It's a good thing I never got a job because I am way too busy driving my various and sundry family members around to their doctor's appointments. I said to LM the other day YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GET SICK ( Read more... )

Weird resolution, huh? I interviewed for three jobs in the past year and didn't get any of them. Yeah yeah the economy is rough, there are so many people out there looking for jobs that you have to be EXACTLY what they're looking for to have a hope. Also, I really suck at interviewing. No, really, I do. I get nervous and then I babble and just talk ( Read more... )

I found someone on facebook recently who used to live down the street from me. We were friends in childhood and went to the same elementary school. She and her sister are twins, the 5th and 6th children in a family of seven. Families with that many kids were not so unusual in the town where I grew up, not in those days anyway. These twins were ( Read more... )

I think I have convinced Aislin to study Mongolia for her culture project. We have been watching Long Way Round, this documentary about two guys who ride all the way from London to New York on motorcycles. They pass through Mongolia and Aislin thought it was equal parts interesting and gross that they use chips made from yak poop as fuel for the ( Read more... )

We are all on Christmas Break! Yayy ( Read more... )

Aislin is home sick today. Poor kid. She's flopped out on the floor watching PBS Kids ( Read more... )

After all that moaning about wanting Aislin to pick a work of fine literature for her book report, I was in the classroom yesterday. Two kids presented their book reports. One was about a book called "I am Optimus Prime" which I am guessing did not win any Caldecott Medals this year.

I heard that you could make easy pumpkin brownies with a box of brownie mix and a can of pumpkin. Of course you could also make this from scratch but I wanted to try the easy route. Supposedly you just replace the oil, egg, and water with the canned pumpkin so that's what I did. Except that the batter was way too dry so I added the water. They ( Read more... )

Most of you follow me on Facebook so you already know this. But SHIT YA'LL! I'm FAMOUS!!

I was interviewed for an article in the Trib

and she used my Top Ten list -- some of it anyway -- and sort of credited me.

Then WGN Newsradio, which is owned by the Trib, called this morning and wanted to have me on the show. So I talked to this Mike McConnell ( Read more... )

Oh lord here we are already at the end of the month and you know what that means! Another freakin' book report due!! It's due Tuesday and we haven't started. I am assigning this project to the husband. I just may go shopping tomorrow ( Read more... )