reflections in the mirror

The kids went back to school yesterday, so when they came home, I got homework. I joke with the kids that this is the only day of the school year when they dont get any homework, but I do. Today, is dedicated to the first day of School!

1. I dropped the Eldest off for her first day of 8th grade.

2. Came home and fed Youngest breakfast, fixed his lunch and then dropped him off at school

3. Ah, peace and quiet!…now what to do with all this free time? well, I was going to sleep for a little bit…but that didnt happen, till later on.

4. I got a phone call from the lady at the first house that we had looked at. She hasnt found anyone to rent to and is reconsidering up for her house. We will hopefully find out soon what she is going to do

5. I did end up taking a short nap, but then had plenty of other “housework” to do

6. I finished with a little time to spare, sat for a few and then headed to get Eldest from school.

7. Dropped her off and went to get youngest, he was all excited. and very hyper

8. On the way home he told me that he got a time-out at school for trying to be a “rock star” in music class. But that wasnt all, at the end of his time-out, he told his teacher he wanted another one?!?

9. Now I have to consider talking with his teacher about his behavior… :S

10. I got home and got straight to work on the, Emergency contact forms, library permission slip, lunch forms….first for Eldest, then for Youngest.

11. Half way through the Youngest, I figured out that I had put the wrong phone number on the forms…thank goodness for whiteout

12. I put all the forms in the correct folders and thought that I was done…

13. But alas, while I took Eldest to Young Womens this evening, Youngest took all of his colored pencils out, and sharpened them…all over the floor. I now wish I hadnt gotten the colored pencils with the little sharpener for free

Well, that is my interesting first day of school. How was yours? (I know some kids started a long time ago…and some kids havent gone back yet, but please share)

I know I promised horses, and I will be getting those pictures, hopefully next week

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A town close to me, literally and figuratively, is having something of a “Stampede”. 43 horses have been let loose in town. It has made the town a bit of a tourist attraction and makes even me look like a tourist…with my camera and a map, trying to locate the horses, pulling into parking lots…

Unfortunately, the weather and my camera were conspiring against me, so I only was able to take 3 pictures that were any good. (My digital camera is really on its last leg, and it was very cloudy) The pictures that I have here were taken by kkuhlct on webshots. Please check out his site, his pictures are truely awsome.

So, if you just happen to be in the state of Connecticut with a little extra time on your hands this fall, you can check out the horses. The towns website can be found Here, there you can find a map, and a little more information about the horses. I will, hopefully, have more pictures for Thursday, so you can drop by and see them. Thank you for visiting, check this out

They killed Pluto!!!!!!!!!!

ok, it has just been demoted.
Time to rewrite all the science books

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Only one cat?

Todays list was inspired by my newest renter….

13 Favorite Tenants

~~in no particular order~~

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Crouching Mommie, Hidden Laundry

Crochet all Day

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The World According to Aargh

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see you can teach…oh, nevermind.

Anywho, I made yet another necklace, and earings. This time however I tried something I had not tried before. I wanted to make something interesting. I used straight jewelry wire and bent it to what I wanted. It took alot of testing to get just the right thing…

…but I did manage it. It is an interesting piece and now that I have tried this, I will try a few more ideas that have been rattling around in the dust in my brain. Here is the necklace as well, though it is much along the same lines, as the other things I have made.

UPDATE

When I work on something and it just isnt quite right, I find myself going back and making it “better”…so, here is the better version of the above necklace

I drove by the house that I am hoping to get at least a look at and maybe rent. I took this picture.

This weekend I found a listing for a house, called the number and left a message. This morning, the guy called me back…and I got to take a look at the outside of the house. If the outside gives an idea of what is inside…I hope, we have found another possible house to rent. I called the guy back and told him that I would love to look at the inside when he was able to show me the place.

I am going to take my camera tomorrow and take pictures. Hopefully, things will work out. Either way, 2 houses in 1 month are a positive direction and I hope that we will find what we are looking for.

I wanted to make a new necklace this weekend, but everything I tried, didnt seem to work. I started with a necklace, but ended up beginning with the earings.

Once I got the earings made, I went back to working on the necklace. After a few ideas that didnt work, I found a design that worked…kind of. The necklace didnt want to lay flat…and the loops wanted to go in opposite directions. (of course, I didnt think through how to make everything work better, untill the necklace was finished) But, it seems to have worked out…

So, last night I pinned it down, so that it would hopefully, take the direction that I wanted it to, and it seemed to work! But this morning, my head decided that it didnt want me to move. I woke up with the same migraine that I have been fighting for almost 5 days now. My Eldest and Husband tried to get me to move. Eldest brought me caffine and my meds. I did wake up enough to feed the cats…Abby is persistant. But, the light outside was enough to drive me back into my Cocoon. I joked that if I slept for another 3 hours, I would have made it to complete vampire status.

Alright, after making dinner and doing a few other things, I went to take the above pictures…but before I got a picture that I was truely happy with, the batteries in the camera died…I just cant win. Well, at least the necklace and earings came out well.

I swear that my cats talk with one another while I am not looking. Earlier, I clipped Socks talons, and from that moment on Blackie will not come near me. Blackie is not fond of getting his claws clipped at all, so I try to take care of all the cats claws at one time, usually about once a month, along with their flea treatment stuff. I clipped Socks talons early, as he has spent a lot of time sharpening them lately, and I thought that I would grab Blackie really quick and make sure that his talons were not sharpened.

Oh well…tomorrow is another day.