1. Halloween was pretty quiet. We might have had 20 (or maybe 30) kids come to our door. Turned the light off at 8:30 when we'd not had a trick-or-treater in close to an hour. Ate waaaay too much leftover candy yesterday, resulting in a weird dream last night in which a younger, much less-fat me, in a mid-thigh cheerleader-type skirt, took my DD ( Read more... )

1. Okay, I am not crazy enough to attemp NaNoWriMo this year. Just not going to happen. I still haven't finished the story I started in 2004, when I wrote more than 50,000 words but wasn't anywhere near done with the story. Then my mom was terminally ill (post-Katrina) the next year so I wasn't going to attempt it. And to be honest, I can't plot my ( Read more... )

1. Today I went to some introductory Photoshop training. I've had Photoshop on my work computer for probably 2-3 years but never really had any idea what I was doing so all I could do was cropping and resizing and occasionally adding some text. I did learn some stuff today and I got a huge (350 page) user manual /workbook, but it all went by in a ( Read more... )

1. On the way home from work Friday, I stopped at Walgreen's and got a flu shot and bought a gallon of skim milk. So far no reaction to the shot other than a sore lump on my left arm. *crosses fingers* Watched Stargate: Atlantis and Sanctuary (though I admit to dozing off during the latter...which might or might not be a commentary on the script ( Read more... )

Somehow we managed NOT to buy a pumpkin this year:( I guess October was too warm, or we got too busy, but somehow we never found one so we never carved one. So suddenly today Darling Daughter said OMG Mom, we need to MAKE some decorations. We spent some time before dinner making tiny ghosts out of Kleenex and paper napkins and stringing them up ( Read more... )

1. And now, in silly contrast to the Nobel Prizes, here are the ( Ig Nobel Prizes for 2007 )