Some things

Last week I returned a giant pile of library books that were criminally late. Rather than do what I really, really wanted to do, which was to dump them in the return outside the library and run, I marched them up and returned them in person, so that I could pay my fine right then and there. This, friends, shows remarkable personal growth in the area of taking care of business. Also, I really wanted some more books. My fine was huge. Huuuuuge. Embarassingly huge, but I paid it, and then let Bub pick out a giant pile of books to take home. I let myself feel good about supporting the library system with my overdue fees and went home and wrote the new due date on the calendar in bright red pen.

Today I get an email that this is library fine amnesty week. Do you think that's a real thing, or something the county made up to get all of their books back? If only I had been one week more lazy!

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Preschool is going well. They get homework this year, which is optional, but not for my kid. I may not be employed anymore, son, but you're living in a two teacher household. You're doomed. I really like his teacher and am so happy we decided to stick with the same preschool. However! It's in Old Town and we live in New Town and so it's a bit of a drive. Last year, it was two minutes, door to door. This year, it's more like 25, so I feel compelled to stay in the area rather than driving nearly two hours round trip just to come home and watch Rachel Zoe and do laundry. I mean, it's been a week, so we haven't had a hard time keeping busy, but I imagine this is going to get old quickly. Not to mention Bubette doesn't take a morning nap anymore, I don't have that glorious morning quiet to look forward to if I do come home. My life. It's hard.

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I've started looking for a job. A little job. One that I can do from home on a very part time basis, but one that pays actual money. The original plan was for me to stay home with Bub for a year. Four years later, here I am! I think the new goal is for me to stay home until Bubette goes to school, which is four years away, but we probably need some sort of additional income before then. So, I'm just putting this out in the universe as I Google my way to contributing something to this family. Well, something other than library debt.