If there’s a greater torture to mankind than Wow Wow Wubzy, I have no idea what it is. This has got to be the most vacuous, vapid, piece of TV crap ever created. But Pie loves it. And Doodles is off at the Cub Scouts, weighing in his car for the Pinewood Derby, and little Pie wanted to go along too, but can’t because it goes past her bedtime, so here I am watching Wow Wow Shoot Me.
I’ve been pretty focused lately (which is why you haven’t seen as much of me here). I’m not really happy with where my novel is at the moment, but I’m probably within days of a complete first draft, at which point my poor beleaguered readers will have to help me parse what I can do to revive it. But it’s a good feeling, knowing that I’ll at least have the beginning-middle-end all in one piece,albeit one that will need to be dissected and rebuilt. But the body is there.
The crafty world has also sucked me in. For Purim I baked mounds of hamentashen (the ones with Fluff came out fabulously! I highly recommend. They come out tasting like toasted marshmallow and were a huge hit with the under-10 crowd). I’ve been baking my own bread. I’ve made turtles and homemade gummies. I’ve been knitting (see those hand warmers on Pie?) and crocheting (I made that penguin for Doodles when his class was studying penguins). My photo albums are slowly becoming organized. Waiting through dance classes and gymnastics classes and Hebrew school is much easier when I have something to do with my hands.
The final thing I have right now is running. I’ve signed up to do the Chicago Marathon in the fall with my friend Fish. I’m a little worried about him backing out, and I’m not going to go to Chicago on my own for a race, but I’ll have a back up marathon, just in case. But I’d like to get my marathon closer to 4 hours (from 4:13:46). It’s already giving me the motivation to run and I’m antsy to get out there. The hint of spring we’ve had is helping a lot.
So for now, it’s Groovy Girls (Pie received a mother load of them as hand-me-downs from Tab, and she wants to spend all afternoon with my playing Groovy Girls with her) and Wow Wow Wubzy. If you were doing this, you’d be anxious to run, too. Far far away.
