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Yesterday…
- Marcus broke a glass and sliced the tip of his finger picking up the pieces.
- Rebecca threw a glove onto the stairs and then slipped on it on her way down, knocking the wind out of her.
- We knocked the ice out of the gutters. The gutters may be goners. (They were goners anyway, they are just even more so now.)
- The kids learned that tunneling through packed snow to build a snow fort is not as easy as the movies make it seem.
- I learned that snow sucks.
Marcus: Mom, if you were a character in a comic book, and there was a web site about the comic book, and there was a page for your character on the web site, your famous quote would be "Rocket science this is not."
Yesterday…
- I drove the kids to Costco and got garbage bags, milk, juice, and coffee. Lots of coffee. (Instant coffee.) When the world ends, we will at least have coffee to keep us from becoming zombies.
- During Rebecca's ballet lesson, I walked down to J.E. Rice with Marcus, Madeline, and Abby; we ended up spending $20 on clearance LED Christmas lights.
Yesterday…
- We did schoolwork for the first time since Christmas. Things went smoothly, except that Marcus had apparently stayed up way too late Sunday night so he was a total grouch until threatened with an enforced naptime. Asking Madeline to be quiet is an exercise in futility—I told him that it wasn't her fault he stayed up too late.
- I went to ballet class for the first time in two weeks. Pain! Agony! And midway through class, my arms got all spotted, like prickly heat but smooth. I have serious doubts about the crab soup I ate beforehand.
Yesterday…
- I made a plugin options page for my whatever-the-heck-it-is and started sorting out shortcodes from filters from configuration settings.
- I upgraded three more installations of WordPress to 2.9.
- I made an options page for my framework/theme thing. It updates options! It has multi-dimensional arrays!
Yesterday…
- The house heat broke. Then Matthew fixed it. (Because, actually, he broke it in the first place. Minor detail.)
- I picked up some LED Christmas lights from the hardware store for $2 per string. Madeline and Becca now have colored crystals all over their bunk bed; Marcus used his to decorate the Nerf gun hanging on his wall. (I totally want to go back for more on Monday.)
- Chinese food did not agree with Abigail at all. More laundry. Lots and lots of laundry.
- I made guacamole. Mmm, guacamole.
Yesterday…
- I converted most of http://bajada.net/ from Textile to Markdown. Certain behaviors in Textile were giving me conniptions, like enclosing perfectly fine
<div>s with<p>s just for the heck of it. I was in the midst of recoding shortcodes as filters to avoid this behavior when I threw in the towel. (Yes, I know aboutnotextile... No, it was not sufficient.) - I made mongolian beef for dinner. Zakk came over, we remarked on how Kenny vs. Spenny has totally jumped the shark.
- I resolved some issues with my tab shortcode. It just needs some JavaScript tweaking and for me to sort out how to do nice
ids. - Madeline and I watched Alma together. Sweet and horrifying at the same time.
In the car on the way home from Thanksgiving, with Abigail wailing and Rebecca singing to her and me swiftly succumbing to Madeline's cold.
Rebecca: Mom, do you know any other Christmas carols I can sing to her?
Me: My throat is sore and I have no voice.
Rebecca: I don't know the words to that one.
While reviewing Flickr images for a web site banner, Marcus poked his nose over my shoulder.
Marcus: What is all that?
Me: Yarn.
Marcus: That's a lot of yarn.
Me: Yes, it is.
Marcus: So, do they have yarn making machines?
Me: Yes, they're called spinning wheels.
Marcus: Oooooooh.