I am the walrus

My babies

2012-05-12T16:46:04Z

My boys off to a parade, May 12, 2012.

Still alive!

2012-05-10T22:38:23Z

Yes, I am still alive! Real life has eaten me alive, but I'm still kicking! Hope all is okay in your little corner of the world, wherever that may be!

Updating US Map

2010-08-03T19:31:01Z

Adding a couple of states, just to keep things up to date in my brain.

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I love it!

2010-05-12T23:06:25Z

Can I tell you how much I love the fact that I can type "robriki has a backseat of dismembered torsos" as her Facebook status?????

Life is good.

Happy Birthday!!

2010-05-08T18:23:49Z

To my babies! T1 and T2 turn thirteen today!

US State Meme

2010-04-23T20:21:35Z

visited 31 states (62%)
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RIP Libby

2010-04-14T02:40:48Z

Go with God, my puppy girl.

Libby

2010-04-14T00:41:05Z

Probably having the dog put to sleep tonight. DH took her to the emergency vet. Not good.

A bit too local?

2010-02-26T17:24:20Z

Last night I was cruising around Dreamspinner Press looking for something to read. I come across this and for some reason it catches my eye.

I buy it and start reading. Takes me a little to get into the author's style of writing (a bit choppy, at least until the story gets rolling, and in fits and starts in the rest of the piece as well) and okay, it's set in the city I live in, and I'm enjoying the mix of real and fictitious locations the story takes place in.

The poor guys go through some angst and gay-bashing and end up in and out of the hospital, which is where it starts to get a little freaky. One of the characters is seen in the hospital BY MY SON'S NEUROLOGIST!!!!! I sat there, gaping. The characterization was pretty good, but he's a little more casual with my 12 year old than with the 25 year old character in the story.

I NEVER expected to read a gay romance featuring anyone I actually know in RL, even if he just appears for a minute as a supporting character.

Adventures at the Mall

2010-02-14T15:54:00Z

So SOT and I went to the mall last night. I wanted to buy a dock for my iPod so I could listen to it at work if I was in the back and too far away from my computer to hear it. I refused to pay Apple Store prices so we found one at Radio Shack.

I needed a new hoodie, too. I've been wearing one of Mr. robriki's and the zipper's broken and it's too big for me and whenever I wear it I expect Stacey and Clinton to jump out at me and physically remove it from my person. We ended up at Eddie Bauer and I think I got four shirts, a sweater, a scarf, SOT got a sweater. I plunked it all down at the register and the cashier was impressed.

"You look like you found a few things!"
"I came in for a hoodie"
*Looks at stack* "Did you actually find a hoodie?"

Happy Birthday!

2010-02-10T02:30:15Z

To the wonderful inell!!!!!! *smooch*

T2

2010-01-24T23:03:40Z

My oldest son, "T2" had three grand mal seizures within a half hour period Saturday afternoon. Three firefighters and two EMTs got him out of the house and into the ambulance to head to the hospital. He spent 7 hours sleeping in ER, had a CT scan, then we got a room for the night. He had an MRI overnight, an EKG this morning, and they'd like to do an EEG but the meds they gave yesterday can screw with the results, so we'll do that outpatient. He had breakfast, an EKG and lunch and they sent us home with a script for anti-seizure meds. He's had neuro issues for almost 5 years now but seizures are new.

Ugh

2010-01-24T19:40:45Z

No matter how kid-friendly they try to make a hospital pediatric unit, it's still a hospital.

Although full lights and sirens on the expressway is a helluva way to get there.

Thanks!

2009-12-07T02:03:08Z

Thanks, heather!!!!! *smooches*

I need a font!

2009-06-28T19:31:06Z

I need a font to go with an image I'm too lazy to scan and upload. Sounds like an futile endeavor.

OH God

2009-06-22T12:13:08Z

It's a museum employee's nightmare come true.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/06/volunteers_work_to_save_items.html

Thanks!

2009-05-07T03:06:24Z

Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes today! My day involved cake, a chat with the mayor, meeting the Dutch ambassador, a 15 minute phone call with someone at Sotheby's in New York, ANOTHER phone call from NYC about a furnace, a track meet, and dinner at Logan's Roadhouse.

And now...bed.

*collapses*

Who would have thought?

2008-10-22T23:34:33Z

Last night we reached a milestone here at the robriki household.

R's ponytail...is longer than his sister's.

A poll....well, not really

2008-10-17T02:25:33Z

Question. If you're driving down the highway, and you see your spouse on the shoulder of the road, in YOUR minivan, with the hazards on, do you stop?

Oi, what a day.

Edited to make it not sound like mr. robriki was blinking.

First day of school!

2008-09-02T17:44:27Z

Today I sent off not one, not two, but THREE children to Middle School.

Please to be sending tequila.

Off to camp

2008-07-07T02:57:56Z

I sent my 'babies' off to camp today.

*sniff*

Under the watchful eye...

2008-07-03T03:46:57Z

So I've been at my new job for three weeks now, and am still trying to get myself settled and organized (which will take years, believe me). I had an intern with a bit of extra time this afternoon so we did get some photo files moved around so they're all in two filing cabinets, instead of three half empty ones (duh), and a previous volunteer wandered in off the street and wants some hours this summer, so I'll get her on a project next week.

Anyway, the point of this post was to showcase the art hanging in my office.

I asked for a tiara of my own...we'll see what happens.

The Great American Pasttime, Baseball and Knitting

2008-06-27T13:21:35Z

I spent the last two summers taking classes, so whenever the kids had a baseball/softball game I'd bring a textbook or some schoolwork to work on while they were playing. Since I graduated, this means no summer classes but I can't just sit for two hours and watch tweens/teens play ball. I finally learned how to knit cables this summer so I've always had a scarf along (I've made 3+ in two months). I'd finished the one easy scarf I was working on and have one with a more difficult pattern that I usually only work on at home since there's more room for error. Last night I brought it along anyway. I pull it out and start knitting away. T's grandmother looks and says "You've made a lot of progress on that. Before I went on vacation it was just a little thing." L's mom chimes in "Yes, and it was GREEN." Snort.

The Book Meme

2008-06-25T03:08:10Z

The Books Meme
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams...am reading now!
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Whee!

2008-06-17T12:08:46Z

Holy cow I got the job! I start tomorrow!

*wibbles just a bit*