In the past six weeks -- starting with Thanksgiving -- we have had a party on five the the weekends. It is the season of parties, after all. In my world, parties always equals food. So in the interest of posterity, I thought I would write down everything we made. I need to stress the "WE" here. There is no way I could do this by myself -- however ( Read more... )

Last night Merrill's low temp was -32°! That's not even factoring in wind chill, that's just straight air temp: -32°! Do you know how cold that is? It's so cold that it's almost the same temperature in both Celsius and Fahrenheit! I think the saying needs to be written "March comes in like a Polar Bear." No, that's not mean enough. How 'bout "March ( Read more... )

I was once described as being "aggressively optimistic". It seems an accurate description of me. I like to see the positive side of things. I enjoy the silver-lining and I will fight to find it ( Read more... )

I haven't posted here for a while. The holidays do that to me ( Read more... )

Stolen from stickers83

If only because she's Minnesotan!

1. Go to Google (or Yahoo) and type, "You know you're from (your state) when..."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.

I just nabbed one of the many out there.

Subject: You know you're from Wisconsin if...

The town you grew up in had a bar called Ma's Place. No but as a ( Read more... )

Well, actually not. But I've friended some new people as of late and thought I could do a little "get to know me post". However, since I'm incredibly lazy about such things, I'm really just going to end up linking to posts that let you know about me.

I updated my Bio at my User Profile page not to long ago and I really think that it's the best ( Read more... )

The day is turning out okay. I should start there.

It's one of those good news/bad news intros. Kinda like when you call someone and the first thing you say to them is "Just know we're all okay". That's the good news, you see. After you share that bit of info, you go back and fill in all the problems/bad news that happened.

( The bad news. )

there was scheduled to be silence ( Read more... )

Just got back from the musical 1776, as put on by the Wausau Community Theatre. It was totally awesome and I now have a mad crush on the character of John Adams. This information I'm not sharing with my daughter because he was played by her music teacher. *grin* It is a completely wonderful musical and everyone did a terrific job in it ( Read more... )

My daughter needs a new computer. We've tried limping along with older models but both Wil's and mine aren't up to snuff when it comes to some of the things she needs to do. So today I ordered her a new one. An expensive one -- a macbook pro. I looked at the cheaper window laptops, but by the time you figure in that she has to be able to do ( Read more... )