This morning I woke up to the sweet sounds of my sweetie telling me "Happy Mother's Day". He half-hugged me before racing out of the room with an "Oh, I forgot something...". He then runs back in and shoves a giant homemade card into my hand. It's covered in red and glitter and "HappY Mothers DoY" is etched on the front. Inside is a sentiment reads "I Luv Yoo You You LuvY I LiC You."

"You lick me?" I ask.
"No!" he says with his sweet six-year-old laugh. "It says 'I like you'!"
"Ah, now I see it!"
"And I wrote 'you love' because you always love a lot."--read more >>

Would you like a free cardboard canoe for your pretend river in your front yard? Here's what you have to do:

1. Convince your significant other that he or she should be a bass player.
2. Place an order with Musician's Friend ( http://www.musiciansfriend.com ) for a jam pack bass package. It's about $120.
3. Wait for UPS to deliver the guitar.
4. Remove the bass from the box. There should be four boxes: top and bottom of outer box, top and bottom of inner box.
5. You now have four free yard canoes!--read more >>

I always feel like I have to defend the safety of my neighborhood. "Safe and quiet" I say. Not this morning!

I was sittin' on the couch arguing with my son to put his socks on (why does it take an hour to put on socks?) when I hear a woman screaming outside. A lot of times I'll ignore something like (goofy teenagers!), but this one sounded sincere. I look outside and there is a woman standing by a car talking about how this man had hit her. She was saying words like "get out of my car" and "this is my car" (he was in the driver's seat). She kept saying "you didn't have to hit me".--read more >>

SON: Big hug!!
(hugs mom)

MOM: (sleepily) Hmm? G'morning. (yawns) So this is the first thing you choose to say this morning?

SON: Well I love you!

MOM: I love you, too, sweetie!

SON: I'm sorry you broke your foot.

MOM: Aw, it'll be alright

(SON rubs MOM's foot)

SON: I'll make it better with my love.

MOM: Thanks, honey! I'm sure it'll get better just because you love me.

SON: Yeah, because love makes everything better. Without love, the world couldn't even be alive. I love everybody. I love you and I hope your foot gets better.--read more >>

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/index.html?eref=rss_top...

By Paul Steinhauser
CNN Deputy Political Director
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WASHINGTON DC (CNN) -- A new poll suggests that President Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
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A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll shows 71 percent disapprove of President Bush's job performance.

A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush is handling his job as president.--read more >>

1.Sometimes it takes someone you admire to point out the truth before you see it.

2.I have a lot of options open to me, and I don't have to decide on one right now.

3.A lot of options can be stressful, but it's better than no options at all.

4.I DO have enough credits to minor in Classics.

5.I CAN take Greek alongside Spanish in order to get into grad school as a Classics major, if I so choose.

6.I DON'T have to go to grad school if I don't want.

7.A skinny latte with three packets of Splenda tastes good.

7a.Splenda is bad for you, I looked it up.--read more >>

Ok, so, I work, go to school full time, and have a little boy to take care of. I also have celiac disease that I haven't yet mastered, it's kinda new. Anyway, I'm way behind in my work at school, and I sent this email to my professor. Can someone read it tell me if it sounds whiney to you? Or is it fine? I see that she has already read it, but still...She hasn't replied. 8]--read more >>

Dropped the kid off at karate, came to school. I'm doing a powerpoint presentation to my class about Artemis. Rock on! Please send me some well wishes and smarty pants vibes so that it goes well! That's all I have to say, this is just a study break. Bluh.

The link:
http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/home.asp

Ok, so I'm laying down with my kid like I do every night, which I enjoy, because that's generally the time when he's most forthcoming with what he did at school that day. Now, I need to say that I truly hate the way public schools operate. As a former and future montessori teacher, I think public school teachers spend more time trying to make kids feel shameful than they do actually teaching. Blah. Anyway, the story...--read more >>

1. A giant lizard monster.

2. The Prime Minister of Canada.

3. A prayer tent.

Guess which one I saw? That's right, heathens and non-believers! A prayer tent! To Jesus! On a public college's campus!

Is it okay that I was put off by this? What am I to think? Should I say something? It's not the first time, either. Thoughts? Questions? Comments? Enlightenment?

Here's the article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7344892.stm

Not much I can do about it personally, so I spend some time at this site:
http://www.freerice.com

Happy Monday!

The psychic fair is back! Who wants to go with me? Last year my son got a couple of neat crystals and we all had a blast.

http://www.prskc.org/

I'd like to raise my son in a gender equity household. That is to say, I don't want to him to play with toys because they're for boys, I want him to like pink if he wants to, I want him to know that there are no "boy things" and "girl things", just things.

Okay, so here's the deal. It was raining, and I asked my son if he'd like an umbrella. He said yes, so I handed him my umbrella, and he says "actually, I'm okay, I have a hood on my sweatshirt". Sure. Fine. No big deal.--read more >>

Lesson #1: When taking pictures, be mindful of the background.

Whether you support Hillary or not, this is pretty damn funny!

Are you ready? Here is the noise a six year old makes when he gets water in his eyes in the bathtub.

AAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE waahhhhHHHHAAAA!!!! IT HURTS! I HATE THIS! I WANT TO GET OUT!

Did you enjoy that? Neither did I. Sure, a little piece of me wanted to yell "SHUT THE FUCK UP", but I was cool, I was calm. It was all good.

I just wanted to share my pain. Thanks, and have a great night!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/09/texas.ranch/index.html?eref=rss_tops...

*Let's see... workin' on a paper that's due tonight.
*Got a new French Press coffee maker, it rocks my frikkin' world.
*Uh.. discovered there are two sex offenders living on my street. It's okay, my kid knows karate!
*What else.. oh yeah, I'm feelin' really old after seein' all the youngin's at the Ben Folds concert the other day.

That's it for my report. Hope you enjoyed it. Bluh bluh bluh...

I'm watching Futurama. My six year old is sitting right here with me, watching it. I mean, it's not Family Guy or anything. What do you mamas think? Futurama ye or nay?

1. My job is really boring. I know I should be cataloging, double-checking call numbers, etc., and I know that working a Rare Book Room at a library sounds like a total blast, but it's really pretty damn boring.

2. I'm tired of school. I'm not saying that a 10 page paper on King Hatshepsut and a 30 page paper on Linda Hall isn't fucking thrilling, but I'm just tired of school.

3. I'm lazy. I know, I know, I'm being too hard on myself. But no, what it all boils down to is, I'm just being a lazy ass these past couple weeks.--read more >>

This song is by The Solids, the guys that brought you the theme song to How I Met Your Mother (an awesome show if you haven't seen it yet.) Enjoy!

Here's why you should buy organic, in-season, local if possible, fruit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/opinion/30stutchbury.html?ex=120754080...

Op-Ed Contributor
Did Your Shopping List Kill a Songbird?

By BRIDGET STUTCHBURY
Published: March 30, 2008

Woodbridge, Ontario--read more >>