adorable pictures. What color is DD wearing? Yellow?

Way to go on those outfits, Kiwi! And on the clever, clever dd. You too, Bagzie!!

Gotta go, two out of four family members have been taking turns driving the porcelain bus all day. Not me or ds7. Looks like a virus. Hopefully we'll be spared. It's snowing again. You'd think it would stop by March.

Hi everyone else!

See ya!

You are right, Cowzie...a true git.

Kiwi, the costumes are gorgeous...and your DD is even more so. You are so talented.

Well, just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water.....last night at 9:30, shortly after posting how happy I am to be free of my toxic family, my step-brother called to tell me that one of their uncles died and that the aunt was hoping I would come to the funeral...at 8:30 this morning. I really like the uncle and aunt, so dh and I went. What a mistake. Obviously in the interim, the stepsiblings had poisoned everyone against me so that NO ONE but the aunt spoke to me. No one. NO one even made eye contact. This family has been a cancer in my life...I am SO GLAD they are gone. I'm not sorry I went because the aunt was very sweet. BUt it does call to mind why I am happy to be away from these nasty people.

DS is doing something about rockets and trig for his science fair. I don't know how to do it. I really don't. I was an english major. I am qualified to teach children how to diagram sentences....not trig. I don't even know what sin and cosine mean..let alone all the other things. I also don't know how to use one of these fancy-schmancy calculators that have more buttons than this keyboard. What am I going to do??????????/ I must go read on trig. I'll be back. L

Just in case one of you wants to plow through this with me....


http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/trig/

Poor sugar...I just saw your post...feel better. Thanks for that story, Kiwi....I needed to know that.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-----------kiwonkers!!!!--your dd looks so sweet and ernest playing that guitar---is it classical??? I can't tell from the pic------the outfits are SOOOO bright and colourful {and expertly tailored!!!!}---MAN i love this stuff---only three more weeks til The Music Man!!!{ dd is the Mayor's wife}----i LOVE Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream Coat!!!!----i am sure they did all the Hits--I adore---'i wore my coaaaaaaaaaat----with golden lining----ahhhhhh------bright colours shining-----ahhhhh----wonderful and newwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!! {or something like that] how come keyboards don't have musical notes on them??????-----LOHANI!!!!---HOW BIZARRE THAT YOU WOULD HAVE A SIMILAR PROBLEM TO WABBY'S!!!!- life is so strange sometimes---it's like something is in the air-------------very weird-----both of you were very smart to go to the funerals----one usually does not regret extending this courtesy-----i remember all the times i regret not "paying my respects"------and i remember everyone who didn't pay theirs!!!!! one of life's odder things-------------------

let us not forget!!!!! WHAT ABOUT MARTHA!!!!!!!!!!

As you all know, I'm no big fan...but.....I feel bad for Martha. I wish they'd prosecute the Lucent guys.. I never hear anything about that and it was billions! She got 60some thousand???? It probably cost three times that to prosecute and the big boys(key word-boys) are at a dinner party planned with her book.
You are right about the funeral......I was called after the viewing..which means that the aunt asked why I wasn't there. She is the reason I went...and him. He was an amazing guy. All my steps are whack...nothing can be done about that.

Cowie-- I don't tell just everybody, but my forefathers and mothers are all gone too (AND I was an "only") and now that the grief is gone, it is all so much simpler. I think back in my grandparent's day when everyone still lived in one house, or on the same block they HAD to learn to be nice to each other because they could never get away. Now that people do "move away" they get nasty because they think distance makes it OK.

Kiwi--Boffo costumes and contributions.... A jewel for your crown in heaven.... not to mention your stint as library lady. I think the trick to getting older kids to listen is to pick something that seems to be all action, but that impacts them emotionally. I'll always remember stunning a bunch of 7th graders to silence by reading from an anthology called Never To Forget... which was letters written by teenagers during the holocaust. They paid attention and "got it!"

Didn't mean to offend anyone about becoming a mom older rather than younger. I probably was hoping my daughter (who apparently has no plans for marriage or motherhood in the next decade) would listen and change her plans. Like I had that kind of right! HA! Yes, I spent years trying to make sure I didn't get pregnant-- but I have one friend who seemed to "just know" it was time to have kids when she was 21... she was always so easy going...
I don't think I was EVER that easy going.

I wish I didn't think they picked on Ms Stewart because she was a prominant WOMAN. Surely there's some athlete whose investments involved insider info... But there's probably some karma involved, too. Do you think if she'd admitted right away that she should have known better and that she made a snap decision they would have gone after the brokers rather than her?

Lohan-- Please report when trig/rocketry experiements are complete. The Ex almost shot some planes down in S. Jersey when he was in rocket mode... Somebody's got to be the geeky genius!

dh says that even if she admitted to the insider trading it would have been a big deal---she would lose her right to be the head of a public company or something like that===basically tonite the jurors who were interviewed said that they convicted her on WHAT HER ASSISTANT AND 'BEST FRIEND' HAD TO SAY ABOUT HER !!!!---- neither one of these had any reason to say what had been said====they could have easily NOT mentioned what martha said or did------------------WHY DID THEY SELL HER OUT???????