Paws to Read

Fly out of bed at 5:58am for a 6am IA and Governance meeting. Scattered meetings throughout the day. Worked on redesigning a website and then fixed some validation issues on a web form I've been building. After testing it several times I actually got it to work.

I leave at 11:15am for a brow and bikini wax. Ouch. It never fails that she always leaves some residual dark green wax stuck to my surviving pubic hairs. Rubbing alcohol does the trick unless I'm unlucky enough to have the wax stick to my underwear and then look out! Anyway, I enjoy catching up with my cosmetologist. I have been getting facials, massages and waxing from her for about 16 years. She's good people.

Back to work and then call the bank to find out what the balance is on my student loans. I make a payment online and that's a done deal. No more school for now. I sort of miss it. But my life without it is just more serene. The kids need me around. And they are more important.

The husband picks up the kids from school and just about that time Grandma (my Mom) shows up to help with homework and take Camryn to Ballet. She reports that T-Bone (my Grandma) is not doing so well. She was diagnosed with macular degeneration and has recently lost almost all of her sight. But despite the setback she still manages to take all poker winnings from the old folks at the senior center.

My mom takes Camryn to dance at 4pm and the hubby is off to a sales appointment. I finish up working while Claire dances in the playroom. Oh crap. I almost forget to pick up Camryn from dance at 5pm. She doesn't wait long. Whew. That was close. The girls want ice cream of course but we haven't even had dinner yet. I negotiate dinner first then we'll drive by the dairy for frosty's. It's a deal. At home Claire and I build a fort and then I start cooking dinner. Some frozen bag thingy with chicken and pasta. Steamed carrots and toast. Not bad. But not great. It's food. Then off we go to get ice cream, birthday cards and poster boards for the school carnival this saturday. We get home and Geoff reminds us that we signed up for Paws to Read tonight and it starts in 20 minutes! Hurry, grab some books and out the door we go again.

Paws to Read is a program they do at the library where elementary school children read to dogs. It used to be only for children who were "at risk" or needed reading help. But now they offer it to everyone on a first come first serve basis. Claire got a golden retriever named Dave. He fell asleep while she was reading. But that was ok with her. Camryn got a chocolate lab that only had one eye. They loved it.

We all drive home and Camryn starts working on her poster for the carnival and I watch Desperate Housewives on Tivo. It's hard to watch TV in this house because there are so many interruptions. That's why I'm asking Santa Claus for a flat screen, DVD player and tivo box for my (our) bedroom. Oh yeah, and a lock on my door.

I wash my face and put some charcoal mask stuff between my eyebrows to suck up the oil in my skin. Because whenever I get my eyebrows waxed I breakout really bad and usually end up with a third eye. Not pretty. Now it's late and time for bed. Geoff walks by as I am typing this blog in my dark office because the light bulb burned out. The funny thing is I have my hair up, glasses on and the black charcoal mask I put between my eyebrows is now a gray glob of crust between my eyes. I'm too sexy for my....husband apparently, because I can hear him and the two dogs snoring in the other room. Sigh.