I just managed to import my brothers' music library to iTunes... And in one fell swoop the shuffle feature got a lot more exciting! Now I just need to get my mother's music and make electronic copies of my father's reel-to-reels and I'll have copies of everything except what I listened to in college (because I deleted all of that when it started ( Read more... )

The prospect of folding laundry, planning meals for the weekend, posting to livejournal, and going to work didn't get me out of bed on time. I laid around for 20 minutes. But the three loads of laundry will still be there when I get home, I'll still have to figure out something to cook for dinner, and I'm not going to be late for work. So, no ( Read more... )

The boys were both dry this morning, but Mas wet the bed during his nap this afternoon. I made some sun-dried tomatoes and tuna with pasta dish for dinner, and should get to go help my mother rearrange the mess in her basement while DH is out swimming.

We came to an agreement that for two weeks we would try getting the boys up for potty breaks every three hours. This with the theory that they wouldn't wet the bed and would get the idea that they're not supposed to pee laying down. We did think far enough to say that if it worked we would establish longer periods between potty breaks until ( Read more... )

DH left at 7pm for swimming last night. The boys and I worked on making Valentines Day cards for PJ to take to school - Watching the printer print, using the paper cutter and then writing (or scribbling in Mas' case) on the back. We only need 18 for the class, but after picking out the picture PJ wanted to give some to his friends in the ( Read more... )

YNAB 3 is now available! This is very exciting for me. It's a new version of the budgetting software I started using. And they finally added the report/graph features that I lost when I switched from Excel. This means I will be spending some time setting up a separate "budget" in order to get the investment accounts moved over -- finally ( Read more... )

I went to my first SuperBowl party since high school last night (second one ever). The food was great! Mom made miniature hot browns as a test recipe for the Tea. The boys ate mostly cupcakes. I found out that Budweiser commercials are really good and that Dove is now making a soap for men. I did not further my understanding of football ( Read more... )

DH and I went out to dinner last night and then stopped at the autoparts store on the way back to get wiper blades and a new light bulb for the driver's side. Since it snowed, I don't think I'll be driving the Volvo today, but I'm very happy that those things got fixed. There was something in there about me not nagging enough - apparently since I ( Read more... )

Dad or as my boys call him, 'Hop', drove yesterday because there were three inches of fresh snow. Oh, and I carpool to work with my father. We switch-off weeks. This was my week.

Speaking of work, phrases that I'm unfamiliar with have been coming up. The one I can recall at the moment is 'vice' being used instead of 'versus' when contrasting/ ( Read more... )

So for the last 24 hours I've been periodically trying to recall the name of a movie - it was one that I thought had Helen Hunt in it (but her filmography doesn't seem to have it), and it was definitely Sci-Fi. She was placed into a ball that was dropped through an open ball made of spinning circles that was constructed according to plans received ( Read more... )