evening news...

You all know that M' is now tottering on the verge of insanity...I mean puberty. Do you know the signs of puberty? Pimples. Check. Extra hair? Um, so he says. Girls? Mary, Mother of God, help us. And I am not even Catholic.
Do you know what an "emo" is? It's what we used to refer to as punk. Only now, these Sid Vicious look alikes wear snug fitting black jeans and they cut themselves on the weekends. It's a strange phenomenon brought on by MTV. Or Xbox. M' says there are no emos on Xbox. M' is fascinated by these creatures. He finds them very amusing. We should pray.
My friend, Chris, says that my kids don't seem like home schooled kids. I think the whole emo thing is a case in point. Homeschooled kids usually don't know about fashion trends, much less cultural oddities. My children are "special." Apparently.
M' is thinking he is pretty funny. And cool. And I don't know what to do with him.
I am so not ready to be the mother of teenaged boys.
In case you were wondering, I did a pretty great job of staying focused today. Are you relieved? Does that calm the nail-biting anxiety you were feeling about my re-entry to real life? Whew! It's all ok!
I went to the gym tonight. Can I just send out a very loud THANK YOU to Jenine? She is motivated, and if I stand real close, I am pretty sure it will rub off on me. She made me swear to workout tomorrow at home. We're meeting again on Wednesday night for a vigorous gym experience.
There was this commercial on the gym TV that I thought was me. I don't watch TV at all at home, so this was new to me. You have maybe seen it a hundred times. There's this beautiful woman in a bikini who's. like, 40. She gets out of her vehicle and the men in the vicinity oogle. Then all her daughters tumble out to join her in fetching their surfboards. It's all shocking that she's a mom of 3 or 4, on account of she's so hot. I could be like that in my dreams. Or if I would quit breaking parts of my body so as to prohibit me from excercise.
Ok, I have to go to bed. See ya after my workout tomorrow.