ok, so i miss it.

Hm, I said I was going away, and I found that 1) I am not that busy with the new job yet (the craziness will start in a week or so), 2) i sort of miss typing into space. so these are the new things that are happening:
1) there are suddenly crazy gangs of cats in our neighborhood that are in heat and make terrible noises and appear to love our backyard. husbub chases them away with a broom. but at night they just wake us up. we keep our kitty safely indoors.
2) half of my tomato seedling stopped growing. sadly stunted. pout. so yesterday we took a family trip to the lovely valley view gardening center and bought plants: tomatoes, eggplant, bell peppers, hot peppers, sweet potato, cilantro (supposed to attract good bugs to get rid of bad bugs eating my precious peas), fennel, and basil. so sad that the seed experiment didn't work too well once again. but the squash came up excellently, as well as my peas and beans and i have a few healthy looking broccoli! so seeds were not a total disaster.
3) also bought compost activator...hopefully it activates the compost. cook compost cook!
4) go obama go! what else is there to say? yay!
5) zozobean has a refusal to nap problem. this makes her grumpy and i get grumpy too. pout. were working on it. the good news is that tonight after an especially happy fun splashy bath she went to sleep like a charm - even laid down drowsy awake and fell asleep in her crib! (a super accomplishment that i think only other parents can appreciate).
6) i realized that even if i spend all of each day holding and playing with ms.zo i consistently have about three hours from her bedtime to my bedtime with which to work. thats plenty. so life is good.
7)now its raining like crazy. hope it helps all those plants grow big and strong. it does keep the crazy cats away. and cools this hot house. that is definitely welcome.

ah. nice to have that off my chest.