Psyched Up

"Can you check for a John Doe?

Actually can you check all the Does?

Tai Kwan, Cookie, Dosie..?"

This is our favorite family tv show. Of all time. New season starts this week, lets warm up the DVR. I hope the writers strike hasn't had a deleterious effect.

The new season of Monk starts Friday also. That is our other favorite family tv show.

Ox in the Mire

I don't usually do laundry on Sunday.

• I gave my husband a brand new white shirt for Christmas. Hey, at least it wasn't socks or underwear (okay, he got socks too). ANYWAY....during dinner yesterday he splattered lasagna across the front. Lasagna. Yeah, so instead of enabling him I suggested that he try and remove the stain while it was still fresh. He tried:
• oxy clean
• detergent
• hydrogen peroxide
• vinegar

The stain was lighter, but definitely still there. Trying to be optimistic he said "I think my tie will cover it". Of course, the reason I gave him a new shirt for Christmas in the first place was because his other white shirts weren't very white anymore.

I told him to hand it over and in about 5 minutes I had it white again. Thanks Clorox.

Follow Through

It's time to start following through on some of those New Years resolutions. I've already started on a few of them, but today we start reading the Book of Mormon as a family. Our goal is to finish before Nathan gets home from his mission in April. That gives us almost exactly 3 months.

We can so do this.

Chuck Huck

Some people talk the talk, while others walk the walk. Big words from Keira about political activism, but I'll give you one guess who is hosting the precinct caucus on February 9th.

Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking?

I think not.


"Based on how one person thinks about a hammer, a computer can identify when another person also is thinking about a hammer. It also can differentiate between items in the same category of tools, be it a hammer or screwdriver." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"How" a person thinks about a hammer? I can safely say that my dad thinks about hammers differently than you or I. He looks at a hammer and says, "We can just bump out a wall here, and add on a new wing to the house. It'll be easy..." And then he proceeds to do it. Though, probably not with a hammer. I bet he'd use a sawzall.

You go, dad.

Parenting 101

I bet you didn't know that I have something in common with Britney Spears. I know you're thinking that it's the singing/dancing stuff. But no. We both "get" to go to parenting classes. Okay, hers are court appointed and mine aren't. My husband signed us both up. Thanks hon. The couple that teaches the class are very nice, and the lessons are very informative - I should be an awesome parent by the time the class ends right?

I'd like to get that in writing.

Bigfoot sighting

When I was about 9 or 10 years old I went shoe shopping with my mother and older sister. That was back in the days before self service shoe stores. You sat down and a sales clerk measured your foot. The foot gauge thingy had two adjustments - length and width. My foot was a triple e width (EEE). My feet must have been practically square.

Those wide feet came in handy on todays NYT crossword puzzle. EEE Width was the answer to: 10D Big shoe spec. Not my favorite puzzle - but then, it's Friday so I don't expect to like it. I'm especially unfond (if they can make up words, then so can I) of answers that aren't really words such as 44A One-eighties. The answer: ueys. Gimme a break. That looks like a word I might use in Scrabble when we ditch the real rules and play phonetically.