Good morning! Yes, the earthquake/tsunami stuff is scary and heartbreaking. Yikes.
Nice to see a post from Joanne early on a Saturday! Sleeping in is so good when you can! I was wondering about the play..... here it's an all-parent done event, so up front they tell you you have to commit to something like 30 hours of your time for your kid to participate. Unfortunately that means some kids who want to be in it are not, because their parents can't/don't want to do the work. With your full-time working, did you have to do any work on it?!
Chris, I feel like I go to the grocery store every day and spend at least $50 (weekday, so not 7x), and that's only for four of us!! I thought about you as I swiped my credit card yesterday, in fact!
Actually, I have been diagnosed with mild copd!! Bummer! We tried I guess it was advair and singulair and both gave me bad side effects -- I had completely forgotten that part, and Larry and I were both a bit worried that I wasn't taking anything -- I don't know.... you know, you get older and you worry about stuff more, and for some reason (I guess because of the crud we had), we were worried about me. I was relieved to know there was a good reason I stopped (one gave me bad vertigo!). So the other day she said since the side effects so badly outweighed the benefit, it's probably ok that I'm not taking anything.
That is funny about the report. I wonder if the Vietnam interest comes from Avatar at all? I listened to an interview with James Cameron last night and they talked about the war tie-ins, mentioning the Vietnam war and the Iraq war. The whole interview made me really want to see the movie!! And, I now want to see the academy awards, too! Blerg!
The weather was insane here yesterday.... driving home was pretty scary, partly because I drive a prius and I've had the whole stuck accelerator problem on my mind constantly when I drive now. The freeway had so much water on it in parts that my car kept telling me it was skidding, and I know one problem toyotas have had is with skids and the anti-lock break feature, so..... I was very stressed! We are thinking about trading in the prius for a volvo.... I'm wanting a third row of seats without getting an suv or minivan, so that seems an option.... any other suggestions? We ended up just hanging out at my friend's house -- the mom of the kid we were going to take to the movie -- had such a great time! The four boys get along so well and it was so nice to relax and chat.
Oh my workout.... chatty me..... I did bum bum, high and tight, and a little bit of his tummy tuck. What names, I swear! Anyway, I'll be having a broken butt!
I'm thinking I may do PUB tomorrow..... we'll see.....
hope everyone has a great day. We've finally gotten Travis' science experiment going (which we should have done a week ago, I think!). He's growing sugar and salt crystals..... from Hottie's sister's book, actually! But I used some fancy-shmancy black salt for the salt, and it didn't really saturate, so I'm certain it's not going to crystallize. But, we'll have results either way! We're going to set up a camera on a tripod to take pictures as it happens, and then string the pics together into one gif like a movie. The teacher wanted some "wow" factor to show the younger kids, so that's our "wow".
Chris, I hope it's another better weekend at work!!
