Any predictions on where the Bluejays will be seeded in the tournament? It is great because in the MVC tournament Creighton played its best basketball all year so they are getting hot at just the right time.
There were two brothers whose last name was Creighton and they started the school - I think.
Tom, I share your worries about our lack of another big man, but when we play our best we are hard to beat. That being said, I don't get my hopes up too high.
Jude's apron may be a little girly, but he likes it. Besides, I thought boys liked bugs. I received as a gift from a friend in Macedonia before I knew the sex of the baby. She gave me the apron with a "healthy kids" cookbook - she's a vegetarian.
Just a reminder - SIU was ranked 11th and we beat them. During the regular season we lost to them twice by a combined total of 5 points. The MVC is the 5th or 6th ranked conference, so I think we can play, but we have to play our best.
This win will guarantee us a better seed...I'm guessing a 6th seed, maybe in Chicago....Notre Dame could end up in Chicago, as well! Digger likes the MVC, but that other guy does not!
That is such an awesome picture of Jude! Spoke with your folks, yesterday, and they were expecting 80 degress...although it was overcast. I said, "boohoo!"
Creighton alums and fans!!! St. John's (the church at Creighton) is undergoing a massive remodel, and starting today they are pulling out the church pews. I called the parish office and they have no plans for the pews! I'm going to get one or two, hopefully. They are going to call and let me know the process, if you want one, let me know! (You'll have to come get it, I don't have much room!) Emily, call me if you're interested.
We have a lutheran pew salvaged from a church up here, stored in our garage. It's about 15 feet long. I suppose if we got another one we could open our own church.
Em, I see a coriander in front of Jude. Please show him how to put it on his head and bang it heartily while singing, "Come on feel the noise!" (spelling modified for family audience)
A group of so-called "gifted" eighth-grade students filed a lawsuit in 2003 against the Beaubien School in Chicago because officials denied them their "right" to wear a "Gifties" T-shirt. The school, with similar numbers of "gifteds" and regular students (who, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, are referred to as "tards"), works to tamp down divisiveness and controversy between the two groups. However, said one giftie, "There's a certain point when you have to stick up for your rights," and not only was a lawsuit filed, but when it was tossed out by the first judge to hear it, the students appealed, and argument was heard in January at the U.S. Court of Appeals. [Chicago Sun-Times, 1-5-07]
Nance...what I meant was you can have one of these pews right now,(as I posted above) they are pulling them out of the church at Creighton this week! They are pretty cool.
Emily, that sounds like a great meal, how was it? You can buy pretty good naan bread at Whole Foods.
Ed, what is the "mission" of the Beaubien School, is it a regular public school, private, or magnet public? What's wrong with the parents of those kids...but...is it any different than a gifted athlete wearing a letter jacket...what about the kids in a wheel chair?
For you Iowa Staters out there, you should check out this Big 12 Spring Football preview. It's the first of its kind. Looks like Chicklet could see a gimmer of hope if he can get his OLine to play.
Pete, looks like you had a great pre- birthday in Florida. And Ed, you got there, too! Yea! Since I gave up chocolate and dessert for lent, you will have to eat the biggest, sloopiest dessert ever for me and think of me.
Church pews: Cute as a banquet table seating. A little nook with short pews on each side and a table between. Wish I one.
Those gifted students aren't that smart. It's like going around in shirts that say "whiteys". P.S. you earn a letter for your letter jacket. If they had shirts that said "National Honor Society" or "Math Club" it would be far less offensive. I think the tards should wear shirts that say "Gifties are social idiots".
In Omaha it's "TAG" talented and gifted...people will somehow let other parents know their kids have been "tagged"...If a high girl wears a t-shirt that said "gifties" poeple will assume her boob job was a gift, right!! That's discrimination!
I made faux naan from jiffy pizza dough rolled out really thin. It's pretty good, and jiffy is only 40 cents a box!
Ann Coulter is so disgusting- pretty much calling John Edwards a fag. I know EVERYONE hates her, she just makes me so mad. But I'm sure she's loving it that random people would be talking about her on a blog. She's just an attention whore. I found another quote of her's I hadn't heard calling Al Gore the f-word, too:
"I don't know if [former U.S. President Bill Clinton is] gay. But [former U.S. Vice President] Al Gore - total fag."
Some day Anne Coulter won't be young and beautiful and then she won't be able to get on TV no matter what she says. Liberal media outlets should just take the pledge and not cover her any more. She's not news, she's a harpy. On another political front, our mayor got very mad at the county board of supervisors (they're screwing C.B. on a joint 911 deal) and after the public meeting, went on a rant and called this one supervisor a horse's ass (he is) and slammed his fold-down desk "loudly" before leaving. The supervisor filed a police report "just in case anything else happens" and went to the Omaha media who are reporting the whole thing with much glee. It is pretty gleeful. The World-Herald headline read something like "Bluffs City Council Gallops Into Horse's A** Controversy." The mayor called the chief supervisor the same night and apologized to the whole board, but the horse's ass wants a public apology to himself. If I know the mayor (and I do) he ain't gonna get one. I have to buy a paper and read the gory details. The city council and the county board have duked it out a number of times. Politics, ain't it grand?
Scooter Libby will get off with some minor hazing by the rest of the boys of Alpha Sigma Sigma. President Bush and Pledge Trainer Cheney will likely bend him over the ottoman in the Lincoln Bedroom and violently paddle him. Next, they'll make him drink several bottles of Night Train, dress him up in one of Hilary's old pantsuits and have him make out with Bill Clinton's portrait. In a final humiliation, Scooter will have to run the Captial Building stairs in the buck.
Somebody asked about my blog. I've been neglecting it lately. But I have a new post. Let me try this link thing agian:
Mom and Dad are flying in Wed. night @10:00 and leaving the next a.m. for Whittemore...Mike and i are making a "car run" up to Whittemore this Sat. to get their car...anyone want to have a drink with us at Sarah's? I'll call Dick!
Tom...why doesn't the conservative media do something about Anne...like give her a candy bar laced with arsenic, or a chocolate malt or a position in Cheney's office and she can fall with the rest of the fools! As awful as she is, MANY pepople like her!
tO BORROW A phrase from the CB mayor: Ann Coulter in a horse's ass and ayone who likes her is a horse's ass.
Mary - did you get your pew? I would love one, but I have no place to put it, and know idea as to when or how I would be able to retrieve it. so I'll just have to enjoy yours when I visit.
TOday I listened to someone weep for a full hour. They are taking a mental illness leave of absence. This has been coming on for about one full year. People are exhausting. P
Much weeping can be heard in my office. And a lot of hysterical laughter. People are crazy where I work. There was a snowball fight in the hallway yesterday. This freak has been stashing snowballs in his cubical fridge for weeks.
And there's this one woman who always sleeps with whoever's in charge. She's like the cheerleader who always has to date the quarterback.
Upper management will often spend an afternoon getting drunk at Smith and Wollensky across the river, thumbing their nose at a building full of people doing their bidding.
They've been firing lower level people to 'improve the bottom line' while our big boss just had $70K carpentry done to his office.
I'm just waiting for our new French owners to come in and witness this madness. I don't think they'll find it as funny as I do. But then again, the French and I don't share the same sense of humor. I think Jerry Lewis is stupid.
It's not as easy to stay away from her as you think....another employee said to me this past week that she is a parasite of energy. She's killed me for over a year now so it is good she is gone. In a small office you can't not deal with people. Anyway, today is a new day and I take my spot at the front desk with great cheer. p
Maybe, Patricia's co-worker has BPD like Dee. Interacting with someone like this absolutely makes you feel crazed. They suck you in and bleed you dry. I have read a little about BPD and she is a classic case. Ironically, the thing that people, like this, fear most is the exact thing they create. Loneliness. But for the minor child...I would run screaming in the other direction and never look back. Perhaps, your office mate has BPD? Very sad for them and intolerable for others.
Conversation with a 10 year old: Eli: "Mom, how did the world begin?" Mom: "God made the world." Eli: "Uh, uhhh it began as a big fire ball." Mom: "God made the fire ball." Eli: "Hmm."
Wow, I feel sorry for you. At least in my situation...I can hang up the phone and deal with it at another time. I really gotta prepare myself, mentally, before each contact. I cannot imagine having it presented to me each and every morning...at work! I don't think there is enough medicine in the world that can help this disorder...it's so much more than simply an annoying personality...it's quite bizarre actually. Lastly, I cannot imagine what sort of impact it would have on a small child. Sad. :-(
Notre Dame plays at 2, may be 1:00 Bentral, on ESPN, I think. They play Syracuse who beat Conn., yesterday, hopefully they are tired and ND will have a Big win at the Big East in the Big Apple!
I just spent the last hour and a half doing my job with my dept director sitting in my cube. She wanted to 'get a feel' for what we do all day. A little nerve wracking to have my boss's boss's boss grilling me about every thing I look at. Luckily, she does not have BPD.
Sorry, Pat. People that make you dread going to work every day really make it hard to feel good about your job. How long is her leave of absence? Des, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Take a super soaker to work to defend yourself from snowball ambushes. Hide it from the bosses. Yesterday Braden and I went to the salon. We both got a shampoo and haircut - Braden lost about seven inches of her blond princess hair. Now it's shoulder-length and cute. We were talkin about how our hair has the same texture and even parts the same on the side of our heads. Later, I heard her tell Ty, "Me and mom have the same crack on our heads." Last weekend we went to the mall to go to Waldenbooks and let the kids each pick a book. We walked out of Penny's and into the mall hallway. Seeing all the store fronts and commercialism, Braden stopped dead in her tracks, gasped, and said, "This place is AWESOME!!!!!"
I really don't think that's it. and she's not bad looking, but married with kids, so no go there. plus, you know, corporate upper management. their souls all have that slightly greasy sheen....
So Pat, isn't it just you and 2-3 other people running the "Graduate Liberal Studies" dept. at the University...that makes your entire situation weird! But, you and Mary(?) have seniority over Sandy Beach, right? You should live here, Nebraska allows concealed weapons!
Yes, Tom. Jude uses this look often. Phelan witnessed it at Christmas. He threw a block and stared right at us - challenging me to say something. All day long, if he's bored, he'll throw stuff behind the couch - dvds, books, crayons, etc and then turn around and look at me like this. Lately I've just pretended not to notice since he is obviously trying to get a rise out of me.
Isn't it funny that you can't take a guy named Scooter seriously? He could be a mass murderer (and outing a former field agent might make him one) but you just snicker whenever he's on the news. I'm developing a real chocolate jones this Lent. I realized this morning that I've been feeling real irritable with Stevo when I'm cleaning up the kitchen and it's all because of these two stupid Ghiardelli dark chocolate and caramel squares that are sitting there and he won't just eat'em, dammit and get them out of there. Pat, one person I work with thinks every setback is a crisis, every crisis is a disaster and so on. Everyone else is OK. We all just spend a lot of time and energy calming down or trying to cheer up this one glass-half-empty person. I catch myself literally taking a deep breath and pasting a bright smile on my face bafore I enter her domain. And at the same time you can't just give her the brush-off or not take anything she worries about seriously - she's part of the team too. But at least she doesn't sit by anyone's desk and cry for an hour. Put a whoopee cushion on that chair.
Grace, you should take Braden to the Mall of America. The Vatican of consumerism, and you don't have to cross an ocean to get there. She'd think she died and went to Disney World. Send a picture of her haircut! Did you cut yours significantly shorter? Molly's a redhead now, by the way. It looks pretty.
50 degrees this afternoon! Woo-hoo! In retrospect, and to be fair, if my name was Sandy Beach and I lived in Minnesota, I'd cry all winter too. She needs to live in a different place. Far from P.
It's her parents fault for naming her Sandy Beach. She started life on a bad note. Maybe she'll start feeling better with the improved weather. I know I am.
Em, Thomas used to do that kind of stuff all the time. His favorite was to run over to the stove and start turning all the nobs and just wait for me to react.
When Eli was 3 he had a plastic toy bucket filled with a kazillion characters such as those you get from McD's. I had it placed to the left of his doorway and underneath his night light. One day, I noticed it looked like there was a bunch of melted butter in it...but, it wasn't butter. Had to disinfect the bucket and wash all the characters. I put it back where it was...and, it happened again. Finally, I moved it away from the nightlight and Eli used the bathroom, in the middle of the night, across the hall.
All those guys who think the rules are fine for the common folk but don't apply to them should have to work at menial jobs for years instead of going to country-club prisons. Sandy Berger flipping burgers. Newt Gingrich picking cotton. Bill Clinton hanging off the back of a garbage truck. By the way, Tom, was it you who thought that was the coolest job ever? Or Ed maybe? The trash guy gave you a cool-looking glass bottle or something? To a little kid, imagine how fun it would look to hang on the outside of a big truck as it squealed to a stop, crushed something you threw into the maw, and then lurched off again.
Braden's hair just brushes her shoulders. Her bangs are almost the same length (she's been growing them out). She looks bigger. Her eyes look bigger than ever. I just got a couple inches trimmed off, but I've been enjoying my shinier, healthier, swingier hair all day. Molly makes a good red-head. She's got the perfect complexion. Do her eyes look greener? I miss you guys. When's the next Red Light Runners gig? My washer and dryer both went on the fritz within three days of each other. They're only 8 years old. The repair man cometh tomorrow. I'm leaving work early to be here. Nance, your bucket story made me laugh. Zane and Ty both took a defiant dump in their toy box when they were each about 2 1/2. I think both times they were on time-out. It only happened once for each kid.
Cathy, I really don't believe you think Clinton should hang off the end of a garbage truck. I mean, he probably already did that growing up in Arkansas. Berger's "collusion" with big oil is not EVEN close to Bush and Cheney. SHAME on you Tom, did you learn that technique from Anne Coulter or Rush?
Grace...so how does one, "time-out," a time-out defiant dump? When Liam was 2 he wanted to go downstairs, but the gate was up and I said, "no." He looked at me with great annoyance and puked..then, smiled...then, looked worried and ran off.
My comment was there is a HUGE "oil" difference between these guys...with the dominance of talk radio by very right wing republicans, how can you say it got swept under the rug?
Tonight I have to go to a class and give a presentation on giving effective and interesting presentations (required at graduation time in this program.) I think it's hilarious that i capital I am doing this. I guess I do ok with presentations and apparently did well with my graduation one, but I practically wet myself the entire day of or before having to do anything so public. I shake. P
Notre Dame plays Georgetown today at 6:00. This game should be on ESPN or ESPN 2 I am not sure which.
Notre Dame is ranked 16th and 20th in the two polls while Georgetown is ranked 9th in both. Georgetown has a MONSTER 7'2" center that ND is going to have to stop to win.
You mean the $80000 per year the women get? Hah. I actually have no idea how much women get. But tickets are much less expensive and crowds much smaller. P
There's a mathematical equation that you can do when your child is three...to predict their adult height. A lot of people say it works. I hope not as I did it, with Liam, and his projected height was well over 7 feet! Scary. :-<>
Sigh of relief...I just googled a site that calculates/estimates a child's adult height. Eli and Liam are predicted to be: Eli 5'10" Liam 6'3" Now, that's what I have thought all a long. That sounds better. :-)
I think Catherine is 48" tall and weighs 48 lbs. Pat, I used to get all shaky before giving presentations or speeches, and sometimes still do, but I also stand at a mike (in my job) in front of 200 people of all ages and joke around, teach and lead singing a cappella, and that ain't pretty. I work really hard at preparing, but then when I'm up there, I don't even care if they think I'm stupid any more. Imagine the worst thing that could happen as vividly as you can, and it would probably be pretty funny in the long run. You'll still be nervous, but it's fun, like a rollercoaster (actually I hate rollercoasters) Some people would look at you and think you're stupid if you were Albert Einstein. Too bad for them, they're missing out on life because they think everyone's stupid except people exactly like them. I'm sure you needed a preachy little pep talk this morning.
Jeez, I just reread Pat's post and realized that you didn't need all my sage advice and encouragement at all because whatever was going to go wrong already happened last night! How did it go? Did your hair catch on fire or your pants come unzipped? Going to see John Edwards today at noon. I'm going to try to see everyone who comes to CB, even Rudy, whom right now I despise. Aargh - I have to write my annual self-evaluation again. This is so stupid.
Newt Gingrich was featured on the Today show this morning admitting he was having one of his numerous affairs while he led the impeachment against Clinton. He's been married 3 times. He publicly confessed all at some church - testing the waters for a possible presidential run? Wotta maroon.
My Republican friend is going to announce his run for the Presidency this Monday...He's Chuck Hagel...remember that name...you'll be impressed! Actually his brother is a friend of ours, he's an artist and we used to sell his art, and he had us over to his house once, I also met their mother at a couple events, and then when she died (after the funeral) we ran into Chuck and Mike Hagel having a drink in the Old Market, that's when I met Chuck for the first time! He's honest as the day is long! Anti-Bush's war from the beginning!
Tom, Nance, Joe and Bob (& Dick Dale)...we will not be coming up Saturday night, I'm sorry we can't help with the porch floor! (really, I would have) we realized that Mom and Dad can take my car to Whittemore on Thursday, and then Mike and I will be up Saturday, and then I'll take my car to Des Moines for a class on Monday. It took my girlfriend to figure this out for me...it makes perfect sense!
Someday when we buy a house, will my older siblings help us with chores like re-waxing and painting. I know nothing about such things, although I think I could probably figure out the painting thing. I used to paint the picnic table and Pat and I did the wall paper in Mom and Dad's bedroom on the farm. I sanded a WW1 footlocker and varnished it. That is the extent of my handy-woman abilities. Although when we moved here and the movers wanted to put together the bed frame one guy asked me for a screw driver and I whipped out our little tool kit and produced one in about 5 seconds and he said, "You a handy lady." No type-os there. I thought that was very funny.
Pat, did you give your presentation yet?
I won't do this, but I'm almost considering not voting. Even the most well-intended politician has to get his or her hands dirty in order to have much success. Unfortunately, that's the way the game is played.
Saw John Edwards, liked him pretty much (more than I expected), had a filet-o-fish, back to work. He's almost too cute, though - I might like him more if he were a little bit uglier.
Emily, I just scraped and painted (primed) our front steps (15 steps)...we are having a warm day. It may not dry quickly enough though, before the night chill. I was SO hating the chopped paint!
I have developed tennis elbow. Putting and end to my wallpaper removal days. So sad.
Ellen at 5'6' just reached 100lbs. Sean weighs 75lbs. and never has anyone to wrestle against him at meets. He's almost as tall as me now. Peter just informed me that he beat everyone in his class at arm wrestling(indoor recess today).
On another note. Today is National Get Over It Day. If anything is bothering you today is the day to let it go.
Do people think Ellen has an eating disorder? I mean, I know she doesn't, but do other people say something, even jokingly? That is really thin. How come she gets to be 5'6"? No fair. How tall are Grace, Phelan and Caitlin and EllenJ.? Molly's 5'5"? I'd be happy with that. I really don't like being short. Especially now that I'm getting older, my ass is dropping toward the backs of my knees, making my legs appear even shorter - this despite doing the Brazilian Butt Lift exercises. :-(
Emily could you please describe said exercise? Or send a photo of yourself in action and i'll post it. Yes I gave my presentation. It was lively and fun. Not. It was fine and now it's over. p
Em~I guessed Molly and Brian's height for the sake of the height predictor.
Monica...didn't you say, a long while back, that the school nurse was concerned about her weight? Yah know, some people are just blessed with high metabolisms...wish I was. I had a stylist, years ago, that considered comments about her thinness as upsetting as a comment would be about someone's non-thinness. I remember listening to her talking and thinking, "whatever...poor you." I understand her feelings...now. :-)
When I was 13 and 5'7" I hated being tall as all my friends were short therefore (in my mind) considered, "cute." Once I began going to the bar's...I enjoyed the ability to see over people's heads while I searched for my friends and cute guys! :-<> I like my height (5'8") now. :-)
I had so much energy today...I'm going to boast: morning Mass hour workout made 3 loaves of bread washed and changed sheets, all 4 beds scraped and painted front steps shampooed the dog brushed the cat cleaned the bathrooms dyed my roots vacuumed the entire house mopped kitchen floor shower Now I'm having a drink!
I think it's fun to check children's projected heights! However, one of the questions is about their weight...what does that have to do with anything? joe Kennedy? The calculation is based upon: Child height child weight child age child sex mother's height father's height
OOOhh, I had wine and shrimp and rice...sooo tired, but, Caitlin's plane lands at 10:20...I have no more energy!!! Nance, I ask myself that same question every day...what does weight have to do with anything!!
Emily, the only reason I mentioned the painting, is, if I can do it, so can you!
Notre Dame lost, but played well! They will still get a good seed.
Emily, No bread machine...we are visiting your brother-in-law tomorrow for coffee...before (get this) omaha's St.Patrick's Day parade...I'm embarrassed we are having it a week before.
Back from the airport....good thing I cleaned the house...it was nice to see Caitlin for 45 minutes...she's doing well! ha ha...it was like a high school reunion at the airport.
75 degrees today! Chuck Hagel just announced that he has nothing to announce - he'll let us know before NEXT St. Patrick's Day (joke) whether he's running for President. Good for him. Anyone else see in the papers that the gov't. had outsourced the maintenance of Walter Reed hospital over a year ago to a civilian company with ties to Halliburton and the White House Chief of Staff (over the objections of Army officials) and their first action within a week of taking over was to fire 80 of their 180 maintenance workers? Not saying the Gen. in charge didn't deserve to be fired but he's definitely the scapegoat for a systemic corruption coming down right from the top. This problem didn't just start a year ago of course, but that little episode is just the tip of the iceberg. Let's see, who was the Secretary of Defense back then? Oh, yeah....
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The other one is from Emily, of course. THe blogger wasn't cooperating much this morning.
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Any predictions on where the Bluejays will be seeded in the tournament? It is great because in the MVC tournament Creighton played its best basketball all year so they are getting hot at just the right time.
Dad looks great in that picture. Blue is his color.
"Mommy, how come I have ladybugs on my chef-apron?"
There were two brothers whose last name was Creighton and they started the school - I think.
Tom, I share your worries about our lack of another big man, but when we play our best we are hard to beat. That being said, I don't get my hopes up too high.
Jude's apron may be a little girly, but he likes it. Besides, I thought boys liked bugs. I received as a gift from a friend in Macedonia before I knew the sex of the baby. She gave me the apron with a "healthy kids" cookbook - she's a vegetarian.
We like gross and scary bugs.
Just a reminder - SIU was ranked 11th and we beat them. During the regular season we lost to them twice by a combined total of 5 points. The MVC is the 5th or 6th ranked conference, so I think we can play, but we have to play our best.
This win will guarantee us a better seed...I'm guessing a 6th seed, maybe in Chicago....Notre Dame could end up in Chicago, as well!
Digger likes the MVC, but that other guy does not!
Digger remembers going to Omaha and losing all those games.
I think that they (Creighton) deserves a 6th seed but I don't think that they will get one that high. I think 7 is where they will end up.
That is such an awesome picture of Jude! Spoke with your folks, yesterday, and they were expecting 80 degress...although it was overcast. I said, "boohoo!"
Creighton alums and fans!!! St. John's (the church at Creighton) is undergoing a massive remodel, and starting today they are pulling out the church pews. I called the parish office and they have no plans for the pews! I'm going to get one or two, hopefully. They are going to call and let me know the process, if you want one, let me know! (You'll have to come get it, I don't have much room!) Emily, call me if you're interested.
I want to make chicken masala and it is made with yogurt. Do you think I can let yogurt cook in the crock pot all day?
Watch them remove the pews, LIVE, with this St. John's webcam link:
http://www2.creighton.edu/about/webcam/
Yes I think you can.
We have a lutheran pew salvaged from a church up here, stored in our garage. It's about 15 feet long. I suppose if we got another one we could open our own church.
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What's your concern about the yogurt?
Does anybody have Joe 3's email address? Joe 3, perhaps?
Desmond
jjslaw@netamumail.com
Hey Em~ I asked Tom if it was okay to have yogurt, as an ingredient, in your crock pot all day and he said, "yes."
Oops! I meant to say, "Tom's sous chef," not Tom'.
You could cut it in half and open your own church.
My sister has a section of a church pew, from her wedding, in her house. It's cool.
If you ever think of getting rid of it...call us! ;-)
Nance...you can have a Catholic chuhrch pew right now!
At the risk of sounding silly...Huh?
They're looting St. Johns as we speak. Pews and everything!
http://www2.creighton.edu/about/webcam/
In the crock pot:
Chicken breast
potatoes
garlic
can of diced tomatoes
onion
yogurt
chicken stock
cumin, coriander, tumeric, curry,cloves
It's not masala, but it smells good. I'll serve it over brown basmati rice with peas tonight.
sounds fab....you MUST have the indian bread though. Naan. Erin, is that easy to make?
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Em, I see a coriander in front of Jude. Please show him how to put it on his head and bang it heartily while singing, "Come on feel the noise!" (spelling modified for family audience)
A group of so-called "gifted" eighth-grade students filed a lawsuit in 2003 against the Beaubien School in Chicago because officials denied them their "right" to wear a "Gifties" T-shirt. The school, with similar numbers of "gifteds" and regular students (who, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, are referred to as "tards"), works to tamp down divisiveness and controversy between the two groups. However, said one giftie, "There's a certain point when you have to stick up for your rights," and not only was a lawsuit filed, but when it was tossed out by the first judge to hear it, the students appealed, and argument was heard in January at the U.S. Court of Appeals. [Chicago Sun-Times, 1-5-07]
Nance...what I meant was you can have one of these pews right now,(as I posted above) they are pulling them out of the church at Creighton this week! They are pretty cool.
Emily, that sounds like a great meal, how was it? You can buy pretty good naan bread at Whole Foods.
Ed, what is the "mission" of the Beaubien School, is it a regular public school, private, or magnet public? What's wrong with the parents of those kids...but...is it any different than a gifted athlete wearing a letter jacket...what about the kids in a wheel chair?
Football players wear jerseys and the drama kids wear play shirts...what's the diffie for the giftie?
For you Iowa Staters out there, you should check out this Big 12 Spring Football preview. It's the first of its kind. Looks like Chicklet could see a gimmer of hope if he can get his OLine to play.
BIG 12
Nebraska looks to be position to compete for the National Championship, as usual (sarcasm).
Gosh darn, those hotlinks never work for me. Here's the cut and paste link:
http://cfn.scout.com/2/624252.html
Des, what happened to your blog?
Ok -
I'm just catching up!
Happy Birthday Ed and Pete!
Pete, looks like you had a great pre- birthday in Florida. And Ed, you got there, too! Yea! Since I gave up chocolate and dessert for lent, you will have to eat the biggest, sloopiest dessert ever for me and think of me.
Church pews: Cute as a banquet table seating. A little nook with short pews on each side and a table between. Wish I one.
See most of you in a couple weeks!
Lisa
The date of Cheeto Night may change...stay tuned for details. :-)
Those gifted students aren't that smart. It's like going around in shirts that say "whiteys". P.S. you earn a letter for your letter jacket. If they had shirts that said "National Honor Society" or "Math Club" it would be far less offensive. I think the tards should wear shirts that say "Gifties are social idiots".
NEEEEERRRDS!!!
Make'em all wear uniforms.
I think the funny thing about it is that there are just as many Gifties as Tards.
Do we have to say, "tard."
No church pew takers?
In Omaha it's "TAG" talented and gifted...people will somehow let other parents know their kids have been "tagged"...If a high girl wears a t-shirt that said "gifties" poeple will assume her boob job was a gift, right!! That's discrimination!
Scooter Libby is GUILTY...Is Cheney next??? I hope!
do they rumble like Soc's and Greasers?
Chief Justice Alito is the main speaker at St. Mary's graduation...that's pretty impressive!
Sorry Tom, I meant colander. I've sniffing too much coriander while clanging the crockpot on me cranium.
I saw about 10 Robins today. But not in Robins.
Alito is no the cheif justice
I made faux naan from jiffy pizza dough rolled out really thin. It's pretty good, and jiffy is only 40 cents a box!
Ann Coulter is so disgusting- pretty much calling John Edwards a fag. I know EVERYONE hates her, she just makes me so mad. But I'm sure she's loving it that random people would be talking about her on a blog. She's just an attention whore. I found another quote of her's I hadn't heard calling Al Gore the f-word, too:
"I don't know if [former U.S. President Bill Clinton is] gay. But [former U.S. Vice President] Al Gore - total fag."
* Media Matters; July 26, 2006
Some day Anne Coulter won't be young and beautiful and then she won't be able to get on TV no matter what she says. Liberal media outlets should just take the pledge and not cover her any more. She's not news, she's a harpy.
On another political front, our mayor got very mad at the county board of supervisors (they're screwing C.B. on a joint 911 deal) and after the public meeting, went on a rant and called this one supervisor a horse's ass (he is) and slammed his fold-down desk "loudly" before leaving. The supervisor filed a police report "just in case anything else happens" and went to the Omaha media who are reporting the whole thing with much glee. It is pretty gleeful. The World-Herald headline read something like "Bluffs City Council Gallops Into Horse's A** Controversy." The mayor called the chief supervisor the same night and apologized to the whole board, but the horse's ass wants a public apology to himself. If I know the mayor (and I do) he ain't gonna get one. I have to buy a paper and read the gory details. The city council and the county board have duked it out a number of times. Politics, ain't it grand?
Ellen~ Jiffy corn bread is awesome! :-)
Scooter Libby will get off with some minor hazing by the rest of the boys of Alpha Sigma Sigma. President Bush and Pledge Trainer Cheney will likely bend him over the ottoman in the Lincoln Bedroom and violently paddle him. Next, they'll make him drink several bottles of Night Train, dress him up in one of Hilary's old pantsuits and have him make out with Bill Clinton's portrait. In a final humiliation, Scooter will have to run the Captial Building stairs in the buck.
Somebody asked about my blog. I've been neglecting it lately. But I have a new post. Let me try this link thing agian:
join the republic
when do mom and dad get back to IA for St. Patricks day?
Thursday the 15th. :-)
Mom and Dad are flying in Wed. night @10:00 and leaving the next a.m. for Whittemore...Mike and i are making a "car run" up to Whittemore this Sat. to get their car...anyone want to have a drink with us at Sarah's? I'll call Dick!
Tom...why doesn't the conservative media do something about Anne...like give her a candy bar laced with arsenic, or a chocolate malt or a position in Cheney's office and she can fall with the rest of the fools!
As awful as she is, MANY pepople like her!
Bob Straub may be here on Saturday night too. :-)
tO BORROW A phrase from the CB mayor: Ann Coulter in a horse's ass and ayone who likes her is a horse's ass.
Mary - did you get your pew? I would love one, but I have no place to put it, and know idea as to when or how I would be able to retrieve it. so I'll just have to enjoy yours when I visit.
Pews work well at Sarah's. ;-)
Oh...the Republican guard is up and running reaching way back!
There IS a bit of difference between lying to cover up the administration's attempt to out an undercover CIA agent and owing the IRS money.
Hey - how is the Terror Free Oil gas station doing in Omaha?
Tom, do you honestly like Bush better than Bill Clinton?
I have not been to the terror free oil station yet...it's not close-by. I wonder...Is it getting more press nationally than locally?
TOday I listened to someone weep for a full hour. They are taking a mental illness leave of absence. This has been coming on for about one full year. People are exhausting.
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Tom aren't you concerned for me?
And my travails?
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Tom, sorry.
Pat, sorry...(I'm a member of the kinder, more gentle Party) have a drink and relax!
I bet it was Rocky Shores or whatever her name is. Sorry Pat. Sounds like a fun day.
Much weeping can be heard in my office. And a lot of hysterical laughter. People are crazy where I work. There was a snowball fight in the hallway yesterday. This freak has been stashing snowballs in his cubical fridge for weeks.
And there's this one woman who always sleeps with whoever's in charge. She's like the cheerleader who always has to date the quarterback.
Upper management will often spend an afternoon getting drunk at Smith and Wollensky across the river, thumbing their nose at a building full of people doing their bidding.
They've been firing lower level people to 'improve the bottom line' while our big boss just had $70K carpentry done to his office.
I'm just waiting for our new French owners to come in and witness this madness. I don't think they'll find it as funny as I do. But then again, the French and I don't share the same sense of humor. I think Jerry Lewis is stupid.
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It's not as easy to stay away from her as you think....another employee said to me this past week that she is a parasite of energy. She's killed me for over a year now so it is good she is gone. In a small office you can't not deal with people. Anyway, today is a new day and I take my spot at the front desk with great cheer.
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wow. you get to work early.
Maybe, Patricia's co-worker has BPD like Dee. Interacting with someone like this absolutely makes you feel crazed. They suck you in and bleed you dry. I have read a little about BPD and she is a classic case. Ironically, the thing that people, like this, fear most is the exact thing they create. Loneliness. But for the minor child...I would run screaming in the other direction and never look back. Perhaps, your office mate has BPD? Very sad for them and intolerable for others.
Conversation with a 10 year old:
Eli: "Mom, how did the world begin?"
Mom: "God made the world."
Eli: "Uh, uhhh it began as a big fire ball."
Mom: "God made the fire ball."
Eli: "Hmm."
She is and does have it. That's why she's still there. She is protected by law and it's harder to make her leave. p
Wow, I feel sorry for you. At least in my situation...I can hang up the phone and deal with it at another time. I really gotta prepare myself, mentally, before each contact. I cannot imagine having it presented to me each and every morning...at work! I don't think there is enough medicine in the world that can help this disorder...it's so much more than simply an annoying personality...it's quite bizarre actually. Lastly, I cannot imagine what sort of impact it would have on a small child. Sad. :-(
Pat, Is Sandy Beach affected by full moons?
Notre Dame plays at 2, may be 1:00 Bentral, on ESPN, I think. They play Syracuse who beat Conn., yesterday, hopefully they are tired and ND will have a Big win at the Big East in the Big Apple!
The resort my family has gone to since 1970 is called...Sandy Beach.
I think it's Des.]
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I just spent the last hour and a half doing my job with my dept director sitting in my cube. She wanted to 'get a feel' for what we do all day. A little nerve wracking to have my boss's boss's boss grilling me about every thing I look at. Luckily, she does not have BPD.
Sorry, Pat. People that make you dread going to work every day really make it hard to feel good about your job. How long is her leave of absence?
Des, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Take a super soaker to work to defend yourself from snowball ambushes. Hide it from the bosses.
Yesterday Braden and I went to the salon. We both got a shampoo and haircut - Braden lost about seven inches of her blond princess hair. Now it's shoulder-length and cute. We were talkin about how our hair has the same texture and even parts the same on the side of our heads. Later, I heard her tell Ty, "Me and mom have the same crack on our heads." Last weekend we went to the mall to go to Waldenbooks and let the kids each pick a book. We walked out of Penny's and into the mall hallway. Seeing all the store fronts and commercialism, Braden stopped dead in her tracks, gasped, and said, "This place is AWESOME!!!!!"
Maybe, she just wanted to, "get a feel," of you! Is she cute? :-<>
I really don't think that's it. and she's not bad looking, but married with kids, so no go there. plus, you know, corporate upper management. their souls all have that slightly greasy sheen....
We've seen that face before...many times. :-)
So Pat, isn't it just you and 2-3 other people running the "Graduate Liberal Studies" dept. at the University...that makes your entire situation weird! But, you and Mary(?) have seniority over Sandy Beach, right? You should live here, Nebraska allows concealed weapons!
Yes, Tom. Jude uses this look often. Phelan witnessed it at Christmas. He threw a block and stared right at us - challenging me to say something. All day long, if he's bored, he'll throw stuff behind the couch - dvds, books, crayons, etc and then turn around and look at me like this. Lately I've just pretended not to notice since he is obviously trying to get a rise out of me.
Isn't it funny that you can't take a guy named Scooter seriously? He could be a mass murderer (and outing a former field agent might make him one) but you just snicker whenever he's on the news.
I'm developing a real chocolate jones this Lent. I realized this morning that I've been feeling real irritable with Stevo when I'm cleaning up the kitchen and it's all because of these two stupid Ghiardelli dark chocolate and caramel squares that are sitting there and he won't just eat'em, dammit and get them out of there.
Pat, one person I work with thinks every setback is a crisis, every crisis is a disaster and so on. Everyone else is OK. We all just spend a lot of time and energy calming down or trying to cheer up this one glass-half-empty person. I catch myself literally taking a deep breath and pasting a bright smile on my face bafore I enter her domain. And at the same time you can't just give her the brush-off or not take anything she worries about seriously - she's part of the team too. But at least she doesn't sit by anyone's desk and cry for an hour. Put a whoopee cushion on that chair.
Grace, you should take Braden to the Mall of America. The Vatican of consumerism, and you don't have to cross an ocean to get there. She'd think she died and went to Disney World. Send a picture of her haircut! Did you cut yours significantly shorter? Molly's a redhead now, by the way. It looks pretty.
50 degrees this afternoon! Woo-hoo!
In retrospect, and to be fair, if my name was Sandy Beach and I lived in Minnesota, I'd cry all winter too. She needs to live in a different place. Far from P.
Or, in Brainerd at our Resort! ;-)
I wish I could send my BPD person...far away! :-<>
It's her parents fault for naming her Sandy Beach. She started life on a bad note. Maybe she'll start feeling better with the improved weather. I know I am.
Em, Thomas used to do that kind of stuff all the time. His favorite was to run over to the stove and start turning all the nobs and just wait for me to react.
When Eli was 3 he had a plastic toy bucket filled with a kazillion characters such as those you get from McD's. I had it placed to the left of his doorway and underneath his night light. One day, I noticed it looked like there was a bunch of melted butter in it...but, it wasn't butter. Had to disinfect the bucket and wash all the characters. I put it back where it was...and, it happened again. Finally, I moved it away from the nightlight and Eli used the bathroom, in the middle of the night, across the hall.
My brothers first kiss was with Sandy Weinberger. :-)
All those guys who think the rules are fine for the common folk but don't apply to them should have to work at menial jobs for years instead of going to country-club prisons. Sandy Berger flipping burgers. Newt Gingrich picking cotton. Bill Clinton hanging off the back of a garbage truck. By the way, Tom, was it you who thought that was the coolest job ever? Or Ed maybe? The trash guy gave you a cool-looking glass bottle or something? To a little kid, imagine how fun it would look to hang on the outside of a big truck as it squealed to a stop, crushed something you threw into the maw, and then lurched off again.
Braden's hair just brushes her shoulders. Her bangs are almost the same length (she's been growing them out). She looks bigger. Her eyes look bigger than ever. I just got a couple inches trimmed off, but I've been enjoying my shinier, healthier, swingier hair all day. Molly makes a good red-head. She's got the perfect complexion. Do her eyes look greener? I miss you guys. When's the next Red Light Runners gig?
My washer and dryer both went on the fritz within three days of each other. They're only 8 years old. The repair man cometh tomorrow. I'm leaving work early to be here.
Nance, your bucket story made me laugh. Zane and Ty both took a defiant dump in their toy box when they were each about 2 1/2. I think both times they were on time-out. It only happened once for each kid.
actually, right now, being a garbage man doesn't look too bad... steady work, good bennies, outside in the fresh air (sort of)....
Ryan cleans fish and dumps the remains in the garbage can. You do not want to be our garbage man on a hot day.
In Eli's defense, it was a groggy, middle-o-night walk and he, "went to the light," just like Carol Anne. Ha! :-)
So, Grace, send photos and I'll post them. If you have digital ones.
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I will. First I have to take some pics. Then I have to get Ryan to download them because I'm a techno-tard.
There's a good t-shirt slogan!
You can watch the ND game on the web @espn and click on "play by play" ND is ahead but it's close!
Cathy, I really don't believe you think Clinton should hang off the end of a garbage truck. I mean, he probably already did that growing up in Arkansas.
Berger's "collusion" with big oil is not EVEN close to Bush and Cheney. SHAME on you Tom, did you learn that technique from Anne Coulter or Rush?
Grace...so how does one, "time-out," a time-out defiant dump? When Liam was 2 he wanted to go downstairs, but the gate was up and I said, "no." He looked at me with great annoyance and puked..then, smiled...then, looked worried and ran off.
Notre Dame won 89-83!
My comment was there is a HUGE "oil" difference between these guys...with the dominance of talk radio by very right wing republicans, how can you say it got swept under the rug?
Tonight I have to go to a class and give a presentation on giving effective and interesting presentations (required at graduation time in this program.) I think it's hilarious that i capital I am doing this. I guess I do ok with presentations and apparently did well with my graduation one, but I practically wet myself the entire day of or before having to do anything so public. I shake.
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Tom, don't pick on Katie Couric...she may shave her head!
Notre Dame plays Georgetown today at 6:00. This game should be on ESPN or ESPN 2 I am not sure which.
Notre Dame is ranked 16th and 20th in the two polls while Georgetown is ranked 9th in both. Georgetown has a MONSTER 7'2" center that ND is going to have to stop to win.
I'm glad I'm not 7'2"
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You mean the $80000 per year the women get? Hah. I actually have no idea how much women get. But tickets are much less expensive and crowds much smaller.
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Maybe, Patricia, could be a female wrestler...no height requirement!
Ann Coulter's column got dropped by a bunch of newspapers. Yeah! There is no reason to teach people how to be hateful.
There's a mathematical equation that you can do when your child is three...to predict their adult height. A lot of people say it works. I hope not as I did it, with Liam, and his projected height was well over 7 feet! Scary. :-<>
What's the equation?
Sigh of relief...I just googled a site that calculates/estimates a child's adult height. Eli and Liam are predicted to be:
Eli 5'10"
Liam 6'3"
Now, that's what I have thought all a long. That sounds better. :-)
Em~ There are two...one is simple...you double their height at age three and one is more complex...I can't recall what it is.
My sister's husband was 3'3" at 3 years and is 6'7" now.
BTW: Eli and Liam right now are...4'7".
www.csgnetwork.com/heightpredictcalc.html
I think Catherine is 48" tall and weighs 48 lbs.
Pat, I used to get all shaky before giving presentations or speeches, and sometimes still do, but I also stand at a mike (in my job) in front of 200 people of all ages and joke around, teach and lead singing a cappella, and that ain't pretty. I work really hard at preparing, but then when I'm up there, I don't even care if they think I'm stupid any more. Imagine the worst thing that could happen as vividly as you can, and it would probably be pretty funny in the long run. You'll still be nervous, but it's fun, like a rollercoaster (actually I hate rollercoasters) Some people would look at you and think you're stupid if you were Albert Einstein. Too bad for them, they're missing out on life because they think everyone's stupid except people exactly like them. I'm sure you needed a preachy little pep talk this morning.
Correction: Catherine weighs 45.
Jeez, I just reread Pat's post and realized that you didn't need all my sage advice and encouragement at all because whatever was going to go wrong already happened last night! How did it go? Did your hair catch on fire or your pants come unzipped?
Going to see John Edwards today at noon. I'm going to try to see everyone who comes to CB, even Rudy, whom right now I despise.
Aargh - I have to write my annual self-evaluation again. This is so stupid.
Newt Gingrich was featured on the Today show this morning admitting he was having one of his numerous affairs while he led the impeachment against Clinton. He's been married 3 times. He publicly confessed all at some church - testing the waters for a possible presidential run? Wotta maroon.
That's funny - we posted the same news at the same time, with the same reaction.
My Republican friend is going to announce his run for the Presidency this Monday...He's Chuck Hagel...remember that name...you'll be impressed!
Actually his brother is a friend of ours, he's an artist and we used to sell his art, and he had us over to his house once, I also met their mother at a couple events, and then when she died (after the funeral) we ran into Chuck and Mike Hagel having a drink in the Old Market, that's when I met Chuck for the first time!
He's honest as the day is long!
Anti-Bush's war from the beginning!
Caitlin's coming home tonight (Spring break) I'm making her favorite banana bread! She's taller than me...all my kids are!
Tom, Nance, Joe and Bob (& Dick Dale)...we will not be coming up Saturday night, I'm sorry we can't help with the porch floor! (really, I would have) we realized that Mom and Dad can take my car to Whittemore on Thursday, and then Mike and I will be up Saturday, and then I'll take my car to Des Moines for a class on Monday. It took my girlfriend to figure this out for me...it makes perfect sense!
Chuch Hagel voted for the war in Iraq. Not anti-war from the get go.
Catherine's projected adult height...figuring in that she's already 10 and that Molly is 5'5" and Brian is 5'8" would be 5'2".
Jude's is 6'2"
Way to grow, Jude! :-)
Oh Mary Ellan, I am so very disappointed. I look forward to seeing you some other time...hopefully, soon.
Someday when we buy a house, will my older siblings help us with chores like re-waxing and painting. I know nothing about such things, although I think I could probably figure out the painting thing. I used to paint the picnic table and Pat and I did the wall paper in Mom and Dad's bedroom on the farm. I sanded a WW1 footlocker and varnished it. That is the extent of my handy-woman abilities. Although when we moved here and the movers wanted to put together the bed frame one guy asked me for a screw driver and I whipped out our little tool kit and produced one in about 5 seconds and he said, "You a handy lady." No type-os there. I thought that was very funny.
Pat, did you give your presentation yet?
I won't do this, but I'm almost considering not voting. Even the most well-intended politician has to get his or her hands dirty in order to have much success. Unfortunately, that's the way the game is played.
If you buy a restaurant they might! :-)
Saw John Edwards, liked him pretty much (more than I expected), had a filet-o-fish, back to work. He's almost too cute, though - I might like him more if he were a little bit uglier.
Emily, I just scraped and painted (primed) our front steps (15 steps)...we are having a warm day. It may not dry quickly enough though, before the night chill. I was SO hating the chopped paint!
That's chipped paint.
I have developed tennis elbow. Putting and end to my wallpaper removal days. So sad.
Ellen at 5'6' just reached 100lbs.
Sean weighs 75lbs. and never has anyone to wrestle against him at meets. He's almost as tall as me now. Peter just informed me that he beat everyone in his class at arm wrestling(indoor recess today).
On another note. Today is National
Get Over It Day. If anything is bothering you today is the day to let it go.
Do people think Ellen has an eating disorder? I mean, I know she doesn't, but do other people say something, even jokingly? That is really thin. How come she gets to be 5'6"? No fair. How tall are Grace, Phelan and Caitlin and EllenJ.? Molly's 5'5"? I'd be happy with that. I really don't like being short. Especially now that I'm getting older, my ass is dropping toward the backs of my knees, making my legs appear even shorter - this despite doing the Brazilian Butt Lift exercises. :-(
Emily could you please describe said exercise? Or send a photo of yourself in action and i'll post it.
Yes I gave my presentation. It was lively and fun. Not. It was fine and now it's over.
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Em~I guessed Molly and Brian's height for the sake of the height predictor.
Monica...didn't you say, a long while back, that the school nurse was concerned about her weight? Yah know, some people are just blessed with high metabolisms...wish I was. I had a stylist, years ago, that considered comments about her thinness as upsetting as a comment would be about someone's non-thinness. I remember listening to her talking and thinking, "whatever...poor you." I understand her feelings...now. :-)
When I was 13 and 5'7" I hated being tall as all my friends were short therefore (in my mind) considered, "cute." Once I began going to the bar's...I enjoyed the ability to see over people's heads while I searched for my friends and cute guys! :-<> I like my height (5'8") now. :-)
I've even come to terms with my size 10 shoe. Sigh.
Molly is the tallest Jayjack girl...just a bit over Grace, and I think about 5'8.5'' and Grace maybe 5'8'...I could be wrong.
Molly & Grace? Taller than me? I don't believe it. Cool though. :-)
I'm, actually, five foot seven and three quarters.
Grace...am i right?
I had so much energy today...I'm going to boast:
morning Mass
hour workout
made 3 loaves of bread
washed and changed sheets,
all 4 beds
scraped and painted front steps
shampooed the dog
brushed the cat
cleaned the bathrooms
dyed my roots
vacuumed the entire house
mopped kitchen floor
shower
Now I'm having a drink!
sorry so sassy!
5'7" and 3 quarters...was me...Nance.
Wow! Mary, you were very productive! Kudos to you! :-)
I think it's fun to check children's projected heights! However, one of the questions is about their weight...what does that have to do with anything? joe Kennedy?
The calculation is based upon:
Child height
child weight
child age
child sex
mother's height
father's height
Did ND win? I forgot to watch.
Mary you are so productive. Do you use a bread machine?
OOOhh, I had wine and shrimp and rice...sooo tired, but, Caitlin's plane lands at 10:20...I have no more energy!!!
Nance, I ask myself that same question every day...what does weight have to do with anything!!
Emily, the only reason I mentioned the painting, is, if I can do it, so can you!
Notre Dame lost, but played well! They will still get a good seed.
Emily, No bread machine...we are visiting your brother-in-law tomorrow for coffee...before (get this) omaha's St.Patrick's Day parade...I'm embarrassed we are having it a week before.
Back from the airport....good thing I cleaned the house...it was nice to see Caitlin for 45 minutes...she's doing well! ha ha...it was like a high school reunion at the airport.
Emily what is the Brazilian Butt Lift? If it is as painful as a Brazilian Bikini wax seems it would be I'm not interested in learning it.
SPRING AHEAD...woohoo! I'm so happy...and, springy!
We all want to know about Emily's Brazilian Butt!
When Emma was 2, her doctor put her up on the exam table and said she would be over 6 feet tall, perhaps around 6'2' or better. Oh I hope not.
Mary on the other hand seems to be getting shorter. She asked if she could wear my wedding gown when she gets married. She might be able to.
See you all soon! Most of the bizillion iches of snow may even be gone by then.
75 degrees today!
Chuck Hagel just announced that he has nothing to announce - he'll let us know before NEXT St. Patrick's Day (joke) whether he's running for President. Good for him.
Anyone else see in the papers that the gov't. had outsourced the maintenance of Walter Reed hospital over a year ago to a civilian company with ties to Halliburton and the White House Chief of Staff (over the objections of Army officials) and their first action within a week of taking over was to fire 80 of their 180 maintenance workers? Not saying the Gen. in charge didn't deserve to be fired but he's definitely the scapegoat for a systemic corruption coming down right from the top. This problem didn't just start a year ago of course, but that little episode is just the tip of the iceberg. Let's see, who was the Secretary of Defense back then? Oh, yeah....
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