Life that is.  I know–I hate whiny posts about how someone has been so busy they don’t have time to blog.  The truth is–I’ve been exhausted and overwhelmed by the pressure I put on myself to donate each day and write about it.  Did I forget that I have a full-time job, make that two full-time jobs, if you count doing academic research for a dissertation a job.  Add on that one part-time job (I teach at the college), parenting, spousing, and well crap, everything else.  I just don’t have the energy to write about giving money away.

I am still saving a few bucks each day to donate and will be donating on Friday before I go on VACATION.  Sadly my vacation isn’t to attend BlogHer’11.  I have been trying to attend a BlogHer conference since 2006.  But every summer something gets in my way and it just doesn’t work out.  I vow to go next year.  I feel a little late to the party as so many of the people I know through blogging and whose blogs I have read since I started in March of 2006–have been attending every year and I’m sure it will be a little like walking into the neighborhood bar and everyone staring at you knowing you aren’t from the neighborhood.  UGH!.

I am currently taking time away from filling out my application for the trip to Thailand that I want to go on.  It will allow me to present my preliminary dissertation findings at an international conference.  And to see Thailand.  Awesome.

I am moving in high speed and am sure I am going to miss something.  As my to do list mocks me with all the things that I have already forgotten.  I need a frickin’ to do list for my to do list–or at least a to do list to remind me to look at my to do list.

In other totally exciting news–my washing machine is still broken and we leave for a 7 day vacation on Friday at that ass crack of dawn.  I will be packing dirty laundry to take with us and so at my MIL’s lake house.  I know so glamorous and a little…well…gross.

Isn’t my life grand???  Where the hell is my wine?!?!?!