and the coachman cracked his whip

so, i spent a fair amount of time cleaning baby girl's room this morning. everything she owns was on the floor.
that is the sure sign of having too much shit.
she's got a puppet theatre thing that is about 6 feet tall. it's really cute and she really loved it when she got it. now, it's just a big corral for stuffed things and pieces of paper with her name written all over them.

when i pulled the puppet theatre out of her room (and straight to my car for recycling at my local thrift store), there was an army of stuffed things against the wall.
some of my favs from a much larger group...


and i spent some time watering plants. they were all starting to look bad, cactus included.
we are on water restrictions pretty much all year and can only use our sprinklers twice a week.
that's not shit when there is no rain to supplement.

when we came in, we were hot and thirsty.
but mostly - smiles.


and i really miss big girl. she's been gone since friday morning on her 8th grade trip to our nati0n's capita1.
i know she's having a great time - she's not txting me very much.
heh...

this coming week at my site is going to be long and difficult.
well, no more difficult than it already is.
i h.a.t.e. va$cular.
fuck a car0tid.
shit on a bi1ateral l0wer extr3mity ven0us.
don't even ask about an upper extr3mity art3ria1.
but i gotta work every day and that makes for a long week at the hospital.
but i gotta get used to it, eh?

this coming saturday, everyone goes out of town for a week.
my kids, my husband, my parents - ALL the family i have in the tricounty area will be gone. it's the time of year for my grandmother's family reunion with family from 0hio.

it will be me and four dogs.
and two ferrai$.
for a week.

i think i'm going to go up to the woods that weekend.
blackberries are in.