October 22, 2005

• It’s Saturday, and I’ve had a productive day. I was in desperate
  need to get a set of essays graded. Since I chained myself to the
  computer today, I was able to get all the essays graded and finished.
  James and the kids did a lot of house cleaning and a lot of football
  watching which of course has culminated in the Penn State game.

  Rachel continues to act as if she didn’t have anything done to her
  on Thursday.  (It was outpatient surgery, so we came home that
  day.)  She is just as feisty and active as always. We will know in
  two months when we go back for a follow up visit if the surgery was
  successful or not. Please pray that it will be successful, as they will
  want us to do a slice-you-open surgery on Rachel, and we do not want to
  do so.

  My new profile pic is of Rachel with her first lost tooth. They
  pulled it on Thursday at the hospital while she was knocked out. (It
  was fine with her.) Then, the tooth fairy came to visit and left her
  $5!  She was quite pleased when she was awake enough to realize
  what was going on. (Also, this picture was taken Thursday night, about
  eight hours after her surgery. Doesn’t look too worse for wear, does
  she?)

  Yesterday, we invited the Wilsons and Bolichs (two homeschooling
  families) over for the late afternoon and evening to celebrate
  Chaucer’s Death Day.  Although the official day is October 25th,
  it was more convenient to hold it on Friday.  We filmed four
  different Canterbury tales, two acted out, one done with paper puppets,
  and one with Playmobil figures.  The most classic line was when
  Michael, who got to act out the part of the old, ugly woman complete
  with “Billy Bob” teeth and a pink dress asked Knight David if he would
  rather have a wife “who was old and ugly but sensitive.”  (He was
  supposed to say “but faithful.”) We also had a Middle English
  translation contest, ate pizza, and generally had a nice time.

  As to the book I said I’m reading, I was reading Citizen Girl,
  but I stopped. In true McLaughlin/Kraus form, the main character
  is named Girl, her boss is Guy, and her boyfriend is Buster. I stopped
  reading after about 100 pages for three reasons. The first was the
  horrible language.  I just don’t like that level of swearing in my
  books.  I should have known better when the first title
  was named “Doris Benderf***” (or some other similar last name with
  the swear word all spelled out). The second reason is that the plot
  seemed to be going nowhere. Girl works for a loser women’s-issue,
  non-profit group, looses her job, looses her apartment, and then finds
  another of both.  I suppose the real story must have gotten going
  after page 113, but I didn’t care to find out. The third reason is that
  I just didn’t care for any of the characters. Girl is just desperate,
  the boyfriend an absent-minded fellow who isn’t really a “boyfriend,”
  but instead is a guy she’s met a few times.  Her brother, a
  teenager, is okay, but not enough to redeem the book. So, I give
  Citizen Girl a thumbs-down and recommend The Devil Wears Prada instead, which is a similar plot but a much better story.

  I am seriously considering skipping David and Libby’s football game
  tomorrow. I do not relish the thought of sitting in the cold in the
  rain to watch David’s team crush Bellefonte again. James, that clever
  man, had a great idea. We plan to take his car to the football field
  before church and park it in a prime “watch the game from the car”
  location. Then, Rachel, Nathan, Michael, and I can watch the game from
  the dry, cozy comfort of the car.  I knew I married him for a
  reason!

  After I prep my Sunday school lesson for tomorrow, I’m going to find some sort of sweet snack and pick up The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing
  (a modern romance novel, in case you were misled by the title!) and
  find a nice, warm spot to read–probably one with lots of bubbles.

   

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