Way to Go!

Good job to all the girls of #teamslap for helping at the Girl Scout cookie kickoff!

Manners Maeketh Man

From what I heard on the radio, the $1.5 billion Powerball winner is a multi-millionaire who spent $30,000 on tickets. IMO, if your bank account has seven figures, playing the lottery is just poor manners.

 Enjoy your retirement Adam Dunn. I think the public underestimated your talent at the plate.

Discuss

Would this hypothetical ticket (Nixon/Rockefeller) have gotten the job done for the GOP in '60? Feel free to discuss.

Btw, what a great button! I wish I owned it.

It Ain't All Roses

It's been a rough evening for #teamslap. A fit by Junie because she didn't like dinner. A fit by YaYa because we wouldn't take her to Ulta Cosmetics. A fit by Lulu because she misplaced her dance shoes and blamed us. Only Smiley was cool. Calm now - cuz the kids are all at activities.lol

Twas Fate

 It's as if the Goodwill gods demanded we buy it (we didn't tho - someone had already claimed it)

The Good and Bad, Yin and Yang of Humanity

 

School Resumes

The spring semester starts today. At this point I'm officially a quarter of of the way through law school.

Just a Neat Chair

I saw this chair - midcentury I think? - at a local thrift shop. I dig it.

Enjoying the Snow

Sledding at Sijan

JuneBug

The one and only Junie

A Matter of Justice by David A. Nichols

Book #1 of 2015. It was informative and well written, but I do feel that at times Nichols struggled to rationalize *some* of Ike's caution. But kudos to him for highlighting the role Eisenhower played overall in the Civil Rights movement - sending federal troops into a Southern State to enforce school integration? It's almost impossible, in the here and now, to realize how shocking and bold that choice was for the 1950's. 

Recommended. 

Gorgeous

YaYa

On the March in France

Forget politics for a second. The sight of millions of people marching arm in arm in France to show support for freedom and solidarity literally brought a tear to my eye. Then I read the impressive list of foreign leaders who marched, and saw the US contribution: our Ambassador to France. Whatever excuse Obama will offer, I'm sincerely embarrassed.

Ugh

Yeahhhh, so this just happened.

Kudos to Socialist and JJ, both of whom were willing to help us out with rides this morning. The tire is now replaced. The rim was also damaged and cracked from the flat, but Ray Tann Tires patched it. They won't guarantee it'll hold. But since the alternative is a new wheel, I'm happy. Ish.

Dear Dad - From Lisa

 

Victory baby!

Was out at the grocery store with Lisa's step-mom when a stock boy broke the news of the Packers' win against the Cowboys. (It wasn't a catch Dez!!)

 I take full credit, as today I wore a Packers shirt for the first time in my adult life. 

You're welcome Wisconsin.

My mother-in-law paid Junie a buck to be quiet during the Packer game. "It was very hard, but I did it!" Junie proudly told me. LOL Classic!

LOL, she was so very good this weekend, but it was a Packer game...

Elimidate

I miss watching "Elimidate". Anyone else remember that dating show?

Hey!

This morning I was awakened by the kids.

"Dad, someone's on the porch. I don't know who it is," LuLu said. 

I stumbled to the door bare chested to find two young women, each wearing professional attire and ID tags on lanyards around their necks.

"Just a minute," I said. I went and grabbed a t-shirt from my room.

"May I help you?" I asked a minute later.

"Hello sir. First, I'd like to thank you for putting on a shirt . . ."

"Oh, no problem . . .[cartoon double take]. Hey!!" 

"I meant, um, just, uh, no need for the "gun show", ya know?

Uh-huh. Grrrrrrr.

Btw They were from a charity, collecting donations.

Another Snow Removal Job

In addition to clearing our sidewalk and Alys's, Smiley was also hired  to clear Tre's 's corner lot today. A busy, and lucrative, day for P-diddyWeeDiddy

Quote of the Day

As good a philosophy as any

Now apparently my sleeping problems are negatively affecting my teeth. Me and an apnea mask have a date to meet this year and I hate the idea! Feeling like I have no choice anymore :( -Lisa

200 Years Ago Today

Today is the bicentennial of The Battle of New Orleans, when Andrew Jackson led a motley assortment of regulars, militia, and pirates to an unlikely victory over the British.

Rod Taylor

RIP Rod Taylor, star of "The Birds" and, far more importantly, "Dark of the Sun", an epic movie memory from my youth. :(