Monthly Archive for: ‘July, 2007’

We now return to your regularly scheduled whatever

I love my family. Among the things we have discussed in the last week (caring for dad, insurance, leaves of absence, disease, death, etc.) have been some real gems…

Jen: You know, Stephen Hawking has ALS. He got it when …

Eat Your Way to Nirvana

What do I do when I’m feeling beaten by the world? I bake. Yesterday I made the most amazing bread pudding in the whole freakin’ world. It was mostly a fluke, the creation of this marvelous dessert (based on what …

The end to waiting

Friday night I got a call from my dad that went from cheerful to awful in the first 2 minutes — as a result of his long awaited EMG on Friday morning, he’s been diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic lateral …

Ow!

Home sick – I’ve got the dizzy sort of cold/flu thing happening. I thought I’d be somewhat productive and once my cold medicine started working I did some laundry. While putting away some clean sheets, the dizzy came over me …

There’s one born every day

I have Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on hold through the library. Right now the hold list hovers around 1,440, and at #224, I’m pretty likely to get the book in a decent amount of time.

 Of course, that has …

Childish Pursuits

While helping a little girl find princess books this morning I happened across what used to be one of my favorite books at her age – Hillary Knight’s Cinderella. I haven’t seen or thought of this book for ages, …

Eight Things

Here are the rules of engagement: Each player lists 8 facts/habits about themselves. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning before those facts/habits are listed. At the end of the post, the player then tags 4 people and …