It’s In!!!

It took over five years, but THE SECOND BATHROOM IS DONE (except for some minor finishing touches).  Not since using the squatty potties in China has a flushing toilet and a sink with running water made me this happy.
I have to adjust the curtains a bit, as they’re too long.  But a scissors and some fusible webbing will take care of that.
I’ll post pictures when I get those curtains done.

Getting Ahead

I officially got caught up with all my classes on Wednesday night.  All the grading was done, I just had to get ready for the finals and the grading to come. This is the first time this semester that I’ve been completely caught up.  There’s a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment.

So now I’m spending my time trying to get ahead.  It feels weird, but it’s better than procrastinating to the bitter end.

It’s a RBOC Kind of Day

It’s been a random day.  To keep up with my NaBloPoMo pledge, here’s my day in bullets:

  • Big blow up with Sarah in the morning about using her Chinese name in public.
  • Spontaneous apology from Sarah after spending time in her Chinese class.  Don’t know what happened, but all is OK.
  • Rachel will now refer to Sarah as “Zombie Girl”.
  • Bought a bunch of stuff at IKEA for the second bathroom.  Surprised at how little it actually cost.
  • Created a quiz for one of my classes.
  • Pizza for supper.  Love that Davanni delivers all the way over to this side of the neighborhood.  Not all pizza places do that.
  • Spent 2.5 productive hours developing my professional web site.  
  • Had Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee for the first time.  Smooth.  I like it.

Now it’s time to go home and hit the hay.  Housecleaning and more classroom work on the schedule for tomorrow.

Ms. Doublebuns

There’s a rabbit in our neighborhood that has some odd protrusions on it’s head.  The rabbit we first noticed this rabbit the summer before last, munching on my neighbor’s garden.  We referred to it initially as “that funny rabbit”.  John was certain it has it’s twin (or what was left) attached to it’s head.  So we started referring to it as Mr. Doublebuns.
It survived the winter, and when we saw it this spring it had grown very fat. Still enjoying the early produce of the neighborhood gardens.
A week or so later, the rabbit was suddenly thinner. That’s when I realised Mr. was probably a Ms.

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Sparing My Readers

If I would have posted yesterday, it would have looked something like this:
(obcenity) bead board (obcenity) didn’t tape everything up (obcenity, obcenity) “D” doesn’t stand for “dear” in DH (obcenity, obcenity, obcenity).
But, the bathroom painting is done.  Two coats.

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Snow

I’m at the Best Buy Campus this morning for WordCamp.  And this is a picture of what we were met with this morning.

At home there’s about two inches of heavy, wet snow.  It’s heartattack snow, the kind that is terrible to shovel.

I’m inside, drying off with a peppermint mocha in hand, exciyed about what I will learn today.

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Anticipating Snow

It’s coming, but there’s still some question about how bad it will be.  See where it says “Minneapolis”?  Shift over a micron to the right, and that’s St. Paul.  We’re on the line between Armageddon and Nuisance.

Personally, I’m hoping for Nuisance.

I have to drive in this stuff tomorrow — in the morning and then in the evening.  I’m attending the WordPress WordCamp at the Best Buy Headquarters in Richfield.  It’s a short drive on freeways and primary streets.  And my car will be in a parking ramp and out of the actual snowfall during the day.

The first snowstorm of the year brings out the amateur driver in all of us.  It’s only been a few months, but every one of us will have forgotten how to drive in the snow and slippery.  Another storm or two, and we’ll all be back in our winter driving groove.