Interesting—http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~golder/dialect/index.html I’m rather annoyed that the maps are offline at the moment, though.
Bad Influences!
To every one of you posting Dork Tower links: You are evil. You are completely ruining all possibility of whatever productivity I could have managed despite having Jackson around and the piano seducing me.
Love
Swiped from freyjaw: “Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it… It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything…
Incredible Gift
The Twins Are Here!
Well, not HERE but they were born at 6:20 and 6:25 pm EST this evening! Brynn Elise weighed 4 lbs 15 oz Camden Harrison weighed 5 lbs 6 oz Both were 18″ long _starrgirl_ and both babies are doing just…
Piano! Piano!
What you can’t see right now (well, unless you’re part of my household) is the enormous smile on my face because the piano is here! It sounds dreadfully bright, but it is here! My sambear, who HATES shifting furniture around…
Saturnine
Cool!
Gosh, look what I would have missed without Jackson—REM on Sesame Street! “Furry, happy monsters feeling glad…” Katie taught Jackson the “towel dance” we taught her as a toddler to encourage her to dry off after a bath. No more…
Babies
No twins yet (pout). But Jackson let us sleep in a lot by toddler standards—6:30! He shows a definite preference for strawberry jelly over grape—but he did eat a whole biscuit with jelly on it. That’s the first time I’ve…
Books, Babies, Friends
Home again, home again, jiggity jig… We went out to get Katie’s new history book at Borders—she whipped through the last one. And on the way, got a call from rasilio saying that _starrgirl_ is having contractions. So we turned…