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It's the most wonderful time of the yeeeear....

Nono. Not summer, I mean. I am not a summer fan, really.

This year's "Christmas with Southern Living" book arrived today. :) Happy camper.

(Kiddos are pretty pleased too - their "Maisy" DVD arrived today as well. They cut short their outside activities in order to watch it instead - and with the heat being what it is down here, I was actually rather in favor of that. I wish they would have decided that BEFORE I put sunblock and insect repellent on them, but oh well. And I should note - these are kiddos who much prefer playing outside to watching a DVD inside.)

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Happy.

We had a busy day yesterday; in amongst the other running-around we were doing, I decided just to take the kiddos to McDonald's for lunch. Ours has a play area, so it was a good chance for them to run/climb off some steam. Calla did finally figure out how to pull herself up on the triangular platform steps, so she was ALL OVER the play stuff - when told it was time to go, though, she came down and was ready.

Note: I do not take credit for this because of any awesome parental skillz. I know her better than that, LOL. She was just ready. Probably helped that we were going to be heading over to see their grandparents.

Anyhow, from the various toys the kiddos in the play area had, it looked like our McD's was getting rid of the Night at the Museum toys - not everyone had the same thing. But behold, in one of the kiddos' Happy Meals was the coveted (by me!) Einstein figure. Which I commandeered. Without a single twinge of guilt. Okay, so the kiddos really didn't seem to care, so it didn't really matter...

I have my Einstein guy. I am officially pleased.

And on a random note...

How the heck does anyone manage to keep those annoying little earbud thingers from just falling out of your ears? And people actually exercise and such with them in? Seriously? They don't seat well in my ears while I'm sitting still, much less trying to do anything resembling activity.

Pleased...

We were dreading the switch to digital because we had not been able to pick up the digital signal for what had been the clearest analog channel (ABC), which we prefer for news/weather info.

Once the switch happened, though, we decided to go ahead and have the converter box do another channel search, and it picked up the ABC's three stations - looks like they were either waiting to broadcast their digital signal, or waiting to boost it, until they no longer had to power the analog signal.

So we're pretty pleased. I was hoping that our local PBS station would end up with more channels as well, but it looks like they're staying at one (for now, at least) - I have heard some friends in other areas say that their PBS stations started up a 24/7 kids programming channel. We do pick up Qubo, though, so that serves pretty well.

So no more of the annoying "Get ready for the switch" commercials, plus we do have ABC after all. Happy campers here.

Now if PBS here decided to do a home remodeling/cooking/gardening type of station, I'd be ecstatic...but at least HGTV does offer a lot of their shows online (as I think I mentioned earlier).

A memory and an apology

(apology is perhaps the wrong word - correction?)

I took the kiddos to the library today for storytime. Patrick sits still really well for it - Calla, notsomuch. She'll get it in time, though.

At any rate, they were happy to go because they knew they'd be able to pick out some books - though by the time it was "pick out some books" time, they were fixated on their coloring. So I picked out books for them, including a Babar book. They like Babar.

While they were coloring, I was able to pick something out for myself. I went for one of the books in the Women of Genesis series (I think that's what he's calling the series?) by Orson Scott Card. I had already read Sarah, so this was a pretty sure choice for me.

I bought Sarah in late 2001, after feeling guilty about meeting OSC at a book signing in Pittsburgh airport (on 9/10/01, heh - I'd imagine there aren't too many book signings at airport bookstores anymore, since only ticketed passengers would be able to go, and many of them would be on a pretty tight schedule) admitting to OSC that I had not read any of his books. I picked up two copies of Ender's Game while there; one I had signed to the hubby, and one I had signed to a friend of mine (and I had completely forgotten to use her married name, so it's signed to her maiden name. Oh well - she still loved it, and forgave me). It wasn't until a month or so later that I realized I had been wrong; I *had* read one of his books, I just didn't recall it being his.

It was Lost Boys. That book seriously creeped me out - but I really enjoyed it.

I've just felt terrible ever since that I had not only admitted to an author that I hadn't read any of his work, but then was also WRONG about it! Man.

My apologies to Mr. Card!