January 9, 2008
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Looking Forward
1988 is the number of days (counting today) until I can get my AARP card. Start getting those half priced breakfasts at IHOP, hotel discounts, theater discounts, all kinds of discounts. I'll tell you, I started looking at the discounts on that website and I'm getting excited about it.
There needs to be an AASM group (American Association of Single Moms) or something because I'll tell you, we could use the help.
I met with a fellow Xangan last week (waves to Jeri) and we had a great time sharing our writing hopes and goals. (Now I need to actually email her a chapter so we can start the critiquing process, but she gave me some wonderful ideas and I'm doing a rewrite before I send it to her.) As a side note in that conversation she said, "You know, it seems to me that the most direct route to poverty for otherwise smart, educated, skilled women in this country is divorce. And the fastest route out of poverty is remarriage."
It's tempting. Only wouldn't I have to start dealing with ... men?
Sigh.
Anyway, I'm hanging in there - still getting less sleep than I want. Just in case I had any lingering romantic notions of raising babies, this past week has cured me. The Banshees were in fine form last night. Now I'm counting the days until I can find another place and get out of here.
My lease isn't up until this summer. I'm not sure why I thought it was a good idea to sign a year lease, but well, it looked better on paper than it seems at 2 am listening to the shrieking and wailing. I'll say one thing for the Banshee Babies, they have a regular schedule and they adhere to it. Gotta admire that ... a little bit.
Hogs and Kisses
Have a good DayOh, yeah, I haven't forgotten the Newsletter of Crankiness and Living Well. I'm working on it and checking out different means of delivery. I'd like to do something where people have to sign up and confirm it because the last thing I want to do is spam somebody even accidentally. I'm thinking that's a bigger sin than creating a little inconvenience for people signing up.
MWAH
Comments (4)
lingering romantic notions of raising babies? Shiver me timbers!
I vote for a AASP group (American Association of Single Parents) because I'm a single dad and I could use some help too.
And oh....I was SO off on my 1988 guess.
I agree there should be a single Mom discount.
I'm thinking the AASP group should be founded and the newsletter should be written and perhaps a silencer of banshees should be invented!
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