mamacate

Back

I'm back.  I've been back one day short of a week and we're having our second snowstorm since my return.  Ah, February.  After a week in paradise, I can't complain.  Well, recent evidence has shown that in fact I'm entirely capable of doing so.  I have received surprisingly little sympathy from friends to whom I have complained.  I can't imagine why.

The pain of return has been softened somewhat by a great pajama dance party tonight with Dan Zanes and friends at UMass.  We went, we danced, we sang along (we were encouraged to do so even if we didn't know the words--I love that guy).  There's something about his shows and music that make me feel like I can be a mama and can still be cool and political AND share a fun experience with my kids.  When I was a kid I remember going to see Pete Seeger.  Kind of like that.  If you've got kids and you have a chance to go see him, do.  A nice way to spend a leap day.

In other news, I've become the world's slowest knitter, crawling along on various projects and doing nothing worthy of any real comment.  We got a Wii and I've been having fun playing baseball with the kids with that, though the knitting slowness seems to be more of a knitting funk than anything else.

I'm off Sunday for a 24-hour whirlwind business trip.  No chance of yarn crawling, but with so little knitting going on I have no excuse anyway.  That's about it from here.  Now I can get through the rest of the winter by fantasizing about the next school vacation, in April, when we're going to Disney again.  We might just survive.

Wish you were here

And I seriously wish we weren't going home in less than two days.  This is the view from our back porch.  Seriously.

I've only got moments online, so that's all from me until I'm back.  For those going, have fun at Spa.  Though I love that event, I couldn't quite cut short the Caribbean.  See you soon. I'll be the one weeping and muttering about white sand beachers as I walk through the snow and ice.

Another high-minded political post

Here's my endorsement for the other party.

Warning...so not work appropriate, I can't even tell you.  And just in case someone else is as out of the loop as I was, it's a parody of this.

Otherwise, I'm knitting slowly, packing to go on vacation, and working too much.  In other words, very little to say.  See you after my latitude attitude adjustment.

Tuesday

You know what to do.

(I'll also count this as my poetry reading for the day.)