OMG I love youtube! I use to have this taped on a VHS cassette and it disappeared. My mp3 is also not happy and I’m so glad youtube has it. I loved this duet. I loved Melissa’s story. I just love this.
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Michelle has wanted her own personal Button Maker for a million years. Her brother and sister had one when she was 3 or 4 and she loved it more than they did. During some move or another, I trashed it because I couldn’t seem to find the button replacement thingies for it. I don’t think her Christmas or birthday wishlist have ever NOT contained the buttonmaker.
Last Christmas she almost conned me into buying one because she wanted to use it to make buttons for the youth con at church. In fact I had fully intended to buy her one and somehow forgot about it til it was too late for Christmas. Then, it was too late to get it for the youth con so we still don’t own one.
Today, I wish I had bought it just so I could use it. I could make Blogher buttons! I could make mommybloggers rock buttons. I could make a button that said "Don’t ask, just read my blog!" buttons. Darn, I should have bought that thing.
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I miss RJ quite a bit but right at this moment I’m missing her a LOT. She sooo wants to be a super hero when she grows up. She can talk to you for hours about which powers she would need to have and what she would use them for and who she would TAKE OUT in order to triumph over good and evil and keep the world safe from total destruction. RJ would LOVE this TV show.
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Last year TW and Michelle planted gourd seeds in the square foot garden. The seeds grew and grew and grew and grew all of the way up over the roof of the patio. We promptly forgot about them until someone looked out of the bathroom window or RJ’s window (I can’t remember which) and saw not only the vines but gourds. On the roof. And there they stayed until FINALLY the 1/2 child climbed out there and brought them in last week.
They were originally planted to Michelle could make some project or another with them. A gourd bowl or instrument or something. Now she is acting like she never wanted to do this. Ha. She’s doing it alright and Lee has nicely provided us with the cleaning instructions so she can do it properly.
What’s in your house?
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So, Ani’s pregnant. Cool. I don’t suppose anyone has an audio clip of her pregnancy and patriarchy poem from the NOW event…
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I wasn’t looking forward to reading The Shadow of the Wind. I kept pushing it back further on the “to be read” list. I kept picking it up and putting it down. I even read Vanity Fair before The Shadow of the Wind because I was sure this was going to be a dud. I was soooo wrong.
From the first paragraph to the last, I was totally hooked. I love the idea of a Cemetary of Forgotten Books. I loved every single character in this novel, including the “bad guys”. I loved the twists and turns and the impossible connections between the characters. I even loved the ridiculous and completely impossible coincidences.
The only thing I didn’t like was that the book ended. And I wish, I really wish, I could read Julian Carax’s novels.
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I can’t even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed Sea of Monsters. Ignoring the fact that I’d have enjoyed just about anything after the horrors of Vanity Fair, Sea of Monsters was terrific. Great fun for kids and grown ups and an excellent sequel to The Lightning Thief. I can hardly wait to see what happens next.
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you like ashley, remember? I talked about that once before, on Blogher I think (but I can’t look for sure because Blogher doesn’t like me this morning). Even if you don’t remember, you do like her and because you like her you should support her during Blogathon 2006 next weekend.
Ashley doesn’t have high speed internet so guess what she’s going to do? She’s going to wander around SLC and use various hot spots to blog her “every 30 minute” blog entries. That’s kind of cool, and interesting – not that you should be supporting someone blogging for charity because they are doing something cool and interesting, unless you’re just shallow that way.
Go on, support Ashley and the American Lung Association. You like Ashley – you like lungs, too.
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I’ve got one word for this week’s cupcake topper idea. One word is all you need. Lego. Put your birthday child to work creating mini Lego figures or creations for each cupcake. Or, buy an assortment of Lego people to put on each cupcake. Check ebay, I saw several auctions of Lego people for less than a dollar.
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I finally finished this monster of a book, Vanity Fair. I prefer The Moonstone. Thank goodness that’s done with. I’m not even sure what the point of the book was? I suppose 100 bloody years ago, it might have been new and interesting but today it just seemed tired and incredibly long and a wee bit boring. OK more than a wee bit.
It’s pretty bad when you don’t find a single character to LIKE in a 750 page book.
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