tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353Tue, 25 Nov 2008 05:24:42 +0000The blog at the centre of the universe and home of irony and wit. No, not really, but it caught yer attention didn't it?http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/index.htmnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)Blogger2289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-3471340323602660597Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:56:00 +00002008-11-22T19:31:37.953-06:00ObsessionsKid AnticsweatherfamilyFall is here! San Antonio's Autumn consists of mostly sunny 70 and 80 degree days with occasional cold front that turn the mid day into a brisk 50 degrees. Nights get to be in the high 30s and 40s. I am enjoy the cool. However, I am NOT enjoying the pee. Yes, it's getting cold. Cold enough to make little bladders of little ankle biters spasm and let loose, but come on I WILL NOT turn on thehttp://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/11/its-getting-nippy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-2046231676486658499Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:33:00 +00002008-11-14T14:43:30.135-06:00hairykid pics Lorelei's hair is getting long (compared to what we had to do last summer) and I can braid it!!! I had to bribe her to finish the braids (she didn't like the hair pulling) and take pictures by giving her a special Tinker Bell manicure. She however did not want pictures of her new nails. Long time readers of my blog know how excited I am about my daughters hair. I was devastated when shehttp://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/11/hair-milestone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-8210989113203315520Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:04:00 +00002008-11-12T23:43:24.220-06:00Kid Anticsbooksdaily rantknittingTo clear thing up before I start this blog post: I did not SERIOUSLY think I had cancer. Just that niggling part of your brain that reads too much WebMD and watches too much House. I had some serious pain and bloating in my abdomen. I am now thinking it's stress. If I internalise too much, stress turns physical and mental. This is why I have a blog (or several). That quote on my side bar ishttp://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/11/dramatic-much.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-7284412614156731117Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:10:00 +00002008-11-09T19:33:10.980-06:00Kid AnticsweatherKid PraisepoliticsEvery year I attempt Nanowrimo--and it always seems like my muse becomes trapped underneath the marble boulder that is my writers block. This year I think a Knitting Bunny helped push the boulder ;-). On the news front, my sister is not pregnant (we had a scare). Yes, this is my 18 year old sister. She is still living with her boyfriend and is engaged now...she's known him less than a year. http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/11/busy-busy-november.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-3590554801914936363Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:56:00 +00002008-10-26T18:04:50.529-05:00ObsessionsmusicNot ready for my next installment of soul sharing, but I did want to give y'all a peek what has had me dancing... I just bought Mika's album. I suppose I should have waited for my birthday, but I had to have it...NOW. I was introduced to Mika via my current obsession with Doctor Who fanvids from YouTube. Now I have two tousled brunettes dancing in my mind. Grin.http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/10/not-what-you-expect.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-7378661738072581734Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:41:00 +00002008-11-09T17:46:04.785-06:00blogdaily rantNo I am NOT dead. Nor is my house immaculately clean. I've just been very very quiet. As you can tell from my two previous posts I haven't felt very chatty or revealing. As my best friend Anne told me when I was whinging to her..."Honey it's your time of the YEAR!" Yeah, she hit the nail on the head square on. This time of year rattles me and makes me all titchy and dare I saw it witchy (so http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/10/whats-going-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-678461230170638077Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:18:00 +00002008-10-16T22:22:02.308-05:00Just For Fundaily rantsicksee more pwn and owned pictures Why? Because, while I have two cats, a mouse felt quite at home living and playing in our kitchen. I am beginning to wonder if I killed (with a glue trap) the cats' new best friend?http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/10/hmmmmm.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-7007371213492714669Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:50:00 +00002008-10-15T21:51:36.297-05:00Just For FunThis sign could have easily been made by me: see more pwn and owned pictures Grin. Sorry for the absence. Been boring. Will make it up. Smirk.http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/10/did-i-do-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-6386154900811700089Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:57:00 +00002008-10-06T12:00:41.354-05:00Kid AnticsAny one that has interacted with young (heck even older) kids knows that when they kiss you or you kiss them, they almost immediately wipe the kiss off with the back of their hands. I, as many of us, thought oh well they didn't like the kiss, they are wiping it OFF. I was wrong. My daughter recently informed my husband and I that she wasn't wiping off our kisses. She was saving them, because http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/10/kid-secret.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-8352426187443160027Thu, 02 Oct 2008 23:21:00 +00002008-10-02T18:25:56.176-05:00blogWhere were you in 2001?? We (birdwellproductions.com) were here!! Google in celebration of it's tenth anniversary, let's you search their oldest index. And birdwellproductions.com was here! Pretty cool...my blog is ten years old. One of the very first, and one of the oldest. Thanks for the heads up Jason.http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/10/i-was-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-2910211107718815918Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:27:00 +00002008-09-28T10:27:41.004-05:00ObsessionsOkay: it's in the news: a newly disocvered prime number. It's 43,112,609...cool fine. But then it gets tricky....the new prime is also said to be 13 million digit's long. But the number they gave us was 8 digits long. This newly discovered prime is also called a Mersenne prime. This is also where it's fuzzy. I am used to the normal primes...ya know a number only divisible by itself and one.http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/09/so-confused.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-7652008244175648944Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:43:00 +00002008-09-21T12:46:55.812-05:00Kid AnticsMost kids have an imaginary friend. Lorelei has an imaginary grandma. All summer she's been telling us all sorts of funny stories about what she has done with her grandma, or what her grandma has told her. Because for Lorelei everything that happened before this minute is yesterday....all these things happen yesterday. Just last night Lorelei was telling us that her grandma put her in the http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/09/imaginary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-4326569127736579930Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:49:00 +00002008-09-10T11:03:28.972-05:00weatherpoliticsOkay yeah--it's been a while. With school starting life's been busy--insanely so. When I am not teaching, I am thinking about new things to teach. I am still knitting a bit in the evenings, but I am not designing much at all. I don't blame it all on school, but I am sure it's a factor. While checking all the blogs I read and catching up on news about Hurricane Ike (which I will probably havehttp://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/09/enough-with-dramatics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-743055378481925918Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:02:00 +00002008-08-26T21:16:43.595-05:00homeschooling Between recovering from vacation drama and preparing for back to school I have not been up to blogging. But today is the second day of school and I am feeling good. We homeschool, so obviously there is more work involved than just buying school supplies, and sending the child off to school with a full belly of breakfast in the dark of the morning. (One reason homeschool works for us: no earlyhttp://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/08/second-day-of-school.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-8822148790227903443Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:24:00 +00002008-08-18T22:36:09.637-05:00vacationWhew!! After a 24 hour drive, we are home. I had zero internet access during vacation, I am sorry for the lack of updates. I can't forge a proper internet post because my brain barely works....but I will try tomorrow! When we got home home I was a responsible adult for like a whole two minutes...I started sorting through the mountainous pile of mail--but then the computer finished booting up http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/08/were-back.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-1112715997098407908Sat, 02 Aug 2008 20:20:00 +00002008-08-02T15:31:51.429-05:00vacationwhineTime's here again folks. Vacation time! And not a moment too soon---after delaying it all summer we are finally able to go on vacation. Boy do I need this vacation. But you say, you are a stay at home parent, WHY do YOU need a vacation? Isn't your life a vacation? (This is what my husband said--in not too many words. Yeah, he got smacked for saying that-don't worry.) I need a change of http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/08/leaving-on-jet-plane.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-4133402249709571325Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:45:00 +00002008-07-30T17:48:07.980-05:00ObsessionsJust For FunYou Tube has sucked me in. Literally. I haven't been able to tear myself away from it for two days...okay three. Well, four. I have been enjoying clips of David Tennant and John Barrowman (From Dr. Who and Torchwood). And let me just say it--British Live TV is just awesome! I would imbed some videos here but really to get the whole picture of what I have been doing--you need to go to You http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/07/why-i-cant-get-off-internet-today.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-255847297193328433Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:14:00 +00002008-07-25T15:28:41.962-05:00daily rantRight now I am writing on Kim's ITouch--it's a bit weird trying to type with the keyboard interface, but I can see myself getting used to it. Unfortunatly I have things to do and I can't play. http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/07/i-love-i-touch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-5630346855569050736Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:08:00 +00002008-07-24T16:14:46.814-05:00word geekYou know you read too much gossip from celebrity websites when you see this headline, and you think it says, "Is Paris Pregnant?" BHAT!http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/07/can-i-read.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-1836655984409475857Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:39:00 +00002008-07-14T17:01:27.600-05:00vacationcleaningfamilydaily rantBoy do I need a vacation. I feel like I in a rut. I fee like an old stink damp gym sock. I just can't muster any sort of energy at all. My internal clock is fucked up too. I am going to bed waay too late and thusly dragging my arse out of bed waaay too late. This week is Kim last full week here. I'll miss her and her help. I wish she was staying--I think it would be good for her to settle http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/07/stinky-gym-sock.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-3885955244812444040Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:28:00 +00002008-08-22T13:52:34.867-05:00Kid Anticscleaningfamilydaily rantOkay--so lately I have been doing this thing that I haven't done since I was a kid. I am sure you did this too. Imagine: you are 10 years old and you have been charged with cleaning your room. And lo and behold you see a toy/book/game that despite the dire words of your parent (clean this room or else): you sit on the floor and commence NOT cleaning your room. You are lost in time and space, http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/07/pavlovs-birdy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-1984326676018142223Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:35:00 +00002008-06-30T14:49:25.125-05:00daily rantFiday we said hello to our new DVR. Woot. I was sick this weekend, so I had a perfect excuse to really learn the ins and outs of my new toy. We got it as part of our new ATT cable service (we had Dish, but went with this because it had more bag for the buck). On a side note Jamey is VERY upset that AT&T is moving it's headquarters to Dallas from San Antonio (long long story--but he thinks http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/06/couch-potato.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-1858616888345504155Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:24:00 +00002008-06-28T11:43:53.941-05:00SportsKid Anticsbirthdayfamily Tuesday was Jamey's birthday (I'm 6 months older than him and I have spent 6 months enduring taunts from him about how old I am)...we came home from the Silver Stars to this: It was very very sweet--and a mystery. Now he's thirty too. HA! Welcome to adulthood--grin. They decorated very well...it took us a solid day to figure out who the decorator was. It was our friend's T and R (http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/06/happy-suprise.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-4622207676194186945Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:20:00 +00002008-06-28T00:17:49.811-05:00Kid Anticskid picsStill hot AND I have been super busy. AND it's been a little over a week since the kids doctor appointments and guess what: we are all getting sick! Right_on_schedule!!!!! I have been up since 6 am because of a horrible sore throat. Grrr. I didn't even know the sun was up that early. Grin. So, I got some floor moppin' done (with my handy dandy homemade swiffer cloths). In this week of all http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/06/yes-i-melted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-168353.post-1254223285467673482Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:42:00 +00002008-06-19T21:02:41.304-05:00Kid AnticsweatherSo Birdy has finally entered the 21st century by getting a cellphone. I resisted the urge to call everyone I know. Smirk. AND I even know my phone number already (which is saying something because I still don't know my husband's cell phone number). The kids had their annual well check ups today. Mic did fine and had a great time getting his blood pressure taken (he LOVES that). Lorelei--http://www.birdwellproductions.com/blog/2008/06/entering-21st-centuryfinally.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Birdwell)0