Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Goodnight, Moon

Woo! Where have I been? Around. Working mostly. A little down. A little up. It's all going okay, though. Really.

Had a quarterly visit from my adoption specialist today. It went fine, and forced me to do a little extra house cleaning. She told me about an 11-year-old girl that may need a new placement soon. Sounded like a good possibility, and she sounds like a good kid. I told her I'd consider it. Hopefully I'll hear in a couple weeks. And for whatever reason, there are just not a lot of kids free and clear for adoption getting presented by Child Protective Services lately. I want to complain -- maybe even threaten to find a new agency... Maybe what I should do is find some other adoptive hopeful families and compare notes.

It's been a stormy night with rain, lightning and thunder - and even a couple of brief power outages. Kobi-dog hates storms. He sat with his head under my thigh through most of it. Poor guy. It's quieted down now, and so has he. Unfortunately, the clouds were heavy during the majority of the lunar eclipse, so essentially missed that. Oh, well. Next one is December 2010! Something "else" to look forward to.

Thinking I'll change my green tendrils for hot pink soon. Or maybe blue. But probably pink... Votes?

Thursday, February 07, 2008

New do

I got my hair cut a couple nights ago. I'd decided I wanted something COMPLETELY different. Last Friday night I walked into a salon and looked at their hair magazines. Picked something and said, "can you do this? do you think it will look good on me??" Both confirmed, I made the appointment. I tried to get her to cut it shorter in the back, but she didn't want it to look like a wedge. So it ended up like this:

and it was cute (the long front tendrils are GREEN! can you tell?), but I thought the back was too long. It looked a little boxy, so I went back in today...

and I like it a lot better!!

Still green tendrils. But a little more sporty and dramatic.

I plan on blaming a mid-life crisis...

Monday, February 04, 2008

Cuteness wins!

I have got THE CUTEST NIECES EVER!! Check out these pixies...


M*m*, 2.75 years


L*x*, 10.2 years

And I just love 'em to pieces!!!


And because I just gotta keep relivin' the moment... me at the finish line of the marathon. Slow but happy!