Eleanor Roosevelt: "A woman is like a tea bag -- you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water."

About WALL-E in an old WIRED magazine ( Read more... )

I had these a couple of weeks ago; they were delicious! :)

http://www.deepriversnacks.com/sweetmauionion/index.html

EVERYONE MUST LOOK AT THIS!!!! :D Mike (who sent it to me) and I are crying and laughing like fiends (sleep deprived fiends) from this!!! This is SO TRUE!!!!!http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jen-ml/before-kids-list_b_1239222.html#

Yesterday there was a skunk in our yard when we arrived home. It scurried over to our back porch area. I think this was the first time I've seen a living skunk in person. A couple of months ago the neighborhood skinny/starving fox walked all the way around our sidewalk then into our yard (as we drove up slowly it was trying to get away from us, but ( Read more... )

"But one day he'd caught Sam reading a science fiction novel he was sure he'd seen him reading before. It was a collection of short stories by Heinlein ( Read more... )

This is an article Mike sent me. :)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/15/lego-friends-girls-gender-toy-marketing_n_1206293.html?

I find it very annoying that Lego has created new, different (and oddly sized) sets "for girls" that focus on 'girly things' (with a slight nod to 'girls can do the things that boys do too' in their "invention workshop") instead of incorporating more females into their usual size and professions/recreational activities and adding these ones to it. ( Read more... )

http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/tv/50-best-quotes-from-red-dwarf

At this extra stressful (and for most of us, cold) time of year, please make sure to stop, relax, and appreciate the good things in your life, whatever they may be. *hugs* :)