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the thing about the Bond Levy...

jcbetty — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:08:00 -0800

Here's what I think: the people who went to low-income, in-want-of-repairs schools never complain about voting yes on bond issues. �They understand that education comes at a cost. More »

go see dance, support your local dancer...

jcbetty — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:03:00 -0800

The kid had dancer-hand-out-programs- duty, (although I think there was a miscommunication) and I had to deliver the sweetest baby to his costuming mama, and so the stars were all in alignment and I was on-hand to see MOVE! Ten tonight. More »

firsts at forty...

jcbetty — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:06:00 -0800

so, here I am, mostly unemployed, and needing to find a way to pay my bills (and considering myself lucky that the Significant One takes on the lion's share of the financial burdens around here.)� I was�informed there's a crossing guard gig opening at my kid's school. �Sounds decent, �my regularly-scheduled life can go on as planned with the exception of getting slightly earlier starts each day. More »

be-e-est day, eh-ver!

jcbetty — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:47:00 -0800

I will admit to being depressed as the imminent four-zero loomed. �I felt like the number marked the ultimate, "kiss your youth goodbye" moment. More »

back on the grid?

jcbetty — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:42:00 -0800

Yesterday a friend of mine asked me how I've been; she'd not seen me around and commented that I've been off the grid. � Even though I feel gridlocked in many ways, I pretty much have been a quieter, more stressed out, less happy version of myself lately. More »

...the Hell?

jcbetty — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:39:00 -0800

Looks like Sandpiper Gallery is **NOT** closed! ! More »

smells like...hope?

jcbetty — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:15:00 -0800

It's like there's been an infusion of Prozac in the air around the kid's school, in the YMCA, and all around the neighborhood. Are people really walking with a spring in their step? More »

yeah, no, not dead.

jcbetty — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:11:00 -0700

Goodness I've gone quiet. All around, really. More »

on kids, bikes, and cars... who's right?

jcbetty — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 15:54:00 -0700

So I took the kid to her school playground today. Goal: I'll jog, she'll ride her bike. More »

The mayhem begins...

jcbetty — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:01:00 -0700

Yes, it's only one kid, and yes, I'm already overwhelmed. And yes, it's only the first day of her official fall schedule of events starting. More »

Back in the saddle, again...

jcbetty — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:11:00 -0700

Kid's in school. We've managed to string together two no-tardy-bell days. More »

a trip out west, to the land of closed restaurants...

jcbetty — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:12:00 -0700

Kid has been bugging me about going to Odyssey I since her dad left. That would be, what, four? More »

dih dih duh doo doo, feelin' grump-eeeee...

jcbetty — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:17:00 -0700

no point, just a grumpified day of grumpy grumping. Today I went back to that house-cleaning, list-making, nothing-accomplishing mode of being that happened about in June, and it was kind of scary. More »

funny.

jcbetty — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:42:00 -0700

some days, the radio reads your mind. En route home, glowering after the loss of favorite keys, ever: "I don't like Mondays." As I frantically clean house, kinda' sorta', all the while "oh, look, a butterfly! More »

can I get a do-over for today?

jcbetty — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:59:00 -0700

School's coming up soon. I'm overjoyed at the prospect, mostly. More »

It was a dark and stormy vacation...

jcbetty — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:57:00 -0700

Right. So, there I was, in Florida after a long and jostling fight--er, flight, and there we were, playing in the sun, in hte heat, in the pool. More »

Doubleyou. Teee. Effff?????

jcbetty — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:10:00 -0700

So off we went, child and I, to a week of sun, Theme-Park fun, and potentially heat. Well, one out of three ain't bad, eh? We went to central Florida, aka Storm Central, to visit family. Day one after the red eye flight, all I wanted was some sleep (seeing as I had to share a row with a post-middle-aged combat vet she-male who, early on, engaged in her own subversive little war of "capture the armrest" with me, I couldn't really rest easily, could I, with my kid skooching innocently--or not so much-- toward my seat on the other side? More »

some days are just good.

jcbetty — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:26:00 -0700

I love my town. First thing this morning, I woke up and took care of some work matters. More »

Kale? Already??

jcbetty — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:40:00 -0700

My weekly manna from heaven (veggie delivery) came and while the carrots, peaches, blueberries, apricots, and red-leaf lettuce delighted me, I have to admit to feeling...deflated on seeing the kale. I'm aware that CSA co-ops and organic delivery can translate to "lots of kale and chard" --but I thought that was more, like, fall and winter? More »

connected.

jcbetty — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:42:00 -0700

we got an evite to a barbecue, the kid and I. We've mostly been hermits, like when we got into PJs at 5:30 pm yesterday. More »