BLARG!

“Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food.
"You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.” 

Roald Dahl- The Big Friendly Giant

I. Am. Exhausted. Emotionally and physically spent. I'm waiting here for Quinn, who is waiting on Tabbi to get out of the bathroom so that he can use the bathroom and he and I can go for a walk.

It's beautiful outside. It's shifted to fall and the air is clean and cool. The house got too warm this afternoon, but I didn't dare turn the air on so I've just been...warm. Very. Warm.

The neighbor's little girls were going to come over tonight, but I don't think they are coming afterall. I'm going to go get G-man into pajamas and we'll have devotions. It's time for us all to be getting ready for sleep.

“I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself. A mouth-smile is different. You can fake a mouth-smile any time you want, simply by moving your lips. I've also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It's sure to be a phony.”
-Roald Dahl- Danny, The Champion of the World

My work server has been out of tasks so much lately that I've been getting up earlier and earlier to try and beat the East Coast to the computers and get my queue filled before all the work is gone. 6:15 didn't work this morning, so I'm gonna shoot for 5am tomorrow. It's a little crazy, but we're at a point in life where we're free to work hard. Really hard. And since that point probably won't return until we retire, I want to make the best of it.

We're cutting back on movies and other free time twaddle. We're working longer hours, going to bed earlier, getting up earlier, eating less cheese and meat and getting the debts paid off. It's exciting, really. This weekend I get to pay a credit card entirely off. Next month we get to eliminate a hospital bill. The month after that we're on track for paying off our last credit card, then we'll only have the student loans and car payment. The car is owned, debt free, and we have a budget that will allow us to save as soon as we have the three less monthly payments. I can't wait. I love my life, and I love how Q and I can synergize and accomplish goals. It's thrilling to be a part of something so active and progressive as our life!

On the other hand- trying to decide what the G-man will need for his second Christmas...

Falling Behind

It has been too long since I've updated. The fall air is infectious, and Quinn and I have been trying to get on top of the yard. We've been going along the fence line, cutting out all the little baby trees and vines and piling all the brush into my Mom's little trailer. As soon as we finish we'll take it out to her farm and burn it.

The falling leaves are beautiful. The neighbor across the street has a couple of birch trees that are full-yellow and have filled their yard with color, while my maples are still green. We need a nice hard frost so that we'll get some beautiful reds going on in our yard.

I'm excited for fall- I'm very much looking forward to French Apple Pie, Pumpkin Pie, cheesecakes and coffee galore, and an entire host of other spicy, warm treats. I keep thinking I'll start making my own pie crusts, but it turns a pie into such a drawn out task that I always end up buying them pre-packaged.  Pilsbury loves me.