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Wordless Wednesday: So Pretty
This is located in the atrium of the Milwaukee Art Museum, and if I knew the artist I would absolutely give credit here.
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Qat
Here’s the background: We’ve been listening a lot to Snacktime, by the Barenaked Ladies. It’s a children’s CD, but it’s fun enough for parents to enjoy too. There is this one song, Crazy ABC’s, where they go through the alphabet and list a crazy word for each of the letters and a definition of it.
Here’s the scenario: We were at dinner with my parents and my nephews. My mom was playing hangman with the kids when all of a sudden my husband comes up THE WORD to END ALL WORDS! The MOST FANTASTIC HANGMAN WORD EVER! He’s positive that they’ll NEVER EVER EVER guess it before their hangman is hung.
He tells them: _ _ _
Someone says: A
He fills it in: _ A _
Zoe says: Q
He gets a look of shock as everyone else at the table thinks our daughter has just made the dumbest letter guess ever because there isn’t a place for a U in those three slots, especially with the A in the middle.
And then she says: “qat, it’s an evergreen shrub” (quoted perfectly from the song, mind you).
I Superan
Last night my husband and I ran the Superun 5K. It’s through Lake Park, and this run is challenging, but we love it anyways. Our times? Well let’s just say that we finished, and our times sucked. I hadn’t run in over two weeks, and my husband (who finished around 22 minutes last year) ran at my pace (which is no where NEAR 22 minutes).
It did not rain, and there was no beer on this race. It’s was all sunshine and hills.
The next 5K is Bastille Days, which is in July and is my favorite one of them all. I believe my brother, sister-in-law (Red), and nephews will be running it too. That’ll be interesting. My nephews, who are 14, are now taller than me. They’ve got loooooooooooooooooooong legs and I’m willing to bet that they are going to sprint to the finish line.
Speaking of Red, I found out that she joined a triathlon class this summer, thinking that it would teach her the skills necessary for if she’d ever want to do a triathlon. Well, guess what, the class is ACTUALLY GOING TO DO A TRIATHLON. Yes, that’s right. She’s doing a triathlon. I think it’s a great idea, I wouldn’t want to do it — maybe one of those mini tri’s though, I could handle that.
Wordless Wednesday: Zoe & Penelope
(just to clarify, Penelope is my sister-in-law’s new dog and Zoe LOVES HER!)
Maverick
On my birthday I decided to make a flowerbed in my backyard. It was something that we had been meaning to do since we moved in two years ago, but no one really wanted to dig up the grass. Not because we liked the grass, but because it would be really hard work due to the fact that the ground is mostly clay. I started out with plans to dig a space where I could plant a clematis by the arbor, but ended up with a garden that extended to the corner of my yard along the fence, about 6′x6′x8′ in a triangular shape. It looked huge up close, but when I turned to look at the rest of my yard in comparison — it’s really small. Let’s call it ‘quaint’. From the sidewalk you can’t even see my quaint birthday garden actually.
I really wanted to go straight to the nursery to pick out a few plants to put in the flowerbed, but waited so we could go together on Saturday. We picked out some tall grass, catmint, a small juniper, and a burgandy sedum type plant. Once you get close enough to see, it’s really pretty.
After we finished the flowerbed, my husband said to me, “see how much easier it is when we work together as a team to get something done, rather than going about it in your usual maverick way?”
Maverick way? Moi?
Okay, to be honest I hadn’t ever really thought about it, but I suppose I am a bit of a maverick. I like to do things when I want to do them, not before, not after, and I want to do them my way. Is that so bad? I mean, it got us a quaint little birthday garden, right?
Pink Pink Pink Pink(eye)
And to top off my birthday, my daughter has pinkeye. She’s had an eye problem for months now, which we’ve been trying to get rid of since December. Yesterday (bright and early) she had a follow up appointment with the eye doctor. Her and I were sitting in the waiting room when she turned to me and said, “Mom, do I have crud on my eyes.”
Yes. Yes she did have crud on her eyes. ALL OVER her eyes. The doctor took one look at her and said, “well, she has pinkeye.” I guess there are two forms of pinkeye, viral and antibacterial. She’s got antibacterial, so she’s on her normal eyedrops for the original problem, a new eyedrop for the pinkeye which she gets 4x a day, antibiotic salve at bedtime, and oral antibiotics too because pinkeye causes earaches and sore throats too (which she also has). LOVELY.
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