THOUGHT FOR THURSDAY

QUESTION: What celestial body (other than the moon and sun-those are givens) is bright enough to cast shadows on Earth?

ANSWER TO WORD FOR WEDNESDAY

ANSWER TO WORD FOR WEDNESDAY: DOUBLE FREETURE according to my favorite Urban Dictionary is when you pay for one movie but then sneak into a second film for free.

Some people call this "movie hopping".

WORD FOR WEDNESDAY

Okay, I was trying to think up a good word to stump all you wise women and genius gentlemen but was having trouble. So, I asked my husband (who speaks multiple languages) "What's a hard English word?"

He said, "Rock."

Not everything comes out in translation. :(

WORD(S) FOR WEDNESDAY: Double Freeture

Time to take a guess. What do you think it means?

Come back at 3:00 to see if you were the wizard(ress) of words or NOT.

Contest for Teachers and Librarians

Check out Lisa Greenwald's contest here.

Lisa is of the Longstockings blog fame and her contest is about her LIFE IN PINK & GREEN

You can enter by simply writing to her and telling her what your class is doing to help the Earth by being green.

And there are great prizes like snacks, goodies and gift cards with a party for your class on Earth Day!!!

Deadline to enter:
3/31/2009

Become an MnM Shared by Rena

Me as an M&M character:


I loved this fun little photo game. Rena Jones shared this on her blog. You can link to it here.

Plus Rena shared this button eyes fun too. And, you guys all know I loved Coraline so I had to share me, looking like the Other Mother.



If you want to button your eyes, click here.

David Sedaris in PARIS: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Just finished the book. It was a fun, easy-to-read book.

Each of the short essays could be read as a stand-alone story. So, at night, I would pull the book off my headboard and read one little essay. They are all funny. So, I would go to sleep with a smile on my face and sleep more restful than if I didn't pick through the pages.

There was a lot of talk about Paris, and it made me think of the time we took our oldest son, Jake, there for his present for his graduation from college.

Some people might think the humor in Me Talk Pretty One Day is a little twisted and maybe it is, but that doesn't change the fact that I laughed out loud at some of the stories. And, of course, some stories are funnier than others but none were bad.

I especially liked the fact that David Sedaris made fun of himself more than other people.

It was also fun to read about American tourists in Paris. I've been to Paris twice, and the one thing I noticed when we were there, is how very tall my husband and son seemed. At 6'4" and 6'5", they looked like they were being filmed for a Land of the Giants episode. I stepped back behind them so I could watch the people's faces as they walked through the crowded areas. I was snickering into my sleeve but then I noticed I was taller than most people too and I'm only 5'7".

We enjoyed the people in Paris and found them to be very friendly. Of course, we tried, hopelessly, to speak in French. And we attempted to order everything in French. My husband is very good with languages-having been born and raised in a country where it's mandatory to know more than one or two languages. So, that helped. But, sometimes it seemed like a comedy of errors. The French people tried to understand what we were attempting to say and, for the most part, they did a good job but once we even walked into an English language school looking for directions-and I had trouble understanding them-and they were supposed to be speaking English.

Here are a few pictures from our last trip to Paris. My oldest son graduated from the University of Oregon and deserved some sort of present ;-) Of course, he would have preferred to have gone by himself or with a friend - but hey, we were paying so it was a good excuse for us to go too.

My son, Jake, graduated with a degree in Multi-Media Design and he said he really wanted to see the Louvre - so we did.

Hope you enjoy the photos too.

OK - Here it Goes Again

I wish this is what my workouts looked like.