Today I want to work on a quilt. There’s 23 tops a top I pieced several years ago & never quilted. I want it for a wallhanging above my bed.

I need to return these shoes I bought that hurt my feet terribly. I need a new pair but don’t get any money until Wednesday. Seriously I’m out of money AND gas. But even if they put it on a shopping card, that will buy us a loaf of bread & put gas in the car til we have money. We have enough other stuff to eat, just out of bread. It’s not that long. Then I’ll get new shoes… and some for Josiah too!

I need to eat something. I need a lot more protein, and to get back into my exercise routine. Maybe I’ll have eggs.

Because our chickens are laying again, we have a lot of eggs.

cherokeepurple replied to your post: I want to kill a couple of our stupid, non-laying chickens

I hate taking care of them over winter. Ours are cooped right now too because they get into the new fall plantings. Assholes.

And when they don’t lay, it’s even worse. Last year our summer was so hot they didn’t lay at all. This summer I got maybe 8 dozen eggs total. Nine hens and our egg total yesterday was 2. When they’re cooped they don’t eat anything but feed so it gets more expensive than just buying friggin’ eggs. Phooey.

Hungry.

Do eggs and toast go alright with beer?

Yes, at almost midnight.

Give me the Bad Parent award but I didn’t see the kids since Friday morning.  I got home at after 9PM.  They can sleep in.

B said she “had to help make the cookie dough because they’re for Wolf and I LOVE Wolf and I have to put love in them.”

I just remembered that I forgot to eat dinner again.  I did eat a teaspoonful of the cookie dough.  It didn’t have raw eggs in it.

Eggs sound good about now but I’m too tired.

Artemas and Diantha just left for Walmart.  I need flour, and mountain dew for in the morning.  And potato chips.

I do, however, have a beer.

• What personality trait of yours do you like the most? - That I get a lot of things done

• What personality trait of yours do you like the least? - That I don’t know how to just relax. As long as there is something to do, I’m doing it, even if I’m tired.

• How much money a year is just enough to not stress about money? - for the last 2 years the kids and I have survived on $2600 a month (our monthly living bills, not food or clothing or gas come to about $1800).  So I think $3000 a month would be fine.

• When was the last time you were naked in a public place?  Describe the circumstances. - I think never. I have done sexual things in relatively public places but never disrobed.

• What subject do you wish you studied harder at, in school, and why? - Physics.  I love physics.  I wish I’d continued college and gotten a degree in it.

• Describe a road you took in your life (not an actual road) and you think perhaps you should have taken a different road? - In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have married my x.  Because I’m not a very sociable person, I don’t put myself in social situations, even when I was in college.  I didn’t go to many activities or parties or venues.  So at the time he was the only one interested but maybe it’s just because I didn’t bother to meet anybody else?  In thinking about the reasons I married him, they weren’t the best reasons ever, to commit to somebody for life.  But I got 7 great kids out of it, that I wouldn’t trade for the world.  So who’s to say my life path didn’t bring me right where I should be?

• Do you believe its a reasonable expectation of society to marry someone for the rest of your life?  Why or why not? - I believe that society expects it, but I’m not sure it’s a reasonable expectation.  People change so much through life stages.  I see some couples (like my parents) married long-term who really don’t have much in common or even like each other much, but they hang in there. I see others who are married, but not faithful to each other.  Are either of those more successful than me?  I got out and made my life better.  I think I’d like personal commitment without the legal complication (if that makes sense)

• What’s your least favorite sexual position between missionary, doggy style, and girl on top, and why? - If it’s just straight missionary with no variation (legs up, etc) then missionary.  Not the right angle to hit the spot.  

• How do you like your eggs? - Scrambled with sauteed onion, bell pepper, ham, and cheese

• What’s your biggest vice? - Wolf.  If that’s a vice.

• What turns you on? - Unexpected kindness.  Good hygiene, intelligence, nice teeth, good grammar, body hair, beards.  An adventuresome spirit.  Small affectionate gestures.  Risky sexual advances.