Lightning Seeds, "Pure"

night time slows, raindrops splash rainbows
perhaps someone you know, could sparkle and shine
as daydreams slide to colour from shadow
picture the moonglow, that dazzles my eyes
and I love you

just lying smiling in the dark
shooting stars around your heart
dreams come bouncing in your head
pure and simple everytime
now you're crying in your sleep
i wish you'd never learnt to weep
don't sell the dreams you should be keeping
pure and simple everytime

( look at me with starry eyes... )

Girl Scouts

I resent having to make my house spotless in the next two house just in case the dojo isn't available. (Story on that: yendi asked the owner on Tuesday, she said yes but remind her on Thursday, we skipped karate Thursday due to freezing rain, yendi had never mentioned that it needed to be confirmed, and he remembered yesterday, when the dojo was closed.)

In any other case, I'd postpone the meeting - but cookie sales begin on, I think, Friday (another mom picked up the materials). There will be no other chance to distribute the cookie sales material. And this is Important.

So I get to go now and frantically clean, and plan an alternate meeting Just In Case the mom with the cookie sales stuff flakes. And...I really do not want to do this. I love the idea of Girl Scouts, the principles, but I do not have the time; I've had to miss three service unit meetings and the cookie meeting, and cancel/reschedule several troop meetings, due to overscheduling. And it doesn't help that I don't have a co-leader - the one mom interested in co-leading might be moving out of state. Gyah.

So what I have learned is that I am not suited to this, not without a dependable meeting place and dependable assistance (the co-leader I signed on with, to whom I told, "I can't do this alone, I'm only doing this so we can do it together", ditched before the first meeting). And this is not geared toward working moms - half of the stuff I need to do this is only available during standard working hours! And, since I have a minitroop, only 4 girls, one of whom might be moving out of state... I'll probably give it up and get the girls absorbed into another troop next year, unless I get the resources I need.

1. Dependable meeting place.
2. Dependable assistance.
3. Someone to whom I can delegate tasks such as getting stuff from the Girl Scout Resource Center, and switch off attending meetings.

Must go clean now.

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Oh, and...

I. Want. This.


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Report Card Report

Next time you see Elayna, congratulate her on a great report card!

What her teacher wrote: "Elayna has been making progress during this first semester. Elayna's writing has increased in quantity and improved in quality. She has mastered multiplying numbers by a 1-digit multiplier and is working on 2-digit multipliers. She is a very fluent reader and is reading very challenging material. Elayna needs to work on using her class time more effectively. She also needs to focus on working more independently."
( Click here for a total breakdown of scores, including geometry and paragraph construction! )

And Accelerated Reader....

She's taken tests on 38 books, with an average reading level of 3.2 (high of 4.8; she sometimes takes tests on crap filler books on a kindergarten level just to rack up points). Average comprehension level of 91.3.

Avoidant

Common areas of the house are clean; hopefully we'll have the dojo, but it's good to have a clean house anyway, of course. Must now plan meeting.

I'm a Blood Bowl widow tonight, and I know that I need to be taking this as a writing night, but the two months of not-writing has built up. There's pressure there, now, a wall I need to puncture. And it's easier to goof off online than it is to Get Work Done. Plus I'm honestly not completely clear as to how they get Lyric out of the mental hospital... maybe if I take a walk the scene'll pop into my head.

And thinking about this right now is further avoidance, as I am supposed to be doing meeting stuff, dammit. *growls at self*

Oh dear gods.

The kids are having snack. Malia decided to say grace, and asked god to take care of her cat, which was run over this week. So now they're all asking God to take care of their dead pets. This is not in the freakin' manual, so I'm hiding out for a few and hoping we don't require a theological discussion, here, I'm not prepared to give a Rainbow Bridge speech...

Silly astrology thingie

From here:

"Shade Song will never grow up, and nor would we ever want her to. It is Shade's ability to be innocently fun-loving and childlike that makes her so endearing. Shade Song is extremely clever and sophisticated. There is, after all, a very big difference between being childlike and being childish. Shade is open minded, unselfish and able somehow to approach each new day with a spirit of real, fresh inspiration. That explains why Shade enjoys life so much and it also explains why other people, looking at Shade's life from a distance,
cannot understand why she enjoys it so much. Those of us who know and love Shade Song find her enigmatic, mysterious or even downright baffling. We can't help liking her, but nor can we quite manage to work out where she is at, where she is coming from, what she is up to or what she is in to. Shade's tastes and preferences are what some people would call eclectic, others would term unusual and most folk would classify as 'just plain weird.' Shade, though, is consistent in her inconsistency. There is method to her madness.
Shade is interested in - even fascinated by - so many strange, different topics and subjects because Shade is such a natural experimenter.

Shade doesn't need to travel the world in search of variety. Shade can wake up one morning feeling quite sure that she is one particular kind of person. By the afternoon she will be someone else. Her personality will not change, her loyalty will not waver but her mood will evolve allowing her to explore, enthusiastically, ways of behaviour which only a few hours ago seemed unattractive. Thus Shade Song creates a world in which there is constant variety and excitement. Boring people, who like to follow life's laws to the letter and stick rigidly to one fixed plan find Shade Song hard to handle or even to relate to. People with a sense of adventure, a sense of imagination and, most importantly of all a sense of humour, cannot get enough of Shade's company."