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June Cleaver: You are June Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver. You might not wear pearls while you do your housework, but you probably like the idea of being a traditional type of mom who bakes special treats for your kids when they come home from school and who sits down to dinner with them at night. You think of thoughtful ways to show your kids you care like making elaborate Halloween costumes or whipping up chicken noodle soup for sore throats and you work hard to stay involved in their lives.
Of course, you teach your children right from wrong and always hold them to strict standards, though you may prefer that someone else in the household do the actual disciplining. That's just because you are so devoted to your little ones, you can't stand the thought of missing out on any time with them behind angry doors or pouting faces.
Which TV Mom are you?
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holy mother of crap - look down there next to the time and date! why - it's a comment line! a temporary solution, but will put my brain at rest for now. please... if you do only one thing today - let it be leaving me a comment!
i am geeking SO hard to put a comment system in place.. i've rolled up my sleeves and am elbow deep in code, ftp clients, cgi webspaces, etc... if something somewhere explodes - it's nothing to do with me, okay?
speaking of comment systems - andrew and i had a go installing blogkomm on my site last night. now i'm pretty smart and andrew's really smart - but try as we might, we couldn't get the damn thing to work. so tonight we're going to try dotcomments. if anyone has a recommendation for a comment system - well - i'm all ears. of course, you'll have to email me to let me know.
today's mary catherine art is in honour of my mother - who works in the media centre at an elementary school. they're getting ready for the students to come back... mary catherine wanted to show nana her favourite book which is currently 'goodnight moon'
 that this is a new feature. do we like? oh wait you can't comment because there's not a comment system in place. damnation!
last night i went out with mei, florence, duaa and sarah for sarah's birthday hooha celebration. we went to hubbub at the space on the island. it was nice - very smoky - but nice. i had a really nice steak wrap with red onion relish and mixed salad. oh and a nice piece of mei's jerk (not really) chicken. i'd go there again. sarah's birthday isn't until the 6th of august - so a week until i do her official birthday salutation.
did a bit of mc art ... isn't my best. but isn't bad. it'll work nicely as my signature on all the mommie boards i'm on. the picture i took two nights ago when mary catherine was mastering picking up cheerios and putting them in her mouth. at one time i believe she had four of them in there. who me, worry about choking? no way!
i get irked when you see these doll signature thingies on blogs... why aren't there ever any fat bodies on them? why? i got fed up with it. so i redid one i made online ..
i made the orginal dolls here. it's a fun thing to do anyway - but there needs to be fat people bodies!
i read this quote today and liked it.
" Never be afraid to try something new. - Remember that amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic."
mary catherine had a hib jab yesterday... you can read more about why she had it here.
my friend duaa just reminded me that it won't be too long before our babies are one. okay - it's still 4 months away, but you know. .. *sniff*
it's monday and i have the day off to be with mary catherine.. she's down for a nap at the moment - all curled up on my bed under my pink disney sarong.
here are some images from this weekend...
 
i like this image... fat barbie!
ahh - sunday... such bliss. mary catherine spent the morning playing on the living room floor then had a nurse and went down for a nap.. such a textbook event. was lovely. now i'm sitting here with andrew and we're geeking together. i am not sure how we'd survive if we didn't have two powerbooks - i'd hate to have to wait to access information on the net. seriously - don't you love how you can find out about ANYTHING on the internet? it's like having a HUGE reference library with you at all times.
yeah - i used to read the dictionary, so what?
okay - a few things that i didn't need to know at 7am on a saturday morning.
- A dime has 118 ridges around the edge.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
- A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
- A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
- A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
- A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
- A snail can sleep for three years.
- Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
- All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.
- Almonds are a member of the peach family.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.
- Butterflies taste with their feet.
- Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
- "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
- February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
- In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
- If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
- If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
- It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
- Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
- Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable.
- No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
- On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; "lollipop" with your right.
- The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
- The Bible does not say there were three wise men; it only says there were three gifts.
- The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
- The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
- The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
- The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
- There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
- There are more chickens than people in the world.
- There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
- There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
- There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
- Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
- Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
- Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
mary catherine is staying with her friends katie and joshua today.. [okay - and their moms mei and florence too] as andrew had to go to derby for a work thing and i couldn't cope with getting mc to and fro nursery on my own. so here's a big public thank you to flo & mei - because they're really making my life easier. MUCH easier.
i got to have a 'real' commute today! i took the bus (old pregnant habits die hard) and it was LOVELY. i read my heat magazine cover to cover and it was really nice to zone out and just read. speaking of reading - i finally finished harry potter 5 and while i enjoyed it, i didn't quite get into it as much as i did books 1-4. i think it's because of the wait for book 5 to come out - i'd forgotten a lot of stuff about 4, making me less sensitive to some of the characters. yeah - that must be it.
onwards with work i go..
i've updated the 'about me' page.. click my face at the left or anywhere my name appears to view.
today i had a starbucks venti, skinny, decaf, wet, xtra hot mocha. try saying that ten times fast. believe it or not - it wasn't as good as a venti, full fat, full strength, foamy, tepid mocha, that's for sure.
big brother 4 is coming to an end this friday... am i sad? well - erm.. no, not really. my pick for the winner (in case you really wanted to know) is scott. although i think it should be the evil cameron. definitely not horse teeth steph. parp.
today is ludmila day - glory be! there's nothing like coming home to a very clean house. makes my entire week. now if mr chinkie would deliver, my day would be 100% perfect.
this morning i was getting out of the car (to drag my lifeless bag o'bones to starbucks) and i looked back and mary catherine was looking at me. i smiled and waved - but on the inside i was very sad. i hate seeing them drive off into the distance every day. i really miss her. remind me of this the next time she bites me, okay?
we had a nice surprise yesterday - a coworker of andrew's revealed that he'd taken some video during mary catherine's first visit to the BBC. it's not very high quality - but it was really fun to see just how much she's changed since january 10th. click here to view
a quick snap from our trip to atlanta...
chuck, elizabeth, mary catherine, andrew, stephanie
morning from planet crackpot. :)
my friend sarah and her little boy patrick are ill - i fear they're sick with the same ick that got andrew last week... oh the guilt i shall have if it were we who passed it on.
so i think i'm digging the re-design of the cheese.. i basically decided to combine my blog and website into one heckuva full featured blog. while i wanted to have a full time website - i'm really not deserving of one, as i don't have the time to update it and take care of it. a website is not just for christmas, you know.
today i'm searching for a comment system to implement. yes, that's right.. i'm geekier than thou.
okay - big time facelift for the cheese... like it? hate it? ha ha - there's no feedback/comment system in place - so even if you wanted to tell me how excellent i am, well - you can't.
hopefully soon.
why do i have these insane urges to change the look and feel of my blog/site all the ding dang time? i mean - no one even looks at my blog/site - but still i am constantly thinking of ways to make it better/different.
i think i might be a nerd - i mean a REAL nerd.
mary catherine will be 8 months old this sunday.. where has the time gone? i keep looking at pregnant women remembering how that was ME this time last year. seems like only a few weeks ago.
she's so much fun, our mary catherine.. she's learned that she can pretty much bend and twist her body while sitting on andrew and i to look and see pretty much anything she wants to. she was lying against andrew's chest this morning and basically slid her way down to sit next to him on the sofa. i'm amazed.
still no teeth.. her friends ihsan and oscar are gummy still as well - so i don't feel too badly. however, i will say that even though she has no toofers, the child can bite - HARD. my nipples and i can attest.
work is going well - they were very understanding during the illness of last week... thank gosh.
okay - i am officially vowing to start afresh... begin anew... reup the bling bling. swear.
it's day 1 in the big mother house, so to speak...
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