Confessions

1. I had baked ziti on the very official white board for tonight, but I didn't feel like cooking, so instead, I ate carrots with almond butter, and Preston is eating chicken nuggets. How very third grade of us.

2. I bought an item at the grocery store last week that wasn't on my list. BUT since it was Trader Joe's Pumpkin Butter (i.e. the greatest thing ever), I'm giving myself a break. But still confessing it to you.

3. I really want to go see "Easy A." Like, a lot.

4. I am more than a little bit excited about the return of my favorite TV shows. And man. There are a LOT of them. Also embarrassing.

5. Today at the library, I had to unbutton my pants after I ate lunch. (Don't worry - I buttoned them back up whenever I left my carrel. But yes, I am disgusting).

6. Is this a cop-out post? Yep. I have several posts waiting in the wings to be published that involve more than me revealing sketchtastic anecdotes about my day, but right now, I just don't have the energy (also, I'm watching Glee instead of doing my homework).

7.  Preston and I now have a TV in the bedroom. I've never really wanted a TV in the bedroom, simply because, on the advice of Real Simple, I've always tried to make our bedroom a place for sleep, sleep, and only sleep. Except that now that we have a TV in the bedroom, I'm all, "AWESOME!  A TV in the bedroom!  As in, we can watch TV in BED!" So apparently I am easily swayed.

8.  I have to take a German exam next week, and this is approximately the level of my German as it stands: "Ich bin Mary Frances, und ich liebe Preston." I foresee disaster. Also, I don't even know if those verb forms are correct.

9. There's an email I need to write to a family member that I've been putting off for a few weeks.  And since I never replied to the first email, I've received two more emails since the first one.  Do I reply to the first email?  To all of the emails?  This makes my brain hurt.

10.  I still have thank you notes from the summer that I haven't written.

11. This morning while I was making my lesson plan for the day, I suddenly found my way to Flickr, where I started deciding which photos I would use in our 2010 slideshow. Then I stayed on Flickr for thirty minutes.

12. When the dogs usurp Preston's spot in bed, he tries to maneuver his body around them (so that he often goes to sleep on the very edge of the bed while one of the dogs sleeps in his spot). When the dogs usurp my spot in bed, sometimes I try to fit my body around their form (read: spoon with them), but most of the time I just kick them off. I'm pretty sure that even the dogs know that I'm the Mean Parent.

13. Last week I had Parents' Night. This week I have to send a thesis update email. Next week I have to be evaluated by my boss while I'm teaching. I just want a boring, predictable, nothing fancy kind of week. Is it bad that it's only September and I already feel like I need a break? Sigh.

14. Luckily, because I'm a fake adult, I have fall break (i.e. no graduate classes) in a couple of weeks. Thank the goodness.

15. Ness just jumped up onto the couch and sat beside me. She has basically ruined the cushions to our two chairs in the dining room, our sofa cushion covers DESPERATELY need to be washed, and there are tiny holes in our comforter from where she's gotten too excited, but I wouldn't trade having the dogs come up on the couch/bed/etc. with us. I know it's gross, and that we probably should have been stricter about letting the dogs up on furniture, but, well, we weren't, and it turns out that I totally love it. Sitting here with her warm body snuggled up next to me...it just doesn't get any better.