NOOOOOO!!! Tommy Makem died on Wednesday from cancer. I had always wanted to go to one of his shows. He's one of the big reasons I had really wanted to go to the Milwaukee Irish Fest last year (never made it) and this year (no one to go with, alas). I grew up listening to Tommy Makem and the Clancy Brothers and their album The Makem & Clancy ( Read more... )

My parents came home this afternoon, bearing gifts. I was expecting some candy bars that I had requested, but not the amount that came home. Loads of the Cadbury candy bars. Mmmhmmm. In addition to that, I got a coloring book (yes, a coloring book) because my mom liked the Celtic designs in it (a lot are from the Book of Kells). I actually do ( Read more... )

Today was good. I had them each clean a chair, desk and locker as they came in and we were finished by 9am. We joined the other second grade and they watched Tarzan while the other teacher and I finished up some things. Then we had snacktime for a half hour or so that consisted of popcorn for everyone and strawberries and Munchkins for the ( Read more... )

A real conversation with my parents while watching Keeping Up Appearances where Onslow mentions the Kama Sutra:

Mom: What's the Kama Sutra?

Dad: I don't know.

Both of them: Katie, what's the Kama Sutra?

Me: It's the Indian book of sex.

Mom: How did you know that?

Me: How did you NOT know that?

I couldn’t help thinking while I was at work that my job would be so much better if there weren’t any customers.

Babysat last night as well. I am two episodes of Alias away from Sark’s first appearance. If I didn’t have this blasted paper to write for tomorrow you can be certain I’d be planting my butt in front of the TV and watching those ( Read more... )

Nice long tiring day of work. But it was busy and went by fairly quickly. And I also got $30 in Pier 1 bucks for getting two people to open a Pier 1 charge and for convincing them that they wanted to spend over $250 to save 15%. I rocked the house ( Read more... )

Words cannot express how annoying parents are, especially mine. I have no concrete proof of their annoyingness, it’s just that I am thoroughly annoyed. People always tell me that they love my parents. Yeah, well, you don’t have to live with them.

Moving on... saw Two Weeks Notice this afternoon after work. It was cute and it depressed me.

Two ( Read more... )

I love Marshall.

You can set your heart by this watch. Angsty!Vaughn!

The opening with Sark was muy bueno. Need to find screen caps of him in his sunglasses. It was all I could do to keep myself from squealing like a little pre-teen.

Agent Vaughn has trouble sleeping when you’re in the field. She’s so perceptive ( Read more... )

Let’s see. I’ve watched a bunch of movies this past week, all of which were pretty good. All the Little Animals, Dogfight, Josie and the Pussycats (stop laughing. It’s the second time I’ve rented it. It’s actually very amusing). I think there were others as well. Oh yeah, saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding which I knew nothing about and was ( Read more... )

A bad thing: getting up at 5:15am to go to work at 6am ( Read more... )