It's official. The kids are out of school for the summer. Awesome! Cole made gold honor roll for getting straight A's! Yay!. He also got an award for making the honor roll every trimester! Double yay!

I'm working my way through the original Star Trek movies. I'm having a really good time so far. Although I am skipping around, so that may ( Read more... )

I had my first ever adventure at Ikea today. iron_knife had been planning on going and I asked if I could tag along. I have two words for you ... Swedish Meatballs. They were the highlight of the freaking DAY for me. All delicious and meaty. Yum! I desperately wanted to get a second plate. I'm pretty sure I would have exploded if I had eaten it, but ( Read more... )

I just found out via Felicia Day @ Twitter that David Eddings passed away today. *sigh* It makes me want to re-read the Belgariad and Mallorean series. Even though I read both series last year ( Read more... )

I had a kinda weird day. Cole decided not to go with his dad to Carmel which meant that I wasn't going to be able to see Star Trek as I had planned. I still don't know why Cole refuses to see it, but he does. Anyway. I asked Cole if he wanted to see Terminator Salvation and he was all gung-ho about it. So, we drafted iron_knife into going with us and ( Read more... )

Umm ...

Book #39 - Sail by James Patterson - My mom and my sister raved about this book. Raved about it. So I was all, okay! I'll read it! I'm not saying the book was bad, but it didn't live up the expectations I was given. As with all James Patterson books, there was death. There was intrigue. There was double-crossing. To be honest, ( Read more... )

I'm sending kisses oddmonster's way ...

Book #37 - The Giver by Lois Lowry - This book was recommended to me by my bro-in-law. It's one of their 5th grade reading books and he told me that I had to read it. So I did. Wow. The writing is incredibly dynamic. It pulls you in from nearly the first word. And it doesn't stop. My biggest complaint is that I ( Read more... )

Hey! I just drank a big, fat mug of coffee. I'm not planning on being up all night! I swear it! Ahahahahahaha! I want to see Star Trek but Cole's leaning toward Wolverine. I want to see Wolverine, but not now. Maybe when it comes out on DVD. ST, however ... Word. I'm not even sure why I'm thinking about this RIGHT NOW. Weird ( Read more... )

I've cramped up my fingers looking at YouTube movie trailers. I'd like to say that my day was more productive/involved doing more than that, but I'd be lying. This is what happens when the kids are on Spring Break. It throws my entire schedule off. Yes, I have a schedule. And yes, it can be completely thrown off. It sucks ( Read more... )

If you can believe this, I've cleaned my bathroom twice in the last 4 days. Yeah. I never do that. But I have to test out the cleaning products I'm making and it just seems easy to test it out on my bathroom. you know, because it's RIGHT THERE. So, I have a super clean bathroom ( Read more... )

Where the hell is all the rain I was promised? Huh? I as expecting buckets and I only got a smattering. Not cool. Don't tease me by telling me it's going to rain endlessly and then NOT DELIVER! I love the rain. I love the sound of it. I love how the world smells after it. Don't tell me I'm going to have to hunker down and batten down the ( Read more... )