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For the last few days, I’ve been listening to music through last.fm. I’ve been using them for a while, mostly to post the little list over in the sidebar of what I’m listening to. And I have listened to the radio thingy through them before. But the last few days, I’ve discovered the joy of…

Over the weekend, Ancarett pointed to a Salon article about the increase in homework for kids in the younger grades. Given that I mention homework a few times here, I wanted to weigh in . . . again. We’re getting better on the homework front. I do think that it is important for Geeky Boy…

We broke down. Days of cold and wet and rain and we had to do it. We also put flannel sheets on the bed. I’m nice and cozy. 🙂 Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure

A whole day without blogging! Oh my! I’d blame it on the apple pie, but I can’t. I did make apple pie on Sunday. It’s now almost gone. I use the recipe on the Pilsbury dough box. Once I made pie from the Silver Palate cookbook. Mr. Geeky hated it. And since he’s the reason…

So, when we last left our heroine, she was attempting to corral the chaos that is her home. Can she do it? Or will the stacks of papers and books and socks(?!) self-organize into a monster of horrifying power? So far, so good. Videos are put away (though some should just be sold). Chairs have…

I took the kids shopping for Halloween costumes this evening. Geeky Boy is wearing the same thing as last year–grim reaper outfit. Geeky Girl, however, is going as Sydney Bristow. First, we went to the Halloween store in the mall. Geeky Girl refused to go in and stood behind a pillar while Geeky Boy and…

I’m on a girly kick. This started a few months ago, sometime over the summer. I started wearing skirts, heels and makeup. It’s really been an evolution, a sort of gradual shift. When I was in college, I rejected all of this stuff. Because, back then, girly stuff was a marker that you accepted the…

Earlier this week, I made a smart playlist of songs I’d never listened to. There were 199 of them! Many of them are Christmas songs and since it’s not Christmas yet, well . . . Some of them I just don’t like and I’m ridding myself of the truly horrible ones. But here’s a list…

There were two good posts from yesterday concerning the defining characteristics of the elite. The first, from Laura at 11D, tries to explain the cultural differences between the elite and the not elite (for lack of a better term). I can completely relate to her situation. We also live in a blue-collar suburb of a…

Yay! I just found out that tickets for Iron & Wine go on sale this weekend. Death Cab for Cutie is playing next week. Why, oh why do they have to have these shows in the middle of the week? Maybe they’ll come back? Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen…