Wow, it's been a long time. I'm wondering whether I even want to keep up my membership payments here on LJ, considering I last posted back, what, four months ago? My social networking has largely migrated over to a place I can get away with quick, short blurbs rather than longer posts. You know, short, as in less than 150 characters. If you look ( Read more... )

Answers to the MispronunciAations quiz are in the comments of this post. Spoilers ahoy!

Short answer section (100 pts.)
Briefly describe the following:
Ephelant (2 pts.)
Kellehopter (3 pts.)
G-Bays (5 pts.)
Squashy door (90 pts.)

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For two nights running, Aa has wanted a bedtime story above and beyond his normal allotment of two books, and I've obliged with something out of my head. Wednesday night I fictionalized an incident from that evening about him and some ants on the slide in our backyard. Then last night when I started to take another tack, he quickly steered me back ( Read more... )

Wow, has it been that long since my last post? Sheesh. Okay, obviously there's a lot of catching up to do. Ideally, this would be one of those long, thoughtful, exquisitely-written screeds that would sum up recent events and somehow tie them all into a series of insightful observations of the human condition or something. Instead, you get bullet ( Read more... )

I would have written that previous post at about 10:30 last night if there'd been a running computer or smartphone in the house, but I wasn't going to boot up a machine specially for that. Today I kind of had to work to recapture that enthusiasm, as the morning was punctuated by Aa's throwing up on the way to daycare. It's almost certainly a case ( Read more... )

Oh my God you guys! So last week I was listening to the two ladies on the radio talk about pie and that made me want pie and so over the weekend I bought apples and on Tuesday I made some pie crust and then last night I cut up the apples and rolled out the crust and put the apples in the crust and threw in some currants because I had them and why ( Read more... )

Thanks to the individuals credited below for their suggestions/contributions to my 400 quiz. It's been sent to co-workers now, so I can post the full thing online. As cazique pointed out, it's not a great General Knowledge quiz...but being as how we're all about teh libraries, I fully expect people to resort to external information sources. Had this been ( Read more... )

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Anyone got the skinny on Scholastic Book Fairs? You know, where they set up a display at school (or, as it turns out, daycare) and send home a little catalog? I remember when I was in elementary school, I loved picking out and ordering books, then waiting for them to arrive. Now from a parent's perspective, I wonder about the setup. Are prices ( Read more... )