A Successful Day

I always love the feeling I get when I check off the last item on my "to do" list before its time to leave at 4pm. There is something very satisfying about actually leaving on time, rather than sitting there and plugging away until my husband calls and tells me I have to come home, even if I'm not done. It's really hard for me to leave things unfinished, I actually lose sleep over it; not because I'm afraid it won't get done, but I will lay awake thinking of just how to do it perfectly. 

Today was one of those days where I actually finished early enough that I could catch up on some stuff that I had fallen behind in, namely my Youth Leader blog. I realized yesterday that I had not posted in it for over a month, which means that the kids have probably stopped checking it (doh!). So now I have to start plugging it all over again, grr. But on the bright side, it will probably help that I revamped things and made them look a lot cooler today when I updated. 

My usual Friday ritual is to bring my kids at the local high school pizza for lunch. They get a break from cafeteria food, and I get a chance to see what's been happening in their lives since I last saw them on Sunday, which is usually a lot. Today I noticed one of our girls reading a Ranma 1/2 graphic novel and a wave of my own high school memories started flooding back to me. I can't really pinpoint when it was that my obsession with anime ended, but I think it was sometime in college, probably because it was not as readily available as it had been in high school. I had a friend who actually supplied me with any anime my heart desired, and even some it didn't. I still cannot believe how addicted I was to that stuff. Well apparently the fad has not died out yet, because high schoolers are still packing their backpacks with copies of funny Japanese comics (oh I would have so got mauled for calling them comics in high school!). Its funny how much has NOT changed in the 5 years I have been out of high school.