7 Quick Takes: September 3, 2010 (Vol. 51)

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With any luck, I think I’m going to try to drink my last soda tomorrow. (You know, barring being somewhere where that is absolutely all that is available to drink.)  Who knows if it will actually work out, as I have been drinking way too much soda for way too many years.  But, on the up side, Eric agreed that he should do it too.  So, at least I’m not going it alone.

Wish me luck!

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Hey — wanna know something very exciting?

I mean really exciting?

I made scrambled eggs for the first time ever.

Oh yeah, I know you are now crazy impressed, but pull yourself together.  (And, if you haven’t read Will You Still Love Me If I’m Not Mary Poppins? it might just explain why this is an exciting thing for me.)

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I actually had Eric take a picture of that amazing event, and I was going to share it with you.  I was pretty horrified with the picture though. I had already been set on the fact that I needed to start working more seriously on losing weight (or, you know, working on it at all).  That picture pretty much cinched it for me.

Maybe someday I’ll show you proof that I made scrambled eggs.  This is not that day.

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I’m going to try to read (or skim through) The Well-Trained Mind.  I got Eric and the kids to pick it up for me from the library the other day.

Apparently since Noah had to check it out on his card, he was quick to make sure the librarian know, “This is for my Mom,” in a way like he was worried she would think it was for him.  You know, because a lot of 11 year old boys want to work their way through 864 pages about classical education.

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I don’t care what that book may say — we won’t be learning Latin.

After Noah took one year of Latin at co-op, he told his teacher, “I really like you, so don’t feel bad, but I guess Latin just isn’t my thing.”

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Speaking of co-op, we’re actually starting up our homeschool co-op again soon.  I have yet to prepare (at all).  I’m teaching one semester of photography and one semester of altered art.  It should be fun (I hope), and I have 15 kids in my class.

This year, our co-op actually had to move to a larger church, as there are over 70 children involved in our co-op this year.  It should be pretty exciting.  Well – if I ever manage to sit down and plan my first class, that is.

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I tried the new Talking Rain Twist water today.  (I got it on sale at Kroger, plus there were coupons on some of the bottles.  That meant that I paid for $2.82 for six of them, instead of their normal price of $1.59 each.)

I liked what it said on the side of the bottle, “As in Life, Chill for Best Results.”
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