I'm here, did quite a bit today. The wound I got on my chin from falling yesterday has cracked open and is seeping a clearish liquid. Gross. I guess the medical glue the urgent care place used didn't last (also put steri-strips on it). I'm supposed to go back there tomorrow anyway to let them check it for infection and probably re-bandage it. It was my call whether I wanted stitches or not, and I decided against them.

My daughter has a day camp for the elementary-aged gifted & talented students in her school district this week. When she is home all day, she gets bored, so this camp is nice. Especially nice is that the school is FINALLY addressing the needs of the G&T students, instead of ignoring the fact these kids are super-bright and putting them in regular classes and going over and over and over procedures to pass the Texas state standardized tests for their grade (STAAR). This has got to be the worst idea the Texas legislature has come up with in the area of education, but the legislators seem to pat themselves on the back, thinking the STAAR test is brilliant, and it's especially great when they can add even more of them to the curriculum. Unlike many states, you cannot opt your child out of taking the standardized test in Texas.

I'm sure part of her boredom comes from being an only child and getting to that age where she's starting to out-grow a lot of toys (but not wanting to part with them just yet). Both my sisters have more than 1 child, and they say they have to put up with them fighting and wanting your attention. I don't know. I grew up with 2 sisters, but my youngest was 5 years younger than me (not a big gap as adults, but huge growing up), and my other sister was a typical agreeable middle child, only 16 months younger than I am; she was like having a built in friend and would automatically do everything I wanted. Times were different then anyway. We lived out in the country; my mom would send us off on our bicycles and just give us a time to get home by (and nobody even had a cell phone back then). Nowadays, you don't feel so safe doing that.