Today!

Hello dear blog,

It's been a while and I have no excuse for not writing (well actually I do have LONG list of excuses but taking the time to write them would actually become one of them).

Time is the issue, time is our enemy and our friend. It seems that 2 things drive my live: time and money. I never seem to have enough of either of them. It's very merry-go-round feeling.

This week I'm off work for a whole week to spend my daughter's Spring Break with her. Although I see her every day it seems we are always coming, going, hurrying in and out and just 'passing in the night'. I try to have conversations with her in those precious moments in the car on the way to drop her at school each morning, but unfortunately I most often have to compete with the ipod and I almost always lose. But, as a parent I understand that and I know that sometimes something I say in my morning ramblings and question asking may spark her attention and amazingly the earbuds come out and then: SHE SPEAKS! I try to be quiet and listen because sometimes the insights of a 16-year-old girl can be very profound and of course sometimes she is asking me: can so-and-so spend the night, can you take me here/there/everywhere. But that's OK too!

I've finally developed a semi-adult relationship with my older child who is almost 26. We have mostly enjoyable adult conversations about many different things but I still assume the parent role at times by the same token he still seeks a parental point of view at times.

So about today, I did 2 things today that I've never done: I wrote my first program in pseudocode! It's a small start to being a programmer but it was actually kind of fun, figuring out the logic. So maybe I am cut out for this programming thing! Second, I opened an investment account with AmeriTrade! Yeah! I'm finally growing up!

Well, I guess that's all for now have much more to do today!