A bore

• Rebekah, a freshman, made the varsity cheerleading team/squad/group. We are astounded.
• I don't like Fringe anymore. What a bore.
• I'm bored and boring myself. Boredom is boring into my soul.
• I am reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.  It's not boring I guess.
• I got new black '20s flapper type mary jane pumps.  They are not boring I guess, and I rock them when I wear them.  Everyone better look out tomorrow at work.  I will stare down at them severely.
• Poor House.  
• Booth's brother sucks.  So did Booth's father.
• I am watching One Tree Hill season one straight through.  Nicely brainless soap opera with a few compelling characters.  Occasionally boring.
• In England, instead of saying season one of a TV show, they say series one of a TV show.

Rebekah

Aubrey and Rebekah:

Some flowers I got, that I love:

Rebekah's 14th birthday was Saturday.

This is Rebekah's new chinchilla she got for her birthday. His name is spelled Cwi[bubble]. It is pronounced like "quip", but the p sound is more like a bubble popping.

The tree in front of our house.

Aubrey

Here are some pictures from Aubrey's first photo shoot.

• Word of the day: fancy
  
• Quotation of the day: "We have been guided by...the simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it." --Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA)


• Conversation of the day. Me: "What, only two sneezes in a row?" Rebekah: "I was going to do another, but I had other priorities."
  

Halloween

• My ear is starting to rip off. I've got it taped down with a Band-Aid.
• I cut this out of a bag of frozen berries. I thought the "Froz'n Fruit" was so funny. I love marketers' efforts to turn regular item names into something snazzy and memorable. I certainly found this snazzy and memorable. But what is a "Froz", and why would it be packaged with Fruit?

• Here are pictures from Halloween. Aubrey is Minnie Mouse (1st picture, with her friend), and Rebekah is Rocker Barbie (with pink hair).

• A friend, Rebekah, and Jerry at the Palin rally

songs to murder by

Kimberly's top 5 songs to murder someone to:

1. Richard Wagner's "Die Walkure: Ride of the Valkyries"

2. Ray Charles-"Hit the Road Jack"

3. Louis Armstrong- "What a Wonderful World"

4. Korn- "Thoughtless"

5. Handel's "Water Music"

of mice and Palin

Here are some pics of the Palin rally right near our house. Jerry and Rebekah attended. Rebekah was so excited and loved it. Isn't Sarah Palin lovely in every way? That is a RHETORICAL question, by the way. [Picture courtesy my friend Eva McGann. Note the new link to her blog in my link list.]

Here is a pic of Minnie Mice Aubrey and Clara (one of my Sunbeams).

Quotation of the day: "I warded off the angry beasts with my opera singing." --Rebekah H.

trip to Utah

I went to Utah. A bunch of girlfriends and I got together. Here is a picture of just the four of us who graduated the same year: Sarah, Lindy, Jan, and me
Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
I squished a loaf of bread
And so should you

Madison's first tooth fell out into my hand while I was visiting. A great honor for me. Here she is toothlesser and quite a bit traumatized at having permanently lost part of her body.

Here is doe-eyed Lexi painting her own fingernails.

Here are me and Sierra. She's the most sweet and gentle person I know.

Here are my dad, Madison, and Sierra:

Here are Madison, Lexi, and Sierra running around.