NYC, best friends and wild parrots

listening
to very quiet Simon and Garfunkel songs very loud with my noise-canceling headphones. because i have officially answered my quota of pointless questions for the day :|

missing
New York today (and not just because of the 59th Street Bridge song ;)

wondering
if i just dreamed that whole REM break up thingie...? they're coming back, right....? they'll get sick of being broken up, just like the Beatles did...?)

loving
rice crispie treats for dinner. no marshmallows allowed, just swirls of melted peanut butter (it's got to be a vegetarian thing, this mad peanut butter craving...? )

loving
that my phone has a CALENDAR on it! i put all the appointments in it that i used to keep in the notes, and it is going to remind me of each one two hours then one hour before they happen! which means i will probably end up getting a new phone next week (with f/2.4 aperture 8 megapixel camera) and all that hard work will go to waste ;)

also loving
getting an unexpected refund check in the mail so we can get those new phones next week :)

always loving
Sheye's words - almost as much as her pictures. she expresses her emotions so eloquently, and there's just something about Aussies that feels so familiar and lovely (maybe it's growing up adoring 'Neighbors' and 'Home and Away'...?)

drinking
far too much diet coke today :| four cans :| homeschooling a first grader will do that to you (even though Grandma did the homeschooling part today :)

thinking
tomorrow's homeschool will include a trip to the park to ride the little train, visit the pumpkin patch and then stop for lunch at McDonalds (truth be told, i really really really love having Danny home.... endless questions and endless coughing aside)

what a sick feverish little boy looks like :(

his essay about his friends, they look like the Beatles (clearly Danny is George Harrison :)


arranging the new pet pics (because children are, like, soooooo 2008)


did i ever mention my beloved wild parrots before..? there are hundreds of them squawking around OC each evening :) we had at least 100 of them in our trees last night :)