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We finally have some real Snow! And it's still snowing! Of course, the girls are dying to make snow angels.

Hey, it’s here. Not that I update it much. It’s mainly so I can comment on a coupla blogs I follow over there.

… You walk into the ladies room after it has just been cleaned, and you think “First!”

… By the time the news headline reaches CNN, you’ve seen three different accounts and read the first hand accounts from either the twitterstream or the blogosphere.

… It’s not surfing, it’s User Interface Trend Analysis.

… Google Skillz – U haz dem.

 

Or Burnout?

Our local county (Fairfax, VA) had a special election on Tuesday to replace the Board of Supervisors Chairman, after he moved up to Congress. I made sure I voted, but my husband didn’t. Just read in the paper that only 16 percent of eligible voters voted in the special election. 16 percent, of one of the wealthiest counties in the nation.

Now, I don’t know if this is a special election thing, or what, but it seems to me that the person in the driving seat of the county would warrant consideration and a vote.

There were four candidates – a Democrat, a Republican, a Green Party candidate, and an Independent. The Democrat won, by a margin of 1 percent (according to the news).

We’ll have the new Chairman of the Board of Supervisors until the end of 2011; there are plenty of local issues that will be impacted by this choice. I have no idea why more people didn’t show up and vote. Signs were all over the place. I don’t watch much live TV, and I flip thru the commercials of what I get to watch, so I don’t know if there were any ads on local stations.

So, were people just not interested in voting again? Or had they had enough and decided to sit this one out? Or was it something else?

Recorded Here until I get a chance to move them to the sidebar:

Blogs

• Elizabeth Moon
• Because I Said So

Links

• Giveaway of the Day
• Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

 

I will be upgrading the site engine and making a few cosmetic changes this week. Hopefully, this effort will spur me on in regularly updating the blog.

5 yr old just finished lesson 3 of 7 of intro to skating for 4-6 yr olds. She moves pretty well on the ice, and seems to be motivated even though she has the occasional spill. We'll be doing skating practice tomorrow.

New gym uniforms for both. We have three gym shirts, and I couldn't find any of them Thursday evening without cleaning rooms. I'm not like Dawn where I venture into the room and 30 minutes later it's clean. No, I make them do it, and yell and nag constantly to make sure they do the work. Anyhoo, $43 dollars later, 2 new gym shirts and one new pair of sweats (without scissor holes). If scissor holes appear, they'll have to either give me the replacement money, or work it off. Harsh, yes, but necessary. I'm such a mean mom. They tell me that several times a week.

The Maids are coming for the first time tomorrow, so I'm clearing out the major clutter. They supposedly pick up and straighten, but it's hard to straighten if there's no apparent order in the chaos that was my corner of the family room. Knitting, school work, computer stuff, cds, dvds, trash, books, toys confiscated from children all have found places in my corner. It's looking better, but I still have work to do. They're only cleaning the main level and the girls bathroom.

The Eagles play at one, and I have to work around that. Hubby just took the girls to softball camp (75 minutes for the next six sundays), and I'll pick them up and either pass them off to Grandma or keep them and force a nap. We'll see.

In knitting related news, I got my christmas yarn so I'm pattern browsing. I'll eventually have at least a navy top, if not two, or a sweater.

Trying to stay low carb/low blood sugar impact, and I have to keep caffeine to either none or infinitesimal amount. Graves is on the upswing, and I see the doc on the 26th. Hopefully they'll be able to kill the thyroid once and for all.

Here, have a kitten pic.

Stop acting like children! Seriously. You all remind me of my 5 and 7 yr olds. Grrr.

That is all.