First off, thanks mbeancntr for the balloons. With all the snow around here I do need something colorful to look at ( Read more... )

Last day of winter break - at least for the kids.  Eric and I are heading to South Florida tomorrow on a mini vacation to see the Orange Bowl.  I'm definitely looking forward to the getaway, and while the forecast isn't exactly beach weather, it's still going to be thirty degrees warmer than here ( Read more... )

My morning workload was just cut in half, so to celebrate - a post. I think this is the first time I've done one of these, or at least dedicated a whole post to "So why doesn't everyone think the same as me?!?"

• Bones season finale - I thought was brilliant. I thought for sure people were going to be falling over themselves writing fic about ( spoilers )

I'm not sure if I'll make it on-line tomorrow, so if not Happy Easter to all that celebrate ( Read more... )

So a couple of days ago, I was scanning the flist and came across svilleficrecs's comment about Taylor Kitsch playing Gambit in the Wolverine movie coming out next month.  I loved the X-Men movies (okay, maybe not the third one as much) so I've been pretty excited about it.  I have watched the trailers several time, and even had an in-depth conversation with DH ( Read more... )

Holy shit, I'm exhausted.  I'm recovering from the latest round of shoveling.  It doesn't look pretty, but I think I have removed enough of the 8-13" of snow that covered my driveway this morning to at least get the car out of the garage tomorrow.  I intended to go one more round to try and get more driveway and less snow showing, but since I'm now ( Read more... )

Today is my second consecutive work day at home (yesterday was a holiday).  Since my older son has been sick since he came home from school on Thursday, he spent the whole four day weekend not feeling good.  I found out yesterday after an early morning visit to the pediatrician that he had Strep throat.  I also found out that the younger one, ( Read more... )

...but at least I made it in before Martin Luther King Jr. Day ( Read more... )

* Now I remember why the last separation went by so fast.  Almost one week down ( Read more... )

Or the not whining about real life post.

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