A First Day of School

I'm Thinking: this is my first "journaling page"of the year. Even though I'm going to be writing up more blog posts of a classical styling (*cough* a fancy phrasing for writing out long blog posts with perhaps a more specific point to them than the journaling pages, which allow you to jump from subject to subject) I'm still going to be writing up a weekly journaling page on Mondays. I was also thinking about another sort of weekly post that I could come up with. The past couple days I keep coming across blogs where people have challenged themselves to take enough pictures a day for a blog post compilation of them all, and while I don't think I could do that daily, I thought it would be a fun thing to come up with once a week. Perhaps Fridays? Yes, I think Fridays I shall make up a post of just pictures, and try to keep from writing anything in such posts but just let the pictures speak for themselves.

I'm Listening to... The movie soundtrack from the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice, Mom reading out-loud a book on Venice to Jack and Riley, and Marcus listening to a Math lecture.

Outside My Window... From the kitchen table one looks out at the front yard (or perhaps it is the backyard, it really is hard to decipher which should be labeled which.) Of course, it really doesn't affect a description whether I label it back or front, the real point to the thing is that it is a yard. A thing dry grass, blooming dandelions, and large puff balls that are dandelions that were. I might perhaps describe the road directly across from the yard, or the brambles that hang above the said road, but as I set myself out to describe the yard, and the yard I have described, I shall here finish off my sentence.

I'm Reading... Commen Sense 101: Lessons from G. K. Chesterton, which I plan on writing out a blog post all of it's own so I shan't write anymore here. If you haven't read it though, go find a copy for yourself as soon as possible. It's just that good. Oh, by the by, on the topic of G. K. Chesterton, here's a link to enjoy American Chesterton Society. I haven't yet had a chance to spend as long as I should like exploring that site (it's the sort of site that you really need to spend hours exploring, you know.) but I was so excited when I found it. There are bunches of his essays and things. Everyone needs more G. K. Chesterton in their life. Would you believe our library doesn't have any of his works?! The outrage. So I shall do my part to spread about his name *takes on a newspaper boy voice* READ ALL ABOUT IT. READ CHESTERON.

Common Sense 101

A Few Plans for the Rest of the Day... I am simply going to write about my plans for the rest of the day as writing them up for the rest of the week would be rather a lot to write about (lots of plans.)

1. Finishing cleaning up the school room.
2. Cleaning my room.
3. Taking a walk.
4. Another Math Lesson?
5. Coffee drive?
6. Folding laundry.
7. Finishing up this Journaling Page.

As you can see, lot's of cleaning and getting everything all lovely and ready for a new start of the school year.