Here’s another picture for you. Can you tell I’ve been spending down time in the PI galleries??
This picture is great because it shows that not every inch of star photos are retouched. I have highlighted the hand for you so that you may also wonder just how old Angelina Jolie is in real life? My guess is 65.
Hello all, I’m finally catching up on my posts so here are a few random ones!
So I know you all have been paying close attention to the miss universe pageant. i thought maybe i’d include a picture of our great representation we had going. Check out the boob shot (this was for the costume portion of the event). Did she think she could woo the judges by flashing those perky little things?! Oh and for all of you dying to know, Miss Japan won the contest. Oh, oh, and yes I agree that Miss Egypt looks like a skinny white girl..
You can see lots of pictures at www.missuniverse.com
I made cupcakes a couple of days ago to use up some frosting i had leftover from niamh’s b-day. i did not have any vanilla extract so i just used some vanilla beans instead. rowan was helping me. when he spotted the vanilla bean he immediately started crying and ran out of the kitchen. no amount of coaxing or cajoling would get him anywhere near that vanilla bean. i’m pretty sure he thought it was a bug.
seriously, where does this fear of bugs come from? it’s kinda bizarre.
I tried making a new friend yesterday. This little guy/gal decided my neighbor’s window sill would be a perfect place to take a nap. He was there when I woke up, and stayed until 4pm. I even left him some Chereos in an attempt to lure him back some other time. I have to admit, I was hoping he would be a frequent visitor. Since the neighbors removed the AC unit in the middle of the night I doubt that he will be coming back to nap away the afternoon. What did I learn from my little visitor? That I really need to get a pet when I finally settle down somewhere. Although, perhaps not a squirrel.
Sorry, sorry, I am post-happy lately and maybe these last couple belong elsewhere…
Did you all see this? (I am sadly so out of touch with news they could have been talking about this for days and I would not have known.) 60 year old woman gave birth to twins. So when those kids are teenagers, she’ll be like 75? I will post the link for your viewing enjoyment: http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0523twins23-buzz-on.html
On a related note, I heard this story about fertility treatments on NPR this week: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10324360
Due to a security breach, Citibank issued many, many of their customers new credit cards recently. I got mine in the mail yesterday. I called the number and activated the new card/closed the old one. Then I went online to see if a purchase of 2 days ago had already been transfered to the new account. When I logged in, I could no longer access the old number and the new number did not have record of the purchase. So I called the credit card company just to make sure all was well (I would really be pissed if Jay and I got to the airport and were told there were no reservations in our name). My credit card company told me my account had actually closed 5 days ago — WHAT? But assured me that if I called the airline, they would understand and take the new credit card number. Yeah, right. So I called the travel company who assured me that since I have been issued seat assignments, my payment must have gone through… Still no record on my credit card today of the charge… does it really take this long? Feeling a bit frustrated… I’m sure it will all be fine, but I think things could have been handled a little better on the part of Citibank.
I was reading a message from one of my cohort members and he told us all he hoped we would enjoy these last few weeks of student teaching… I can’t believe I can finally see a light at the end of the tunnel for student teaching. Not that it’s been bad, just that it has consumed the past seven plus weeks of my life quite literally. And now we are in the last few weeks… 13 days left to be exact. Some of you have heard about my ups and downs, things I feel really good about, things that I could have/should have handled differently – and my poor husband has had to deal with all of my tension and crankiness that I cannot show at school 
. I think this is the hardest thing I have ever done (thus far, at least in terms of school and jobs). Good teachers have to be some of the most amazing people around to juggle all that they do and still manage to smile at their students (and I’m not calling myself one here – but I see plenty of them everyday).
Anyway, it just struck me, so I thought I would write quickly. Now back to lesson plans – tomorrow we are building 3-D shapes, beginning beach animal reports, learning more about how to identify the characteristics of fairy tales, practicing our plays, and celebrating a birthday! Jealous anyone??
Mrs. Johnson I were talking the other night and we decided that we would like to entertain the idea of going to the Seattle International Film Festival this year. Now, I have never done this and I know that I’ve thought about going in the past but I never have because the ticket situation seems complicated and expensive. Plus there’s my evil retail schedule to contend with and the fact that all of the films play in these tiny confusing and hard-to-get-to downtown Seattle movie houses where there isn’t any easy parking. Its a lot for this simple suburban girl-queen to contend with. While I was talking with Mrs. Johnson I was struck with a brilliant idea. My friends are smart, skilled, and savy Seatttlites–Why not use my resources?? It’s either that or wallow in self-pitty and lack of culture. What I know is this: SIFF runs from May 24 to June 17. The tickets can be as much as $10 per show. Tickets can be bought day of show30 minutes before the day’s first screening. Ticket packages can be purchased ahead of time but the draw back seems to be that you can only use one of those tickets from the package per show. In other words, you can’t buy a six pack of tickets and use the tickets so that you and five friends can go to the same show together. So my plea is this: Can we use our collective brain power to determine if there is an economical way for us to enjoy SIFF together or at leaset in pairs?? Myself, I woud love to see the short and perhaps a few full length features. Help me, Help me please.
These are the things I really like to read about. Comforting, no?
May 15, 2007 6:06 p.m. PT
Baby issued Illinois gun ID card
CHICAGO — Bubba Ludwig can’t walk, talk or open the refrigerator door – but he does have his very own Illinois gun permit.
The 10-month-old, whose given name is Howard David Ludwig, was issued a firearm owner’s identification card after his father, Howard Ludwig, paid the $5 fee and filled out the application, not expecting to actually get one.
The card lists the baby’s height (2 feet, 3 inches), weight (20 pounds) and has a scribble where the signature should be.
With some exceptions, the cards are required of any Illinois residents purchasing or possessing firearms or ammunition within the state. There are no age restrictions on the cards, an official said.
Illinois State Police oversee the application process. Their purpose, said Lt. Scott Compton, is to keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons, those under an order of protection and those convicted of domestic violence.
“Does a 10-month-old need a FOID card? No, but there are no restrictions under the act regarding age of applicants,” he said.
Ludwig, 30, of Chicago, applied for the card after his own father bought Bubba a 12-gauge Beretta shotgun as a gift. The weapon will probably be kept at Ludwig’s father’s house until the boy is at least 14.
it’s going to be a fun summer in the mccann house!!!
a couple of days ago a fly got into the house. i think it landed on rowan, though i can’t be sure since i didn’t happen to witness the actual event that sent him into hysterics. i was in the living room when i suddenly heard a blood curdling scream and he ran to me, jumped into my arms, and buried his face into my chest. he did not just lay it there and cry, but literally it seemed like he wanted to crawl inside me to hide from whatever it was that scared him. he had his fist stuffed into his mouth as if he was trying to stop even bigger screams from escaping.
it was quite sad. and maybe, just maybe, a little funny.
i was bewildered as to what could have made him act like the wicked witch of the west was coming to get him. But after a couple times of the fly zooming past us and eliciting the same same reaction, i deduced that it was the fly.
i managed to calm him down to the point that he was still screaming “all done fly” but would let me set him down, so i tried to get rid of it. i grabbed a junk mailing of some sort, rolled it up, and when the fly landed on the back of a chair i whacked at it as hard as i could. i missed. and managed to send him into a renewed round of hysterics! bad move, mama.
i told him that flies were gross and annoying but okay. however, he was unconvinced and since then i have heard a lot of “all done, fly” and “no fly”
i think that it must have landed on him because it is most definitely not the first fly that has gotten into the apartment.
last night pat accidentally left the balcony light on, and this morning our balcony looked like the site of a fly massacre. not normal big houseflies, but those little itty bitty flies…i have no idea what they are called. maybe gnats? anyway, he walked past the balcony when he woke up and freaked out again. “no fly no fly no fly!”
i think he doesn’t like bugs.
did i mention that none of the windows in the apartment have screens?