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A few days ago, I felt like I should walk across the street and apologize to our neighbors. They frequently sit on the front porch and with the nice weather we’ve had a bit lately, we’ve had our front door open often. Because of all of these things, they have had to listen to our piano, which is badly in need of a tuning, as our boys play it and (of course) sometimes hit wrong notes. That is probably the best of what they’re hearing, musically, however.
They have been forced to listen to me pick away at notes on the guitar, and then quickly strum over all the stings whenever I mess up too many times in a row. And now, we have introduced a new musical treat…
We just rented a cello for Molly. This, of course, meant that we all had to try it out a bit. Thankfully, it didn’t sound as bad as when people randomly tried out a violin. But, still, there were some, well, interesting notes hit.
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I always stay up late. Every single night, I stay up late. I’ve always been a night owl. But, I must admit that I now do it under the guise of it being my time to work.
Know what I have come to realize?
Even though I like to stay up late, I’m not really all that productive when I stay up late. I don’t necessarily think that I was always so useless at night, but it seems like it has been happening more and more lately.
When are you most productive?
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Have you checked out the iHomeschool Network eBook Omnibus? There are only two days left of the sale (53 eBooks for $25), and then this set of eBooks won’t be available again in a set. (Seriously – it’s over $350 worth of eBooks.)
Even if you don’t homeschool, there are tons of eBooks that will be of interest. Go check it out.
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Eric had to show up for jury duty selection this week. He didn’t get chosen (and was never even called into the box to be questioned). That’s what has always happened to me too. While I don’t mind not getting picked, I do have to wonder what it means that they never want to even consider having me on the jury.
Maybe word spread that during my first time I had to go for jury selection, I worked on a handwriting workbook every time we had down time in the jury room. (This was particularly long after one other prospective juror just left the court house during a bathroom break. So, we all had to sit around while they tried to find her.)
I still have to wonder what people must have thought as I worked my way through pages and pages of that handwriting workbook. (If they had asked, I would have told them that I just sometimes had to do crazy things as an elementary education major, such as handwriting workbooks, those art projects where you color lots of colors and then paint over it in black only to scratch off portions, and learning to play the recorder.)
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Eric told me that he found it interesting that it was obvious that there were some people who were just dying to get out of jury duty and were saying everything they could do get out of it. However, then there were also people like a man who had just had surgery days beforehand, but said he really thought he would be able to serve if he could just stand once every hour. Eric said he seemed like he felt really bad (like he wasn’t doing his civic duty) when they excused him.
People are funny like that, aren’t they? The people who were probably most able to serve were trying to get out of it, and the ones who saw it as their duty were the ones that really needed to be excused. Go figure.
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Are you on Pinterest? If you are, be sure to leave a link to yourself on Pinterest in the comments. I’d love to check out your boards.
(If you love Pinterest, you also might like my posts on Ways to Get More Followers on Pinterest and Why I Love Pinterest.)
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I almost fell asleep three different times while writing this. Hopefully I’ll be more entertaining for you than I obviously am to myself.
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I’m your newest follower on Pinterest. I’m there too (http://pinterest.com/sixcarvers/) but I don’t have anywhere near 46 boards. It takes a LOT of time and I’m afraid I wouldn’t stop to feed my children or go to bed! I’m also still learning the ropes, and I haven’t quite figured out how to see the boards of those I follow, like how you see the status updates of your friends on FB. Any suggestions?
Once you get stuff set up on Pinterest, it doesn’t have to take quite so long. Plus, I have something on my computer to block several of the social media sites after I’ve spent too long there each day.
If you are logged in to Pinterest, you should be able to see the pins of people you are following by just going to Pinterest.com. (Like I said, you do have to be logged in though.)
Following you now! Thanks for sharing.
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I am trying to give up night owl ways b/c I am far more productive in the morning.
I did not get picked for jury duty last time b/c I am opposed to drunk driving. Um. Shouldn’t everyone be? And, oddly, I read a HWT book the entire time I waited. Guess handwriting and jury duty go together for homeschooling moms and ed people.
The omnibus sounds amazing, but I am sooooo backed up with reading and online stuff that I am going to be disciplined and pass this year with a big hope that a similar offer is done again next year.
Good luck with all the music training,
LOL about you reading a HWT book while you were there.
I wasn’t homeschooling yet then (I didn’t even have kids yet), but was working on it for a college assignment. I swear that I had the craziest college assignments during my undergraduate work.
I have found that if I only have a few minutes to spend online, I go to Pinterest first. Don’t check my email, don’t blog, won’t even check Facebook or Twitter. Pinterest is my newest obsession. I think you have more boards than me!! I did just go thru my general homeschool board and broke it down by subjects; now I need to do that for food and projects!!
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I have my homeschooling and food boards all broken down, so that helped to add to the heft of the numbers.
I just followed you on Pinterest. Do you have a “personal” pinterest account or is it all just one–Angie and your blogs together?
I work best in the morning before everyone gets up. I should exercise but blogging wins out. I was thinking about getting one of those Ball Chairs–so I could do a little of both at the same time:-)
Be Blessed.
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I just have one Pinterest account. I thought about starting one for specific blogs, but I just didn’t feel like keeping up with it. Now, I’m glad that I just kept the one account.
I have never done jury duty. I’d actually like to, I’m just not sure what I’d do with Abby. I’ve heard some pretty crazy stories of what people do or say to get out of jury duty.
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re 2- I’ve been discovering just how important sleep is! our teens are much happier people with regular sleep
re5- jury selection is very different here in Australia, you can’t ‘get out of it’ at selection time, it is just randomly chosen via numbers drawn.
re 6- http://pinterest.com/erin72/
just subscribed to you:)
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Jury selection varies from state to state in the U.S. But, I think that they are all similar in that there is a random picking of the people that show up on a given day (here we get a summons in the mail). But, then once you get there, there may be a reason to be excused while you’re there. (Or, sometimes even before you get there.) For instance, my Mom (for health reasons) isn’t able to sit on a jury, so her doctor wrote a letter recommending she not serve when was called to serve.
And, then there are other times when they excuse people because they just don’t want them on the jury. LOL Each side gets a particular number of times to have one of the prospective jurors excused. When Eric was there a few years ago, they did a bunch of questioning of the prospective jurors. One question that he answered made the defendant’s lawyer ask for Eric to be excused. (I won’t go into details, but the crime was child abuse and apparently they didn’t feel that Eric would be very sympathetic to the accused.)