I can’t get over the multitude of songs I loved as a teenager which are remarkably meaningless to me now. I was listening to the song Murder by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd fame & reflecting that this song meant a whole lot to me when I was 16 or 17. It faded into obscurity but since they don’t resurrect it on the radio. Ever. I kept a thing for it & when I got online it was one of the first songs I looked up & downloaded. I hear it about once a week now via my media player’s shuffle function (more when it was loaded on my MP3 player) & it is really a pretty depressing song!

Books on the other hand are not the same- I am- once again- late to the party but love to go to Amazon & locate books which I loved as a kid- purchase them & (someday) re-read them. I know they’re still good books because miss 12 has loved every book I’ve purchased this way. I found one which I loved beyond reason called the secret of the crazy quilt for a penny (just today- I remembered the book on the way home & searched it when I got here & sure enough there it was!)

I hate when I get behind on blogs- I’m still reading back over many of the blogs I like to read regularly due to my enforced break from being online while the house repairs were being done. Some- like This & This one here- are updated so often that I’ll never catch up on. (but it’s fun to try!)

My favorite (female) cousin J emailed me yesterday I was psyched- they’re going to be at home during our nearly 2 week vacation & so we should get to see them. I’m so glad my kids are patient with little kids – they’re actually excited about seeing their (much) younger cousins.

I refuse to plan or begin to pack for vacation until at least Saturday night after work. This may strike anyone who has known me for a long time as odd. I was always making lists of the lists I needed to make to get ready to go anywhere. (even as recently as 3 or 4 years ago) Things are too crazy now. I’ve got 10 billion things I want to do & about a million I absolutely should be doing & of course – Here I sit online! That’s one of the big ones I want to be doing! Anyway- I’m too busy to make lists- plan more than a basic idea of what I’m bringing for clothes & even what we’re going to be doing up in MA.

Part of the reason for not too many plans is that there’s going to be little cash to go with- I’m trying not to let that bother me too much. I don’t think it will be a bad vacation – at the very least 12-8 & I can go to the beach every day. We don’t need much more than $3 to park & something for lunch to go there.

Mr 8 has suddenly gotten nuts about his hair. He took a shower last night & spiked his hair & then went back & created this do- or maybe it’s a don’t. He’s always teasing 12 about her frizzy look which began when I cut her hair- not sure why the cut I gave her made her frizz so badly but it’s never calmed down since I cut it which was back last fall.

I’m feeling the new season of Weeds on Showtime big time. My only regret is that I didn’t catch on to this show much earlier. My attempts to see seasons one & two which I missed through ignorance failed because the video store is nuts & had disc one season two listed as season one & disc two season two listed as season two. (I also didn’t end up with enough time to watch that second disc though 18 & 12 watched it & said they didn’t think it was labeled right- that it might be disc 3 of season two or some other season because it wasn’t linear with what they’d seen in the first disc)