People often comment on the cool jewelry I wear. Most of it comes from a very talented jewel-mistress (sp? = lovely person who makes lovely jewelry) named Elise. She's having an on-line sale now. Here's the link: http://elisem.livejournal.com/1528096.html

Happy Birthday to my loveable brother baldanders!

Still have laryngitis. I'm worried because this is my third day of resting my throat, with no discernible improvement. Maybe tomorrow will be better. I hope so, because I really must go back to school on Monday, and if I still have no voice, then teaching is going to be quite interesting ( Read more... )

That's how I'm talking today - I have laryngitis. And a ferocious sore throat, and congestion, and a cough. All of which conspired to wake me up twice during the night for more pain medication. :-( Yup, I'm definitely sick ( Read more... )

Chris brought me roses at school yesterday! They're on my desk so I can look at them throughout the day and smile.

Very Well-Rounded

You have:
62% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and
70% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored above average on emotional intuition and above average on scientific intuition. (Weirdly, your emotional and scientific intuitions are equally strong.)


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I'm home from vacation, and was planning on a longer post. But Chris and I went for a bike ride this morning up in Seattle before we headed back home, and I had a collision with a bee who was so irritated that she decided to sting me. I got back to Mom and Dad's and took some Benedril (sp?) and Ibuprofen. But that didn't seem to help much. Plus ( Read more... )

Chris and I are getting ready to leave for a 4 day camping trip (at Trillium Lake, in Oregon.) I am very much looking forward to getting away together and relaxing. More when we get back, as I am supposed to be helping Chris right now with packing up the truck ( Read more... )

Chris and I went to Mass this morning. There were 4 baptisms, which is always fun. The St. Andrew community really gets into baptisms! Two parts I especially love ( Read more... )

Chris and I were in Seattle this last weekend for my brother Rob's birthday celebration. While we were there, I also got to spend some time with my newest niece, Sofia (10 months.)

Here she is. (I think she looks somewhat like me!)

I also taught her to play peek-a-boo, which my sister Sarah says that she now plays all the time. (beam!)

Peek-a ( Read more... )