HAMMY HANUKKAH

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Hanukkah was... so early this year! So now it's the last night. The kids have gotten a bunch of loot. Sarah's big haul was a computer. She really is doing more and more homework on the computer and with Don doing actual work on our home computer, there was PC Conflict.

Becca's favorite thing was a volcano kit from Grandma Dykshorn. And her Magnetix from Baba and Zada. I just hope they don't get combined... so that the volcano shoots out magnetic balls. Someone is going to put their eye out.

I'm going to keep my eyes open, I promise!

The big commotion during Hanukkah was the arrival of Scooter, Becca's new hermit crab. WHY did I buy Becca a hermit crab, you ask? Dunno. It seemed like a really good idea at the time.

Scooter has been with us for over a week and so far, Becca has not been pinchied and Scooter is still living. This is an accomplishment for them both.

Finally... has anyone seen this in their hometown? Either it's Photoshopped to be this way, or some clerk was reaaaally bored one day, or there really are some very clueless people out there... or some combo.

OH MY

Monday, December 10, 2007

Geez I hope all you guys in the Midwest are thawing out and nobody got into any car accidents!

A PROUD MOMENT

Saturday, December 08, 2007

The grocery store paid Don to shop there, practically. He is so very proud of this.

MURPHY'S LAW OF COMMUTING

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Murphy's Law of commuting: if something CAN go wrong with your route to work, it will.

My commute has been a total breeze for 8 months. 15 minutes. 18 if I hit all the lights. Then the powers of Murphy did their annual review of commutes and discovered my bliss.

Then there was road construction. I put up with that for a little. And now there are 2 rotaries. Also known as roundabouts.

I have never been able to figure out these structures. Honestly, does the diagram above help you at all? Does it not show cars colliding in the roundabout?

So the construction that created the roundabouts has yielded to collisions in the roundabouts. Sigh. Hafta find a new way to work.