April 1, 2011

My other kid, James, gave me the ultimate compliment today. I had been getting validation and actual gratitude from Petey the past few months, but James is only 21, and I figured I’d have to wait a bit longer.   We were talking about mothers and parenting in a particular situation, and he said that this other mother wasn’t a “bad” ( Read more... )

Life Mathematics - Maternity Math, Mommy Mathematics

Maternity Math
40 weeks = 40 x 7 days per week = 280 days of gestation (which is never the truth)
3 trimesters = 280 days / 3 = 280/3 =
Decimal: 93.333333   or   Fractional: 93 1/3
(Thanks so much. That made it so much clearer. So easy to remember 93 ! )

And when the baby is finally “born” (or yanked ( Read more... )

 Life Mathematics   --  Music Major Math

I'm sure I'm not the only person to come up with the joke that “Music Majors can only count to FOUR.”   And, they only need to learn their letters up to “G”.

Granted, there's less of the higher levels of Mathematics involved for a B.A. in Music than there was to obtain a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, I'll ( Read more... )

There are worse parents than I was !
Where was THIS when I needed it!
I was poking around the internet in my new A.D.D. way tonight. (Never thought I had ADD before, but when you look at my 100 piece YouTube playlist, or the 40 unopened and unrelated tabs awaiting me, you'd have a good argument for it. Definitely no "H" though. You could encase me ( Read more... )

 
Fortune Cookie Foibles

I mentioned once before that I don't put any stock in Fortune Cookies, but that once in awhile I save one just for kicks and giggles.   Over the years I've noticed quite a downward trend in the quality of the “fortunes”.   As with most things, “They just don't make 'em like they used to.”   The spelling and grammar mistakes ( Read more... )

 First Post, First Day

So you all need/want that startup information. I am 48 years old, 5'4” and shrinking (My kids and I are convinced it's less a symptom of aging and more that wherever I'm standing, I now make a divot in the earth.), and Monday morning's weigh-in had me at 248.7 tons. Sounds horrific to you, but I haven't even SEEN the 250's ( Read more... )

I'm a Basket Case, and Fiercely Proud Of It !

You've heard the old phrase, “Don't put all your eggs in one basket.”    Well, along the way, I knew I was doing it wrong, I knew I was supposed to have another....a separate identity from my “two baskets”.  But in their early years, there was no time for anything else except fulfilling the needs of ( Read more... )

Silly Muffin matriculates

I think I should send my cat "Silly Muffin Head" to college.   She hasn't exactly told me “What I want to be when I grow up”, but I have some ideas.

She's not all that young really, not an adolescent.   In fact, she's even been a mother already, and a very good one at that.   Although when I took her in, at my son's ( Read more... )

The Things I Do For You.....

I learned a new word today - “prolix”.  I was popping in to Dictionary.com and it was the Word of the Day.  Without getting verbose about it, here is the definition:  http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/prolix
Prolix -adjective
1, extended to  ( Read more... )

Insense vs. Incense (vs. incence vs. insence)

Insense - In*sense"\, v.t. [Pref. in-in+sense.] To make to understand; to instruct. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

Incense
-  noun = an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odorwhen burned, used in religious ceremonies, to enhance a mood, etc.
-verb (used with object), -censed, -cens·ing = to  ( Read more... )