ch-ch-changes....

there are some major changes
underfoot
at the geek-residence...
and i think they are going to be
good.

first and foremost,
the appearance of the sun,
it was sorely missed...

however,
my presence may be a little
sketchy for a bit
until we get this under control...
but i'm sure everyone is busy
enjoying spring anyway...

yay sun!

mail of the cutest kind!

the mailman gave me a package today
all the way from noodles and doodles
in ireland!
how excited was i?
would doing a bit of a jig be excited
enough?
squealing out loud at the cuteness
of it all?

see for yourself...
witness the cuteness....

and there were chocolate eggs in the cutest of egg cozies
but they didn't last long enough for their photo-op...
thanks so much, maxine, it made my day :)

omg

whoops...this has been edited to explain
that today, unfortunately, is not my birthday.
i only said that i was 36 at the beginning of this
post in order to point out how damned old i am
to be finally hitting this normally 16-year-old
acheivement....heehee...sorry for the confusion

i am 36 years old.
i have done the written test
for my driver's license
every year since i turned sixteen.

i have never done the actual driver's test.

until today.

and he passed me.
he really really passed me.
even though i sat at two red lights
that i knew i could turn right on
but froze.

even though my backing up
was nothing short of
atrocious
and i had a
stress induced giggle fit
in the middle of
said backing up experience.

i.
have.
a.
driver's.
license.

it seems very surreal at the moment.
like yeah, ok, i have this
but that doesn't mean that i can really
go out and get in the car and drive somewhere
by myself, right???

gah.

puppy love

i don't usually post about my dog.
i am not a pet person.
i hold nothing against people
who are pet people,
i am just not one of them.
i sometimes think that when
they were handing out
whatever it is that makes you
melt when you see an animal,
i made a mistake and
got into the
"awwww...what a cute baby"
line twice.

but when i saw our mongrel dog
on the chair all curled up
with a teddy bear,
i'll admit,
i felt an "awwwwww" moment.

and these socks
in this way dark picture
are the socks that i knit...
really just knit tubes...
no heel or anything too complicated...
no knitting in the round.
pretty in pink though.

speaking of...
(eighties movies, that is)
(how's that for a segue)
i finished reading the outsiders
to seven and eleven
and last night
we all watched the movie.
it was so much fun,
they were so excited to point out
two-bit and dally and soda
and point out scenes added
and deleted.

i love the age the kids are at
right now.
but now, what to read them next??

poetry thursday, math-second-time-around

i wish i would have checked the poetry thursday
website earlier, because the prompt this week
is repeat of one of my favorites, building on a line...
i loved this the last time it was done,
but sadly,
i'm a day late and a dollar short
so in the spirit of rejuvenated prompts
i offer you a mathematical piece
that i did for a past prompt
but chose another to post at the time
but the more i look at it now,
the more this one speaks to me
in equations and graphs.

i offer you subtraction
to replace the minuses
you were given.
what you hate
i try to take away
or at least
divide by half...
i offer you
flimsy mathematical
magic tricks,
and behind my sleight of hand,
you laugh.