I swear there was no peppermint schnaaps in my cocoa (nor any other alcohol) but I still totally missread what your new moniker would be. Sorry for that. Glad to see you were able to get what you wanted
I know we have a few from the Kansas City area out there. Did you guys get the ice storms earlier this week? My brother lives there, and I haven't heard back to know if they got hit or not.
Stay safe and warm everyone!!
). It went over very well with the kids. We had suspected that Marika (who has otherwise been completely oblivious to boys thus far) might have had a crush on Wil Wheaton (who plays Wesly Crusher) when we were all on a Star Trek The Next Generation kick last spring. Sure enough, she has been going on and on about what a great actor he is in Stand By Me and now that we have watched the special features and Rob Reiner talks about having cast kids who were very much like their roles she is oging on about how she could just tell he really, really is smart, etc.
OMG it is so hard to keep a straight face. As our friends in Michigan would say "With nerds collide we just can't help it we create more nerds."
Not that it is a bad thing to have a kids who is drawn to the smart misfit
I'll take that over one drawn to the rebel any day
Okay I had no idea what had become of him I need to get you and Marika together NOT taht she would want to know anything about him NOW. Yeegdas he's her parents' age which would be so GROSS!
My postcount is too low to give you the URL!!!! Hilarious!!!
I won't be pointing Marika toward ANY blogs any sooner than I have to Luckily she is happier with actual paper books to read anyway (a bit easier for me to keep track of ) It is odd enough having Rio involved in an online game these days (and he only plays it in the living room and generally when Dave is playing it as well--but he is better than Dave )
, and tonight it's supposed to rain 
It's going great! I finished my NaNoWriMo novel (going to start editing next month), and I'm feverishly trying to finish my most recent TR before the holidays begin. Other than that? I'm taking some time off
We were hoping to get to the Osborne Spectacle of Lights this weekend, but last night we discovered at 5pm that MGM closes at 8
We might still try, but so far it's looking like next week instead. Sigh.
I do love the Osborne Lights. I hope you get a chance to see them some time this year.
. I am regretting that we did not have GUESTS that made that cruise for us sign it as well. I didn't look at the rating at all (since I had seen it and knew what it entailed) but I never even thought of it being an R movie (Dave did remind me that this was before PG-13 came out).
On another note, I have been on a thread on the community board about wether people let their kids watch R rated movies. I had explained that mine have seen some because I often disagree with the ratings board (there are PG movies I will not let them see as well). So low and behold someone mentions Stand By Me as being R
So please post how it is going and give us New Englanders a heads up. You are all snowed in with no where to go anyway so you might as well DIS, right? But seriously, everybody stay safe and warm okay?
OKay all you midwesterners. All that snow you are getting today should be here by tonorrow morning
). We got about 10 inches from 5:00 am to 11:00 when the snow let up into just flurries (would have wrecked havoc on a weekeday or unexpected, but on a Sunday with plenty of warning was no biggie). Then we got about an hour of freezing rain around 2:00 which put a heavy crust of ice over all the snow we hadn't managed to shovel by that point. We are getting some flurries again now and are told it may snow more overnight. ). So, now everything in his closet fits, all the game pieces are back in the correct boxes, etc. Now if we can just get to the playroom before Christmas. . . (Marika's clothes stay in there so that makes anotehr closet to go through). I hope everyone else in the storm's path also found safe things to do today and that the rest of you are having a great weekend as well.
