librarian on the run

I am subbing at my son's high school in the library, and as luck would have it, there is a class that is working on blogger to do classwork. Unfortunately, I have been so behind in keeping up with my own blogging that I find myself unable to help them upload articles and pictures. sigh.

Princess is having her own big test day at school. It is rainy. We just bought her a new bicycle. A robin egg blue Schwinn coaster. An impulse purchase. At a Kmart closing sale. Vera and I both looked at the bike and    it just felt right, that it was the bike for her. It is big enough for me to ride (I did ride it on the way home before we decided to fit it in the car). It would hopefully get her outside more, and out of her room, camped on the floor in front of her computer. But even as we were wheeling it in the store (so no one else would grab it), we were thinking....does Princess really deserve this, or rather, we wish she was being nicer to us, and that she would be nice about getting a new bike, and not tease little sister about it, (but we had the sinking feeling that she would, and she did).

Anyways, I will attempt to search the internet for an comperable image of this bike, and upload it here.

went to kmart site, found this link

tried to right click and copy image, and control v ,   well, its there, but tiny.

okay, download picture, click insert image

I am in the bedroom, listening to Queen's "We Will Rock  You" play from Princess's room. She has been playing the same song, as is her wont, over and over again. I am enjoying it more than her standard diet of Keisha, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber etc. at least.

Went to the therapist again. I worked today, and was sleepy. Therapist has a very comfy couch. I warned her I might have trouble staying awake....

Princess drew an "Anger thermometer" with symptoms of good and bad levels of anger, and strategies to employ at the borderline to control temper tantrums. I need to look at it in more detail in her absence -- again, I was kinda sorta sleeping during the session, which was actually quite nice.

Princess is sweet at her sessions. She kind of puts on a sweet little girl persona, not exactly a mask, perhaps, but not what she usually shows at home, at least to me. When at home she becomes wild girl, or the one whose first words to me when I venture into her room are "go away."

Ah yes, new year, new blogging schedule. I need to just do this bit by bit, or as Anne Lamot would say, bird by bird....