Hey, hey, here I am!

So I've been taking pics of the kids and mentally creating awesome blog notes about the fam, and work and school, BUT... then I get caught up in fam, and work, and school...and voila! Here I am 10 days later without a post and that on the 3rd was a cop out.

I do beleive in getting out the vote. Please remember that I was a voting deputy registrar and Perot campaigner in the '92 elections. I am a complete POTUS08 and NPR addict this go around but I'll be honest, cutting and pasting on the 3rd?! I didn't even make one single comment on how I FEEL about this election! What kind of blog entry was that? One in which I didn't have to download and cut and paste any of my adorable pics. So I'll be getting to the new family photos soon enough.

So about school.

I am in an awesome craft of fiction class that is already kicking my butt and making me fabulous. Oh yes, brothers and sisters I think this may be ticket on the train of stardom. OK maybe not. But I love my two stories this week and one still makes me giggle and when I get back it back on Monday from my instructor and tinker with it a bit more I'll post it for you guys to read.

The second I think is well crafted for an amateur of my experience but it does have two bad words, which are character appropriate, but I won't post. If you are interested in a suspense driven non-traditional story arc with a handsome rover who says "1" bad word that isn't even one of the terrible 5 but on the fringe, just let me know and I will e-mail it to you. My mom read it, gasped, and wouldn't let my grandmother take a turn because she said Grandma wouldn't look at me the same. There you have it, I like it, but I have to own up to the word choices.

In fact I'm only posting now at 7:30 am on Saturday because I'm at my mom's taking care of her dogs for the weekend and ignoring a 3-5 page paper on how character and setting effect the short stories "Cold Snap" and "Brokeback Mountain".

I'm in two other classes as well and besides having to memorize a speech for Wednesday (I chose Emma Goldman's "An Anarchist Looks at Life") and trying to stay awake in a warm dark classroom from 4:30-5:45 to look at slides and read from a pre-composed lecture handout. They are boring and not worth talking about today, even in avoidance of my paper.

Love you guys, talk to you later.