You'd think that Target would be smarter. There we were, all of us procrastinators, looking for back to school supplies on the day before school started. And the school supplies aisles were cleared out and being set up for Halloween.
Not a pencil in the store.
And the backpacks? We had a choice between cartoony ones and $50 ones that you could plug your iPod into. Thing 2 was pretty excited, thinking I was going to buy him the iPod backpack. Imagine how let down he was when I decided to go to the sporting goods store in the neighborhood. At first he was all "HaHa!" when we found nothing but $50 hiking backpacks and $119 hiking backpacks. $119 backpacks? They better have a pair of hiking shoes in them. But they didn't. Crazy money-throwing-away hiking people. We found a $19 backpack instead.
Then I had to go home and hunt down some pencils.
He had a little trouble going to sleep last night. He didn't say that he was worried about starting high school but it was apparent when he came into our bedroom around 3 in the morning. I think he may have come in another time but I think I may have told him to not wake me up. I'm not sure what really happened and what I may have imagined.
And so, they're gone. Now if Thor would just leave I'd crank up some music and dance!
I always bake something for their first day back to school after school snack. I know. Ahhhhh - you're so sweet on the inside for someone with such a crusty outer shell! You're not the first to think it. Today I'm making a pan of Special K bars. It's not technically baking but they like them.
I also want to clean out the basement room that they've lived in all summer long. That room stinks like a mofo. Hopefully I won't find anymore cat poop. Which reminds me, Hey Nance! I kind of like the thought that a dog would eat up all the cat poop! I'm not too keen about the after-poo doggy kisses though so think I'll skip getting a dog right now. Stupid pets.
Tomorrow I start tackling the laundry room. The wallpaper's been off for years now and I have to sand down the remaining glue. One word: Festool. Kids, if you don't already have one I highly recommend that you get one. Hook your sander up to the Festool vacuum box and you'll have no dust. I'm not kidding! Thor's put in two hardwood floors and sanded the bejeebers out of them with nary a speck of dust.
Festool. Buy it.
I'm going to sand the cupboards in there, too. I don't know what colors I'll be painting yet. That'll come to me when I get to the paint store.
But that's tomorrow. Today: Special K bars, dance to music, run to Best Buy for Thing 1 (I'm the nicest mom), Food For Folks, Car Tabs (love waiting in line!), cleaning the basement rec room, clean the toilets!
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