"YOU ARE TAKING THE VALUABLE MOMENTS OF MY YOUTH AWAY!!!"

Yes. I said it. And I said it to a CD that didn't want to hold information.

And I said it really loud.

This is what the day has been for everyone under this roof; except the other two in the house were slaving away in the kitchen preparing for a dinner of 14, strike that, 13. It wasn't the only yelling going on today.

As I slowly watch the glimmers of light cutting through the haze of a late winter's evening over The Valley, I'm happy to know that I've managed to format, print, create, burn and organize not one, but TWO grant/commission applications.


At least they have a postmark deadline for tomorrow, not today.

Heaven forbid, they ask for it postmarked on Leap Day.