WNBP: Mavens Like Me

Wednesday is upon us once again and it is time for the Wednesday Night Bullet Post.  I think we can dispense with my usual commentary on how hard it is to remember the day of the week and the gratitude I feel on those days when I can post in random bullet form.  I think we all know that by now, right?

Let's get straight to the highlights:

*It was raining this morning.


*And by "raining," I do not mean a gentle patter of soft drops that made the morning sparkle like it was taking a diamond shower.


*I mean a pelting, harsh punishment from the sky that caused rivers to form on all surfaces.


*I had to take out the trash and get some gas this morning.  


*Soggy Sheepie...


*The Boy For Whom All The World's A Stage took one look at me, sighed happily and said:


I just love it when Ms. Sheep gets caught in the rain.  It makes her hair dark and that looks so much better on her, don't you think?


*I spent the rest of the day in a dither because I am way too invested in what the average middle school student thinks of my hair coloring choices...


*Yesterday was a short work day for me.  I had a doctor's appointment.


*What follows is what I consider an appropriate response to a greeting that includes the words, "how are you today?"


*I apparently feel it is perfectly rational to throw my hands in the air and announce, "I am going to write the story of my life and it will be titled: I Used To Be Smart But Then Menopause Came And Made Me Stoopit."


*The doctor assures me that this state of affairs is temporary and that I will one day be the witty, brilliant gal I used to was.


*If you are ever tempted to tell someone this, please know...


*IT DOES NOT HELP.


*I went on to describe how stoopit I have become.


*I also put forth my theory that women who are thrown into this horrific state of affairs at the tender age of 40 thanks to a poorly-timed illness should be given some sort of reduced symptoms benefit.


*Then I informed her that a time limit should be established and some order instilled in the process. You start, you deal with it for a predetermined period of time, then you are done.


*IF YOU WANT TO BE HELPFUL, WHY DON'T YOU GET ON THAT, M'KAY???


*Then she shook her head sadly and asked me a lot of questions about how I was functioning at work.  She also reviewed my file and the state of my bone density, which is getting neither better nor worse but is still depressing to think about.


*Next visit, I plan on just saying, "Hello, Doc.  I'm fine today.  How are you?"


*I think I was just grumpy because I forgot my knitting.


*And haz the menopause...


*In spite of all that, I'm still making decent progress on the mitts I'm knitting for the World's Greatest Stylist And Life Coach.


*I had to explain what the word "maven" meant to (the boy who is) Dark And Disturbed during the last class today.


*Then he stood up, threw out his chest, put his hands on his hips and loudly proclaimed, "I'm the MAVEN, that's how I know!!!!!"


*This somehow devolved into our someday going into business together and selling t-shirts that read: Quoth The MAVEN, "That's How I Know!!!"


*Why this was so funny, I have no idea.  But we darned near had to call the nurse before we died of mirth.


*I finished Heroes of the Valley over the weekend.  I know I said I really liked it before.


*Now I'm saying that I looooove it!!!  


*I'm really glad that my cousin brought The Little Stranger with her when she came to visit my parents last summer.


*I'm sorry that she couldn't get into it.  Or that my mom couldn't either.


*But I'm giddy that it found its way to me because I thought it rather good!


*Sort of an updated version of a classic, Gothic ghost story.  Slow in places, granted.  But nicely done.


*When I was at the school book fair last week I sort of got overwhelmed and panicked a bit.  I couldn't decide what I wanted!!!


*Then I ended up buying something I probably didn't really want. But it was too late and I was stuck with it.


*Turns out I am kind of fascinated by The Everafter.  It's like The Lovely Bones only less with the murder and more with the "what does it all mean?"


*Way more compelling than I thought it was going to be.  


*I'm saving the best one for last.  It's the reason I went to the book fair.  I was only going to buy one book.  But then I got all the others because that is sometimes the way these things go...


*I'll tell you all about it later.  I'm treating myself to it over Thanksgiving break.


*I really wanted Scumble (the sequel to Savvy) but it was kind of spendy in hardcover.


*I'll wait for My Other Favorite Librarian to get it for the school library and read it for free.  


*Much more sensible way to go about it, right?


*If I'm going to be selling super-cool MAVEN t-shirts, I should probably start acting smarter.  


*Even if I am not exactly biologically capable of that right now...



That's about it for this week's bullet points, I think.  I'm assuming I could come up with more if I tried, but I think I've wound down for the moment.  I'll just kick back and enjoy the evening (especially now that it's not pouring buckets down upon me).  I trust that your Wednesday went well for you and wish you all the joys of an impending Thursday.

I may be a stoopit kind of MAVEN, but even I know that Thursday is just a heartbeat away from the weekend.  And that's a joyful thing, indeed!

SA