Oh, my, I am up late again in the middle of the night, after far too many nights like this. I've had a nasty bout of insomnia, and reading hasn't helped, and watching tv hasn't helped, so maybe typing for a bit will help.

I've been lax on my blog this month. Or rather I've had huge spurts of writing followed by days of nothing.

So first up, I cashed out on two click-thrus this week, one for $3 and one for $2. The first one has paid out twice so I trust them. The second one I've never cashed out on before, but if it pays that will make 4 that do pay, or at least that do pay me.

I took a $5 survey today from surveyspot, first one I've qualified for that paid and that hadn't been filled up. And only because I was checking my email when it came through. So luck does go both ways with that. Figured it had to change after missing so many because I wasn't fast on the draw or qualified. Most of them have been for drawings, but I had been plodding along with them, especially once I found out they do eventually pay. Of course, it will be four to six weeks and even then, I'm not sure if I'll be getting a check or if it will just show up in my account.

I have to deposit a check from the library tomorrow that I forgot to do the other day. So that will put me at $500 in savings this month, by the end of this week actually.

DH flies in tomorrow and I am more than ready for him to be home. The kids have been going at it like cats. I was going to say like cats and dogs, but on the face of it, they've just been cats. Nasty in a fight, defending their turf, clawing the heck out of each other and then you turn around and find them curled up together on the couch happily getting along and looking at you like you are imagining they were ever anything less than happy. I miss school! Oh, and to think I used to homeschool. That feels like sacrilege to say I miss school! But I do, LOL.

Oh, well, soccer camp is coming soon! But having DH home will take a tremendous amount of stress off me. We are hoping that this hitch home he will actually get Rose all the way to riding a bicycle on her own. She is so close. If she hadn't grown so fast at the wrong time she would have learned far before now. But her center of gravity kept shifting and she had a devil of a time even keeping upright on skates for awhile. But she's close. She'll be ten next month and she is embarrassed that she can't when her friends can.

DH has been holding off on teaching Tobias, who is six and ready right now, I think, because he didn't want Rose to have to deal with her brother learning first, but I'm of the opinion he'll teach himself by the end of the summer.

Haven't really done terribly much this week. Mostly laundry, separate the kids, weeding, separate the kids, cooking, separate the kids, go to the library where I threatened the kids before we went in that if they did not behave they would not be allowed to check anything out for the rest of the summer. They did behave. That would be worse than death for them now that they can't watch cable.

Speaking of cable, they still haven't turned it off. It's only hooked up in my room though, they don't know we still have it. I saw a cable truck out here today so I thought they might be switching it off, but no. I'll call them again on Friday, I don't quite trust that they won't try to bill me for their failure to turn it off when they said.

Well, can't think of anything else to say to drag this out with and I'm still not tired. I guess I'll go watch the new Doctor Who dvd set again. Billie Piper is brilliant and that Christopher Eccelsten is amazing. Shades of Tom Baker charisma-wise.