beware the white t-shirt ambush!!!
on Nov 18, 2009 in games party fun family so last week, josh got new white t-shirts. and he wasn't quite sure what to do with the old ones yet, like did he want to save em as rags or whatever, so he made a little pile of them on the bedroom floor.they stayed there for a few days, and then i...

we feel fine book update!
on Nov 11, 2009 in fun book reports show and tell reading OMG guys! so in case you didn't know, a photo i posted on this very blog is getting published in the upcoming book "we feel fine: an almanac of human emotion". you can read the whole story about how this happened by clicking here!and you can read the...

hot air balloons and rocks
on Nov 4, 2009 in movies book reports i've been thinkin a lot lately about hot air balloons and rocks, and how we all get to choose which one we are.which one are you?when bad stuff happens, do you deal with it, rise above it and move on, or sink into the depths and let it ruin everythin...

hearts and laserbeams book report: confessions of a shopaholic
on Oct 15, 2009 in movies coffee fun shopping book reports shop ok i picked this book up at the las vegas airport on the way home from... vegas! shocking! gayle and i went out there last summer for a few days and had a blasty - when we were heading home there were big chunks of time on the horizon and i had left...

new garden pics and uhhh... we got chickens!
on Oct 14, 2009 in fun show and tell family gardening martha stewart ok so some major updates in our backyard:our carrots got harvested last weekend! they definitely could have stayed in the ground longer, but we figured they wouldn't get much longer since our planters are so shallow. so we'll save carrots for another...

hearts and laserbeams book report: the omnivore's dilemma
on Oct 6, 2009 in book reports gardening food ok so you know how i go back and forth in my book reports - i'll do some books that are classic high school reading list pieces, some fun chick lit, some nonfiction brainy stuff...after reading ya ya's in bloom, which i loved by the way, i really was...

we feel fine about getting published!!!
on Oct 1, 2009 in fun shopping book reports shop reading a while back (a LONG while back!) i had gotten an email from the website www.wefeelfine.org. their website is all about exploring emotions on the internets, and they had decided to create a book.and they had discovered this blog post on the livejourn...

this morning's commute playlist, or you should check out these hot traxxxx!
on Sep 29, 2009 in commute fun freeway music lots of mornings on the way to work i'll hook up my ipod, pick a particular somethin' to listen to and that is it.other mornings, i set the ipod to shuffle through my schizophrenic music library and pick some gems for me for the 40 mile drive - this...

a quick thought for a monday evening...
on Sep 28, 2009 in party fun friends family i have quite a lot of times in my life where i am excited and happy about things that are going on.and i am really fortunate and grateful for how freaking awesome my life and the people involved in it are.

T to the G to the I to the F y'all!!!
on Sep 25, 2009 in movies fun family this weekend is gonna be jam-packed with awesomeness, here's what josh and i have on tap:kickball championships on saturday - it's the last games of the season, and it's almost unnecessary to play the games because i know exactly how it's gonna turn...