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Monday, February 08, 2010
~~ 10:08 AM ~~ - The Accuweather forecast for Wednesday says "Blizzard; windy." Fun!! I have to go out today and try to buy a snow shovel (we have two already, but another one would be really handy because then Alice could help) and salt (we used all of ours up this weekend). I give it 50/50 odds that I'll be able to find them at the first store I try. Ugh. I always scoff at people out trying to buy stuff like that right before a storm, and now here I am being one of them. There's a lesson here. - I'm blaming the kids for this coming storm -- they were kvetching about missing no school because it snowed on the weekend, and now they're going to miss Wednesday (i.e. Taco Day, everyone's favorite lunch of the month). There's a lesson here, too. - All of the Super Bowl ads are here, if you didn't watch (like us), or just wanna see something again. Comments () | link
Sunday, February 07, 2010 ~~ 6:23 PM ~~ The schools called a 2-hour delay for tomorrow morning hours ago. I guess they are worried about icy spots on the roads, because the sun came out today and melted a teeny little bit of our massive amounts of snow. Don't worry, though -- we've apparently got close to a foot of new snow coming on Tuesday night and Wednesday. Wheee!! In other news, Anth put in some time today installing Wordpress on my server and setting up a little test blog for me to play with. The plan is to switch this blog over to Wordpress at the end of the month, if I can get myself motivated to learn how to use it. Hopefully the transition will be mostly seamless for you, the reader, although my blog URL apparently will change (boo, but I'll put a pointer here so you can find it), and my layout might change, too, depending on how much work I want to put into replicating the current layout exactly in the new system. More (similarly boring) updates on this process as it progresses, lucky you! Comments () | link
Saturday, February 06, 2010 ~~ 6:46 PM ~~ I think we got about 18", maybe 20" of snow out of this storm. Pretty impressive! We have to bake cookies tomorrow and take them over to our neighbor, who came over with his snow blower and dug through the wet and heavy stuff that the plow piled at the end of our drive. Anth and I shoveled the rest of it -- took about 2 hours. I am so grateful for our neighbor's help, because he took care of the worst part for us. They're saying it's going to snow again on Tuesday. Heh. Comments () | link
Friday, February 05, 2010 ~~ 11:57 AM ~~ The kids have a 2-hour early dismissal today, so I have to hurry up and get my quiet-house stuff done before I go pick them up. After school we're running to the store to buy ingredients for a very big pot of vegetable soup (plus also bananas, and ice cream). Our current Storm of the Century™ forecast is for 10-14 inches overnight tonight and into tomorrow. Stay warm, y'all!! Comments () | link
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 ~~ 8:14 AM ~~ I just got notified that Blogger is shutting down FTP support next month. I am one of the apparently less than 0.5% of bloggers who use FTP to publish a blog, and apparently (from my perusal of the links I was sent) I'm going to have to migrate off of Blogger (to...?) if I want to keep my blog at the same address. This pisses me off to no end, not only because I've been using Blogger here since day one (i.e. July 30, 2001), but also because I hate it when things change. If anyone has any guidance on how I should proceed, please share via comment, email, phone call, or Facebook post. Comments () | link
Tuesday, February 02, 2010 ~~ 6:00 PM ~~ Always wear your seatbelt. Comments () | link
Monday, February 01, 2010 ~~ 10:36 AM ~~ The girls and I went to see Tooth Fairy yesterday. We went for three reasons:
Sunday, January 31, 2010 ~~ 9:43 AM ~~ Hey, I missed a day! It was bound to happen. I feel better for it. I had nothing to say yesterday, anyway. It was a nothing kind of day -- frigid, vaguely snowy, and completely unproductive (except for the part where I helped Anth go through all of his clothes and get rid of 3 kitchen-sized garbage bags of stuff he'll never wear again; don't worry, it all goes to charity, and now his bureau drawers actually have room to hold all of his clothes! Amazing!!). In other who-cares news, I've been low-grade sick for the past 3 days: Slight sore throat, slight headache, slightly off. I am trying to be thankful that it's staying low-grade, but I am wishing it would stop instead. I got this one from Typhoid Sammy, who delights in bringing home every adorable little virus she can pick up from school. I am in the process of tweaking her vitamin intake -- she won't ingest gummies, chewables, or swallowables of any stripe, so we're trying again with the drinkables. They're expensive, and they only come in one flavor, which will most likely lead to her getting tired of them within a couple weeks, but she really needs a little supplementation, because she is terribly picky about her diet, particularly fruits and veggies, and she seems to catch just about everything that comes down the pike lately. Speaking of me, what is it about me that, when I'm reading food blogs and I see a link to a recipe for a food that I already know how to make perfectly and to my complete satisfaction (like split pea soup, or turkey gravy), I will still click on the link as if to doublecheck that they're not doing something better than I do it? Like, there's no way I'll ever alter my split pea soup recipe because it's always exactly what I want to eat when I want to eat split pea soup, so why should I care how someone else makes it? This seems to me some sort of indicator for a basic insecurity or dissatisfaction. Must get that under control. Comments () | link
Friday, January 29, 2010 ~~ 1:23 PM ~~ Appy-polly-loggies if you've already seen these, but: - I Will Derive - geeky fun - Charlie Brooker - How To Report The News - one NSFW word at 0:24 - World's Greenest Homes: Hong Kong Space Saver - efficient!! Comments () | link
Thursday, January 28, 2010 ~~ 10:42 AM ~~ Yesterday's breakfast? Chili. Today's breakfast? Roasted garlic hummus and pita. I am rejecting the dominant paradigm. Comments () | link
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 ~~ 7:26 PM ~~ Who ordered all of this drama, and why did you have it delivered here?? Comments () | link
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 ~~ 4:16 PM ~~ It's been a while since I've done a meme here... Not only could I hear it, but my kids HATED it. Sammy got really mad at me for playing it more than once -- "What IS that?!?" Comments () | link
Monday, January 25, 2010 ~~ 11:56 AM ~~ I've just posted a nice batch of pictures, starting here, encompassing a few random shots and Alice's ballet recital from May. Comments () | link
Sunday, January 24, 2010 ~~ 4:38 PM ~~ I have been banging my head for several days against an article that I need to write. Lord knows why I started a blog; I freaking hate to write. I will help you to organize your thoughts, I will proofread your work, I will give you wonderful editing suggestions, I will amass and synthesize disparate sources of information for you to use in your writing, but I don't like to write. It's painful. Blech. On the upside, I'm close to being done with a rough draft, and then I can send it out for excellent revision help from my support people. And then it can be done. Comments () | link
Saturday, January 23, 2010 ~~ 6:27 PM ~~ This is pretty cool: How David Blaine Held His Breath For 17 Minutes Comments () | link
Friday, January 22, 2010 ~~ 8:44 PM ~~ I am tahrd and I have a toothache. *grump* Here is random information: - Confessions of an Introverted Traveler - The Juicy Secret to Seasoning Meat - The Boys and the Subway - The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating - How children lost the right to roam in four generations Comments () | link
Thursday, January 21, 2010 ~~ 10:02 PM ~~ I always like these: 100 things we didn't know last year Comments () | link
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 ~~ 12:07 PM ~~ It's nice to know I'm not the only one who thinks about crap like this. (Sammy is feeling pretty much all better today, yay! Now we have to get going on all of the stuff we should have been doing in the past few days, like getting groceries!) Comments () | link
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 ~~ 12:10 PM ~~ Sammy is running around 80% right now, I think. She's eating some normal foods (not just saltines and other sicky-foods). She's sitting up on the couch instead of laying flat on her back. She woke up bright and early (too early, in my opinion, but I didn't get a vote) this morning and is still awake 5+ hours later. And she got a bath, so she no longer smells faintly like puke. She's still weak, though, and her tummy is still tender. What a way to spend her week off*! * Oh, did I not mention the kids have the week off from school? It's mid-year conferences. Nice work if you can get it, huh? Comments () | link
Monday, January 18, 2010 ~~ 11:32 AM ~~ I think Sammy might be on the upswing. She puked on and off all day yesterday, hallucinated* on and off all night last night, and is flat on her back on the couch today but is at least now seemingly lucid and taking in sips of Kool-Aid and nibbles of Saltines. * The hallucinations were alternately sadly amusing (when she was sobbing at 3:30 am that there wasn't enough dinner for her, so she was going to go sit on a mushroom instead) and amusingly frightening (when she was laughing hysterically and unresponsive to our voices at 4:30 am). Her fever never got above 103, but I think she spent most of the night in a weird semi-dream, semi-waking, semi-fever state. The brain is an amazing and irritating thing. Comments () | link
Sunday, January 17, 2010 ~~ 6:25 PM ~~ Sammy's got some kind of tummy bug or food poisoning today -- she's been flat on the couch since around 10:30, except for when she's been puking into a trash can. Not fun times. Comments () | link
Saturday, January 16, 2010 ~~ 7:42 PM ~~ Hey, I found another stash of links. Click on some o'these! - A Pictorial Guide to avoiding Camera Loss - It will be sunny one day. - How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - Eleven Myths of De-Cluttering - The 7 foods experts won't eat Comments () | link
Friday, January 15, 2010 ~~ 4:20 PM ~~ I'm making Asian Pork Tenderloin, white rice and edamame for dinner, but I don't get to eat any of it. I can't complain too much, because I'm going out for dinner and drinks with "the girls" tonight. I'm casting a backward glance at that tenderloin, though. Mmm.... Comments () | link
Thursday, January 14, 2010 ~~ 7:53 PM ~~ It's been so long since I've felt like posting links that all of the links I had bookmarked for posting seem stale and uninteresting to me. I guess I better just pour a few of them out for you and you can decide whether they're cool or not. - If extraterrestrial civilizations are monitoring our TV broadcasts, then this is what they are currently watching. - Ink calendar uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date. - Sleep it off inside a wine cask. - More tiny spaces: 100 rooms, each 100 square feet in size. - Sugar Stacks: How much sugar is in that? - Random Road Trip - governed by rolls of a d4. - And finally, in case you ever need to know, here's How to Extract DNA from Anything Living. Comments () | link
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 ~~ 7:48 PM ~~ The field trip was super fun, but unbelievably exhausting. Sammy and I were pretty much on our own the whole day, and we walked alllll over the place, and we tasted all kinds of interesting things, and Sammy spent a whole lot of time digging around in a wading pool full of canola seed, and we saw baby chicks and baby duckies and cows and horses and bunnies and guinea pigs and bees and we ate french fries and milkshakes and vegetable soup and orange juice slushies and baked potatoes with big slabs of butter and beef bbq and potato donuts, and when we got home we pretty much died. So today we're still feeling all of that. Yeah. *yawn* Comments () | link
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 ~~ 7:29 AM ~~ I'm getting on a big yellow school bus with a bunch of middle and high schoolers (and Sammy) and riding 90 minutes each way to the farm show today. Should be fun, or something!! Comments () | link
Monday, January 11, 2010 ~~ 7:26 PM ~~ My computer has the flu, I think. It has catastrophically frozen and had to be hard-rebooted 4 or 5 times in the past 24 hours, and at this point I am completely over the thrill of pushing that reset button and losing everything I was working on. Right now I'm trying to make it crash again so that Anth can try to figure out what's wrong, so of course it's working flawlessly. *grumble* Comments () | link
Sunday, January 10, 2010 ~~ 6:27 PM ~~ Alice's arm is no worse, but no better, so I'm calling the doctor in the morning. I'm not sure how the day is going to go, but I'm planning for chaos. Comments () | link
Saturday, January 09, 2010 ~~ 7:33 PM ~~ Daddy just left to watch the Eagles/Cowboys rematch at a friend's house. We are going to pop popcorn and watch a chick flick. What are your plans for the evening? Comments () | link
Friday, January 08, 2010 ~~ 6:33 PM ~~ I've posted to this blog every single day since October 26. Pretty good, huh? Now, I'm not saying I'm planning to take a day off from posting this weekend, but, you know, stuff happens, right? So I'm just saying, you know, if I forget to post tomorrow, you're covered, because I just put up over 2 dozen new pictures, and you're going to want to spend some extra time looking at them over and over again. Right? Go ahead -- take your first look. Start here. In other news, we had a lovely and relaxing 2 hour delay this morning due to snow. We only got about an inch or so. Sorry to those of you who got pounded from this system. I hope you're staying warm!! In other other news, Alice slammed hands-first into a wall in gym class yesterday and injured her right forearm in some way. There's no swelling or bruising visible, but it is intermittently achy (3/10 on pain scale), and when she twists her wrist a certain way it hurts more (5/10). The pain is up close to her elbow. There's nothing I can do from the outside (squeezing, rubbing, palpating, probing) to make it hurt more, but it's rather painful when she puts weight on it (like if she tries to crawl). After consultation with the doctor's office, we are wait-and-seeing for the weekend, and I plan to spend all weekend second-guessing that decision because that's my job as mother. Argh. Comments () | link
Thursday, January 07, 2010 ~~ 1:56 PM ~~ 100 Games Cupcake Game -- amazing!! Comments () | link
Wednesday, January 06, 2010 ~~ 12:26 PM ~~ As I posted on my Facebook wall this morning, I am exquisitely grateful for the copious birthday wishes and love!! And to those who told me I'm not old, feel free to talk to my body about that. I woke up yesterday with a bad bursitis in my hip. (My bod to me: "Happy birthday! You are decrepit!!") The physical pain faded by lunchtime, but the emotional pain lingers on. I had a really nice day, with balloons and cake and free dessert and people singing to me and two different restaurant meals and minimal misery from the kids and lovely presents and cards and emails, so thank you to all. My 40's have started out magically. Comments () | link
Tuesday, January 05, 2010 ~~ 7:49 AM ~~  Happy Birthday to meeeeeee!!!
Monday, January 04, 2010 ~~ 11:09 AM ~~ So this morning I finally got fed up with my comments script being down, and I submitted a ticket to the hosting company asking them to restart the server. Everything was back up within 10 minutes. I really should remember this lesson and not let things stay down for days and days and days rather than bestir myself to ask for it to be fixed. But hey! It's working now! You can load the page in under 3 minutes! And you can say hi! Just in time, because tomorrow you're going to come and wish me a happy birthday, remember? Good. Comments () | link
Sunday, January 03, 2010 ~~ 7:16 PM ~~ Well, the holiday season is pretty much over. We visited Anth's parents today and exchanged presents, which finishes up that whole aspect of the season. The kids go back to school in the morning; one goes joyously and one goes with great angst. I'm kind of in the middle -- I've mostly loved having everyone home and our schedules so nice and relaxed for the past few weeks, but I am looking forward to a few hours of peace and quiet without any sisters trying to kill each other at random intervals. The tree is still up, because we always leave that up until after my birthday (on Tuesday, people!!). I'm still lighting the pretty lights outside, to cheer up the cold night. The sparkly season's pretty much over, and there's just a long cold stretch of winter ahead. 76 days until spring!! Comments () | link
Saturday, January 02, 2010 ~~ 7:51 PM ~~ The fact that today was a palindrome (01-02-2010) was not, for me, adequate compensation for how frikkin' cold it was (high of 25°, wind chills around 17°). I know it's way colder elsewhere, but we ran a bunch of errands today, and I got well and truly sick and tired of walking around with that wind cutting into my bones, right through my jeans and my coat and everything. Bleh. Spring in less than 80 days, y'all. If you stuck around long enough for this page to load, even though it took an unreasonably long time to do so because the server that hosts my comments is down (and has been down for days now, bleh bleh bleh), bless you. I wish we could move my comments somewhere else, but Anth tells me it is largely impossible (slash unaffordable), so, you know, sorry. Comments () | link
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