December 2011
6 posts
woke up just now to an excited little one, a giant pink unicorn, a sleepy husband, & snow covered world. Merry Christmas everyone!
Newt Gingrich is dropping like a lumpy, adulterous, unstable, loudmouth stone in the polls. Sad, eh?
Please, Santa. Make my child stop barfing. If you can’t swing it, could you at least make her puke pixie dust or something nifty & festive?
This is such a huge relief! I thought when Kim Jong Il didn’t :like: my Facebook status yesterday, he might have been mad at me.
weighed on the way to dentist. Between diet & my tooth, lost 30 pounds, which is good. If only Dr. Orin Scrivello, DDS wasn’t my dentist. :)
I never saw Burl Ives the same after “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”. Now he’s a snowman with a southern drawl. Mendacious, indeed.
November 2011
6 posts
Thank you, sweet internets. When I had a hankering to learn about the Brutalist style of buildings in the former Soviet Union, you’re there.
Photoset: The evolution of the eyebrow, 1930’s - 1960’s… I can identify everyone except top row, far right…. http://t.co/ePQ6iiJ7
in parking lot when YMCA by the Village People came on. which is good, cause you gotta dance & do the gestures whenever it plays. Y-M-C-A.
October 2011
9 posts
4-5” of snow, more falling. listening to children in 5yo’s class teleconferencing, talking about weather all over the state.
Infinity →
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
Simone de Beauvoir
Egyptian symbol for 1 million or “many”
For as long as she’s been…
Tangentially Speaking (or) How to Waste 20 Minutes... →
I read a brief article earlier about a local man who is facing several years in prison and up to $100,00.00 in fines for picking up a Rocky Mountain Big Horned Sheep skull, possibly cougar…
The First Snow of Autumn →
We woke up Saturday to cold weather and snow. Clementine was almost impossible to get moving. She complained about the cold and didn’t want to get out from under the covers on our bed…
Amused... →
Just when I think I have a handle on the simplest things, Clementine cheerfully shows me that I’m not even close. She always manages to think of things I couldn’t have predicted in a million years…
woke up this morning with yesterday’s headache & today’s beautiful, white snow.
headachey. on the plus side, its Friday, the 5yo has been in a great mood all day, & its cool outside. perfect night for a movie & cuddles.
trying to needle felt zygodactyl toes onto a sculpture of a parrot. it really doesn’t get any weirder than this.
is hootsuite down? it won’t send.
September 2011
1 post
Got up feeling plaguey. Dan, too. Everything aches. 5yo, OTOH, is bright & chipper, ready to Carpe Diem/Carpe Mommy & Daddy/Carpe Everything
August 2011
5 posts
My right foot hurt when I woke up Saturday. Worse now, cannot put any weight on it at all. No idea why. Ouchies
I don't know. I've never kipled →
Which is, of course, the punchline to the joke, “Do you like Kipling?” We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would…
Sunday morning... →
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. Dr. Seuss
Namasté, deena
According to my child, these are the same people: http://t.co/w3D9eN1
I am ashamed & disgusted to have a vile, low-functioning imbecile like Doug Lamborn as my Rep. in Congress http://t.co/FRBVuYg
July 2011
1 post
RT @CERN: Congratulations to this year’s Google Science Fair winners Shree, Naomi and Lauren: http://t.co/aCZXSfj
June 2011
3 posts
NY State has passed a bill legalizing gay marriage. I <3 New York. http://t.co/7UGeGh1
...the full value of joy →
To get the full value of joy
You must have someone to divide it with.
~ Mark Twain~
2011 Year of the Rabbit Stamp
from Taiwan
Love has no desire…
May 2011
15 posts
Memorial Day →
I think it is fitting that Memorial Day marks the start of summer. Summer is a time of freedom, a time to enjoy all of the best things about our nation. Spending time in nature, spending time with…
Our babies take flight →
In the past week, so many things have changed.
Our oldest daughter has moved, and will be attending graduate school, our youngest has graduated from preschool, and as of tonight, our middle…
Realy, Nature? Snow? Snow?!? Shesh.
A (mostly) good weekend →
We’ve had a (mostly) good weekend.
Friday, I showed Clementine a blooming lilac bush, and asked her to smell it. Lilac is one of my favorite scents and the flowers are simply beautiful. Clementine…
Buying book @ B&N to read next week. Boy, will my face be red if the world ends tonight. Wonder if I can get an afterlife refund if it does?
Out for some post-apocalyptic sacking, plundering & pillaging. BRB (YAR) http://brizzly.com/pic/4HPK
Words of Wisdom (pretty close, anyway) →
One of my favorite bloggers is Mrs. G of Derfwad Manor^ (founder of the Women’s Colony^) She’s witty. She’s sharp. She’s very funny.
Mrs. G’s most recent entry has Kim writing to Mrs. G^,…
Our dog suddenly realized that the fridge is packed with tasty food. We’re expecting him to launch a full assault as soon as we go to bed.
Up early. Played turn on Wordfeud (like Scrabble). Had a 252 point word on a random game (bonuses are randomly scattered). My personal best.
Lesson learned... →
My voice is hoarse and rough today and I’m feeling sort of icky (due to the changing weather and seasonal allergies) , so in a raspy, scratchy voice just slightly above a whisper, I asked Clementine…
Hiphuggers? SLA? I just realized that if you’re under/over a certain age, none of the previous tweet made any sense at all. Sorry.
Happy Seahorse Day →
My dad died several years ago.
antique image, altered by me
I can’t begin to tell you how much I miss him. Not a day goes by where I don’t think of him, wonder what he’d think…
The libertarian in me won out over the traffic hater, & so I wrote a letter to support a nearby church which wants to expand. Stupid ethics.
Tux the Linux Penguin says: chmod +x /bin/laden
April 2011
10 posts
Easter Sunday →
We had a quiet Easter this year. We stayed home and shared a delicious meal of ginger-marmalade ham (done in the crock pot), home-made gluten-free French bread, Hasselbeck potatoes, and chocolate…
Zen proverb”Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water” Soul-killing laundry is never mentioned
Enlightenment? →
There is an old Zen proverb that says, Before Enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After Enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
Courtesy of Morguefile, from here^
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BTW: it was rumored at the time that Christopher Guest & Harry Shearer based Spinal Tap on Slade… dunno if it’s true, but sounds “truthy”