I'll just tell you two stories about my sister's youngest ( Read more... )

Someone on Twitter today wrote about how loud commercials are. My first thought was about Unk saying recently that reportedly, overloud commercials will be legislated soon in the U.S. (oh, and YAY!) My second thought was about my grandaddy ( Read more... )

I just got an SMS from my mom: Hi im te@ching myself how to text mom
I replied: Hi! Am impressed :)
She figured out how to reply: How do i delete a leutter
Me: It's different on every phone. Do you have any sort of backspace-looking key?

That was about 20 minutes ago. I think her texting career may already be over.

One of my sister's boys (#3) shares a birthday with Unk (celebrated together in this entry), and he'll be turning 6 this year. Clearly, he has birthdays on the brain. I was talking to him the other night on the phone, and although paraphrased a little, the conversation basically went like this ( Read more... )

Today, March 18, we got a St. Patrick's Day card from my mom.

She wrote something on the left side of the card:
I hope you are making shamrock cookies!

(why, and for whom? I've made cookies once in the 4? 5? years we've lived here, and it was for firemen who made sure I wasn't going to die. Why would I bake shamrock cookies on a Tuesday ( ( Read more... )

My friend bookczuk is at the hospital right now for one of her mom's breast cancer surgeries. For her blog entry this morning, she used the identifying tag "fight like a girl", which made me smile. The more I thought about it, though, the more profound it became ( Read more... )

I seem to be in a rut of posting American Idol recaps, inane blather, and random linkage. My apologies to regular blog readers. However, there's MORE! Here are some very dis/unconnected things I keep meaning to post about ( Read more... )

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