Arts as Astra

My 7-1/2 6-1/2 year old Prius hit the 100,000 mark on Wednesday, while taking the kids to the dentist.

My kids were completely mystified as to why I was making a big deal out of it. Then again, perhaps you are, too.

I repainted Son the Elder's room last weekend, and accidentally got some paint in my hair. It's mostly gone now, but nobody seems to have noticed it at all. This may mean:

1) I have too much hair for such a small amount of paint to be noticeable,
2) I have so many white hairs now that any additional white is unremarkable, or
3) People are unobservant.

I wonder if it's time to do something drastic to my hair...

Son the Younger turned 7 on Sunday. Happy birthday, StY!

( Friday festivities )

( Birthday Party )

( the rest of Sunday )

( In conclusion )

I have an offer from Wild West University.

Now I actually have to decide!

Today has been declared a snow day by the county. After chipping 1/4" of ice off my car, I'm glad they decided to do that. The main road are fine, but the neighborhood streets are pretty treacherous.

Dropped the kids off at their schools' day care programs, which thankfully run on snow days. So now I can work from home in peace, in theory.

I suppose now is as good a time as any to post about how the job search is going.

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Last night, I was putting Son the Younger to bed, and I leaned him to give him a kiss. Usually, he ducks and hides under the covers when I do so. This time, he grabbed me around the neck and hugged me tightly to him, and wouldn't let go for a long time, and just kept saying "I love you, mommy" over and over again. It nearly brought me to tears.

I have been traveling way too much lately. I just got back from one trip on Friday, and will be heading out on another trip the Monday after Thanksgiving. At least for Thanksgiving we'll be traveling as a family. I'm exhausted and crabby and keep yelling at everyone. I just need to keep telling myself that all this travel will be good for my career in the long run, even though it really sucks right now.

I want to delegate to someone else the task of telling my mom that this Christmas, I'm not going any trips, guilt trips included. That I'm just going to stay home and sleep and spend time with my husband and kids and try to recover some sanity. Somehow, I don't see that happening, though.

Last week, DS2 came down with strep throat. While I was away, of course, to maximize the inconvenience.

Yesterday, DS1 woke up feeling under the weather. Unsurprisingly, it's strep, again.

Can't afford to get sick right now! I ought to run out and get my flu shot, although that won't work against strep...

I'm having a wonderful time here in Paris. I have decided that I could eat crêpes for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day and not get tired of them. Come to think of it, that's exactly what I did today. Of course, it helps that there are a seemingly endless variety of fillings for them.

There's apparently a big strike planned for tomorrow. I guess the strike was on hiatus for a few days for school holidays or something. There was some debate as to whether the students would barricade the doors and prevent the conference from happening, or whether they'd sleep in and miss the chance to do so. My bet is that they'll barricade the doors, but only after the conference has started, and we will be all trapped inside rather than outside. Whatever, it's all kind of surreal, and makes me want to burst out into, "Do You Hear The People Sing."

Found a nice pedestrian walkway to go running on, which is good because it's still dark out at 8am and I dislike having to dodge traffic in the dark. Keeping up with the running is good, because then I can justify having a pain au chocolat during the coffee break. Yum.

I just ran in a 2-mile Fun Run at work today. ( How I did )

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I'm thinking of trying to up my current running routine. I'm wondering if 2.5 miles 3x a week, plus a weekend run of 4 miles is reasonable. Anybody have any good resources for this sort of thing? I'm not looking to train for anything in particular, just wanting to stay in shape.