Random Things

*We had dinner with the Speaks family this evening over at their lovely home. It was tasty and fun! It was in the name of dropping off our Ergo for them to use with Jesse on their upcoming trip to Disney - but honestly, any old excuse will do as far as I'm concerned. Getting over there was humorous because Tim was navigating and read the mileage off the Google Map directions wrong - so we turned right onto one road and he said to go .7 miles. Well, .7 miles went by, then 1.7 miles and just as we were getting ready to turn around (at about 2.3 miles) there was our road. It was then that he realized that he was reading the wrong line for the mileage. Glad we didn't turn around!

*Since it's been a week now, I am not only amazed but also thrilled at the winner of America's Next Top Model. Seriously, I didn't think they'd actually let her win - but they did and I think she honestly deserved it. Yay!

*I'm still trying very hard to care about Hell's Kitchen...it's an uphill battle though. Just way too...soap opera-y.

*I've read (some are re-reads, I'll grant) six books in the last 4 days. It's a mood, I know. But it's so nice. I figure since I read them aloud to Joshua that it's actually a good thing to be doing. And hey, this is probably the only time in his life he'll appear to enjoy a romance novel. (I skip the racy bits though, just in case. No need to poison his mind subconsciously.)

*I've started up a new round of teaching (online) and just did my first rash of "Dear student: You've enrolled in my class...now how about you show up?" emails. Ah, adult education. (Yeah, that was sarcastic.)

*The combination of rice cereal in the mornings and an ability to roll over at will have started making for superb sleeping. Praise God! Generally speaking, Joshua sleeps from about 8 to at least 4:30 (at which time he'll eat and then go back to sleep for another 2 or 2.5 hours). Being rested is a good thing!

*PhD stuff is perking along. Though I found a pile of papers that I meant to read for my review of literature a while ago that I "filed" and never read. Guess I know what I'll be reading to the kiddo for the next couple of days.