Status Report

In case you were wondering:

1. I'm working the little project that could (where "could"="could eat my brain"). Perhaps the most trying little project I've ever worked on.
2. The lease on my car is up on Friday. My credit is a complete hash, so car-shopping, something I normally would skip to visit the dentist, is just that bit more hellish.
3. It's 4AM. Some nights, I schedule posts to publish at 4AM. But no - it's really me, really up at 4AM posting. Stress? Probably.
4. I have exactly forty posts in my Drafts section. Several of them are posts I'm dying to get out - they're dynamite, I tells ya - but something prevents me from pushing them over the top.
5. That last bit is such an apt metaphor for so many things in my life.
6. The sooner we host another blogger bash, the sooner I'll be able to say I have something in my social life. Goodness knows there's nothing else going on.
7. Something really smells in my kitchen, and I can't find what it is. I've accounted for the cat...
8. My brain hurts.
9. "Madeline" is on the Disney Channel right now (note to self - turn off TV. It was a favorite of my kids - both of them - when they were babies. We used to sing the "Madeline" theme as we drove - no, let's be mortifyingly honest (mortifying for them), they used to demand I'd sing it in my absurd French accent, over and over:

   Eeef you beeleeeve you most beee beeg
   in oardair too be toff,
   then you should get to know me, I'll teach you othair stoff...

   I'm Madeline, I'm Madeline, ahm not a leettle Tweeg,
   I'm Madeline, I'm Madeline, and inside, ahm Beeg!

   The most overwhelming memories are the ones that catch you by surprise.
10. My daughter is up. Oy. She's on the other computer, typing her "Lord of the Rings" fan fiction. On the one hand, she's become a very talented little writer. ON the other hand, sneaking downstairs at 4AM? That's too much like...

    ...er, never mind.