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Rebecca

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About Me

Music lovin'mama, two-steppin' tootsie, book fixin' babe from Austin, Texas

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People, I guess, although meeting aliens might be pretty cool.

My Blog

A learning experience

I've been substitute teaching for the last month or so to keep me busy while my real job is a bit slow.  The extra $$ doesn't hurt either!  I have to talk about today, because it really gave me some p...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:33:00 GMT

The last anniversary

I'm writing this tonight, because I'll be swamped all day tomorrow and won't have the time.  It's important to me to mark this, though, because it's the last anniversary I'm going to note.One year ago...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:03:00 GMT

Full circle

Last night we went to the Cactus to see Steve Poltz.  It was as good a show as I've ever seen him do (which is saying a lot), and it got me to thinking about the last time I saw him.  It was at SXSW o...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:40:00 GMT

Oh yeah. Television I'll definitely be watching.

CMT is starting season 3 of Gone Country tonight.   For those of you who don't know about it (which I'm hoping is most of you!), it's their show where John Rich of Big And Rich brags about his true co...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:46:00 GMT

One of my current projects (and an invitation to the crafty out there)

Many (if not all of you) know that I'm very active on a crafting forum called Craftster.org.  It's a wonderful community with thousands of talented people involved in it. Some of us decided late last ...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:25:00 GMT

Hilarious

Today I went to substitute teacher orientation for the Austin public schools.  It was basically a long day of tedium.  The afternoon was the absolute worst because it was for non-teachers, trying to t...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:06:00 GMT

Adventures with Ruby

Today I hopped into my car when it was cold out and realized that the seat warmers that I thought were ridiculous were actually a pretty wonderful thing.  But this afternoon when it got nice and warm ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 15:57:00 GMT

What I did instead of celebrating New Years

New Year's this year brought up all kinds of memories I didn't want to deal with, so I decided to immerse myself in a gigantic project.  I started this quilt on Tuesday, and have been working on ...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:46:00 GMT

I'll never understand how my brain works

I really thought the new drugs had kicked in.  I'd had about 3 days where I was actually functional and able to cope with the world.  I was about to even try to be a little social again, since I haven...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:21:00 GMT

Crunch!

Yesterday was really special. I got awakened from my nap by a knocking at the door. Turns out my bad news neighbors kitty-corner across the street (as opposed to my inconsiderate neighbors directly ac...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:18:00 GMT