but instead, I am sitting outside on a gorgeous fall morning at Starbucks drinking a skinny vanilla latte after working out with my personal trainer contemplating life.  Well not so much life in general–more specifically my life and how much longer before I will actually be able to fully live it without the demands of being a student, working 3 jobs to pay for my kids schools and for the life we lived before we had kids and realized how expensive kids would be.

I know quite a heavy topic for an early Saturday morning…

Last night we went to the Trace Atkins and Toby Keith concert.  We were spoiled and go to sit in a VIP box–which is a great way to see the show.  I will openly admit here to being a huge country music fan.  It all started when I moved to Santa Barbara and got a job at a restaurant in the mountains that use to be a stagecoach stop.  Country music was popular with many of the regulars who worked the nearby ranches and with a few of my fellow waitstaff who became good friends.  I haven’t been able to kick the habit and it really is what I listen to most often.  I have been wanting to see Toby Keith–because he just seems like he’d put on a great show–and I have to say that he did.  It was a really great time and a nice way to end a week from hell that had me running in 8 different directions seemingly every day.

The kids crashed at grandma and grandpa’s house and hubby is at home in bed nursing one hell of a hangover.  I didn’t drink–as I have too much to do to be compromised by the effects of alcohol.  I should be reading rough drafts of memoirs for my online composition class.  Can I just say they are horrible and it really is impossible to teach writing online. I need to be face to face with the students and we need to be able to have a real discussion about what writing is and how to do it better.  Online is so hard.  But that’s okay because when are they going to have to write a memoir?  That is what I keep telling myself.   The writing itself isn’t terribly horrible.  If I am honest it is the style and that is what I would like to impart on them.  But can’t do it through the computer.  If I had more time I could podcast a lecture, but really let’s be honest–how many are going to watch it?  Three maybe four out of 26 and it would be the four who do really well and don’t necessarily need it.  UGH!

I am done whining and hope to be able to find a few minutes at work or in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep because Quantitative Statistics is haunting me to blog more.  I miss writing and blogging.  I do this for me.  It is nice to have other people read and have an “audience” but that isn’t really why I started this blog and it won’t be why I keep doing it.  So, if you are reading…I hope you are well and I promise to try to get here more often.