History live and in person

Today Emily's 2nd grade class put on a living museum. For this class project the kids selected a famous American to do a presentation on and, later, portray in this living museum. One boy was Michael Jordon. Another was Thomas Edison. One girl portrayed Sally Ride, and another Annie Oakley. (I must admit distress after one girl chose Miley Cyrus and another Ashley Tisdale for their "famous Americans".) Emily chose Elizabeth Blackwell as her famous American after reading a Judy Moody book.


While the project was a complete success I must admit to being a little unsettled. If I see any more young boys looking at my daughter like this again I may go ballistic.


Boys, you have been warned.

Adventure in liquid eyeliner

While browsing the makeup aisle at a popular retailer I stumbled upon a clearanced item (my favorite!) that promised to "play up my hazel eyes". Hmmmm.

$4.48 later I was the proud owner of a little bottle of liquid eyeliner in Black Pearl. (Perhaps I was enchanted with visions of Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean?) My only problem? I don't have a clue how to put on liquid eyeliner. With my luck I'll stab myself in the eye, rendering me blind.

But God bless the internet!

Within a few keystrokes I was able to find a plethora of information on how to apply liquid eyeliner. Because I care about you (yes, you!) I would like to share what I've found lest you find yourself in my predicament. You can thank me later.

Rock Appreciation 101

Note: The following is a partial transcript of a conversation between myself and my six year old daughter, Abigail, that occurred approximately thirty five minutes ago en route to Fantastic Sam's for a trimming.

"Mama, I wanted to hear that song!"

"Oh, ok. Sorry about that." I clicked the car's tuner back one station.

"Who's singing?"

"George Thorogood," I answer.

"Who's the band?"

"The Destroyers." I hear giggles in the back seat.

"Rock and roll, baby!"