Okay, I'm going to try this Thursday Thirteen thing. I'm procrastinating, okay?

1. Is it Thursday, already?
2. Darn, it's Thursday.
3. So that means tomorrow is Friday
4. Yay, it's Thursday.
5. I have an assignment due tomorrow for an online class I'm taking. I did it last night but am worried that I didn't do it right, so am not quite ready to send it. This class makes me feel a little bit like I'm in that recurring dream I used to have when I was in graduate school. I used to dream that I was suddenly back at my high school because I hadn't taken enough classes. I would wander around the hallways going to some classes, but there were other classes I was not showing up for. And in my dream, there was this sense of dread that I would never leave high school. Then I would wake up and think, what the hell would it matter if I didn't graduate from high school? I have a masters degree. So anyway, this online class gives me a sense of dread that there is this class that I'm not showing up for. And I am feeling it today.
6. It's pre-nap time. My girls are playing night-night together. In this game, Hannah never wants me to participate, it's her time with her older sister. Rachel, however, would like me to play with. If I follow Rachel's lead and try to get into the game, Hannah holds up her hand like a crossing guard and says "Noooo!"
7. We have a very small backyard and have finally made the decision to get rid of the grass and put down more flagstone. We have clay soil and the grass turns into a swamp in the winter. The people doing the job for us are a Vietnamese couple and their one assistant. The wife is so cute. She comes wearing designer jeans and feminine floppy hat and gets down to business, looking so pretty. I can't help wishing I was her. I think I have a little crush on her or something.
8. I'm having anxiety over the paint decisions. I have a hard time being patient with the whole process. That's why I'm not good with crafts. I want it done now!! Skip from step one to step 9. That's why I run into problems.
9. Even though Hannah likes her space when she's playing with someone, she often wants to hold my hand when she's eating in her high chair. While she's holding my hand she sometimes puts her head on the table and puts her thumb in her mouth.
10. Rachel wants to be a bride for Halloween. I'm so glad she didn't want to be a princess, but I have mixed feelings about the whole bride thing. Was I the only one that was a bum every Halloween for about 4 years in a row. Actually, when I was five I was a clown and used my mom's lipstick to draw a big clown mouth around my lips. It didn't wash off for about a week and every day walking home from school the crossing guard would ask me what was on my face. I need to find a photo of me in that clown costume. Actually it was really a clown-bum costume that I put together.
11. Hannah is going to be JoJo the clown. She is excited now, but I have this fear that she's going to take a look at the bride costume and want to be a bride, too. One bride is enough.
12. Mom, forgive me, but I have to tell this Halloween story. One year when I was a kid, my Mom made me go trick-or-treating the night before Halloween because she heard that it was going to rain on Halloween night. No one had any candy ready. It didn't rain on Halloween. And yes, mom, I love you anyway and thank you for giving me a story that makes me laugh 20 some years later.
13. My bedroom window ovelooks a glorious California oak tree. I'm looking at it right now. The weather is also glorious today. I love October.







Links to other Thursday Thirteens!


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1. Interstellar Lass
2. Sleeping Mommy
3. Angie
4. MommaK
5.Catherine
6.Uzi
7.Leanne
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Leanne's rules for Thursday Thirteen
Thirteen things is all I ask for, and what do you get in return? Linkage! If you do it, leave a comment here and link me to your Thursday Thirteen. I will be sure to update my entry with links to yours, and then you can continue the chain if you like! I will link to everyone who participates and leaves a link to their 13 things. Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!

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