Fun yesterday - Free Comic Books Day! So my daughter and I went downtown and got autographs by comics/graphic novel artists at two stores...one Marvel artist and a team of guys from Italy who did a great children's series. The funny part was that some of my students were doing a math competition yesterday and ran into us with their teacher ( Read more... )

Whew. Long day ( Read more... )

Wandered (as usual when I get to Whole Foods) to the Goodwill bookstore and discovered that someone had brought in boxes of comic books. :) So I called my daughter and suggested she and her father wander by on the way home and meet me...and she ended up with 9 Doctor Who comics. :) 6 from us and she paid us back for 3. Nice ( Read more... )

To blatantly copy magickalmolly today: three good things about week and three bad things.

3 Annoying things about this Week:1. Wishing a thousand messy deaths to the mosquitoes from hell that have invaded this week ( Read more... )

I chose that icon 'cause it's what I'm being sure to buy at Farmers' Market this week ( Read more... )

My daughter is now the proud "mama" of two leopard geckos. A boy and a girl. We got them, and their tank and lights and all for free from someone who wanted to find a good home for them locally, so this solved the money problem in getting her the first real pet she's had. She is now upstairs alternately reading for her homework and sitting in ( Read more... )

Well, the marathon is over. Two days, three shows. The gig with the Celtic band was awesome, more fun than I've had in ages - I've really missed playing with those guys, and it was definitely in both senses of the word playing. :) Our vocal group had a lot of people comment to us that we had tight harmonies and great balance of sound and voices ( Read more... )

Staff lunch was fun today, as we got to share goodies and find out who our "secret pixie pal" was for the last week. It's been nice at this stressful time of year for teachers to get little surprises in one's box each day. And tomorrow, I get to give away hundreds of books to students at my school who've worked hard on their reading - I got ( Read more... )

This is officially the day-to-get-things-done. After I've had my coffee and breakfast and checked my email and stuff, though. We'll need to get our family portrait taken (or at least our daughter's, so that grandparents and aunts will not fuss) - she had one taken at school, which just looked goofy, and not in a good way, so off to the mall ( Read more... )

Tonight? There was trick-or-treating for UNICEF, a family tradition, as my mom was part of the very first such event in New York ( Read more... )