Let's pretend...

This woman has been drinking, wouldn't you say?

I'm guessing she hasn't had a toddler washing his sister's toy dishes in the toilet, a sister who MUST color and cut RIGHT NOW, and 8 cats in her porch. And a sister in law who wants SIL's husband to see the house for the first time....just for a leetle, tiny visit.....today. The same house that has toilet water all over the bathroom, apple juice and doghair by the couch, snips of paper covering the kitchen floor like so many snowflakes. I'm NOT entirely sure the dog didn't get a haircut, judging by her reluctance to be in the same room with "Shark". (Maggie takes off all her clothes and pretends she's a boy without a family and wants to live with us, only would we please call her Shark. We need to get out more, I'm thinking.)

I think I'll join her in her imaginary world, as this little housewife. Now where DID I put that starched, ruffly apron......? Oh, here it is, right beside my Kahlua in the coffee cup!

Blackmail 101

APPARENTLY when I sent out the email announcing the blog and referrenced a Spirit Week photo, quite a few of you thought I had goods on you. I'm flattered you think my resources are that far reaching! And Jordan Mustang Spirit Week 1987 must've been a little more "spirited" than I remember....! (Did we have a "Cyndi Lauper" Day?)

I really do have a Spirit Week photo, but am saving it for a REALLY special reveal. You know, like those "What Not To Wear" shows, only in reverse. And for anyone who went to high school in the 80's, pretty much any picture taken at that point in time, Spirit Week or not, is blackmail stuff. I really never want to revisit my fashion sense-lessness from that portion of my life.

So to the Mikes (G. and W.), you can't stop being kind and sensitive, or at the very least, polite.

Clerkie

Today is School Board day, and thus a rather frantic day in the Pluhar house. It's a little teeny weeny job that I can do from home, this school clerk thing. Most people could do it with thier eyes half closed, sitting on the couch watching the Dallas Cowboys get their butts whipped on a Sunday afternoon....(YES!!!) But for me, the business impaired, the technologically challenged soul, it's a little more demanding.

I love the stretching of my brain and the feeling that I'm involved in something that will affect the future of this little school, and I really like the people I've met through the job. And I like the paycheck. I always have the nagging feeling, though, that I'm really messing up a lot of records for the next clerk down the line and that my name will be muttered in the TRS and OPI offices in a not-so-complimentary way for the next 10 years!

SO, if you try to contact me on the third Monday of every month, there will be Disney movies playing in the background, a slightly jittery edge to my voice due to the extra cups of coffee, and I may answer you in code...100xx210xx1900 or something like that! (It still doesn't make much sense to me either, 4 years later. Even with the Lord Master of the Universe coaching me.)

Cabin Fever Part I

SO....
We aren't even into winter yet.
We are TWO months AWAY from winter.
We are out of tricks.

We've made all the Halloween crafty things we know how AND read most of our books AND watched all the "new" movies.
It's looking dire.

Daddy has had all the family bonding time he can stand, and he's only about 9 hours in!

I need a plan, I need a plan!!!

I'm a lot better off than my dear husband because I spend a lot of time here in the house with the kids and can tune them out a little easier. I know what sounds mean everything is alright and what sounds mean the kittens are being bathed in the dog dish. I know that I can't leave them alone at the table with any sort of art supplies for any reason...no matter how badly I have to use the bathroom! I know that even if I give them the exact same toy at the exact same time with the exact same words, someone will grab the more desirable toy (?) and run in order to start a rumble.

Tomorrow (Cabin Fever Part Deux) will be better! Enjoy the pictures of some of the fruits of our labors.....I think I figured out how to put pictures in the post, finally!!! Wooohooo!!!