Saturday, July 26, 2008

Vampires

I try to stay up on what the kids are watching, reading, and listening to these days. I don't watch horror movies and only like music whose lyrics are decipherable, but I try to know the names of things, what slang means, and read the books that seem interesting.

This year, I noticed that a wide variety of kids were reading Twilight. It's the first book of a f0ur-book series by Stephenie Meyer. It's about a teenage girl who moves to Washington and meets an interesting boy at school. He happens to be a vampire and she happens to smell delectable to him. Hmmmm.... It's a four-book series, so I'm guessing she doesn't bite it any time soon. (He doesn't bite her any time soon??? Tee hee.)

If you like vampires and chaste reading, check it out.

Movie of the Day: Wall-E. No vamires, just robots.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Summer

I've been thinking about my favorite Summertime activities. There are a lot of things I still need to do to feel like I've experienced "Summer."

Star-gazing
Eating lots of watermelon
A picnic on the shore
Gooseberry Falls
Walking the Boardwalk (I haven't done this yet this summer. What is wrong with me?)
Visiting Portland Malt Shoppe
Playing with sidewalk chalk and bubbles


There are other things that I'd like to try this Summer or try again this Summer.

Rock climbing (indoor for starters)
Kayaking
Biking (It's been so long, but I hear it's "like riding a bike")

I'm forgetting stuff. Help me out? What am I missing?

Movie of the Day: Touch the Sound. A woman goes deaf as a kid, but can still feel the vibrations of different percussion instruments and be able to tell the difference between the notes. The music is beautiful and haunting. It's maybe not something you would play at a dinner party, but definitely wonderful.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Bugs, Tar, and a Pale World

One of my friends has been talking about red food lately. Not a lot of food is bright red, at least not naturally. So, to make it so, people add dyes. The problem is you either go synthetic or natural. Synthetic is stuff like Red 40 and Red 3, which I guess involves tar. Natural really means bug parts.

I'm a vegetarian. Does that include bugs? I thought so, but it might be harder than I thought to avoid tar AND bugs.

I thought the best solution was to Boycott RED! But on further inspection, that is going to take a lot of work. It's in ice cream, popsicles, lipstick (I'll have to investigate further), and other random things that I hadn't thought of before devising a boycott. Oy.

Bugs or tar? Bugs or tar? I'm leaning towards bugs, I guess.

You?

Movie of the Day: Penelope. Sooooo cute. Lots of vibrant colors. Even red.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Podlet Podlet


When I was in college, I lived with 9 other girls with a total of 6 rooms around a common room. These living quarters were called "pods" and we called ourselves Podlets. (Go figure.) Any way, the 12 years since graduation has produced at least 14 kids (I've lost touch with a few podlets and I'm not sure just how many kids they have, sad but true.)

Our newest Podlet podlet is R., the son of J. Here are the cutest shoes ever that R. will get in the mail shortly.


Tuesday, July 08, 2008

10 Cards

Last Thursday, I bought a box of 10 beautiful notecards. My goal is to send all 10 of the cards within the following week. It's now Tuesday evening and I haven't written even one. I have two days, eh?

Now, please don't feel bad if you do not receive one of the cards in the mail. I'm trying to send them to people that I don't hear from very often. If you DO get one, it means you have been radio-silent too long!!!

Anyone else up for The Notecard Challenge?

Movie of the Day: Postcards From the Edge. Tee hee.