The best Freestyle almost always wins -- and so it is again. Yay.

Mya was very well spoken about teamwork, but if I were her, I'd be beating Dmitri upside the head for not listening to her about their Freestyle.

Still, it was my personal desired outcome, so there you have it.

In a phone conversation with my mother yesterday, she relayed that she and my father would probably have to take care of my neice and nephew today because they were sick and my sister-in-law couldn't take today off work. You see, she teaches middle school and had warned the girls in her class that if they were absent today because they went to a ( Read more... )

For our Thirteenth Wedding Anniversary (this coming Monday), the Admiral suggested what he called a 'not very romantic' date of going to see the new Star Trek movie this Saturday (he won't be home Monday).

I'm pretty excited about it and was able to catch most of Star Trek: First Contact (which I think is the best of the "Next Generation" movies) ( Read more... )

The Admiral has decided to read the first three Harry Potter books now that he's read the final four. He told me the other day (in sort of amazement) that he's really enjoying the first book (and he's only up to The Sorting Hat). He doesn't understand how anybody (ie his mother) could say, 'yeah, I tried to read it, but I just couldn't get into ( Read more... )

Arrgh! I was just finishing typing this post when the baby reached up and whatever button she pushed deleted the whole thing.

So let's see if I can recreate it.

This morning's e-mail from the Admiral included the following line:
HR&H infiltrated the Ministry, and I had to keep reading at my desk until I got to the part where they made it to the ( Read more... )