for me, that is. i just finished the last class of my master's program. i have another semester, in which i will take my comprehensive exit exams, finish my practicum hours, and turn in my thesis.
i am not done, but i am done with my classes.
it is a bit surreal, but i am pretty fucking proud of myself. i started this when vincent was 9 weeks old, and even though i switched from the doctoral program to the master's, i can't believe it is coming to fruition.
*sigh*
i LOVE that description, BTW, mama who said it (can't remember right now)
can i just pause for a moment and tell SOMEBODY before i burst that the kid who handed my coffee out of the starbucks drive through window was so incredibly gorgeous that i am pretty sure my mouth dropped open. he gave me such a come hither look (ok, he might look that way all the time) that i got all atwitter and almost forgot to get my debit card back from him.
whew.
must frequent that starbucks again soon...
WHY WHY WHY
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4795709.stm
testing us? i mean, the hate that begets hate that begets hate is wearing me out.
on the other hand, i just got done listening to the new translation of "night" on an audio cd, and this
was read at the end of it. i had to look it up the other night, to read it again. when i read this book in high school, the subtleties of it didn't hit me. how could they? this guy is my new hero. "human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere". wow.
anybody else reeling from the sheer hatred being blasted all over the world? anybody other than me disgusted that it is all in the name of different gods, different dogmas?
a new quote. which i said. in a conversation. for real.
mamano suggested it become my new sig. so be it!
dunno if you have a "99 cents only" store where you live, but in perusing the food isles yesterday i found arrowhead mills cashew butter and sunmaid mediterranean dried apricots. obviously for .99 each. since we have been discussing food/budgets lately, just thought i would share.
now, somebody tell me that al queda owns 99 cents only...right?
because i have a credit card and i am (occasionally) not afraid to use it...vincent recently grew out of ALL of his shoes, i am not exaggerating, so the other day i ordered him these
and they just got here and i am HY.PER.VENTILATING.
from the cuteness.
that's it.
warning:this is not a post about the wiggles.
vincent has not been himself (weepy, a little whiny, not sleeping through the night) for a couple of weeks. i thought it was teething, maybe growing pains like guava blogged about. i gave him homeopathic remedies and tried to comfort him the best i could.
he threw up a few weeks ago, out of nowhere, then last tuesday, then sunday night again, so yesterday i took him to see the doctor. mind you i don't go to a pediatrician, they just have too many...opinions. i take him to my beloved family doctor, who is a DO who i have gone to for years, ever since i saw him present at a conference that i attended about how to help people on HIV meds who are chemically dependent. he was so non judgemental, his tone was so kind yet so authoritative, i fell in love with his gay self and became his patient. when i asked him about a pediatrician when i was preggo, he said, well, i just assumed you would bring that sweet thing to me, honey...so i do, and he is wonderful.
well, i swore i would only post about the wiggles and other inocuous subject matter, right?
well, we got back from the wiggles concert about an hour ago. we had fifth row seats, (mamanopj's, anthony smiled right at me, i could see his sweat!) and vincent had a great time for the most part, even though he got scared about halfway through, so i found a family in the first balcony with an older little girl and traded them our seats. they thought they died and went to heaven, but we were almost i was standing in the ailse for a couple songs and thought, i can find some kid who would LOVE to be down that close. too close for v, it freaked him out a bit. but the little girl i gave them too was about 4, and she was just jumping up and down, so, cute. it was his first concert after all. anyway, the wiggles all came out and walked through the crowd at different points, really sweet, got me all choked up when greg came out and stopped for a good five minutes to take pictures with the row of kids in wheelchairs *gulp*. i could have had a photo of vinny with him AND jeff, but our camera BROKE about 5 minutes before the show. i did get cute pics of him in his seat and in the lobby though. anyway, once we were safeley situated in the first balcony row he got out of my lap and danced, etc. and my mama went with us, so vinny came home with two shirts, a feathersword and a blinking wiggles flashlight, so he thought it was a high holiday of some sort, no doubt. he is playing now with the flashlight, sitting at my feet.
i really shouldn't ever put my views about anything out in public because i can never stand up to the scrutiny that ensues. really, sorry about that. i will stick to posts about the wiggles and funny pictures from now on. i am not being sarcastic, i know it probably sounds that way, and i don't mean it.
so, yeah, i shop at wal mart. every experiment that we have conducted to get our family staples elsewhere for the same $ has failed miserably, so off i go every other week to the evil empire...but last week lo and behold, what do i see?
yep, a wiggles cart that costs a buck but plays wiggles songs and vincent has never ridden in one of these before and his face lit up like a christmas tree and well, fuck it, it was fun.
also, we are going to SEE the wiggles on sunday, yes, i am going to get to see anthony sweat in person, i mean, vincent is going to have so much fun.
