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Hogs and monkeys
Nov. 14th, 2009 10:08 pmI keep hearing this faint rumbling and thinking it's thunder, and suddenly I realized--it's probably fireworks from the football game. I drove past the stadium today, hours before it started, and it was like the Quidditch World Cup, or a Weihnachtsmarkt or something, with flags flying and red and white tents set up all over campus, food carts, Hogs paraphenalia, people manning parking lots ($20 a car), etc. There go more fireworks. Too bad we aren't sports fans--we'd be in hog heaven (pun intended). Last night I took the kids to a school fundraiser carnival, and as we were leaving they were reading out the winners of the silent auction. One lucky winner scored a football autographed by Bobby Petrino. (He is the Much Revered football coach, so that's kind of like getting a Bible autographed by the pope--or as DH said, maybe even higher up.)
Meanwhile, it's the monkey pit around here. PMB has learned that he can push the organ bench away and replace it with a low folding chair. He can turn the organ on and adjust the various music books on it all by himself. And, of course, play the organ now. He is VERY proud of his organ playing abilities. He's also started a climbing phase that lets him get all kinds of things we don't want him to. I am scared. (Not to mention tired--it's 10 pm and he's still at it.)
NaNo is flatlining. I feel like every time I get an idea that might be good, it's time to pull orangutans off of more danger zones, and then I'm out of the story again. I have written almost nothing this weekend. DH has had events nearly every single night this week, and I am really exhausted! Luckily, my older daughter had a birthday party today, and it was short enough and far enough away that it didn't make sense to come home in between. So I took her and then spent the next hour and a half ALONE. I can't even begin to tell you how amazing that was! Even if I was just running errands. Hopefully this week is better.
Uh, yeah--final score, 56-20 our favor. No wonder there were so many fireworks!
Meanwhile, it's the monkey pit around here. PMB has learned that he can push the organ bench away and replace it with a low folding chair. He can turn the organ on and adjust the various music books on it all by himself. And, of course, play the organ now. He is VERY proud of his organ playing abilities. He's also started a climbing phase that lets him get all kinds of things we don't want him to. I am scared. (Not to mention tired--it's 10 pm and he's still at it.)
NaNo is flatlining. I feel like every time I get an idea that might be good, it's time to pull orangutans off of more danger zones, and then I'm out of the story again. I have written almost nothing this weekend. DH has had events nearly every single night this week, and I am really exhausted! Luckily, my older daughter had a birthday party today, and it was short enough and far enough away that it didn't make sense to come home in between. So I took her and then spent the next hour and a half ALONE. I can't even begin to tell you how amazing that was! Even if I was just running errands. Hopefully this week is better.
Uh, yeah--final score, 56-20 our favor. No wonder there were so many fireworks!
