Sorry I've Been A Slacker...

**Apologies in advance. Spellcheck isn't working.***

I know - I haven't blogged in a while. Sorry.

Highlights of the last couple of weeks:
1 - I am past the 190 neighborhood now. As of this morning, I was 188.9. I had to get a link removed from my watch band last week so that it wouldn't clunk around my wrist like it's been doing for a couple of months now.

2 - I'm almost done with our taxes. STUPID New Mexico. Steve fixed his W-4 at work so that they're not with-holding so much from his paychecks - this way we're not giving the government an interest-free loan and we're able to use our money when he earns it. Anyway, as of right now, (I'm waiting on one more document) we are getting $404 back from the feds, but we owe NM $890. No big deal. Except that they're making us pay a penalty since we owe more than $500. HOW WRONG IS THIS? Steve said, "Have you called someone in the NM government to see what's going on with this penalty?" What good would that do? We live in NEW MEXICO. I seriously doubt I'll get in touch with someone who can give me an intelligent answer. So now we have to pay quarterly estimates during 2008 so that we avoid the $58 penalty. The whole thing is stupid.

3 - I got back my first assignment from my writing course. I was pleased to read the complimentary letter from my teacher, and even more pleased to see the lack of editing comments on my submission. Go me!

4 - Caleb is officially reading on his own. It's awesome!

5 - Steve and I got our first official Friday morning with no kids today! All 3 were in school, so we went to the coffee shop for breakfast (he had hot cocoa) and then picked up a couple of bake-it-yourself pizzas from Papa Murphy's for dinner. I love having pizza on Friday nights. Something celebratory about it. I remember having Sonic brown bag specials on the occasional Friday night during my junior high and high school years. Strike those last 3 words. After I started working at Sonic during high school, I quit eating the food. But I won't turn it down these days - espcially the Super Sonic Breakfast Burritos with the jalapenos and tater tots. YUM!

6 - I cleaned off my desk. A monumental task.

7 - We cleaned Audrey's room. An even bigger task.

So I'll sign off now. I need to pull out the pattern for the dress for Audrey. It only goes up to a size 4, so I need to begin looking at needed alterations. I've been putting it off because altering patterns is a pain, but I need to finish the dress (as well as the dolls' dresses) so we can get our dining room table back. I'll turn on "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" while I work and end up tuning out half of it as I do calculations and measurements on on the pattern pieces, but at least it's noise of my choice - as opposed to the noise the kids impose upon me.

TTFN