Christmas

Some Christmas pictures

Our tree broke and fell over, so we just left it leaning against the wall.

A and R:
Quotation of the day: "I promise not to shoot you in the head and throw you in a hole."  --Jerry H., to me

photo shoot

Here are pictures from Aubrey's first official modeling photo shoot.

I saw Yes Man recently.  I really enjoyed it.  It was nicely brainless and funny.  And I love Zooey Deschanel, who really held the whole thing together.  Isn't she beautiful?

anxiously engaged

I put some brown stripes in my hair, see?

Quotation of the day: "I was so anxious to do what is right, that I forgot to do what is right." --Edmund in Mansfield Park movie, 1999.

the whole fam damily

Thanks to Carolyn for long ago giving me the title to this post.  And this post is dedicated to George, who will like it the most.

no barnacles

Here is a pic of Jennifer and me in front of the infamous Roses's in Chestertown, Maryland where I used to live. I went there to see said Jennifer, who is lovely in every way.

Jerry and me, at the ward Christmas party

• Quotation of the day: "I don't want to eat barnacles." --Rebekah H.


• Headline of the day: "Cooling trend illustrates how fast the world is warming" --Drudge Report


• I love House. This show has us sitting on the edge of our seats just waiting for a half smile, a single kind word from a villain of a main character. And I am digging House and Cuddy's impossible, inept attempt at a relationship. Hugh Laurie’s acting never gets old or predictable.

within my grasp

Aubrey and I were skipping school and work, respectively, to go to Aubrey's doctor appointment. Afterward we felt like getting manicures, so we did. I suppose I am a bad mother, contributing to truancy, but it was so much fun! Funner because we were being bad. It's my philosophy that you learn the rules well, in order to know when it is appropriate to break them. This was only my third manicure ever in my life, and I made it a French one. Now my lifelong dream of becoming a hand model is finally within my grasp, so to speak.

not enough snoop

• Quotation of the day: "Snoop Dogg is all dogg and not enough snoop." --Rebekah H.
  
• Second quotation of the day: "...explaining what you believe isn't all that easy.  If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things--that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact.  I don't logically see how one single word can have contradictory definitions, but emotionally, I completely understand.  Because there are times I think what I am doing is right, and there are other times I second-guess myself every step of the way."  --Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper.  Interesting book.  Heavy, sad, very easy to read.  Well written.

bums make their own gravy

Quotation of the day: "Bums make their own gravy." --Adrian Monk on USA's Monk. Love this show. Stay tuned for a theater movie that will top off of the 8-season series.