FYI

1. My hair looks much better. Thanks for asking. I know you were all concerned.

2. I've read on several blogs lately about the authors' obsessiveness with grammar, style, and punctuation. It has me all twitchy. I share the love of all things being done correctly. I LOVE to help my boys with their grammar homework. I like things that have set rules like that. ( I love, love, love to diagram sentences!) However, I'm sure you have noticed that my blog-writing does not exhibit this love of grammar. This is because I really really do NOT have time to edit this thing they way I would edit other things like papers and correspondence. You guys are lucky I even hit the spellcheck button. My competitive and ego-driven self, though, is now freaking out that all of you natural writers out there think that I am some dumb idiot with no grasp of the written language arts. I assure that I can write correctly. I just cannot allow myself to obsess about such things here. It would make me crazier than I already am. I consider the blog more of a conversation with friends than an actual written composition. Can that be my excuse?