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Been busy with school & very little of anything else! Kitties are absolutely ADORABLE. If they were any sweeter I'd probably have a cavity.

In my chair-sitting (all tired out from the school grind I can barely leave the recliner at night!) I've been designing some templates & logo's for the jemima*bean side of things. This logo I created here will probably be a finalist in a contest on a design board I belong to. Cool!

I'm supposed to go to a wedding this weekend, afternoon ceremony so nothing formal. I probably need a new dress or skirt or something. Right? I'm just too tired to pin & cut out & sew right now. Meanwhile, I think it's funny that even exhausted beyond belief, I still gotta be creating. And I can create on the computer, which TOTALLY counts.

Project Runway tonight...which I'm not jinxing like I did last week. Soooo sorry bout that.

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McSmoothy

Tim Gunn, you devil you. So suave, so cool, so imperturbed. Even as a bobblehead, you are the smoothest of the smooth.

But I believe, dearheart, we're about to have our first quarrel. Zaftig? Plus-sized? At risk of sounding uncouth...What the #@!% ?

You're usually so gracious even your criticisms are sublime.

In fact, I'm going to use my powers of selective memory to forget this unfortunate incident altogether. I choose to believe you've been in the company of unsavory characters without talent, brains or taste (AKA Heidi Klum) entirely too long. It was a slip of the tongue, a lapse of judgement. It's forgiven. (As is the aforementioned bobblehead incident.)

Putty Tats

Lu & G with the babies...

That little black nose poking up from the lower left corner of G's pic is Oscar the pom. He thinks the kitties belong to him. (He's pretty much in charge around here, we call him "the Colonel". )

Just brightening your week with Awww-inspiring kitty pics. You're welcome.

The Single Mom's Creed

I will not feel guilty for asking a co-worker to cover for me so I can see my son's 5th grade graduation.

I will not justify taking my children on a last minute vacation when I find myself with a bit of extra cash.

I will not hesitate to exchange meetings for me to attend important events in my children's lives.

I will not place any one, or any thing ahead of my children. Period.

This post is for all the single parents, male or female, who are fighting the fight with me. The fight for more time, for quality of life, for enough money to make it all happen, for an end to the stress and fear of never having, never doing, never being enough.

For respect.

For loving someone so much, that no matter how bad it gets on the outside, those little faces push me to go on.

For Lu, and for G...the reason I get up every day to do it all over again.


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Kitty Update

Just look at this little face! Isn't that the cutest pink nose you've ever seen in your life?!! Mama "hid" them from me under Lu's bed. Here' s a shot of the whole family:


In other news from the homefront...my airport extreme, cordless phone and printer are all completely shot from the lightening. Unfortunately for me this means a Herculean effort to get online!! I've got to string phone cords across the room to connect the old-fashioned way. Combine that with the first week of "workshops" and "professional development" at school, and I probably won't be on much this week!

I've got a new addition to my SWAP in the planning stages! Sort of a Stage 2, I guess. I'm incorporating some black (which I tend to have too much of but is so dang wearable!) Hopefully I'll have that finished and up by the weekend! It will definitely be fewer garments (I think Stage 2 is smaller than the first stage anyway) and I'm planning a couple of untried & un-simple patterns.

In geek-world news...I had almost gotten over my tv boyfriend. However, the new season of Stargate: Atlantis has reinforced the supreme yumminess of My Joe. As a tribute to their mother's complete loss of sanity, my children propose we name the new kitties Major Sheppard, Rodney, Ronan, and Dr. Beckett. HA! Sounds good to me ;o)

G'night chickens!