We’ve been blaming a lot of our troubles on India and China, with their rising populations and middle classes creating more demand for food and gas. India is striking back! Here’s the article, in case you don’t want to just take my word for it. No, it’s not their fault that there are so many [...]
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India has a point
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged artifical sweetener, overeating, world hunger on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My kid is really smart
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
K1 is approaching the end of kindergarten. One of the things they do is measure your kid’s reading level halfway through the year and again at the end. The jury is still out on what K1’s is, because the teacher only had the tests to get halfway through third grade. All we know today is [...]
How do you solve a problem like our world?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The headlines are getting more and more ominous, even if they are getting a little ridiculous. I love the rice rationing story – yes, folks, only in America is it considered newsworthy that you can only buy somewhere between 80 and 200 lbs of rice per day (depends on which news story you read, or [...]
Farmer Boy, take me away!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Farmer Boy, happiness, Little House on the Prairie, Zen on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading Farmer Boy – for those of you who aren’t die-hard Laura Ingalls Wilder fans, the little girl on Little House on the Prairie did eventually grow up and write those books, but first she got married to Almanzo Wilder; eventually, she wrote a book about his childhood, too. If I could [...]
Trick or Treat
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So I’m at Target yesterday, congratulating myself on only having 5 items in the basket, 3 of which are from the dollar spot and the other 2 are non-negotiable spending. I think to myself, ‘It’s been a long week. I deserve a little treat. Hmm, how about a little something? Oh, wait, right, there’s that bathing [...]
6th birthday = knights, castles, princesses and dragons
Posted in My life, Uncategorized, tagged birthday party, cake, castle, dragon, frugal, knight, party, pinata on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We just had K1’s birthday party last week, and I’m still really proud of how well it came together. So, in case anyone is interested in having a knights’ birthday party, here is a ridiculously inexpensive (if somewhat time consuming) plan for a great party:
The invitations were printed on cheap manila paper so that it looked like [...]
Hello world!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, my first post. I’m stepping bravely into the 21st century. After ignoring the possibilities of text messaging, having no idea how to work an ipod (or even the proper spelling or capitalization of an ipod – iPod? i Pod? i-pod? Does anyone even care?), and still not managing to get what I want from iTunes, it’s [...]
