Pink Thoughts

I am slowly mending my broken toe. At least I can wear a closed toe shoe now; it was a pain hobbling around in sandals in the rain.

Even though it is the only “nice” day this week, Alan has to miss t-ball practice today as I wasn’t able to work from home to be able to take him at 6. The field (not the usual one) might be too muddy anyway. Wish I could figure out where the baseball sock I washed disappeared to. He now has 3 and not 4.

For once I am on top of work, instead of it being on top of me. This is an unusually good feeling.

We missed the Hoboken festival on Sunday. Between my bad foot and the rain, it wasn’t worth it. They also aren’t getting the quality of acts they used to – maybe it’s the economy or lack of radio station sponsorship. I don’t see “The Box Tops” (with Alex Chilton) as being a big draw as a headliner (especially without the oldies WCBS-FM to promote it). We are perusing the summer concert schedule at www.njfreesummerconcerts.com and it looks good. Even Musikfest looks good (but on the weekends). So Alan will probably go to the Y camp for 8 weeks, then 1 week of local daycare before our vacation (we thought about pulling him out due to Musikfest, but we won’t go during the week at this point). The in school aftercare amazingly will finish out the rest of June as a full day option; so we’ve got that partial week of school (thank you snow days) covered too.

Sadly, I am not going to my 25^th reunion college reunion at WPI. Because of Alan’s kindergarten party, we can’t go up on Friday. And going up on Saturday and back Sunday isn’t as nice, especially since we wanted to visit a family friend at the same time. There was someone going I hadn’t seen in 25 years though --- maybe meet up another time

Not sure what we are doing for Mother’s day. I wanted to hike but my toe says that isn’t a good idea. Trying to get my SIL to come by us, but as usual she won’t, I am tired of going by her (long story). Saturday we have a pizza and movie with the group that we go to Ithaca with. Most of the group lives in central jersey (we met them through a former co-worker of my husband’s). The party host lives off exit 12 on Route 78, a hike for us. Fortunately the weather looks ok and I have a GPS!

I was surfing around www.fanfiction.net last night. I found the site through the title of a message board post where some people were discussing twilight fan fiction. (I still have to read that series!). I am amazed at the diversity of fan fiction – I saw fan fiction for things such as Mash, Green Acres, Get Smart, Avenue Q, and Icarly! (I forgot to look for Bakugan fan fiction – it’s probably there!). I didn’t read the stories, just viewed the summaries. I’m not into gay themed slash but do appreciate imaginative writing.
Are there any other diverse archives out there?

The other night I went to see someone’s new house. It was a McMansion, very nice and new. After seeing the house she has for sale, I expected the new house to be of this type and wasn’t surprised Although I’d love a slightly bigger place with 1 more bedroom, McMansions don’t appeal to me – I’d be happy with a 3 bedroom townhouse. I guess I just have modest (or practical) tastes in houses. I would manage to be content where we are until Alan goes to high school – I’d move for a better high school for him, if he doesn’t go to the county schools – I still don’t care for the high school our town goes into (Ridgefield Park).

Back to work – more to test and break.