It's a nice, cold, rainy day here in Texas. Nice mostly because it's not the usual weather in Texas and the cold makes heating up your home with delicious smells of baking cookies all so much better as the warmth is welcome and bearable.
Nice also because i'm off work and home with my girl.
We have started the paperwork on having Roni tested for ADHD and Dyslexia. i really shy away from medicating her on a regular, maintenance type basis, but if she is tested properly and diagnosed, then we can, in some way, finally know the size, shape, nature, and weakness of our enemy so we can properly beat it.
Myste left Chip and took Micah, but she came over this last Wednesday to have dinner with us and Roni was tickled to play with her brother for a while ~ she even fed him dinner! Myste and i went shopping to get Roni some birthday presents from Myste since she was not allowed to see Roni on her actual birthday and Roni was very pleased with her take. Myste also bought me a cool set of clear pub glasses ~ eight big, eight small ~ and i love them!
Yesterday we did most of our Christmas shopping and stopped at my parent's for a few, then went to look for a ring. We picked up an over-the-door shelf-rack thingy to put all of the spices into so i had room in the cabinet for my new glasses.
The ring search was far less successful.
i love old, antique, unique, heirloom pieces, Angel does not. i was looking for a wide, worked band with a medium-large stone set in it and some smaller embellishments in the sides. Things like tiny seed pearls and onyx with a ruby would be nice. A sapphire with malachite accents in antique silver would truly make me happy. but he likes the standard diamond-in-white-gold stuff that really does nothing for me. i loathe diamonds. Oh, well, we are still looking and he knows exactly what he will have to do ~ haunt antique shops and estate sales for the perfect ring or commission it to be made for me.
So, i'm a little eccentric . . . who cares?
I'm outta here, now, we have to run to the store to get the cookie sheets to bake the cookies on! Chocolate chip and oatmeal cookie time!
"Time" ~ Pink Floyd
"So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older
And shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over . . .
Thought i'd something more to say . . . "
confessed on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2001