Tuesday Toot (September 2)

I haven't done the Tuesday Toot for a few weeks because I ran out of stuff I can do really well and was too embarrassed to post something like: "I can fold a washcloth in a tidy, three-fold manner that looks nice when it is placed in a Longaberger basket on the bathroom shelf."

My Toot for today is this: I did not destroy either the Rosetta Stone software OR the headset. I haven't been able to bring myself to touch them, but they are still viable.

I think I deserve, like, a MEDAL. Maybe a song written in my honor and performed by Aerosmith.

Tuesday Toot! (August 5)

My Tuesday Toot for this week is that I....uhhhmmmm....lessee.....It's hard to think of these things sometimes. Aha! I've thought of one!

I make really beautiful soap. Really nice. It started out as a hobby many years ago and then turned into a business which turned back into a hobby again because as it turns out, I can't run a business and continue breathing at the same time.

Anyway, I made all kinds of gorgeous bath soap -- soap with lovely, exotic oils; soap with fragrant, delicious scents; soap made with Dead Sea salts, goat's milk, French green clay and pure silk fibers.

I've been getting this strong desire to get out my soaping equipment and whip up a nice batch, maybe just a couple of pounds for the fun of it. Soap making is something I love to do and it's something I'm actually good at. Which makes it even more fun.

Tuesday Toot! (July 29)

Here's my Toot for Tuesday, July 29.

I can do algebra! Anyone who reads here knows that I am not a math person. I am such a non-math person that I still count on my fingers and never can remember if 8 + 6 is thirteen or fourteen. Or, fifteen? No, definitely not fifteen, but anyway, I told Meelyn that I'd do algebra with her for moral support when she started ninth grade. We're using the Math-U-See program, which has the world's dumbest name, but turns out to be a really excellent way to learn math. We've been going through the lessons and both of us are actually doing excellent work. I'm getting A's and so is she!

There were so many times after I told her I'd do algebra with her that I wanted to kick myself. Kick. My. Self. But now I'm very glad I've stuck with it because, strangely enough, it has given me a nice boost in self-confidence. Although my family would argue that higher self-esteem is not something I should be seeking. But what do THEY know? Probably not algebra, like me!

Tuesday Toot!

The Tuesday Toot is a new thing I'm doing with through my affiliation with Blogamama. Toots are done weekly to celebrate the accomplishments of moms because moms are a modest group and won't admit to being able to do much of anything other than breathing and eating. We all do some bragging on our kids and lots of us do some bragging on our husbands, but if someone says, "Boy, your chocolate chip cookies are the best I've ever had," we tend to say things like, "Ohhh, no. Really. They taste like my dog baked them." Or if someone says, "That presentation was absolutely brilliant - you had them eating out of your hand," mommies respond, "That presentation? You've got to be joking. If you want to see a great presentation, you should take a look at the dinosaur diorama my third grader just turned in. Now that was a brilliant presentation."

So on Tuesdays, I'll be tooting with a bunch of other moms -- to read their toots, just click on the little graphic up there and enjoy. I spent some time reading at other mom blogs today and some are funny and some are inspiring and all are interesting. Moms can do the coolest things!

Here's my toot for Tuesday, July 22:

I wrote a small book about William Shakespeare's life and Catholic roots, with a little info about Elizabethan history and theater thrown in for makeweight. It's not very long, seeing as how it was meant to be an overview for middle school/high school students. As it is, it's pretty much non-publishable because there's not much of a market for a book like that, unless I publish it myself. Which, I don't know about that. But I love it. It's my very own literary baby and I'm proud of it.