Yesterday my nephew and brother were in the same house. Never in the same room where they might have to speak mind you, but they were in the same house. I look at it as a step in the right direction ( Read more... )

I got up and looked outside. It was wet and rainy and digusting.

DM got up and looked outide. It was raining and she'd get to use her new Dora the Explorer umbrella in real rain.

Funny how you can see things so differently. :)

Well warm your teapot and pour a cuppa. The Mother and Daughter Teaparty birthday was a big success. Even the daddy who came enjoyed himself. The girls played dress up and had a good time ( Read more... )

I may not survive the concept of a 4th birthday, so I'm fixating on strange patrons ( Read more... )

I had a patron come in the library. She wanted to know if we had books of family crests. I said yes, but that without doing research having the same name didn't mean it was your crest. We didn't find anything ( Read more... )

BUT I CAN'T!!!!!!!!!! It is my sordid little secret. I was never a Brittney fan, so why is she the train wreck I must watch. I don't know what it is about her meltdown that draws me like a moth to the flame. I watch as my hand clicks at Google News and think, "no, no don't sink that low! Don't add to the feeding frenzy" And then I click anyway.

1. It's been about a year since my friend Bill "Digital Bill" Douthett died. I still miss him. The world needs more Mac fanatics in utilikilts.
2. Work sucks and nice people are being screwed.
3. I am becoming obsessed with winning a large lot of Little Critter books on ebay.
4. I need a good snog.

Well they are doing the big expose on Guatemalan adoption on the news channel. I feel like I'm being tarred with a huge brush. One not all adoption agencies anywhere are the same. There have been some real scandals here, but he isn't covering them ( Read more... )

I read the follow up article about Professor Pausch in the Wall Street Journal. He has given the Lou Gehrig speech for our generation. I thought that his talk was incredibly touching and I think I will recall parts of it for some time to come.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/

Mike goes back to the bathroom. DM follows. Mike stops at the door. DM looks at him.
Mike - "Some people like going to the bathroom by themselves."

DM stand there - "Some people don't."