Had a call last night from a Marquette University poll which was about politics - Wisconsin politics and also the 2016 election. Some questions in the poll needed more than just "approve" or "disapprove" options such as "really, really disapprove" or "God, NO".

This morning demonstrated one of the perils of being very near-sighted. I woke up when I felt the cat on my bed - moving as if she had one of the sticky mouse traps stuck to her foot. I reached out and pulled it off her foot and put it on the desk next to my bed. Only at that point did I realize that there was a mouse also stuck to the trap. Yuck! ( Read more... )

Had a weird dream last night about an apartment building where someone heard screaming from the basement and that person called the emergency number. The weird thing was that the person called "999" and not "911". Does this mean that I have read a few too many mystery novels set in England? : )

I have been stalking the Cost Plus World Market web-site for a while and the chair I wanted finally was in stock and on sale, so I ordered it last week. It arrived yesterday and is now in my bedroom:
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There is an interesting article in the New York Times today on reading to kids and reading for fun. One of the bits "only 17 percent of all children surveyed reported having time to read a book of their choice at school daily" hit me. I had perfected the art of reading books of my choice during class early on. I can remember having to write "I will ( Read more... )

This is the time of the year when temperatures look better in °F than in °C - we have made it all the way up to 1°F which sounds so much better than -17.2°C. : ) And Wednesday is supposed to have a high of -3°F ( Read more... )

I hope that everyone that celebrates Christmas is having a great one!


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Had to go to Costco this morning to get the tires that I bought a few weeks ago installed. Since it took a little over an hour, I spent some time shopping and I ended up buying myself an iPad for Christmas. It is a 32g iPad Air (so last year's model) that came with a $40 iTunes card. I also picked up a few other things (Korean bbq pork jerky - so ( Read more... )

Last year I bought a styrofoam wreath form and this year, I finally got around to making a Christmas wreath for my front door. I picked up some plastic pine swag, wrapped it around the form and added some ornaments and flowers that I had around and now I have a teal Christmas wreath:

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Did a little Christmas shopping today - I went to Wisconsin Craft Market to get my 6 yo niece some "crafty" stuff to go along with the books that she wanted. Of course, I didn't leave without picking up some yarn and a few other things for myself ( Read more... )