Jul 09 2008
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Yeah. Hi. I’m alive. Who knew?
Well, not YOU, because I haven’t been in touch.
Guess where I am.
Go on. Guess.
For those of you who said, “I’m guessing that Brillig is at the Highland’s Ranch Public Library,” you would be correct.
Because I still don’t have internet at my house.
And yet my heart is still beating…
…faintly.
This is the first time I’ve been in front of a computer since the last post I wrote two weeks ago!!! I’ve missed you SO MUCH!!! Oh, and the title of my post? Completely true. That’s AFTER deleting the spam. So… yeah. It’s gonna be a while before I get back to all my dear ones. But I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all the thoughts and love in my absence!
Oh. So, get this. Guess where my oldest two kids are!
Go on. Guess.
If you said, “I bet they’re in school because school here is year-round and the first day of the new school year was TODAY,” you’d be correct again.
Yup. July 9th is the first day of the school year. Holy crap.
So, that’s what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks, besides the whole, oh, MOVING thing. I’ve been racing to get my kids ready for school. I had NO IDEA that they’d be starting today when I first got here. A kind neighbor let me in on that little secret a few days after we arrived here. WOWZERS. I was stunned! I thought I had till September—or at least August. So, I’ve been racing around getting Bubba all of his immunizations and paper work in for Kindergarten and Fluffy’s school records transferred, etc. Oh, and shopping for the TEN BILLION items on their “school supplies” lists. And spending way too much money on new clothes for them. It’s crazy, but it’s also good. I’m happy because THEY are SO HAPPY! And they were SO cute in their brand new clothes with their brand new back packs. Oh, I could just die of cuteness. Seriously. Dying here.
Okay, that doesn’t really catch you up, but at least you know that I’m thinking about you and missing you. I really will start reading my email— when I don’t have children strapped into a stroller screaming.
(Yeah—they JUST threw me out of the grown-ups section of the library because my kids were so loud. THEY THREW ME OUT! It’s been a long time since I’ve felt quite this… um… embarrassed. I think my face was purple. But I’m over it now—and writing to you from the CHILDREN’s section of the library, where my kids can scream and they fit right in. I, however, look a bit awkward on the little tiny chair in the little child-size cubby that I’m writing you from. hahahahahaha.)
Join us next week (oh, gosh, please let it be sooner than that!) when the Brillig gang will hopefully have joined the 21st century and have internet in their very own home…
(And I know that a few of you are wondering about your guest-posts, since I kinda left you hanging. I’ve received them and they’ll be published as soon as I can get that organized. Thanks again for playing along with the guest bloggity blogness-ness!)
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We’re bloggy twins! I just spent the last two weeks moving and without internet as well. Strangely enough I get so much more done without it. But at the same time it’s crippling. I hope you love your new place and town and your kids love school. We start on July 21. Craziness!
WOOT! You’re alive. I have texted and called and called and texteded and NOTHING. Why do you even have a cell phone?
Oh you’ve been busy moving and signing kids up for school and all that stuff. Fine. I forgive you.
Isn’t there something special happening tomorrow? Hmmm lemme think . . .
good to hear you’ve arrive well!!!!!!!!!!! how strange that school starts at july 9th
Dear Brillig,
So glad to hear that you are where you are supposed to be!! Also glad the kiddoes are happy in school!!
I am sending all of mine too. Don’t care that we don’t have year round school…they. are. so. going.
Looking forward to more updates from the library!!
So glad to hear you’ve made and are settling in. We did year round school when my kids were young. We got to pick a track that gave them 3 weeks off a couple times a year. I always picked Dec and always got it because no one else wanted it. But we had a blast doing Christmasy things all month.
Still no internet? Dang…you’re going to have no fun playing with the present I’m emailing you if you don’t have internet service.
Glad you’re okay and, you know, mostly sane. ~hugs~
Glad to see you are still out there!
I’ve never heard of that kind of school year! That’s crazy. I’m guessing there are a lot of happy moms who don’t have to try and figure out how to entertain their kids for 2 1/2 months : )
Good luck getting all settled in.
I am jealous of the year round school. My kids get crazy after a few weeks off of school and with year round you still get the same amount of time off, its just spread out over the school year. I would love that…a couple of months of school, a couple of weeks of vacation….
I was thrilled to see a post from you today, and I look forward to you getting internet SOON!
Brillig, it is so good to hear you’re there, moved in, kids in school and doing well. Good luck with the internet connection.
Congrats on the news! I’m so glad the kids are happy about restarting school. My 15-year-old would have just…. died.
I think this is my first time here, and although you might think that post is kind of basic, I loved it; your attitude and humor shine through, and I will be back. In the meantime, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for the Internet thing.
Delurking to say that I’m so glad that you’re getting settled!
And in my brother’s hometown! So cool!
There were not actually 2147483628 unread messages…not sure where the phone or phone company or whatever system got the idea there were.
For a long time I look here in regular intervals by and read the interesting and well written contributions. Here I would like to thank you for it once and leave greetings from Bavaria!
Welcome home! Year round school? Can you imagine if nobody had told you? The absences that would be piling up by next alone… Like the dreams I have where I am supposed to be taking a course final but realize I somehow managed not to attend class all semester and am totally unprepared, don’t know a thing about the subject. But your kids, they could have really had that experience if it weren’t for your neighbor
that was supposed to say by next WEEK alone. See what happens when you skip a few English classes? You leave out of your sentences. Words that is
You leave words out of your sentences.
How come? for how long you didn’t checked the msgs. ????
You’re back
YAY!!!
Your year round school starts early, ours doesn’t start until the 28th. It’s nice having the little breaks throughout the year, however, I miss having a long summer. We have three weeks off for summer break, so we need to fit all of our summer type activities into that small amount of time. I’m already exhausted.
I just got this visual of you sitting in a tiny chair in the children’s section of the library. You need your internet hooked up.
I miss you SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow–so much excitement–thanks for the update!
Um, am I seeing things, or did the grammar fascista just use SIXTEEN exclamation points?
Excellent! See what kind of rabid emotion you’re inspiring in your devoted fans?
Has it only been TWO weeks? Feels more like two MONTHS. I MISS YOU like crazy TOO!!!!!!!!!!! (I’m feeling completely justified in multiplying these out like rabbits now.) And I realize it may be awhile before you even venture back to the library to read any of your comments. We don’t mind. We just want to tell you we love you, regardless. The image of you in the little chair at the kiddies’ cubby in the library just made my whole week. Go Brillig!
hard to belive that you can live without internet
take net away from me for one day and I am dead man!!
hi,
how are u?