causes rats in laboratory cancer: March 2007

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

This is a hummingbird nest on my friends' windchime...She built her nest close to a blooming or soon to be blooming plant so it will be easy for her to feed her babies.

And here is a picture of Zeke's haircut. Very short, and mostly worn in some sorta mohawkish style ( I know I cut off the very top of his head. But the other pictures are too far away to get a good look at the hair...) Thor, on the other hand, has hair over his eyes and expresses no interest at all in getting even a trim...These pictures were taken standing on top of Bill and Eileen's shed in Benson.
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Friday, March 02, 2007

Zach's Haircut...

Wednesday I took Zach to get a haircut. His hair was hanging in his eyes, and pretty shaggy all over. He started out by wanting Haley to cut just a little off, like always, then suddenly decided he wanted it short. Short, way way short! Haley was a little freaked out, since she usually won't cut long hair short (she does it in several increments, so people don't freak out at her!) But Zach's hair is now about an inch long (I will post a photo later...)

Zach said people at school were surprised, and some of them didn't like it at all. His art teacher suddenly stopped and said "Haircut." and then went on with class...Zach likes it, Mark likes it alot and probably wishes Thor would follow suit, and I like it, although I am not used to it yet. And now Zach can do the People's Eyebrow again.

Okay -- updating my profile because I never removed the guinea pigs from it, even though they have been elsewhere for months.

Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.