Facebook Status Updates That Never Were

Elswhere Booland...

• Has not been on the actual Facebook for over a month, which leaves her wondering if all online addictions are so easily cracked. And let's not even get into the cobweb-strewn ruin that is her Twitter account.
• Doesn't want to let the whole month of September go by without a single blog post.
• Had a lovely time, really really wonderful, on her last vacation, but it was like four weeks ago and does anyone really still want to hear about it even if she could remember the details?
• Now has a nine-year-old child, who is currently ensconced in her room dancing by herself to the latest Hannah Montana CD.
• *sigh*
• Went to her first Ukulele Crcle a couple weeks ago and had such a blast that it perhaps qualifies as a genuine spiritual experience.
• Is now, however, kind of abashed about her extremely cute and much-beloved but admittedly bottom-of-the-line and nearly untuneable orange ukulele.
• There's nothing quite like whanging out "Hey Good Lookin', What You Got Cookin" among 40-odd (and some of them were rather odd) ukulele...ists(?). It was pretty awesome.
• Has noticed that the term "awesome" is now approaching critically-overused status among her cohort, but can't seem to stop saying or writing it anyway. What did we ever say before "awesome" came into currency?
• Might perform at the next ukulll crcl event. If she can get up the nerve to go up in front of everyone with the orange uke in hand.
• 's aforementioned nine-year-old child is hitting milestones at a dizzying rate; she learned to ride a bike this week.
  
• And now walks herself to school regularly, and sometimes home from school too.
  
• And takes her own showers and gets the shampoo out of her own head.
• Cue Malvina Reynold's unbearably maudlin "Turn Around, Turn Around" here.
• *sniffle*
• Right; moving right along:
  
• Organized the childcare and led the children's Rosh Hashanah service at her tiny crunchy groovy shul last Saturday.
• There were 12 kids, though not all at once, which we think is a record number for our congregation.
• In the library, not the usual preschool room.
  
• The library is pretty tiny.
• Played the "Shofar Blast" song on the orange ukulele, but couldn't find the sheet music at the crucial moment and forgot the middle chords.
  
• At one point a small child took it upon himself to re-tune her ukulele pretty drastically.
• But one of the other parents is a musician and helped re-re-tune it.
• Overall, it was a success.
• Is, however, exhausted enough to have declined the chance (suggested only yesterday! Our shul is like that) to lead the childcare-organizing effort for Yom Kippur this coming Monday.
• , Speaking of Jewish stuff, just yesterday met the (as far as we can tell) *one other* Jewish kid at her kid's school, who is new this year, and happens to be in her kid's classroom, and also happens to go to the same circus-arts class, and who her kid also appears to actually like.
  
• And the kid's mom, who was wearing a Folk Music Festival Volunteer T-shirt.
  
• The family also goes to the one other earthy-crunchy shul in town.
• is even more thrilled about all this than she would have predicted, and thinks maybe being the only Jewish parent at the school was wearing on her more than she thought.
  
• Now has ideas for more blog posts jumping around in her head and threatening to run off with her fingers.
• But that's nothing new; it's been like that all month, hampered only first by crazy-busyness and then by resistance to getting back into things.
• Is happy to be back here.