Author Archives: Alison

What to Say. . .

What to Say. . .

Nothing right now, even though there’s so much.  We’re off to music lessons shortly.  I’m still achy from an endometrial biopsy – ah, the joys of getting older and needing more and more tests!  Thunderstorms are threatening, which is good, because the pond is a little low and it’s a day I’m allowed to water the lawn, so we won’t have to buy all that water.  After music lessons, we’ll start on some housecleaning and costume-making.

I’m investigating classes at Georgian Court University and Monmouth University – gotta get those Spanish skills back up to date, but also found out that GCU has a post graduate accelerated teaching certification program that gives multiple certifications, which would help quite a bit, if the schedule’s OK.  A fellow student in my Substitute Teacher Training seminar goes there and had a lot of good to say about the program.  I think it’ll come down to money as much as schedule, though.  When I went to college as an undergrad, it was $33 a credit.  It’s almost 200% higher than that in some places.  Pretty darned scary, that.

Busy-ness!!

Busy-ness!!

So, my sister, her husband, and two daughters came to visit, stayed from Sunday through Wednesday.  We hit the boardwalk at Seaside Heights, did some beach time, then on Tuesday visited friends in Ocean City for more boardwalk and beach, plus some fireworks – from very, very far away.  We had a lazy day on Thursday, then headed up to Hunterdon County for an overnight with friends who had moved from Bloomfield. 

We’re all tired. . .

Visitors

Visitors

So, Saturday, Tiggerypum from modthesims2 came to visit.  It’s always fun to meet people in person after getting to know them online.  We had a lovely visit.

Yesterday, my sister’s family arrived.  We took them to Seaside Heights, and were just scoping out the rides on Casino Pier when the lightning started.  We managed to get back to the cars just before the mother of all thunderstorms hit.  We were on the bridge heading back to Toms River, traffic was moving at a crawl, and the lightning was all around us.  Quite impressive.

Today we’re supposed to do the beach and then the boardwalk, but the weather report says more rain – and the sky doesn’t look terribly pretty.  I’m going to have to get online and find some backup stuff for just in case, or we’ll be watching Disney princess movies all day. . .