Today

As I said on Facebook, "Today's headache and general funk brought to you by 60% of NC voters."

I always have a very visceral reaction to family or political "statements" about gay marriage.  They shoot straight to my gut, and the feeling that everyone hates us gets overwhelming.  I had it last night; I didn't manage to sleep it off.

So now, a splitting headache and a depression about life.  And we're supposed to go to the zoo.  I don't wanna go to the zoo.  But when the kids' mom suggested it on Monday, I bumped it to Wednesday due to weather.  (Those are our two days with no classes or anything, so we can make all-day trips.)  We'll see if it happens today...

Own

I have no words of my own today.  I'm too busy reading one of the most dramatic, gripping, heartwrenching, and heartwarming stories I have in a long time.

If you have a bit of time, I highly recommend you go read Unwrapping the Onion.

Overload

My poor, amazing wife.  See, I'm not all that talented.  I can keep things organized: papers, numbers, due dates.  But I can't make stuff.  I'm not artsy.

V, on the other hand, is.  She's also working on graduating.  So tonight, she started a new class for May term; tomorrow, she starts another one.  She'll be in Monday/Wednesday and Tuesday/Thursday evening classes until early June, when she'll start another, slightly less intense round.

Photography is also going swimmingly.  We had a shoot with a 9 month old yesterday; I ended up entertaining his two and a half year old sister for most of it.  She was adorable.  But, now V needs to edit those pictures, and then we have two shoots this coming weekend.  At least one is a for-a-friend shoot, so no time crunch to get pictures to them.

Unfortunately, V is also still teaching dance until the end of this month.  There's a big recital, and after that, she's done.  But that's still two days per week of teaching, and lots of outside mental time.  And she frequently watches Kali one or two morning a week, still.

And now someone just ordered one of her dictionary bouquets (which I've mentioned) from Etsy.  Yay for the sale, but really?  As if May wasn't already going to be the craziest month we've had in a long time.  And by "we" I mean "she," because, as I said, I can't do any of this creative-y stuff.

Poor, talented wifey.

Less obvious

V and I did a spur of the moment clean through a bunch of magazines/books/papers/pictures, and then again up in the craft room, so we do actually have a big giveaway bag again: two coats, two duffel bags, multiple frames, three tote bags, a stack of magazines, a decorative tray, a picture or two, and...more stuff that I can't remember.

I think that probably makes up for the past few days.

Obvious

(Obviously that whole give-one-thing-away-per-day thing isn't happening right now.  The end of V's semester really wasn't the smartest thing.  I'll try again later.)

Answer

Dear the hundreds of idiotic motorcycle riders who zoom around here without helmets,

Obviously, you're not doing anything illegal (damn this state), but really.  Are you stupid?  Let's say screw your safety, since you clearly don't care about it, but please, please, please, think of the children.

I'm so tired of hearing, from the backseat of the van, "Why that guy not have his helmet on?"  You see, I'm raising children who wear their helmet when they ride their bikes.  You, on your big, noisy bike, should be even smarter.  But no.

"Well, lovey, he just doesn't make good choices."

"Why not?"

Damned if I know.  Can you enlighten me, couple with their hair blowing in the 60mph wind?

Sincerely,
Lina

Adele

The kids love Adele.  They always ask to hear Rumour Has It; obviously I can't control the radio, so I finally burned a cd and took it over.  Now they ask for Rolling in the Deep.  Patrick is very determined to know the names of all the songs, and always goes "what's this one called?" at each new track.

Track 3 - "Turning Tables," I said.
"That's not good."
"What's not good?"
"Turning tables.  They might break in half."
(With effort, I managed to keep the van on the road and not laugh so much they asked questions.)

He also hums the "ooo" background on Rumour Has It, which he calls "rumor has it ooo."  I love it.