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Category: family

  • When it rains, it pours

    Max went to the AOL daycare center this morning for Spring Break camp.\
    I just received a call that he twisted his ankle.\
    Oy.

  • Things You Should Know # 87,295

    Good things don’t happen to me*, good things happen to people around me. Which MUST MEAN that I am a super awesome good luck charm. Want proof? Announcing the good things that are happening to other people-

    • Kevin’s pet project, ficlets, was nominated for two awards at SXSWi.
    • Heather, my SIL, was featured in a documentary, We Are Wizards, that will be shown at SXSW Film.
    • Brooke White, a friend of a friend, is on American Idol and she made it to the TOP 12. Way to go Brooke! YAY! It’s exciting to see her doing so well. For those of you into this sort of thing, check her out. If you like what you see, be sure to call in your support. Thanks! Here are her last three Idol performances: Beautiful, You’re So Vain, and Love Is a Battlefield.
    • Sharon, my baby cousin (not to be confused with Lauren, my itty bitty baby cousin), had her baby! Welcome Andrew:\
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      He is so cute and smoochable (but only on the top of the head!). And look at Aunt Margie. Doesn’t she look too young to be a grandma? Where is her white hair and denim jumper?\
      Congrats to everyone on the list. And no need to thank me. :)\
      * This isn’t a woe-is-me statement, just a fact. I don’t have a job, I don’t create things, I don’t work on projects or get promotions or any of that. I did make a damn fine turkey chili the other night, though. 🙂

  • International Day of Awesomeness is almost here!

    International Day of Awesomeness is this Monday. This is an opportunity to celebrate the awesomeness already within you.\
    bq. No one’s perfect, but everyone can be awesome… People are awesome every day, frequently don’t realize it, and their feats of awesomeness are rarely recognized. We aim to fix that, with a special day to both perform and celebrate feats of awesomeness! bq.\
    For the lazybones in the crowd, Monday, March 10, was picked because it is Chuck Norris’s birthday. Go here to read why Chuck Norris is so awesome.\
    It’s been fun to read the different mentions of this around the internet. I am nothing if not a supportive wife, so I knew I had to do something too. Plus, Max is super excited. It is a school day and Kevin will be out of town, though, so I was having trouble thinking up something. Then inspiration struck! I made t-shirts. (Erm, I came up with the idea, did the shopping, and googling, and then went to my in-laws who actually made the shirts. Heh. Thanks, Baba and Uncle Steve.) Because really? Special t-shirts and/or cupcakes are all you need for a celebration. It’s true, ask around!\
    Here they are:\
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    Aren’t they great? Some might even say “awesome.” I know Max will. He doesn’t know about them yet though. Wheee. I love fun and silly surprises. Then we are getting together with Baba after school to have a treat or activity of some sort.\
    For my awesome feat, I decided to… donate blood! Woot. I am very proud of this idea. 🙂 I haven’t donated blood since moving here and it’s about time I did. My mom always set an excellent example of the importance and ease of donating blood. I have an appointment in Fairfax for Monday afternoon. Go me!!\
    So, those are my plans for the International Day of Awesomeness. What are yours?

  • Real life quandry #85

    I have a recycle bin I want to get rid of. How do I do this?

  • B’s first day

    Yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life. And it was fabulous.\
    Brian had a great time at his new school. He was a bit sad when Kevin dropped him off but Kev gave Brian a big hug and then he ran off to play legos. Other awesome highlights: he used the toilet the whole day there (keeping his pull-up dry), ate his lunch no problem, and took a nap during quiet time. YAY! I was worried about lunch because he’s so picky and nap time because he’s not used to napping anymore. They have 4 recess/gym times, so I am sure the kids really do need the nap. The school has a web camera that parents can access to see their kids whenever they want. I love this feature. As soon as I get my access, I’ll be sure to send it along to the grandparents too. (I can sign up 5 other family members so they can check in on Brian too.)

  • Today. Is the first day. Of the rest of my life.

    Brian started full time preschool/daycare today. Wheeee. Boooo. I’m a wreck.

  • Love is All Around Us

    I’m 3,000 miles away from my sweetheart today, so all I’ve got for you is a quote from one of my favorite movies about the subject, Love Actually:

    Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there – fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge – they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaking suspision love actually is all around.

  • TGIF

    I am extra tired this morning, boo, because I stayed up later than usual last night. Supernatural freaked me out, yay, so I had to watch some lighter tv before I could journey through the dark basement up to bed. Then, both kids woke me up in the middle of the night. I know they didn’t want to, it was just that Murphy’s Law made them.\
    In other tv news, tonight is the Friday Night Lights finale. Kristin at E! is pimping it pretty heavily, with these wise words: “You don’t have to know anything in advance. This is not Lost; there’s no complicated mythology to learn. If you’ve ever been a person, known a person or wondered about becoming a person, you’ll get Friday Night Lights.”\
    Enjoy the weekend, everybody!!

  • A Blast From the Past

    <object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”400″ height=”300″ data=”http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=669551&server=www.vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933″> <param name=”quality” value=”best” /> <param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /> <param name=”scale” value=”showAll” /> <param name=”movie” value=”http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=669551&server=www.vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=ff9933″ /></object><br /><a href=”http://www.vimeo.com/669551/l:embed_669551″>Tech X: Tucson Public Access Show from 1998</a> from <a href=”http://www.vimeo.com/user167311/l:embed_669551″>kplawver</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com/l:embed_669551″>Vimeo</a>.
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    What you see above is an entire episode (lucky #13) of the public access show I was a part of back in Tucson. It was called Tech X and was nominally a computer call-in show. We took a few computer calls, but had much more fun screwing around with our friends and making fun of the callers, each other and saying extremely inappropriate stuff.\
    I only did about twenty episodes. I watched a few on the plane today, and the first five or so are really painful to watch. By episode ten, though, when we moved to Saturday nights at 10 (opposite the local news and then SNL), we really picked up steam. We were actually funny for short stretches!\
    I played Otto the HED and was basically a fat head floating behind the two “stars” of the show, Lee King and Hugh Mongous. Yeah… ummm… just watch it. Or don’t. You’re an extremely strong or masochistic human being if you can make it to the end.

  • These are totally interesting…

    Five things you might not know about me, because they are false:

    • I am a recreational furrie.
    • I slept my way to the top. …. of Mount Everest.
    • I don’t own a tv.
    • I once killed a man in Reno just to watch him die.
    • I’ve never read fanfiction for Scarecrow and Mrs King.