Stream of consciousness

My son needs his hair cut. I've been trimming it for the last six months but I am not a hairdresser. It needs some loving  but I don't want to pay for a $35 haircut. I feel badly every time I pull his stocking hat off and the static cling grips every strand of his hair to his face. Poor guy!

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I have really been neglecting my camera and memory keeping since Christmas. It's one of the first things to go when I get busy and this semester has been swamp worthy.

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Sitting on the couch surrounded by a freshly scrubbed home is one of the greatest feelings imaginable. Especially when my husband did the work and I get to reap the benefits.

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They have Valentine's Day cups at Starbucks right now. I always look forward to the Christmas ones, but I don't remember these. It put a smile on my face this morning when the barista handed me my caramel macchiato though (as if a giant coffee doesn't always do that for me)!

I'm teaching research skills in my oral communication classes today. It's such an important topic and yet SO HARD to teach. They get bored and check out and later when I'm grading their speeches and they did crap research and didn't even try to do a proper citation, I want to bang my head against the wall. I think I have a solid plan for the day though...we'll see...

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I ate a lot more healthy when I was pregnant and breastfeeding. Now that I have no one to take care of but my own body (after almost TWO YEARS of incubating and feeding another human), I am AWFUL. At work I just get so busy that I grab less than nutritious snacks. I'm not one of those people that doesn't eat, instead I have tootsie rolls and crackers for lunch. Yesterday it was a ginormous UNI sugar cookie. Perhaps taking care of myself needs to become a priority?

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I've thought about cutting Grey's Anatomy  and Private Practice out of my DVR almost every week for the last two years, but I just can't make myself do it. As awful as they both are, I can't cut ties. I have to know from week to week exactly who is sleeping with who and how everyone feels about it. 

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Tonight for our Friday family night dinner I adapted a recipe I found on Iowa Girl Eats. These mini Mexican bites are wonderful! Instead of the chili I mixed up black beans and refried beans with some taco seasoning and put them in regular sized muffin tins. They were delicious and Louis even ate them. A Valentine's weekend miracle!

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This is one of the single most random thing I have ever written. Hopefully my three readers won't be too disappointed!