So last night I was driving to chorus rehearsal in Weston, doing about 70mph on I-95, when suddenly there was a loud noise and a big black thing flying away behind me in my rear-view mirror. Needless to say, this was somewhat terrifying ( Read more... )

The thing is, LJ, I feel like Facebook isn't the right venue for my long overly-detailed types of posts where I go into all the little minutiae of a situation. I feel like that kind of thing belongs here on LJ, whereas FB is more of the brief summary type of place. But I've already written two fairly long-ish FB posts about my attempts to get ( Read more... )

As some of you know, I've been making rainbow cakes for the kids' birthdays ever since I discovered the concept online. This will be my fifth year making rainbow cakes for both kids (or, in one case, rainbow cupcakes), so I've got a lot of experience with it by now. It's kind of a lot of work, but always totally worth it. There's invariably at ( Read more... )

Some birthdays went by and as usual I neglected to note them here! So I shall be making some backdated posts, so try not to be too confused if they show up in your feed ( Read more... )

Valentine's Day inspires me to post these two excerpts from well-known works of popular culture. You'll soon see why I choose these two ( Read more... )

Yet another snow day yesterday -- I think that was #5 for this school year, which bodes ill for June, sigh. But unlike our previous snow day a couple weeks ago, when we were told to expect 8-12 inches and got barely 2, this one actually did involve a real snowstorm. I think we got like 10 inches or something. And it mostly fell during the morning ( Read more... )

( The oh-so-fascinating minutiae of our weekend! )

I wanted to write about an experience we had recently with "Security Theater," i.e., the needless application of illogical policies designed to present the illusion of heightened security while not actually making anything safer.

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So according to hopemcg, LJ is cool again. I think my humor-meter was broken when I read that FB post from her, so I'm not really sure whether she was being sarcastic/humorous and/or just trying to say that she had made an LJ post and wanted people to read it. ;) But in any case, here I am once again saying that I intend to start posting on LJ again! Will ( Read more... )

In Which Ruthie Retells A Blog Post by the Bloggess...

( click and read, trust me, it's awesome. )