Taken from Ali

That is super funny…I wanna doo it:

1. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME (first pet, current car): Spot Grand Caravan

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME (fave ice cream flavor, favorite type of shoe): Cookie Dough Crocs

3. YOUR NATIVE AMERICAN NAME (favorite color, favorite animal): Navy Sloth

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, city where you were born): Margaret South Bend

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (the first three letters of your last name, first two of your first name): Annwa

6. SUPERHERO NAME (2nd favorite color, favorite drink): Purple Diet Coke

7. NASCAR NAME (the first names of your grandfathers): Frederick Stephen

8. STRIPPER NAME ( the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy): Happy Butterscotch

9. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME (your fifth grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter): Jurgonski Jacksonille (ha!)

10. SPY NAME (your favorite season/holiday, flower): Winter Tulip

11. CARTOON NAME (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now): Pear Yoga Pants

12. HIPPIE NAME (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree): Yogurt Dogwood

Instead of writing an incredibly boring narrative trying to explain where the heck we’ve been in the last 2 weeks, I thought I’d share it via photos.

Madeline has a BIG drink. (don’t worry friends, it’s water)

Amanda rocked the house as Gabriella Montez in High School Musical

“Mommy, I’m doing my ‘nastics’ in here.  Is this too dangerous for Madeline?”

(well at least she asked)

Cookie visits!  We have a great time, with the exception of the worst concert ever (at least the people sitting in front of us were nice).  He taught Claire how to ride a bike and we only had a teensy bit of medical drama (everyone is fine!)

I also finished 2 knitting project which I can’t post here until a reader receives them.

We’re back with a vengeance now!

The sins of lust and greed are indeed related!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080405/ap_on_sc/finance_and_sex;_ylt=AtoC2VPD6CGR4K11PPn4ksoDW7oF

Yes, Christians have been telling you this for over 1,000 years, but did you listen until some Stanford researcher spent money to prove it? Nooooo.

-j.

After the recent revelations that Spitzer’s girl was formerly videotaped on Girls Gone Wild (but oooops…she was underage there), I have come up with a few candidates for “gone wild” shows…tell me if you think they’ll do well:

• Geeks Gone Wild (Geeks remove their taped glasses, drink heavily, and begin yelling at each other in Klingon, all on tape!)
• Amish Gone Wild (Those crazy Amish! First, it’s a rumspringa reality show, now see what really happens during barn raisings! “Look, she’s praying! Look…she’s…still praying!”)
• Lawyers Gone Wild (No, not law students. Now you’ll see lawyers lying about billing hours, filing ridiculous briefs with the court, quashing subpoenas!)
• Indiana Weather Gone Wild (It’s spring, and the snow actually stops!)(True fiction)
• Town Meetings Gone Wild (See Roseland)
• Catholics Gone Wild (Now there’s nothin’ good about Good Friday.)

 -j.

Check this out:

Joffrey’s Java Beta Test

I just registered and you should too if you blog. I mean who doesn’t like free coffee? Thanks Leah for the tip!

Both of our daughters feel it necessary, when one is sitting down in the living room for a quick English muffin in the morning, to bounce up and down at one’s knees, mouths open, like starving baby birds, as if they had not eaten in days. (Think seagulls from Finding Nemo…) Madeline says, “Wheeze, wheeze” until she gets some, and then when the food is gone, says “Oops…assident” as if the food vanished totally on its own. Most amusing is when I am holding the plate at a certain height, and Maddie’s eyes appear over the edge of it with a plaintive, hopeful, expression.

Of course, it is impossible to deny her, or Claire for that matter.

 -j.

Sherry writes about toddler proofing.  This hits so close to home after the Madeline incident of last week.  Incidentally…honey, I’m really sorry, but the toy room that you cleaned tonight has been turned upside down by our 33 inch terror.  I will clean it later.  I’m sorry!

And this.  Well, let’s just say this does hit close to home…. Ahem….right Jonathan?

Yet ANOTHER snowy day.  I think we got about 6 inches last night.  At least it’s pretty white fluffy snow.  Opposed to that ugly white snow. Ha!  It is warm today too which is a bonus….30 degrees and overcast.  Claire will be thrilled to be able to go out and play in the snow at school.

This morning, I received an email from our music ministry people at St. Pius (our church). The individual sender noted that:

“If you need to contact me, please DO NOT click on “reply” to this message, it will not get to me, and will most likely be returned to you as a mailer demon.”

It’s supposed to be mailer daemon, really, but the funny thought which it sparked was, “Wow…we Catholics are serious about our unreply-able email addresses.”

“Not only will any attempted reply to this email not get to me, but I will probably send you a demon in return, who will possess your computer and terrorize your cats. And you thought a computer virus was bad.”

Our two girls play really good together…usually.  Sometimes Madeline has a, um, sharing problem.  Or in Claire’s eyes at least she has a sharing problem.  And a hitting/hair pulling problem, but that’s another story.

I’m currently in the kitchen trying to sneak a few minutes of work in on this snow day.  Here are a few of the things I’ve overheard from the other room:

• Mommy, Maddie’s trying to share with me.
• Mommy, Can we, can we, can we watch the um um um Jungle Movie (Jungle Book)
• Mommy!!! My baby is behind the couch again.
• Mommy.  Tell Maddie to quit hitting me with her blocks.
• Eeek a MOOOOOO.  Eeeek a BOOOOO.   Eeeeek aaaa MOOOOO (Madeline reading her peek a boo book to herself)

Life is way more entertaining when you get to stay home with your kids :)  I better go referee…I think I hear another attempted sharing violation in progress.

It goes like this.

Madeline throws gramhn cracker off high chair.

Claire picks it up and puts it back on the tray.

Madeline giggles hysterically, throws another piece off.

Claire giggles hysterically…takes a bite of the cracker on the floor, puts the remainder on Madeline’s tray. 

REPEAT.

This has been about 20 minutes of amusement here today.

Aaaah snow days!

Let others know a little bit more about yourself; repost this with your name and “ology” at the end. No tagging, but let me know if you’re going to do it, I’d like to read!!

MOUTHOLOGY

Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A. Honey Mustard

Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A. Burger King

Q. What is your favorite sit down restaurant?
A. L’Auberge Chez Francois

Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A. At least 20% unless the server is REALLY awful. More like 25% if they’re really good.

Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick of?
A. Barnaby’s Sausage and Mushroom Pizza

Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A. See above

Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A. Butter and Blueberry Jelly

TECHNOLOGY

Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A. One of the plain windows backgrounds

Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A. Two
BIOLOGY

Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A. Right

Q. Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
A. I had a cyst on my lip removed when I was in high school

Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A. About 3 years ago — right after Claire was born. The dentist called me a chicken because I needed novicane for a teeny tiny procedure (which really did take 2 minutes) after I’d just given birth.

Q. What is the last heavy item you lifted?
A. Madeline

Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A. No.

BULLCRAPOLOGY

Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A. No

Q. If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
A. Sydney was my “bar name” in and after college (you know the fake name I gave to creepy guys)…and I always liked it. (you know Sydney Ellen Wade of Virginia….)

Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A. Teal

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A. A Quarter

Q. Have you ever saved someone’s life?
A. I made my older brother wear a seatbelt the day we got into a horrible accident, so I like to think so

Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A. Not that I know of.

DAREOLOGY

Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A. Yes.

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A. No.

Q. Would you never blog again for $50,000?
A. Yes

Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A. No.

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A. Tabasco, yes. Dave’s Insanity Sauce? No.

Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A. No way.

DUMBOLOGY

Q. What is in your left pocket?
A. 25 cents and a coupon for pullups

Q. Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A. I haven’t seen it

Q. Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A. Carpet & Ceramic Tile

Q. Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A. Stand

Q. Would you live with roommates?
A. Sure.

Q. How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A. 2, 3 if you count my Crocs

Q. Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A. I was pulled over about 2 weeks ago (and got another warning….11 for 11 baby!)

Q. Who is number 1 on your Top 8?
A. Hrm…..I don’t know if I can publicly share that

LASTOLOGY

Q: Last Friend you talked to?
A: Keith

Q: Last person who called you?
A: Jonathan

Q: Last person you hugged?
A: Claire

Q: Last person to stick their foot in your face?
A: Madeline, when I was trying to put her shoe on this morning

FAVORITOLOGY

Q: Number?
A: 41

Q: Season?
A: Fall

CURRENTOLOGY

Q: Missing someone?
A:  Of Course!
Q: Mood?
A: Tired and annoyed

Q: Listening to?
A: The people who work around me

Q: Watching?
A: Nothing

Q: Worrying about?
A: When I’m going to get to take a nap, and how the heck I’m going to get this stupid spreadsheet done.

ANDOMOLOGY

Q: First place you went this morning?
A: Define morning…if you mean morning after 12am, the first place I went was into Claire’s room to clean up her bed from yet another nighttime accident (see tired & annoyed above). If you count after I woke up, the first place I went was Claire’s preschool.

Q: What can you not wait to do?
A: The Hip Hop Class at the Y again. That was so wicked fun….738 calories baby!!!

Q: What’s the last movie you saw in theater?
A: Flags of Our Fathers

Q: Do you smile often?
A: Constantly

Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: Yes!

That WAS fun!!! Thanks Emily for the idea!!

Now back to the spreadsheet from hell……

This is just amusing…

http://www.gamershood.com/game.php?id=1497

My best: 1244.6m.

  I’m really very proud.

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Did you notice?

Look up.

What does that URL say?

Oh right…

http://www.watsonhighlands.com

You know that you’re a total geek when you get your spouse a URL for Christmas.   It’s just that well, www.watsonhighlands.com became available and we had to answer too many quetsions about http://blog.duckiebaby.com.
So there you have it.  We are officially www.watsonhighlands.com!  Update your RSS feeds…or else!

Most people know other people like the title person (or, if you read this blog regularly, and know me, then you know that I am the title person), who asks incomprehensible questions.

For instance, I was at a law / philosophy / theology conference last Saturday, and I had a question for the presenter (who had just presented a paper on natural law, but never mind that), which I raised my hand and asked during the Q&A session at the end.

The question went something like this:

I suppose this is a question which any one or all three of you could answer. It seems to me that the individuals in question, Maritain, John Ryan, or (whomever the third guy was), but especially Maritain, seem to make a leap from the interior forum to the external forum with relative ease, but never seem to justify that move. That is to say, we are commanded as Christians to go and convert the nations, summarily said, and these individuals seem to make philosophical arguments without reference to that point. Does my question make sense? [Though, I doubt at the time the question was even that coherent.]

At which point there is a silence as the presenters (all of whom are very competent, learned, and intelligent types) try and figure out: (1) What exactly was it that I asked; (2) Did it make any sense?; and (3) What?

Now, to me as an ADHD person, that question(s) made perfect sense, inside my head, and all the responder had really to do was be inside and know what I meant. The answer was, of course, inadequate, but I knew better than to ask another 30-second rambling question of inordinate length and unfortunate verbiage.

Now, since we ADHD types will not stop asking questions, will the rest of you please develop psychic abilities so we can get some reasonable responses?

Thank you.