The Boy is Employed!

The Boy started his new job Tuesday. He is a pizza making fool. He works the weekday lunch shift, one of the many advantages of being home-schooled. So far, he loves it. He has almost zero customer contact, which is right up his alley. He likes his bosses and apparantly making pizza is way easier than making ice cream. All in all, it's been a very positive experience for him.
It's been a pretty darn positive experience for me, too. One of the downsides of home-schooling is that we are together entirely too much. I can't tell you how excited I am to have a few hours to myself during the day. I have been very grateful to have had all of this time with him before he leaves the nest, but it does wear on me after a while. I like my alone time. I need alone time. And it looks like I won't be getting late night alone time anymore, but that's another topic...
You know how if you are in a hurry to get somewhere, all of the traffic lights are red, but if you have something you want to do during a red light (like put on lipstick or read something) all of the lights are green? I have discovered that the sure way to make something change is to not want it to anymore. For example, I was really hating the not being able to fall asleep thing. I was sleeping well, and waking up rested, but just not falling asleep for hours and hours. It was beyond irritating. So that's when I decided to Blog. It would give me something to do besides lay in bed and wish I could fall asleep. I would blog until I couldn't keep my eyes open, and then I'd go to bed, that was the idea. Well, I created this blog late at night, edited my second day's post late the next night, and since then I have been falling asleep with the Vansome every night, right away, no problems. I fell asleep before the Vansome last night, while he was watching one of the Scary Movie sequels. He was waiting for the Mad Cow segment-"Moo, m-----f-----, moo." But since it was basic cable, they edited that part out. He was disappointed, but I was too sleepy to care.
Anyway, my point was, I intended to blog to deal with my inability to fall asleep, and apparantly that solved the problem. So now I guess I'll blog while The Boy is at work. (Yay!) More blog maintenance: I found out I was misspelling Jack Handey. I left out the E. I feel bad because it is an actual person's name. Did you know that Jack Handey is not a character? There really is a Marta Handey, too. Anyway, I found a cool "add Deep Thoughts to your site" ticker type thing on the official Jack Handey website, so I replaced my lame looking quote of the day with 10 scrolling quotes a day direct from the source. It also relieves my lingering copyright infringement fears.