I have returned from doing absolutely nothing for the entire fabulously 3-dayed weekend. We did make a list Saturday morning of things that needed to be done, but it involved things like “read” and “watch Happy Feet.”*
We meant to climb Dog Mountain today, but that somehow turned into baking a lemon chiffon cake with lemon [...]
The Last King of Scotland Having not seen any other best actor contenders but Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness, I would venture that Forest Whitaker’s win was warranted. That said, I have no use for this movie. I was fine with it until afterwards, when I Wikipeed it and found out that the [...]
Not so much progress on the reading of six books today. Because first this happened:*
And then today, LibraryThing happened. Fourteen of those cubes above yielded 233 books. And did I mention that we have two more (smaller) bookshelves?
The list of Best Ideas Ever has now been expanded: Google, New Seasons, cinnamon in coffee, and now [...]
I came home from library day yesterday with six new books:
Once again, Stephan expressed disbelief that I could finish them all by the time they’re due in 3 weeks. So I’m trying a new technique: reading them all at the same time. I’m at least a chapter into each of them [...]
Those of you who have been glued to the comments–and, really, who hasn’t–may be curious who this “Nalani” person is. This is who:
The orange and camo one with the hot dog. It’s her fault that I’m married: she introduced me to Stephan. This picture was taken on an illegal camping weekend (mixed company with no [...]
I’m currently reading an Almanac of World History. Best line so far: “…the Yuezhi disliked the Xiongnu, in part because the nomads had killed the Yuezhi king and used his skull as a drinking vessel.”
It pales in comparison, however, to this passage from my college photography textbook:
“The sun, although large, is so far away that [...]
Why I Love My Mom
by Katie
I love my mom because even though she found me at the end of the driveway in a paper bag, she always tells me that it’s impossible for her to love me any less. When I feel bad, she sings to me that I’m a poor little lamb who [...]
For the record: I like words. You may recall this one time in college when I carefully cataloged all the four-syllable words ending in “-ate” that I could think of. Propitiate, enumerate, repudiate, et cetera. You cannot bottle this coolness, people.
Lately, my obsession is base words whose pronunciations change when you tack on a suffix. [...]
Here I am, Internets! After a super fabulous mini-vacation to sunny Boulder, Colorado. Where several things happened.
I ate the most adorable gummy bears ever. Check out those tiny paw pads!
Stephan and I are all about the compromising. That may not be true: we’re mostly all about trading favors. We have nearly successfully traded Stephan remembering to drop the pull-up-for-shower thingy after a shower for me remembering to leave the lights on and the emergency brake off after driving the car.
In the next swap, Stephan [...]
