N (who is now almost 11) is playing the original Myst on M's computer. The same game series that M used to play almost obsessively back in the day, when we were right out of college. At one point we had to buy a faster computer because I bought one of the sequels (Riven?) for him and it wouldn't run on the tower computer my dad had put together ( Read more... )

Been lurking for a while, thought I'd jot some notes before I forget ( Read more... )

Power back on, been out since midnight Saturday. I got a chance to yell "THANK YOU!" to the National Grid guy driving by as I went out to retrieve the urgent laundry from the car. (N and I were just about to set off to find an open laundromat, with DVDs for him to watch on my laptop, when he happened to flip the light switch and the light came on ( Read more... )

1) N got his cast off today!! (4 weeks from breaking his arm) Follow up with the doctor in a week and take it easy (no gym class) but X rays look good ( Read more... )

Spent most of today baking cookies. Double batch of ricotta this morning with N (~4 doz), half batch of gingersnaps made up and half still in fridge to roll out tomorrow, batch of sugar cookies (~3 doz + minis to use up the dough) still need some frosting or something since I apparently left all the decorating sugar at Mom's last year ( Read more... )

I had a nice long post about this weekend so far but then I lost it in poking LJ with NoScript. Oh well ( Read more... )

--Baby is happy. Happy baby dances. Dance, baby, dance! Just watch out for mommy's bladder, please ( Read more... )

1) My brother got a job! (He's been unemployed for a year or so, and he wasn't working much for several months before that.) He starts 3/30, so he even has a little time to goof around before he starts, since they found a daycare for their daughter and she's starting right away ( Read more... )

So very tired. Thank goodness it was slow enough at work that I could try to recover a little bit from last week. Didn't get enough done, though, so will need to either go in for some time this weekend or work some long hours on Monday to try to get back on track. But, if the plan holds and no crisis hits next week, I might be mostly caught up ( Read more... )

Accomplishment for the month (or year, depending): N has successfully switched to underwear not Pull-Ups!! We had a pretty rough week the first week or so (the day I had to stop by Kohl's to buy him another cheap pair of shoes because his sneakers AND water shoes at daycare were still drying out, he peed in the car seat on the way to the store ( Read more... )