file under 'too good to be true'

An e-mail in my spam folder boasted in it's subject line, "University degrees in just 10 days. No studying required."

I'm not that handy with my computer skills and I don't have Photoshop or anything, but I could probably fashion my own degree should I so desire (which I do not, just to be clear).

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Happy Fourth, by the way!

more potter, please

Looks like I'll be reading Philosopher's Stone again come October. As, I'm sure, will millions of other people. Looking forward to it!

So, yes, let me repeat: more potter, please.

book love antici...pation

Oh, one more month. Yes, one more month and then I'll delve into the incredibly huge, can't possibly get to it all in this lifetime booklist I'm compiling. And, I'm adding to it. Just yesterday, I read "Three Books for the Grammar Lover in Your Life and immediately added these books to my list: The Power of Babel, The Lexicographer's Dilemma, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage.

I'm also taking some suggestions from the comments on that article.

I just caught up on reading the Kinsey Millhone series and I'm back to waiting for "V" along with everyone else. I'm deep into some other books and I've just started a book I've been wanting to get to and I'm not nearly as enthralled as I thought I would be. I'm actually a little disappointed. Ah, well. I realize I'm not really part of the target audience and I'm keeping that in mind.'

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Perhaps here is the place to admit that I used to read my MacMillan's Children's Dictionary. I didn't just use it to look up words, but I read the front matter and then I'd browse through the dictionary part itself. I am still compulsive about looking up words, even when I know that I know them.

pondering

I often wonder if signing while holding something is the equivalent of talking with your mouth full?

Lately, I've been wanting to go back to learning sign again. For now, I'll stick with the videos from the library, as I'm not ready to join another class or anything.

school's out...almost

It's obvious I'm needing a break when last night, I made and ate dinner at, well, one-thirty this morning and tonight I made and ate dinner at four in the afternoon.

from the mouth of the babe

Pic on the phone to Papi tonight:

"...and then we went to the park in the wagon! I hope we can get a wagon! With two seats! One for Baby K and one for me!"

It doesn't take much to make my child happy. Thanks Coach J!

desperation

I may one day be desperate for a job, but, please, let me never be this desperate:

I have lots of painful hair removal experience. I've even been a training model for estheticians who have never performed a bikini wax.

(From a review of an epilator. Don't even ask why I'm reading it. I'm awake, that's why.)

things that make you go "hmm"...

Why would anyone need a room for gift-wrapping? A whole entire freaking room?

things that make you go "hmm"...

Sometimes, I forget that I've eaten ten stalks of sparrow-grass with dinner...and then I go pee and it all comes back to me.

p.s.

I promise that, one day, I'll stop with all of this whining and woe. I think I'm just so bogged down in this semester (in this life) that I'm having a hard time seeing the proverbial light. I'll get there. In the meanwhile, I'll continue to intersperse my gloomy musings with fun stuff I mooch off of other blogs.

things that make you go "hmm"...

Cold white rice is even grosser [is that a word?] than hot white rice.

open letter

(un)Dear Semester,

You suck.

All my lovin',
v

song of the moment

"Heigh-ho the Ariel,
the farmer and the cow."

I'm sure you'll never guess the artist.

from the mouth of the babe

Earlier this afternoon, Pic informed me, "Abuelita is my grandma and Papi's mamma....She gives lots of kisses."

True and true, little one.

Things will be somewhat quieter around here these next few months. I'm so freaking inundated with reading for school, I'm struggling to not feel like I'm sinking under. Maybe Pic will teach herself to read and do some of my reading for me, as Cardo has already declined to do any of my reading.

happiness is...

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P.S. It's 'Macintosh Computer Day' so Happy Day to our computers!

things that make you go "hmm"...

Why is Humpty-Dumpty usually portrayed as an egg? (Is he ever not?) Why does this make him even more freaky to me? I'm not a fan of this impossible-to-reassemble character.

p.s.

One Minute Writer for today: You find yourself somehow sitting next to Barack Obama on a plane, the day before his inauguration. What do you say to him?

'Hello future son-in-law, how do you feel about polygamy?'

shoulda, coulda...

Oh, also, as J and I were pulling up in front of her house last night, we were coming up with our own fabulous responses was should have lobbed in the direction of our very own fabulist.

'Yeah, well, my husband, the astrophysicist...'

'...just flew to Pluto and back...'

'...and he owns Tahoe.'*

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* OVOF informed us that he doesn't like Tahoe. Something about it being too big, yet too small.

can't look at this...

...but thought I'd post it here for you to look at. You're welcome. Really. Um, first brace yourself because these photos freak me out.

I got this from an old fussy post.

oh, and...

I want to participate in a NaBloPoMo this year and I don't know that I will be able to commit myself to November. So, I'll get an early start on the trying (there might be a couple of sketchy days if we actually make it for a mini-holiday, so we'll see).

Besides, how cute is the badge? (It's over there on the right --->.)