Went to Lagoon yesterday. My daughter, 4, had such a good time! We took her a couple years ago and she didn't want to go on anything, was scared of most of the rides and only went on the carousel and the train. This time, she was a bit scared at first, but once she got going, she REALLY got going! She went on just about everything she could that ( Read more... )

This one probably won't be interesting to anyone but me. I like to write down what I eat when I go out of town because I loves the food so much. I went to Denver by train in October w/ my family and we had so much fun ( Read more... )

I am a big giant geek, I always have been, and always will be. And I realized the other day that I was dooooooomed from the start ( Read more... )

I just wanted to get this down while I was thinking about it ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that I was hanging out with Amanda Palmer before a concert, she was getting ready for the show and I had won some contest or something, so was chosen to hang out with her ( Read more... )

Sometimes you're in just the right place, at just the right time, with just the right brain goin' on, that a song/poem/book/story, hits you EXACTLY right and your life feels different after. I had this experience a month or so ago with an Amanda Palmer song, In My Mind. She just released the video a month ago, I follow her on Twitter, so I got the ( Read more... )

When we moved into our house last May, there were a few ants here and there. I thought we had perhaps brought them with us since we had a few ants in our old house. At the time, I thought nothing of it. We unpacked (um, not all the way tho, that never happens right?) and settled in. Six months went by, then, they started appearing more and more in ( Read more... )

In all the hullabaloo about the Oscar noms coming out, I didn't realize that "Waiting for Superman" got nothing, no nomination atall. It makes total sense to me why it wouldn't, but it seemed like a shoe-in since it was "taking the country by storm" and all that kind of shit. This article was on Ebert's Twitter feed and he mentioned it in a way ( Read more... )

I'm not sure when this list came out, but I am very likely late to this game. Because of the Huck Finn controversy, I started mucking about the American Library Association and found the following list ( Read more... )

I still have a physical day planner. I know, I know, I need to get with the program and put it all in my Blackberry and Google calendar and sync them, etc, etc. I really have no excuse as to why I haven't done that ( Read more... )