at long last, a book!!

Chris Roberts, Heavy Words, Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind the Rhyme (2005). US edition (with rather silly glossary, largely about football clubs) of UK book about the history of nursery rhymes and their historical referents. Witty and dashed-off, as opposed to scholarly and ponderous. (Why can't anyone write anything scholarly and witty?) Still looking for a more serious book on this topic, if you know of one.

the ducks, they are nibbling

The hospital chose to send the ($350) bill for the birth of my 5 month old son today, a week before Chistmas.

The photo studio "did not enter my order into the computer" (it was placed online, and I got a confirmation number) so my Christmas cards haven't arrived. In good news, they are sending them next-day, and I should get them Weds or Thursday, and I didn't have to make a fuss.

I lost the big bag of stocking stuffers for all the kids. But then I found it.

I am paying the bills, and it always makes me woeful. This is an especially woeful month.

mr. flea is sick and depressed. I am kind of sick too, but as I am less sick I am the one who has to hold us all together.

I am dreading the drive to Ohio.

It is 75 degress and SO not Christmassy.

The end.

Why I am not really a grownup

I realized today that it's Dec. 19, and whoops I am sure I am supposed to buy presents for Casper's 3 teachers. I guess it's better that I thought of this today, and not, say, next Thursday.

Problem: 3 teachers. Gift cards solve everything, of course, and Target gift cards solve double everything, but. Casper has 3 teachers. $10 each feels cheap, but $20 each feels too expensive. Opinions?

Thank god the Dillo has only been in school for 6 days - I feel no obligation to buy his teachers presents this year.