This weekend was a Harry Potter extravaganza at our house. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was delivered to our door around 1 PM on Saturday (2 copies – one for Tall Paul, one for me, and we both finished on Sunday night – book post to come!), and we took a break from our reading on Sunday morning to go and see Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. OotP is my favorite […]
Month: July 2007
…by any other name…
Sometimes, there’s a convergence between what other blogs are posting and what I’m already thinking about, but during the last week or so it’s been almost scary. There have been discussions in several places concerning how you use names on your blog, including two that cropped up just yesterday. Kathy Howe’s blog at Work It, Mom! suggests some rules to follow if you’re blogging as your “side job,” particularly being discreet and not forgetting that […]
iPod Random 10 7-20-07
“Least Complicated,” Indigo Girls“Great Heart,” Jimmy Buffett“I Got You Babe,” Sonny and Cher“Queen of My Double-wide Trailer,” Sammy Kershaw“Favorite Year,” Dixie Chicks“Love Is a Losing Game,” Amy Winehouse“When My Ship Comes In,” Clint Black“Good to Go to Mexico,” Toby Keith“West Texas Teardrops,” Old 97’s“A Thousand Miles From Nowhere,” Dwight Yoakam Looks like the ol’ shuffler is in a country rut right now…And, confession time: This isn’t a totally random 10 – I skipped over a […]
Booking Through Thursday: Just Wild About Harry!
Booking Through Thursday This week’s questions are a special Harry Potter edition: Okay, love him or loathe him, you’d have to live under a rock not to know that J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, comes out on Saturday… Are you going to read it? If so, right away? Or just, you know, eventually, when you get around to it? Are you attending any of the midnight parties? If […]
Wiki Wednesday 7-18-07
Time to learn something! 1. Go to Wikipedia.2. Click on “Random article” in the left-hand sidebar box.3. Post it! And in “news you have no use for at all,” MTV continues its campaign of world domination as MTV Ukraine debuts this summer: MTV Ukraine… will be an English-Ukrainian language music channel…available to the whole country of Ukraine… Along with MTV Russia, MTV Polska, MTV Romania, MTV Adria and MTV Turkey, MTV Ukraine will be among […]
Just finished: “Lost and Found”
reviewed for the Mother-talk.com Blog Tour(due to be posted on Wednesday 7/18, but I’m done early!) Lost and FoundCarolyn Parkhurst (author’s website) Lost and Found revolves around a reality TV show of the same name that features a dozen teams competing in a worldwide scavenger hunt with a million-dollar prize. Like The Amazing Race (TAR), each of the teams is made up of two people with a pre-existing relationship. The book starts about halfway through […]
Ten on Tuesday – 10 Favorite Movies From Childhood
Ten on Tuesday Can we allow “childhood” to go up to about age 14 for this purpose? OK, I vote yes. Some are older than I am and I saw them on TV (with commercials, in the pre-cable days). And this list is not ranked in order – it’s just 10 I remember well from that time period. The Wizard of Oz The Music Man Oklahoma! Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Star Wars (now […]
Too old, too young, just right?
One of the bloggers on Work It, Mom! is a working dad, and he recently posted an interesting entry on being a younger-than-average parent. I know a little about that… By almost every objective measure, I was too young for parenthood at 20. I was still in college, living with my parents, not working, not married (although that last was remedied pretty quickly)…but things can and do happen, and in so many ways it turned […]
Keeping things in balance…
…is much easier said than done …has a different meaning for everyone …is one of the basic principles of my profession (debits=credits, “the balance sheet,” “the accounting equation: assets=liabilities + equity” – accounting vocabulary 101) …is one of the things writing and reading helps me with, after working with numbers all day …is the theme of my most recent article on Work It, Mom!, which concerns the concept as it relates to work and family. […]
Just finished: “Water for Elephants”
Water for Elephants Sara Gruen This was picked for my book club’s meeting this past week, but the meeting didn’t happen – too many people couldn’t make it, and most of those that could be there were behind on their reading and didn’t think they could finish by Friday (myself included). We’ll be deferring our discussion till our August meeting, where this will be double-featured with The Kite Runner. From the book cover: As a […]
This pun’s for you – the lowest form of humor, but I don’t care
My weakness for puns is well-known among people who know me. My uncle passed along this batch in an e-mail, and since it’s Friday, they seemed worthwhile for an easy post. 1 A bicycle can’t stand alone, it is two tyred. 2 A will is a dead giveaway 3 Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. 4 A backward poet writes inverse. 5 In democracy, it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, […]
iPod Random 10
“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love,” Diana Krall“She’s the One,” Bruce Springsteen“Amazing Grace,” The Maverick Choir“Take Another Road,” Jimmy Buffett“The Longest Time,” Billy Joel“Radio Free Europe,” R.E.M.“Badlands,” Bruce Springsteen“Book of Days,” Enya“Son of a Son of a Sailor,” Jimmy Buffett“I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For,” U2 (This really is a “random” 10, but we have a lot of Springsteen and Jimmy in our playlists, so their odds of turning up often are […]
