Of course, I missed it. Yesterday was my five year blogiversary. FIVE. YEARS. My God that’s a long time.

I know I haven’t been consistent and I know I’ve lost most of my regular readers – yes, my readership is actually down rather than up but no matter how many times I try to quit or move or abandon this place I’m still here.

So in honor of still being here I’ve decided to do a giveaway. A giveaway of a matted photo of mine. Now maybe you don’t want that. Maybe it’s a horrible idea. But if you do, or if you know someone who might like one of my prints, enter by leaving a comment on this post telling me which one you’d like. The final size matted will be your choice of 8×10 or 11×14. Your choices can be found here – just click on index. There are currently 3 pages of photos to choose from.

Thanks for reading. Thanks for sticking around. I’m hoping to post more in the coming months. Summer is slow at work so it should be busy here at the blog. (Please note use of word “should”)

This week:

5 baseball games

4 soccer games

4 track practices

3 baseball practices

2.5 days as a single parent

2 soccer practices

2 appointments

2 work FAILS

1 missed 504 meeting (major parenting FAIL)

1 track meet

1 band concert

1 NJHS induction

1 guitar lesson

1 dinner date

unspecified number of bottles of wine drank

• Making out with Shelfari
• Knitting
• Going on a Girls’ Weekend/Group Therapy
• Baseball
• Baseball
• Track
• End of year concerts
• Baseball
• Did I mention Baseball?

I want to talk about a couple books I finished recently but I’m not sure I’m really in the mood at the moment. Also, I’m at work and have actual work type stuff to do. BUT! If you’re looking for an excellent read you may want to try The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano or Everyone is Beautiful by Katherine Center. The first was just amazing. I’m not sure why I fell in love with it so completely but I did. The second I felt I could have written. Really. Not in the “I could do that” way but in the “if I could write a novel well and have it loosely shadow my life, this is what it would say” way. I don’t think I’ve ever identified with a character in a book so completely. Now, do not think she told my story. She didn’t. She did however define aspects of my life.