Notes and reminders from over the last week...

• Remember to change work email and voicemail messages before a two day meeting next time.


• When you get so angry with your spouse you need to go for a five mile walk - it's probably best to stop and put on your shoes first. Especially if you have to go to a meeting in an office with lots of stairs and a two hour drive on either end the next day. The blisters have healed and the soreness has faded finally, though.


• Make sure the location of the kid's shoes is known before they go to bed. Just to avoid the lecture from the principle on tardiness.


• Menopause: the Musical is pretty darn funny - a bit of a warning about, and a celebration of, what we have to look forward to.


• The Aquarium of the Pacific is calm and uncrowded at 11 am on Columbus Day. The weedy sea dragons were out, but the leafy sea dragons were either hiding or not on display. (edit: They were on display - I didn't realize they are in a seperate aquarium) Their Pacific giant octopus has just laid eggs (which means they'll be losing her at some point). However, promises had to be made to male offspring that another trip would be made over the weekend, since they didn't get the day off from school.


• (yes, I've been neglecting the planner lately, and it shows...)

Details forthcoming. Maybe.

Notes and reminders from over the last week...

• Remember to change work email and voicemail messages before a two day meeting next time.


• When you get so angry with your spouse you need to go for a five mile walk - it's probably best to stop and put on your shoes first. Especially if you have to go to a meeting in an office with lots of stairs and a two hour drive on either end the next day. The blisters have healed and the soreness has faded finally, though.


• Make sure the location of the kid's shoes is known before they go to bed. Just to avoid the lecture from the principle on tardiness.


• Menopause: the Musical is pretty darn funny - a bit of a warning about, and a celebration of, what we have to look forward to.


• The Aquarium of the Pacific is calm and uncrowded at 11 am on Columbus Day. The weedy sea dragons were out, but the leafy sea dragons were either hiding or not on display. (edit: They were on display - I didn't realize they are in a seperate aquarium) Their Pacific giant octopus has just laid eggs (which means they'll be losing her at some point). However, promises had to be made to male offspring that another trip would be made over the weekend, since they didn't get the day off from school.


• (yes, I've been neglecting the planner lately, and it shows...)

Details forthcoming. Maybe.

Those trashy lizards...

We had an alligator lizard in our mailbox the other day. We have a very small mail slot, and the mail carrier are constantly trying to shove magazines and large envelopes through it, whereupon they get completely shredded and wrecked. So we keep a small cardboard box on the porch to put stuff like that in. Imagine my suprise when I opened the door and saw someone had delivered an alligator lizard!



Whether it was my cat or he climbed in there himself and had trouble getting out, I don't know. He gave me a pretty suspiscious glare as I tried to focus on him. Then I let him go in the backyard.


Just now Gareth came running up to me after perusing his lizard book.

"Mom, I know what that lizard was, it wasn't an alligator lizard," he tells me earnestly. "It was a blue-tongued SKANK!"

He couldn't figure out why I started giggling and had a hard time stopping.

Those trashy lizards...

We had an alligator lizard in our mailbox the other day. We have a very small mail slot, and the mail carrier are constantly trying to shove magazines and large envelopes through it, whereupon they get completely shredded and wrecked. So we keep a small cardboard box on the porch to put stuff like that in. Imagine my suprise when I opened the door and saw someone had delivered an alligator lizard!



Whether it was my cat or he climbed in there himself and had trouble getting out, I don't know. He gave me a pretty suspiscious glare as I tried to focus on him. Then I let him go in the backyard.


Just now Gareth came running up to me after perusing his lizard book.

"Mom, I know what that lizard was, it wasn't an alligator lizard," he tells me earnestly. "It was a blue-tongued SKANK!"

He couldn't figure out why I started giggling and had a hard time stopping.