Today is the fifth day of the 2008-2009 school year for my kids. This means that I am already four days behind on my list of 1,000,001 things that I have put off "until the kids go back to school." Unfortunately, this list includes the dreaded bookkeeping updates I've managed to avoid since tax time. So much for my April resolution to complete all my business entries monthly this year! Also included is completing a home-study course on yawn!financial investment for commercial real estate. Yes, This is one of those things I NEED to do for the knowledge and credentials, if you know what I mean.

In other news, I actually took my reusable (Trader Joe's) grocery bags into the grocery store today (which was not, by the way, Trader Joe's) and USED THEM! Yay me! I think those things have only made it out of my trunk one time. Typically I just wave "Hi!" to them as I load my groceries (bagged in some petroleum-based recycled product) on TOP of them and shut my trunk. Who knew these things could be so handy? Take all the lofty goals for reducing my/the family's energy consumption and burden on the earth and concretely they boil down to - can I even manage to remember to take my (already PURCHASED!) reusable grocery bags into the store when I shop??

Me: If you're looking for any early Christmas gift giving ideas for me, there's a Wustof knife with a free sharpener I've had my eye on.

K: because nothing says, "I love you", more than sharp cutting instruments.

I started this blog because I thought it would be great to start writing again. I used to write all the time. I wrote poetry and started short stories, I could write huge missives on any topic (almost) and I even wrote some erotic literature. But for some reason since I've started this blog I just have no words to give to paper. I have a friend who used to tell me that she always wrote her best stuff when she was depressed. Maybe that's part of my problem.

Or Maybe it is all the change in the last year. Last year in February (2007) my husband lost a six-figure income as a scientist for a tech company. He hated that job and it wasn't really a loss, except to wonder how and if we would continue to support our current lifestyle after the severance. We'd long ago decided the corporate lifestyle wasn't really us, but choosing to leave that "bird in the hand" is another thing altogether. The severance was a good opportunity for him to spend time really examining his opportunities and thinking about his goals and for us to talk about possibilities (not to mention he didn't have to wear pants most of the time).

I keep seeing more and more back to school items in stores. Please STOP!!! I'm not ready to go back!!!