anybody else getting excited for "The Royal Wedding Slumber Party Featuring Tea and Crumpets"?

cuz you know i am!

my day

well, after 8 hours of work (which today included putting away groceries, so extra work) and three hours of shopping my legs and back are very tired and sore. after 2 hours of trying on glasses (because i'm that indecisive), my ears are sore (and i'm grossed out cuz of all the other people who have done that with those same glasses). after eating lunch at 10:30 and not eating again til 7:45, i was very hungry and light-headed.

but...i got new glasses (well, will tomorrow), which i'm kind of happy with, i bought goodies for two parties that are coming up, i bought a present for a darling baby boy who will be born in june (and what a little dude he shall be, thanks to me), i found a few things for operation Christmas child, and i had spaghetti-o's for supper. turned out to be a good day. :)

"Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives."
 - Heb. 2:14-15

Happy Easter!

but sadly, they don't make 'em like that anymore

i'm going through old posts (cuz, well, i have no life) and seeing some on tolkien (and sadly thinking there are not enough) and being reminded of all the things he and i have in common and how much i absolutely love that man. i need to find me one of those.

i very much like this book

next time i read 'fotr'...

i'm going to write an article about how misunderstood i believe boromir is. he's complex. and the movies did nothing to help his cause. if people haven't read the books (as more than just a companion to the movies), they have the wrong notion of him. and that's my thought on that (for now).

Happy Birthday, Boy Number One!

I stole this picture from a Boston fan on flikr, mostly cuz I like the title he gave it:
"twins fans falling over, screaming, perishing of joy right there in the stands".
Yeah. That sums it up.

Melilot Classic: June 25, 2008

more of Treebeard's wisdom

[on the Ents' loss of the Entwives]

"Our sorrow was very great...And now the Entwives are only a memory for us, and our beards are old and grey...But we made no songs about it, being content to [say] their beautiful names when we thought of the Entwives. We believe that we may meet again in a time to come, and perhaps we shall find somewhere a land where we can live together and both be content. But it is foreboded that that will only be when we have both lost all that we now have. And it may well be that that time is drawing near at last." - The Two Towers

i love it! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91SIu5EF6SE
(sorry non-baseball girls)

thank you, busy, for this quote

"Prayer is hard work, so an individual may try to avoid it. But prayer, talking and listening to God, is vital in building an exciting relationship with God." Linda Dillow

i am very sad that posting today booted that cute picture of cuddy off this page. the end

who wants a hot bath anyway?

i was going to take a bath. but then it was dishes time. so i came on here to wait for a bit for the water to heat up after the dishes were done. so now my dad just said he's going to take a bath. so now i have to wait for the water to heat up again. so much for bed by 9:00.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Yes, I know, my birthday was in February. But, my darling friends decided to surprise me with Twins tickets for this last Sunday. (That's the trouble with a February birthday - it's not baseball season. But waiting isn't all bad. It made Chelleybutton come visit me twice. :) ) So Chelleybutton, Hobbitsister, my Diana, Erma, Scout, and I prayed for no rain and headed to the ballpark. My boys didn't win, but my girls and I had fun anyway. The one sad thing was that I had to be so far away from Chelleybutton, when here she had come all that way, but a girl only has two sides when she sits at a table, I mean, in a row. And my poor Diana needed help following sometimes, so it was good that I was there to be her own personal baseball guru.
Let's see. What else? Well, Chelleybutton bought me a helmet sundae, which was very exciting, and she and Hobbitsister made a birthday tiara for me out of computer printed tickets and band-aids. I felt very classy. It never did rain, thankfully - instead it started out hot and humid then turned to cold and windy. My boyfriend made a great play at second, Hobbitsister's third hero had an awesome play in the outfield, and Jim Thome hit a HUGE 590th homerun that warranted a curtain call.
All in all, it was a good birthday. :)

my mummy has decided she likes this guy

smart lady.
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/60_minutes/video/?pid=8ZRioCHe0T5nC1R6R8kebbOzBsqGMmw_&vs=homepage&play=true

you know, sometimes i just get tired of waiting for mr. right. not discouraged, not lonely, not disappointed, just tired of it. for pete's sake, if you're out there, will you just show up already?

not fun story of the middle of the night

i get thirsty at night, so i sleep with a cup of water on the bookshelf next to my bed. last night, i woke up at 2:15, thought, 'oh good, i have 3 hours left. i'll take a sip of water and go back to sleep.' and i reached for the glass. and tipped it over. onto the sound machine i use to go to sleep (cuz i'm 1 apparently), my modem, my medications, and two shelves worth of books. thankfully i was able to rescue my phone. but yeah, so then i got to clean it all up, which of course woke me up (and made a huge mess in my room as i had to pull every book off those shelves to wipe them off and spread them out so they would dry). and i then didn't have a sound machine to get me back to sleep, so i had to use my humidifier, which of course was empty cuz it's the end of the season, so i had to fill it. so at 2:35 i finally got back to bed, with it only taking about another 45 minutes to an hour to go back to sleep.  so much for those 3 hours.

if this doesn't make you want to come to minnesota i don't know what will

http://www.exploreminnesota.com/more-to-explore/index.aspx

My Alphabetical Biography List: Eiffel, Gustav - engineer

It was only a matter of time before I got to a boring biography. I'm not sure if it was Monseiur Eiffel, the author, or the engineering that made the book so boring, but I would guess it was a combination. But I did learn all about bridges and iron and steel. And after I was done my mother found a family history thing that said that my great-great-grandfather's family worked in the foundry where the iron for the Eiffel Tower came from, which I guess is a good claim to fame.

it's the most wonderful time of the year!

hooray! my boys are back!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVN3cl5gNv8