It's just so wrong and yet I giggle every time. Kip has a dry cough. It kept her up all night and she sounds a little rough this morning. So B, in his grand wisdom, has taught her to say "Gollum" and "Precious" after she coughs.

At what point will she be considered "scarred for life" ?

Given 38 tornadoes in the last 24 hours and earthquakes of 6.5 magnitude, let's keep in mind that zombies aren't the only thing to worry about next year. Here are my thoughts on getting ready for 2012.

You may think "Why are you sharing with us? Won't we steal your preparedness plans? Or use them against you in case of apocalypse?" Well, studies ( Read more... )

First thing to note is that it is very dumb to wait until The Day to get the basket. Only Walmart is open @ 7 am, and they have been picked clean. My choices were "boys" and "Glee" for the premade baskets. (So Kip is getting motorcycles ( Read more... )

As it turns out, when you are deathly ill (with a sinus infection caused by allergies, nothing communicable), try not to exhaust yourself. I've been sick for 2 weeks and made 3 cakes in the meantime ( Read more... )

Ok technically it's been a year and a half, but I didn't make another car cake yet. So, here we can see how my skillz are honing in a side by side (by side) comparison:

Frogs and dragons:
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Oh what a fool. I haven't had a laptop since 1994. Now I have an awesome Duo. It converts from laptop to tablet. And now I can't sleep for all the installations and cookies and general things to update ( Read more... )

The end summary is that Morocco was fabulous. It was like visiting three countries at once. There is a strong Arabic culture with heavy French (or sometimes Francabic) language and a dear love of Spanish music. I got to practice my Spanish at least two nights and learned enough French to know that my driver is not salaried and doesn't get paid when ( Read more... )

Monday was a little more shopping. I got some dishes for the girls and learned about a new place that I must shop: Zara Home. Actually, we started out looking for shoes, but I am larger than the average Moroccan store stocks and those shoes we found that were big enough were actually too big. *sigh ( Read more... )

I snagged some breakfast and went shopping on Saturday with the girls. We saw some absolutely beautiful things, local wood and fine tile work, clothes and scarves, jewelry and trinkets. In the afternoon we drove down to the beach and watched the sun set ( Read more... )

Ok, I wasted Thursday night recouperating. But going to sleep early let me wake up before my alarm and find that it simply can't compete with the traffic and honking that I'd been tuning out. So, it's wakeup calls for me ( Read more... )