Fibonacci, continued
I’m not going to have time tonight to continue my thought from yesterday, but I thought y’all might find this amusing: Have a great Friday!
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Last Exit to Springfield
I apologize for not keeping up with the blog lately. I’ve been grouchy. To clarify: more grouchy than usual. I was watching March Madness Sunday night, and at a critical point in the game a player dribbled the ball off his foot, sending it out of bounds and into the possession of the other team. This is not what I’ve been grouchy about. But it got me thinking. Have you […]
Friday Fun
Although the focus of the last month for me has been building a library, I’ve ironically done very little reading. So what kind of wind sprints are getting this flabby brain back in shape? you ask. Why, reality TV! I’ll answer. Specifically, American Idol. Don’t judge me. After performing my Triple C duties*, Mom could use a little downtime. A couple of the kids really stood out this week, and […]
Failing at the Grocery Store
Failblog amuses me. So when I saw the following sign at the grocery store, I knew I needed to snap a picture with my phone and submit it to Failblog. If this picture makes you grin, click here to vote for the photo so that it will appear on Failblog. If not, well, never mind.
Merry New Year!
We’re a couple of days into 2010 already, but hey, I didn’t resolve to stop procrastinating. We had a lovely time at a New Year’s Eve party at our neighbors’ house. They graciously invited the four of us to join them and some of their longtime friends in an evening of revelry. By my count 11 kids were there in addition to parents, 10 stayed up until midnight, and, unexpectedly, […]
The Moment
Have you ever heard that “living in the moment” is an ideal we should strive to achieve? I’ve been living in the moment all day. Why? Because I have the stomach flu. This has been a day of moments I would prefer not to have lived in. Thankfully it seems to be on its way out. And I am reminded that sometimes it’s okay not strive for ideals. On a […]
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! The kids are sacked out in the living room surrounded by Santa’s bounty, and with a trip to Grandma’s yet to anticipate. As my Byeya used to say whenever a check came in the mail, “It’s a good day.” I’m not tired at the moment, so I’ll conclude the previous post about the Christmas Consumers. Basically I just wanted to give more kudos to those who put the […]
Christmas Consumers
I got to do something very cool today. Each year my mom and my Aunt Carolyn volunteer their time, talent, and treasure to help the area MHMR program put together a Christmas party for the “consumers”—the people receiving mental health or mental retardation services. For many of the consumers, it’s the only Christmas celebration they’ll attend. I got to participate in the fruit of their labor by volunteering at the […]
Fun Fact of the Day
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire … Jack Frost nipping at your nose … I was singing “The Christmas Song” rather loudly in my bathroom when it occurred to me that its writer, Mel Torme, is Jewish. And then I realized that so is Irving Berlin, who wrote “White Christmas,” the best-selling song of all time. (An aside on that song: when I learned to play it on piano I […]
A New Perspective
I was reaching for a can of garbanzo beans at Newflower Market on Tuesday when it dawned on me that I was not miserable. Grocery shopping falls somewhere down the chore scale into the range of scrubbing toilets and cleaning up vomit. It has to be done, but I’m not exactly joyful about it. So here I was in this mom and pop little whole-foods grocery store with my kids, […]
Flabby Brain 