1. What's with how political conservatives have singehandedly ruined the word "conservative", despite so many neutral (conservative dress) and positive (conservative with one's money) meanings ( Read more... )

You know who I pity ( Read more... )

I've been up to lots too, but somehow it isn't nearly as interesting (to me) as what Luisa's been up to lately.  Actually most of my Lu anecdotes are kinda gross.  Notably ( Read more... )

After the war when Austria was occupied by the allies, my family had some British soldiers staying in their house.  My grandmother asked one of the soldiers what he did before the war, and he replied that he was a painter.  How lucky!  They needed someone to paint the kitchen, which this chap was then hired to do.  Of course even without the ( Read more... )

I want to have a Victorian-style informal reading night.  Actually I want to have series of such nights, but I don't think I know anyone with the dedication to show up week after week.  We'll get a novel, preferably a Dickens novel*, and read it aloud one chapter at a time.  It would be a big commitment, but oh, the rewards!  Bonding! Suspense!  ( Read more... )

I have some time to read the internet!  But what to read?  Please post your favorite websites for (informative? hilarious?) recreational reading.  Thanks!

I hate the idea that I'm spending the prime hours of the prime years of my life on the phone with Telus, trying to explain that I don't know the phone number of whoever lived in my place in 2005, and asking for the fifth time "I've never been asked for that when I've hooked up a phone before;  do you really need it?".  Nor do I relish staying home ( Read more... )

Lu can walk and talk but she can't walk and talk, if you you know what I mean.  She gets too nervous and wants to hold on to my hand even when she isn't putting any weight on it.  And the other day she called Scrumptious "Grandpa" (grandpa and cat are the two words she's learning right now).  I guess it will be a while before she can say " ( Read more... )

Now Lu has a fever :(

Luisa just said her first sentence!  "Bye Bye Ma Ma"!  That's right, both of the words she consistently uses correctly!  Yay, Lu!