1 year old

Happy Birthday to Bodhi!

1 year old today!

And Happy Birthday to Kevin - more than 1 year old today.

photos - of Bodhi - soon

Busy Monday

I escaped to Starbucks for caffeine and work as soon as the kids had run out most of their morning energy. There I lamented with the staff about the fact that Starbucks in Las Cruces DOES NOT RECYCLE! It was frustrating to see all of the dozens and dozens and dozens of empty cardboard boxes lying around the store from where they had been unpacking all of their Xmas products. So I loaded all the empty boxes into my car and took them to recycling. More on this story later. I also took two boxes of stuff to a local thrift store and seven books to COAS for credit. Ended up buying one book there - The GenX Reader - An underground look at the twentysomething generation - Explained by those on the inside and dissected by those on the out. I was 20-something when the book was published in 1994 so it is relevant. I also went to Better Life Natural Pet Food Store and bought a vitamin and mineral supplement to give to Bodhi which will hopefully get him less interested in eating dog poop. And I went to Primetime Fitness and renewed my gym membership.

More Later

That was at 2 p.m. and now it is just past 10 p.m. I met Ed for lunch and then took the dogs for a 50-min romp in the desert and then went out to do laundry and then called Mom. Since then have been wasting time and now am going to bed.

I want soon to call Dave and donate blood and get a local public library card. Tomorrow/Tuesday there is a SWEC lunch to meet potential new board members.

Nice Saturday

Yesterday was an unplanned and fun day. The kids let me sleep until 9 - that has never happened before with the new kid. It was probably because I took them for a good romp in the desert late Friday afternoon and then I stayed up late working on Friday night and they sort of stayed up with me. Kim and Cheryl were near the house at an estate sale and stopped by for a short visit on Saturday morning and we planned to get together on Sunday. Then I took a shower (notable because have not had many of these since returning from Chicago) and took Bodhi to the downtown mall for the weekly farmers market and craft fair. We bought pretzel bread and blueberry muffins. We also visited with Kevin and practiced behaving nicely and then stopped by the dog park for a quick run around on the way home. I also talked to Ed on the way home and we planned to meet for lunch after I dropped Bodhi off at home and dropped off the recycling. After lunch we stopped by the stadium to watch part of the last NMSU home game. I stopped by the grocery store on the way home and then cooked dinner for the second straight night (italian sausage, polenta, wilted spinach on Friday; roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, wilted spinach on Saturday) and the third time in four months. The kids and I played for a bit and then we were all in bed by 10 and slept until 8 this morning. Today I worked on academic stuff and cleaning and organizing the kitchen cabinets and we visited Kim and Cheryl and Dakota and Jake for a play date. The kids are now sleeping and it is almost 9 and so I will be sleeping soon too. Nice to get to bed early these days with the colder temps and earlier nights. Tomorrow I want to go to the gym and pick out guest room carpet and order kitchen bar stools and get some good academic work done and do laundry and maybe buy a mattress and a simple temporary bed frame.

Academic Clean Up

First - Happy Birthday to Ed ~

Second - today I am cleaning up a bunch of academic and other unfinished tasks ~

stuff related to a recent student MA defense
stuff related to a prospective graduate student
CV stuff related to consulting on a bid for an ARI contract
stuff related to being an irrevocable trust beneficiary

more later