AUTHOR: M. DATE: 7:03:00 PM ----- BODY:

Did anyone outside of my family say leks and shmeks? It's when you don't cook anything and you just root around in the fridge and make a meal out of 4 bites of this and three bites of that and a mouthful of this. That's all I've got for you tonight. Job: Kicking my ass. Running two conferences and a training for high school teachers this week. Running two more conferences next week. Have hardly seen the inside of my office. Losing my footing seems to be the way it goes these days. When does a new job stop being so damned new? It'd be fun to be back in a place where I don't constantly feel like I'm about to drop all the balls I've got in the air. Condo: Great. Passed inspection Sunday with flying colors. Averaging 7 phone calls a day to banks, lawyers, brokers, and housing program. Spending hideous amounts of money. Happy about it except when I'm panicking. Finally, an excuse to go to Ikea. Fun stuff: at the moment, I'm learning to knit (stay tuned for a baby sweater that should be done by the time said baby is getting her master's degree), taking the third-level ASL class, and am joining a new book club. And now we're moving on top of all of that. Why did I think this was a good idea to do everything at once? Oh yeah, so I could distract myself from being bored and lonely. Right. It's working. Very well - I hardly have a minute to breathe, let alone to whine. And the important stuff: I'm so moved by all your kind words about our decision to postpone the adoption. It really means so much to know that other people get it, and other people have been through it and lived to tell the tale and to be happy about how things went, even when they deviated from the original plan. Thank you. Very very much.

-------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: Barb COMMENT-DATE:12:02 PM COMMENT-BODY:while i haven't heart that expression, it will now be in my rotation. keep your ears peeled. -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: M3 COMMENT-DATE:11:27 AM COMMENT-BODY:I haven't heard that expression, but it's a good one! In our house it was always "hey we're having Mahoney* Hash" and we knew to stock up on snack foods or you'd have to actually eat it. I firmly believe to this day that corn does not belong in anything but a pot on its own with maybe a little salt and butter. Period.

Congrats on the condo, and much support about your decision to postpone the adoption. It sounds agonizingly hard, but like you're doing the right thing and giving the decision the time it needs.


*last name changed to protect the innocent (my mother the cook, ha) --------