Academy will be having Jane Austen Day. heh

We finally had homeschool co-op Friday, after two cancellations (one due to weather and one due to a funeral at the church where we hold co-op). I believe it ran quite smoothly. I posted the kids' schedules over at Cornerstone blog a while back, but for myself - I am free first hour, second hour I sit in the Lego class David is teaching, third hour I am leading a moms discussion group, fourth hour we have a leadership team meeting, and I leave during fifth hour in order to have a little downtime before I have to go to work.

Bob bought a door tonight for our bedroom. That's been a long time coming too! Hopefully he and David can get it installed tout suite.

When we got home from Walmart (with Taco Bell takeout), there was a message on my machine that they'd like me to sub in Sunday School AGAIN tomorrow. This time it is Jamie's class. They called last week too and wanted me to do it for Emily's class, but I said no. If you'll recall, church was cancelled anyway. And the week before, I subbed in Jamie's class too. Am I the only person there is that can sub for Sunday School? Sigh. I DO NOT WANT TO. I do not feel very Sunday-school-ish.

I will be tracking down a high speed internet provider this week. That (and the P&P DVDs) is my splurge from the tax refund. Most of the rest of it will be paying bills.

The kids all loved Taco Bell food, despite much whining and crying beforehand that they hate Taco Bell and wanted McDonald's. TOO BAD KIDS. YOUR VERY GRUMPY MOM LOVES TACO BELL AND IS GETTING THAT. NYAH NYAH

And they love it anyway. @@

Ran into a mom whose kids go to the school I worked at last spring. She says the principal (also teaches 7th/8th) and his wife (teaches 1st) are retiring this year (as was planned) and also the preschool/kindergarten teacher is taking a position at another school. If I don't have some other way for making money soon, I'll probably apply at the school for next year. (And they'd probably hire me, since they offered me a position for this year that I turned down.)

And yes, that means the kids would very likely be in school. I can only keep doing what I've been doing for a limited time.

Yeah, I'm cheerful tonight. If I had more energy, I'd put charming Mr. Darcy in the DVD player right now. But I don't think I can even muster the gumption to wrestle the plastic off the DVD case, so I'll probably just go to bed. Yeah. It's early. For me anyway.