So nice to have family...

My parents are visiting from PA for the week. I just saw them a couple of weeks ago when they helped me move but this will probably be the last time I see them for a while--maybe even the holidays. This will be hard to get used to. I'm so used to seeing my family pretty much whenever I want, but now it is very different. Anyway, not this week. They are camping at Lake Murray, and yesterday me, my husband, my sister and her boyfriend all spent the day at the campsite. We swam to an island in the middle of the lake (which was so ridiculously hard) while my parents threw stuff in the lake for my dog to fetch. He would live in the water if he could. Later in the day we played cards and took turns riding my parents' bikes around the campground. It was a lot of fun, and it is nice to be around my family again. Tomorrow, my parents are going with us up to Greenville to visit my sis and her boyfriend where they live. My parents go home on Saturday. I wasn't that upset when they left last time because I knew I'd see them again soon enough. This time could be harder...

Dropped a boxcutter on my big toe yesterday...

and it was awesome! I really thought I was getting stiches. But once it stopped bleeding, it wasn't as bad as it initially looked. I've been very ADD lately, starting one project and moving to another before I finish the first. So I must have left the boxcutter on the table when I was working on my lamp (don't get too caught up in the details) and when I went to pick something up from the table, the blade fell. Let me tell you how badly I wanted to scream profanities (especially one beginning with F!) but I did not. I am learning that I do not need certain words, they are superfluous. And they just make me sound cheap and uneducated. Not that the f-bomb is a word I use frequently, but I would like to never use it. Being a teacher for the last few years, it never ceased to disgust me when I would overhear students f-ing away. I would ask them, "Do you have any idea how crass and unintelligent you sound?" Usually they did not know what those words meant, answering my question before I even finished it, but I'm trying to prove a point. This young generation sounds a lot stupider than they are, and I hope they learn that before they try to market themselves half-naked and spewing obscenities in the real world. How did I get here from a bleeding big toe? See, now you know how my mind works. Scary, isn't it?

Just a place to vent

It's amazing how careful you have to be on these things...I mean anyone who wants can figure out just about anything about you with a quick google. Come on, who hasn't googled a blind date or an ex lately? I know I have!! But now it seems employers are checking out blogs and myspace pages, and that's pretty scary. So I'm thinking, if I'm gonna post something for the whole world to see, it better be pretty idle stuff. I don't need my life on display. That said, now to the actual blogging...

Just moved to SC with my husband. He has a job (and he's going back to school). I do not. I have applied at umpteen different places and it's hard to keep them all straight. I'm wondering how long I will have to wait until I get desperate enough to apply at the mall. I hope it does not come to that. It's 100 degrees today and I don't even want to step outside. My dog took me for a walk after lunch today and it was miserable. Everytime I find a job I want to apply for, I have to drive 10 minutes to Staples to print stuff b/c we don't have a printer. Not the ideal situation. So, in my boredom, and in my lack of friends, since we moved away from everyone I know, I have resorted to looking up old friends online. Not that any of these people should feel like sloppy seconds. On the contrary, it has been awesome reconnecting with people. I just wish more of my friends were more internet-savvy so I could get in touch with them (Stac, Joni, if you're reading this, I mean you). So, if you are one of these friends, and you want to get in touch with me, I'd rather you check out my MySpace page, because I'm not putting any identifying info on this page (one site is enough). Its www.myspace.com/rach107

What I am actually thinking about doing on this page is entertaining my internal fiction-writer. I used to love to write. I guess I still do, although I read more these days. Being a former middle-school teacher, I've read a lot of young adult fiction lately (can you say Harry Potter?), but I would love to get writing again. Yes, maybe that's what I will do......