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Well it’s been a few days since I last posted, I know, I know. What with Sweetie being out of town this past weekend and the calendar being all stuffed full, there just hasn’t been all that much time to write. Not that there hasn’t been things to talk about. Both boys had their first ride on a pony, I got in an argument with another parent dropping the older boy off at school after she had a fit that I had parked to close to her car. The older boy got to hold his new cousin and we all got a good meal out of the deal. Met with Colin Saturday morning and got the artwork back (finally!) for the Prairie Dogs upcoming CD, Brand New Heart, It looks GREAT, now I just need to find out how to pay to get them made up. Started working on a switch-activated Lazy-Susan for Ike so he can sit and spin himself in his chair. Called the paramedics to come and rescue my mom after she fell off the last step leaving the trailer Sunday morning. We all wound up in the emergency room commiserating...

Last Saturday we packed up the boys and headed out to a pumpkin patch. Every year we set out in the same basic direction; I-5 to River Road and then head east. This year we found a farm with a corn maze, and due to some unexplained planning on our part we managed to bring Ike’s jogging stroller along with us. It was raining pretty hard when we pulled up, and along that long stretch of road we were the only car I could see for miles. The woman at the stand seemed genuinely shocked that we had decided to brave the rains this early in October just for a few pumpkins, but Saturday was the only day this past weekend that Sweetie didn’t have to work, and since next weekend we were all going to the Seahawks game and the weekend after that Ike is back in the hospital for a bit and then it's Halloween, well I guess it just seemed like either we go now or wind up getting them mid week at some grocery store somewhere. The corn maze was fun. They turned it into a scavenger hunt of...

Has it really been more than a week since I last posted? Where do the days go? More than a month since I last played music with the boys. Two weeks since I got back on the diet. One week since I broke that diet on homemade deserts at a birthday party. Four days since I got back on the diet once again. Two days since the rain began. One day since I cleaned. Twelve hours since I went to bed. Six hours since the youngest woke up with a leaky diaper. Three hours since I woke up again. One and a half hours since I brought Ike’s stroller home after it had been left in the work car. Fourty-five minutes since my last cup of coffee. Twenty-two minutes since I used the bathroom. Eleven minutes since I started this update. Five and a half minutes since I wrote “the rain began”. Two minutes forty-five seconds since I had a sip of water. One minute twenty two seconds since I paused to think. Forty-one seconds since I ran out of ideas. Twenty seconds to write thi...