so you know what this means - something in my house has torn up (as opposed to something on my car)! Never fails, it seems that fate knows when I have extra money.

Just a little plumbing problem…yea, it cost me more than I wanted to spend but thank goodness I had it. It appears, however that I am going to need a new water heater soon. And we’re talking about $300 or so. Let’s hope that something happens that enables me to come up with that kind of extra money.

Let’s see, in other news…I have been catching up on the Southern Vampire series by Charlaine Harris in my reading. I finished Dead To the World last. I’m not really sure how many more I like to be caught up, guess I need to find out. I did read the first book in another one of her series, the Lily Bard one. I wasn’t impressed. I don’t know why … it just seemed to take about 1/2 the book to pick up speed.
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This is what I got for Christmas.  I also got an iPod (30 GB) for myself (not pictured).

This, I love:

music & movies:

my Iflops from my kids:
 

My boss also got me an electric blanket that I have already grown quite fond of.

I never seem to blog anymore.  Just too tired, I suppose.  The first night this past week where I got to go directly home (meaning not going somewhere else first, or leaving to go somewhere when I got off work) was last night - Friday! 

My daughter is playing basketball and it is her second year.  They had their 2nd game this morning, and she did not get to play at all.  He put her in the last 20 seconds of their first game.  She is very unhappy and wants to quit.  It was obvious at the practices to me who was going to get play time, and unfortunately, I could see my daughter was getting the short end of the stick

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So…I’m in deep shi-well with my daughter.  She has a science test tomorrow with definitions that have to be memorized.  It is almost 8:30 and she doesn’t know most of them.  She’s been waiting on my “help” for studying.  How do you help a child memorize definitions?  Seriously.  I had to just sit and read them over and over in my head until I knew them.  I had maybe little tricks I used to help me remember.  Other than that…what can I do to help my own child memorize??

Now she’s mad at me.  It’s late, she’s tired, she is still studying, and I don’t know what to do to help her.  It has suddenly become all MY fault that she doesn’t know her definitions.

I hate school.

Sigh.  So, it’s Friday.  Three days left of my vacation.  We have gone school clothes shopping, gone to bowl, gone to the movies.  We were all in agreement that we stay home today and work on straightening up the house, mowing the lawn, getting laundry done and getting clothes washed so we can enjoy out 2 remaining days before we get back into our routine.

Summer is nice and all…even I get to sleep in some, because the kids spend more time with their dad during the summer.  But it gets you all out of whack.  You stay up later, get up later…I don’t know about the rest of you, but even buying groceries isn’t “routine.”

I just hate that school starts around here when it’s still so freaking hot.  Maybe in about 3-4 weeks it will cool off some…we can hope.

We haven’t really done anything really special this summer, just tried to have some fun around the homestead.  What about you?  Did you do anything special this summer?  Any fun vacations?  Summer school?