Scanned a LOT of things for Kelly today. Her website is coming along really nicely, and she’s getting really excited about it! : )
Christina fell asleep at 2:30, so I didn’t get the kids until almost four. They were on the playground, and they wanted to know if Miss Effie had seen […]

This afternoon, we went looking at minivans. We need a minivan. We really do.
It’s always sad to say good-bye to a car. At least, it is for me — and Alexander too, apparently. . . . He was excited about looking at vans today, and had fun climbing in and out […]

I’ve subscribed to an e-mail newsletter from Tim Larkin, a former SEAL who’s developed a self-defense system he calls Target Focus Training. Unlike typical self-defense classes and all martial arts instruction, which focus on a wide menu of moves to parry specific attacks, practiced ad nauseam, his teaches a few aggressive, highly-targeted (hence the […]

Two words I never thought I’d see regarding a trash can: “User’s Manual.”
We bought a stainless-steel, thirteen-gallon trash can at CostCo for $39 this morning. Screamin’ deal, considering its equivalent at Bed Bath & Beyond costs over $100. But the value didn’t stop there: This’n’s e-lec-tronic. It has buttons to open and […]

We watched Amazing Grace last night, a film from this past spring on William Wilberforce. I was familiar with his name, knew he was a force for good in the eighteenth century, but couldn’t remember how. Being reminded of it, and the comment by the director (Michael Apted of the fascinating Up series […]

This is easy. Just click on the “Thank the troops” icon in the right column.

I’ve been tagged!
Aruni, over at entrepreMusings, got tagged for this meme and asked if she could tag me — since I love these things, I said “yes, please!” Of course, then life got turned all topsy-turvy and I didn’t have time to do it. I told Aruni that I hadn’t forgotten it, and […]

I’m entering a contest to win a bunch of scrapbooking supplies!
K8, over at Three Wild Monkeys, is giving her house an enema. Someone — hopefully me — is going to benefit from her wild hair. You won’t believe the amount of stuff she’s getting rid of (I can’t imagine what she’s keeping!) but […]

Otherwise, the details get fuzzy:
Last night, while I was in the kitchen doing something something went wrong — a package wouldn’t open easily, or whatever was inside had something wrong with it, or something like that — and I must have made some comment out loud, though I no longer remember what it was. […]

. . . if people would just do what they should.
Just a general observation.