So I have been looking at various art movements trying to establish my likes and dislikes. I have known for a while that I like Art Nouveau and some Arts and Crafts (mainly the architecture). Also, almost anything before Art Nouveau in Europe, as well as Asian and Middle Eastern ( Read more... )

Only in New Mexico. Drunk driver runs over self.

A random news article this morning.

So we are playing Rock Band 2 and we decide to make a '70's band. omnipaul is restyling his character and I am looking at it/him, thinking that it looked familiar. At first, I am thinking maybe an old TV show. Then, no, it is more like a drawing I've seen. So while I am trying to think of when I have seen a similar drawing omnipaul speaks up, "That looks like ( Read more... )

Just got over half of my Christmas shopping done and half of Mara's birthday shopping done. Most of that is now wrapped.

Chris is a scary wrapper. I have complained before about how well and easily he folds fitted sheets so that they look like folded flat sheets, by himself! Tonight, while wrapping presents, he was holding a box up off of any ( Read more... )

I was filling out some paperwork for Mara to be evaluated with Child Find and they wanted how old she was for certain milestones. Well, I couldn't remember, so I went looking through her baby books. While searching for "firsts", I found the pages where you write about world events and such during the time that the baby was born ( Read more... )

Monopoly Trivia.

Granted, I would prefer source citations to look this up,but it is still interesting.