some weeks i laugh, some weeks i come unglued...

so today . . . i realized i haven't blogged in several days. again. i've been a little distracted lately...

we need to buy a house. like right now. after looking at several, we put an offer in on one that we liked. the owners finally accepted and signed our offer, but it took a court order to make it happen. and time. we have spent a lot of time just waiting. but finally their signatures are on the right lines...

this was no simple task. first the wife signed, but the husband wouldn't. so the wife took him to court and the judge ordered him to sign. so he did. but not on the same document as the wife. or on the correct line--he signed on the buyer's signature line, not the seller's...

i'm starting to think that he doesn't really want to sell this house...

but the judge ordered the papers to be signed last monday. so we scheduled the home inspection for friday afternoon. we were pretty excited. we made a plan. rollie was going to follow the inspector around so he understood all the technical "inspectory" stuff, and i was going to take photos like crazy and measure everything! because we want to have new windows installed upstairs, and some grass put in the back yard, and some carpeting possibly replaced. and we will need window coverings and a security system. so if i take pictures and get measurements, we can have all that scheduled as soon as we know when we will get the keys!

which was a great idea, until we got the call on wednesday saying the home inspection had to be postponed, because the husband's sister, who is living in the house with their parents, was sick. and apparently was planning to be sick through the weekend. so we had to put all our excitement on hold for four more days...

four more days is an eternity to me right now. patience is not one of my virtues. in fact, patience doesn't even try to hang out with my other virtues! (hey! i have other virtues... i'm sure i do...) so of course, all i have been able to think about since wednesday was the house. and not being able to see it. and mentally placing furniture in it without knowing if it would actually fit. and wondering if milo will be able to haul his chubby little body up the stairs since they aren't carpeted. and worrying that the inspection will uncover insurmountable issues and propel us back to square one! and we will have lost three weeks in the process! and we will have to live in a tent in the park!

this is why i haven't blogged. i am not so much funny right now, as sort of starting to come apart at the seams.

and i don't have time to come apart at the seams, because buying a new house is not the only thing in my life right now! i wish it was!! but it isn't...

school is winding up for the year in just five weeks. open house is next weekend, which means producing copious amounts of amazing artwork, mounting it, and hanging it on the walls. which means taking down all the stuff the kids have been randomly taping up for the last several weeks. which seems kind of backwards to me... so now i have to decide how to incorporate the amazing artwork i am sure we are going to do this week, with the "artwork" they have been producing on their own that they are so proud of, and display it all! and clean the room from top to bottom. and prepare my presentation for prospective kindergarten students. AND complete the curriculum that we have to complete this week. and then spend four hours at school on saturday morning AT the open house...

oh, and create a photo album of one of diandra's weddings for an impatient bride. i say impatient, but she is just excited to get her album. and we promised it to her by the weekend, so i have to get busy! i should have started it weeks ago, especially since i am using a new program to create it which will take time to figure out. but as i said, i've been a little distracted...

and then, assuming we get to do the inspection tuesday afternoon, you know where my mind is going to go... it is going to go into house fixing overdrive!! and then there will be the packing to do. and now i am freaked out about packing anything, because after the cock roach blog, my mom said to be careful that we didn't take any WITH us!! YIKES!! i hadn't even thought of that! so now i am afraid to pack my boxes in case those sneaky bugs (and i'm not really sure they should be called bugs, because they are waaaay to big to be squashed...) try to hitch a ride and move with us!

and so, i haven't blogged much this week. i didn't think you would enjoy hearing me whine about my life every day. so, to spare you, i just crammed it all into this one whiny blog that covered the whole week.

lucky you ;-)

two, two, two blogs in one!

so today . . . i am soooo frustrated!

i just spent the last half hour writing a quick blog about being frustrated. then in an instant, i somehow hit a key that highlighted all the text and replaced it with the letter "c." i tried to go back to the place where i had saved it last, but instead hit the button TO PUBLISH IT!!! thus, i was left with a blog that looked like this:

c

yep. that is what posted. everything i had written was gone. deleted. swept off my computer screen and out into oblivion.

and it was a really good blog too.

so now i am starting over. this new version will not be as perfect as the one i deleted, and now i have to stay up longer. and i was just ready to crawl under the covers with my book! but i will try to retrieve as much as i can from the quagmire i like to call my brain . . .

so today . . . i am soooo frustrated!

i have been trying to post video on my blog for the last week. i just can't make it happen! and i don't understand why, because i have successfully done it before. well, maybe not successfully, because the audio was way ahead of the video. but i think i can blame that on my computer, since the video was taken with my webcam.

the video i posted a few months ago had just the opposite problem--the audio was behind the video. of course, that video was shot with my phone. but that is not my biggest problem. my biggest problem is that now i can't get any video at all to post!

i don't understand it. i have checked and double checked my videos, and they fall into the time and format parameters allowed by blogger. they just will not load. i have tried everything i can think of. it is starting to really annoy me . . .

. . . because here is what is happening. i find myself thinking, "oh that would make a cute video for my blog . . . " and then i remember that i can't post video. it is very odd. i am having trouble thinking bloggy thoughts without also thinking video thoughts.

and i don't understand that either, because i hate it when bloggers post video. really, seriously hate it! i read a lot of blogs--in fact, sometimes i get sucked into the muddy pit of clicking and reading everything that is hyper-linked. it can take days to get back to where i started, if i am not careful! but if i run into a video, i am immediately stopped in my tracks. usually i am catching up on my blog reading when i have a few free minutes at school, or while i am watching tv, so i am reading with the sound off. (which should not be a problem, since blogs are meant to be read!) and you know, a blog video without the sound is usually meaningless. this messes up my whole system! i either have to wait until i can turn the sound on to proceed, or (gasp!) skip it. neither of these is a good option for someone who seems to have mildly ocd tendencies. and yet, now that i can't do it, all i can think about is posting videos!

i need to just stop it! this is not a vlog, after all--it is a blog. that means writing and reading, not talking and video. and besides, i am fairly sure that with my perverse nature, once i figure out how to post video, my need to do it will disappear. yes, i am sorry to say, i am that person . . .

but the truth is, there are some things that just cannot be conveyed accurately in words alone. for example, my school kids singing. i can tell you all about it, but until you hear their little voices and watch their goofy antics, you will not understand why they make me laugh.

so i will keep working on it. maybe this weekend i will get it figured out. there must be a trick to it that is eluding me . . .