Shortly after writing this morning’s post, I observed the guy next door coming out and dumping a honey pot over the back wall of his balcony. I realize this is a medieval town, but dear *God*. Today’s French Adventure was going in search of the Saint Hilaire Abbey, which after getting completely lost for the second time in a row using Google Maps we vowed to never do again and found the abbey on our own by using, you know. A regular map. Anyway, the abbey was … incredibly peaceful,…
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Internet Fast
Going off-line for a couple of weeks, or at least that’s the plan. I want to catch up on reading, writing, etc, and not obsessively check Twitter and Facebook every four and a half minutes, you know? I leave you with what is theoretically an embedded video but which may not work, so if it doesn’t, you can watch my toddler learn to headbang to hair band rock here. :) Internet fasting commencing in three…two…one…now.
a nice weekend
It’s been a nice weekend. Kate came up to visit, and I dragged her to see “Rock of Ages”, a film which she had no particular desire to see. Afterward she almost forgave me, except she doesn’t like Tom Cruise and the movie made her like him and that was pretty unforgiveable. :) I have made headway into cleaning my office. So far I’ve gotten all the Christmas wrapping paper out of there, which was a big improvement all by itself. I also cleared one bookshelf entirely of crap, which…
little black spot v olympic torch
We missed the little black spot on the sun today, but I think we saw something pretty darned near as neat: Henry stands with Olympic Torch bearer Brian Brunton, helping him carry the load. I am SO PLEASED with this photo. I took about six, but this was the only one where we got him looking at the camera–because Jedward was just a few feet up the street, and there were jillions of screaming little girls and Henry thought that was Very Interesting. :)
Birthday boy!
A few days ago we were reading a Christmas book, and I said to Young Indiana, “Your birthday is in a few days. A birthday is kind of like Christmas.” Today, amidst all the excitement, he was shouting, “Birthday birthday CHRISTMAS!” We think he’s got the idea. :) Two Years Old