elusive hot flash

• Quotation of the day: "You just can't start up a good hot flash when you need one." --Kimberly's mother while experiencing Virginia cold weather.
  
• Here is some footage of Rebekah on the day she first got most of her cheerleader uniform.
  

Bones spoiler

Okay I found this clip, from last night's Bones episode, to be cute. Especially how she blinks behind those glasses and is so brilliant but totally clueless. Love this show. It has its own slightly altered state of reality.

i feel like dancin'

Here are my new shoes. I find myself always looking down today.

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