MIA

You might have noticed my lack of posting over the weekend. Yes, I enjoyed the holiday with Roo and Jasper, even with single parent duty since Bob's on Horn Island. But, no, keeping the kids off of each other isn't my excuse. My desktop computer crashed in the middle of me finally backing everything up, potentially losing all of my data including all the photos since Jasper was about a year old. Whoops.

I hoofed it over to Haddock (the Wichita version of an Apple store) and left my poor iMac in their capable hands over the weekend. And I just haven't felt like blogging without it, even though potentially I could do so on the old laptop, albeit more slowly. I think I'm afraid of a technology curse. I plugged my iPhone into the laptop and it promptly lost half of my apps. Sigh. Anyway, the tech guy called to tell me the data's all there but he was going to mess with some other things so hopefully I'll get it back tomorrow. Cross your fingers for me. Apparently I miss my computer. How lame is that?

Okay, divert your eyes from the embarrassing geek love and check this out:

Although you probably shouldn't enter, since my chances of winning would be better that way. Hmm.

Also, my old workmate Kevin is trying to win a screenwriting contest, so if you have a YouTube account and can like his rather eloquent summation, I would appreciate it. Perhaps if he wins this trip to LA and becomes a famous scribe, he will stop assaulting me with Aldo Nova stuff on Facebook. You know what, I'll just embed the thing here and you can check it out. I think it's a good concept, although obviously the crazy mom should be Japanese. Duh.



How was your Memorial Day?

New Header

I'm thinking I need to change the look around here. What do you think of this as my new header?



Yeah, I guess not. It's just been one of those days.

Genetic Mysteries!

Here's a time sucker! I need to get a better pic of myself to try this with…

Bob would probably prefer to see me morphing into Halle Berry but Christian Slater was more amusing. And I'm all for any celebrity doppelgangers aside from Natalie Merchant, which is what I got all through college. That and the girl from Mystic Pizza who wasn't Julia Roberts. Wonderful.

Sunday Drivers

Jasper and I were headed home from lunch with my parents (Bob and Roo drove separately) when I saw a guy flip over in his wheelchair and land, face-first, on the sidewalk. I pulled over to see if I could help him and was trying to get the crazy heavy wheelchair turned around when two preteen boys came running over to help. They obviously were more familiar with wheelchairs than I am because they started fiddling with the joystick thingie instead of trying to move the thing by hand. (They don't give you motorized wheelchairs for maternity discharge, duh…) And once we had the chair turned around better, another young man came out of nowhere to help lift the guy back into his chair. I offered to get some bandaids out of the car for the scrapes on his arms, but he said he was used to it and would be fine. And all of us went on our way.

Sketchy

Looking for mindless fun online?
At Etchy, you can virtually "draw" on an Etch-a-Sketch using your arrow keys.


Be careful– it's strangely addictive.