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Some say that 10/10/10 is a doomsday date. Others say 12/21/12 or 12/12/12, when the Mayan calendar is said to end. I say all this pressure of not knowing is stressful.
This fixation on Doomsday reminds me of the plethora or Protestant prophets who went around America, predicting the date of the end of the world. Some even re-computed and re-predicted when their doomsday rolled around and the world failed to expire.
This device to my left is an authentic doomsday device. It can be purchased here:
The good thing about this doomsday device, for budding megalomaniacs, is that when it fails to bring about the end of the days, you can still use it as a four port USB hub. Thus I find this more useful, then say, Glenn Beck ( a modern doomsday prophet), because it serves some other purpose besides what it purports to be.
William Miller was one such preacher. His predicted date was 10/22/44. 1844 that is. Needless to say, Miller and his Millerites were wrong! Do you know what 10/23/1844 was known as? "The Great Disappointment". Perhaps we can re-purpose that label for Glenn Beck or any other of these modern day doom and gloom sayers. Here are 220 "Date Setters" all of whom were wrong.
Sadly, unlike the Hale-Bopp comet that came and went, Beck and his ilk have not made like Heaven's Gate Devotees and disappeared. Perhaps in 2012 or in 2016 they will disappear from the airways when they will no longer have a Barrack Obama to rail against. Every yin must have a yang. And so it is true for every ding -dong.
Have a Happy 10/10/10! See you next year on 11/11/11 and by all means do not forget to look me up, 12/12/12. After that we should be good for another century.


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Comet Tempel 1 as Seen by NASA's Stardust
NASA's Stardust-NExT mission took this image of comet Tempel 1 at 8:39 p.m. PST
(11:39 p.m. EST) on Feb 14, 2011, from a distance of approximately 946.05 trillion kilometers (587.85 trillion miles). The comet was first visited by NASA's Deep Impact mission in 2005.
Stardust-NExT is a low-cost mission that will expand the investigation of comet Tempel 1 initiated by NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages Stardust-NExT for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Joe Veverka of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., is the mission's principal investigator. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft and manages day-to-day mission operations.


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NSA's "Perfect Citizen" program fuels privacy debate.
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It's little secret that the U.S. cybersecurity could use some help. Recent studies have shown the nation's power grid and armed forces to be highly vulnerable to a cyberattack from an internet savvy nation like China or Russia. Under President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama slow steps have been made to improve that state of affairs.
But now there's a growing debate over one of the most ambitious cybersecurity initiatives yet, a program developed by the National Security Agency called "Perfect Citizen". The program is designed to detect, neutralize, and counter cyberattacks on critical parts of the U.S. private sector -- such as defense contractors, power plants, and major internet firms like Google. Its critics, though, contend that it is government meddling and playing "Big Brother".
Raytheon Corp. has reportedly been selected to spearhead the initiative, receiving a $100M USD initial phase surveillance contract.
Internally, there's been discord over the government's plans to peer inside private networks. States a Raytheon email leaked to The Wall Street Journal, "The overall purpose of the [program] is our Government...feel[s] that they need to insure the Public Sector is doing all they can to secure Infrastructure critical to our National Security. Perfect Citizen is Big Brother."
While the NSA had no official comment, unnamed U.S. officials took issue with the claim that they were playing "Big Brother". They said the program was vital to protecting the nation and no more intrusive to privacy than traffic cams over intersections.
At the core of the issue is the fact that many "mission critical" systems which drive subway systems, air-traffic control networks, and more are composed of aging machines which were built at a time when security was less understood and considered. The NSA believes that China and Russian may have gained deep access and exploration into these networks, but it needs to watch them in order to determine the full extent of the penetration.
One of the U.S. government's critical roles is to provide for the defense of the nation. Under the U.S. constitution the government has the power to "raise and support armies," "provide and maintain a navy," and to "make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces".
Initially, the government began to interface with the private sector -- such as power utilities -- to solve physical problems; for example sealing a manhole cover to a power line going to a critical government center. However, those efforts quickly expanded to the digital realm.
"Perfect Citizen" sprung from an earlier surveillance project called "April Strawberry". The new project is still in its early stages, but NSA officials have reportedly met with utility executives and politely asked them to cooperate with the surveillance. Participation is reportedly voluntary, but those who comply will earn incentives, such as additional government contracts.
Ultimately it may be too early to judge the merits of "Perfect Citizen", but as the program is fleshed out, it seems likely to provoke a lively debate about the government, privacy, and intervention in the private sector.
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Olympics Highlights: Aug. 6
Olympics Highlights: Aug. 6
Brazilian gymnast Arthur Nabarrete Zanetti won the men's rings final.
Gabrielle Douglas of the US competed in the women's uneven bars final.
Chile's Jorge Garcia Bustos applied chalk to his hands during the men's 105kg Group B clean and jerk weightlifting competition.
China's Ding Ning eyed the ball as she competed against South Korea's Kim Kyungah in the women's table tennis semifinal.
Richard Lambourne of the US passed the ball against Tunisia in volleyball.
Netherlands' Sophie Polkamp, left, looked on as Great Britain's Anne Panter controled the ball during their field hockey match.
New Zealand's Alexis Pritchard, left, fought Russia's Sofya Ochigava in a quarterfinal women's light (60kg) boxing match.
New Zealand's Valerie Adams competed in the women's shot put.
Estonia's Gerd Kanter competed in the men's discus.
Martin Tesovic of Slovakia participated in men's 100 kg weightlifting.
South Korea's Kim Young-ran, right, and Belgium's Gaelle Valcke fought for the ball in a preliminary round women's field hockey match.
Keitani Graham of Micronesia competed against Charles Edward Betts of the US, right, in 84 kg Greco-Roman wrestling.
South Korea's Jung Suyoung, left, challenged Denmark's Mikkel Hansen in their men's handball match.
Britain's Margaret Adeoye, right, ran ahead of Allison Peter of the US Virgin Islands in a women's 200m round 1 heat.
Peter Charles, of Great Britain, rode Vindicat in the equestrian show jumping team competition.
Kellie Wells of the US, left, and Colombia's Lina Florez ran in a women's 100m hurdles round 1 heat.
Germany's Lisa Ryzih took to the air in the women's pole vault final.
China's He Chong performs a dive in the men's 3m springboard preliminary round.
Ken Nee Yeoh of Malaysia dove in the men's 3m springboard preliminary.
Ballestero Carbonell and Andrea Fuentes Fache of Spain were in the women's duets synchronised swimming free routine preliminary.
Natalia Ischenko and Svetlana Romanshina of Russia were in the women's duet synchronized swimming preliminary round.
Spain's Andrea Fuentes Fache and Ona Carbonell Ballestero took to the water in the duets free routine preliminary round.
Mexico's Isabel Delgado Plancarte and Nuria Diosdado Garcia participated in the synchronised swimming duets free routine qualification round.
Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba was helped off the track after an injury in a women's 1500 meter heat.
Uzbekistan's Ruslan Nurudinov reacted after failing a lift in the men's 105 kg weightlifting clean and jerk competition.
Walid Bidani of Algeria reacted during men's 105 kg weightlifting competition.


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MIAMI (AP) – Peanut, an 8-year-old orangutan with cancer and one of the star attractions at Miami's Jungle Island, no longer needs chemotherapy, her medical team announced Tuesday.
Peanut had been undergoing chemotherapy since August, following a diagnosis of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. After three courses of combination chemo-immunotherapy, her doctors decided it was time to wrap up her treatments for the aggressive lymphoma.
Although Peanut was not the first great ape to be treated for cancer like a human, experts said it is not common to use chemotherapy among orangutans.
Dr. Jason Chatfield, curator and staff veterinarian for Jungle Island, said the stress of "multiple immobilizations" for the treatment was a factor in a decision to end her chemotherapy. He added she received an adequate amount of chemotherapy.
"What we do know is that without this chemotherapy, Peanut would not survive," Chatfield said.
But he cautioned that imaging and scans used to gauge the effectiveness of chemotherapy in humans isn't available in Peanut's case, making it "next to impossible" to tell how effective the treatment was for the orangutan.
Now her medical team will closely monitor Peanut's daily progress and check for signs of relapse. And as part of her annual medical exam, doctors will also include diagnostic imaging such as a CT scan, radiology and ultra sound.
Peanut and her fraternal twin, Pumpkin, were born in captivity. They came to Jungle Island when they were 6 months old. The youngest of six orangutans there, the two have been a hit with park visitors, using sign language and an iPad to communicate with their trainers. The park has posted regular updates of Peanut's treatments on its main web page and on Facebook.
Peanut was diagnosed after her veterinary team found she had an intestinal obstruction and further testing revealed the cancer. Pumpkin has not been diagnosed with the disease.
The Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, along with UM's Division of Comparative Pathology, which specializes in wildlife, confirmed the diagnosis.
Doctors chose a plan for treatment that has been most effective in humans.
"Peanut has handled this process with remarkable strength and fortitude," Chatfield said. "We have learned a great deal in the process and endeavored to provide Peanut with state-of-the-art care and the best possible chance at long term survival."
Peanut and her twin, Pumpkin, will celebrate their birthday on Dec. 2 with orangutan-friendly cakes. The park also will serve cake to guests and hand out lime green ribbons for lymphoma awareness. A portion of the day's admission also will be donated to the cancer center involved in the ape's treatment.
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Review: Schramm Organic Vodka
Posted by Arctic Wolf on October 11, 2011
The Pemberton Distillery is located in the heart of the Coast Mountains, an area known for its massive ice caps and pure glacial streams. The spirit the distillery produces, Schramm Organic Vodka debuted in August of 2009 as an authentic sipping vodka which is produced from whole organic potatoes (grown just 15 km from the distillery in the Pemberton Valley). The Master Distiller, Tyler Schramm, studied a Masters of Science in Brewing & Distilling at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He focused his University thesis on the complex art and science of potato vodka distillation with the goal to prove that vodka could be just as rich and complex as a single malt scotch.
To that end, Schramm Vodka is produced using an all natural fermentation process that does not use of chemicals, synthetic anti-foaming agents, or additives. In fact, the distillery boasts that they follow the same traditional methods used by single malt scotch distilleries. They distill in small batches using a hand-operated copper pot still, and the entire distillation is performed by Tyler Schramm, who is continuously testing and sampling the vodka for quality. The blended spirit is charcoal filtered to maximize purity while still maintaining the smooth mouth-feel and unique character of the Pemberton potato.
Here is an excerpt from my review:
"… The Vodka has kind of a punky, starchy potato flavour (and trust me that is better by a lot than how it sounds). The palate is heated up and the back of the throat experiences a lot of warmth but the spicy, let me call it 'rye-like' heat doesn't become uncomfortable…."
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This picture hangs on the hallway wall of my sister-in-law's home. It is a depiction of a wonderful wood carved statue that resides in Tarquinia. Each Easter the town's people and those from surrounding areas crowd into the old streets to herald the procession of this statue being carried up and down and around the steep cobblestone streets in adoration of the Risen Christ.
Town officials, the carabinieri, and townsfolk alike are not ashamed to show their praise for Him, none of the politically correctness scenarios hold them back. Some of the story of the statue is lost to me in translation but the story basically is that the town commissioned this beautiful statue of the Risen and Triumphant Christ. When completed, the statue was so magnificent that no one wanted the artist to ever again create such a masterpiece for anyone else. Here the story of the beauty of Easter is lost to me – the town blinded the artist so he was unable to see to create anything else! No one is sure how much legend and myth is mingled with fact in this story but one fact is for sure. The statue is magnificent and the town is devoted to it.
I don't mean to sound as if I find this silly or foolish in any way. Rather I find it a testament to the townsfolk that in spite of a less than Christian-like beginning to the acquisition of the statue, they stand proudly and in joy and in sorrow for all that it means to them to celebrate Easter. In the midst of this there is not a carnival or other foolish trappings of a street party going on. The complete festival is a parade to showcase this staute, a reminder to the faithful of the true meaning of Easter. They have not forgotten but instead choose to honor Him openly joyously for al the world to see and partake with them. What inspires me even more is the total joy they worship with – not of fear or habit or sorrow – but complete unabashed joy at the Spirit of the Day – they rejoice in the Risen Christ and all that His Triumph signifies for all men. They have celebrated year after year for a century or more now, in good times and bad, war and peace, economic upturns and depressions, in feast and famine. What has happened to us here in a land that has been so mightily blessed, that we have lost that joy, that zeal? May our hearts return once again to that place of joy in Him as give thanks and praise for His Triumphant Resurrection.
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Bend worlds to your will, harvest their resources and conquer the galaxy.
Shattered Plans Features
Shattered Plans is a turn-based, multiplayer strategy game in which players expand their territory until they rule the galaxy. Commit your fleets and watch the results play out; take over star systems and harvest their resources; build powerful projects to aid in your conquest; form strategic alliances; build up your fleet of starships; and shatter the plans of your enemies.
1. Where do I start?
The best place to start learning how to play Shattered Plans is to play the tutorial, perhaps more than once. The tutorial teaches you everything from making moves, attacking systems, harvesting resources and the special projects. The tutorial also allows you to play against two AI controlled enemies.
After the tutorial, it might be worth playing a few games in Single-player Skirmish mode. This mode pits you against some more AI opponents, allowing you to hone your skills and try out different game types before taking on human opposition in the Multiplayer Lobby. You'll also find a recap of everything in the tutorial in the Instructions.
2. What are the special projects, how do I get them and what do they do?
There are four special projects that can be the difference between victory and defeat: Defensive Net, Terraforming, Stellar Bomb and Tannhäuser Project.
When you first capture a system, your research into each project increases in line with that system's resource output (as shown under the Projects window in-game). The resources match up to the projects as follows:
Defensive Net - Metal (blue)
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3. What do the crosshatched lines over my territory mean?
Any of your systems covered in crosshatching are in danger of falling to your enemies. If you're playing with the Classic rules, this could also cause other nearby systems to fall (such systems should also be crosshatched). Try placing a second layer of defence behind your front lines to avoid putting your systems at risk.
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Almost Wordless Wednesday
She's pretty proud of herself.
Oh yeah. Looking good.
I went to throw her in the tub and this is what I found. What else would be in the bathtub but a dozen plastic spiders?
This is the color of the water after her bath.
Apparently her high chair is too close to the drawer where I keep some art supplies. Er, I mean, where I USED to keep some art supplies.
Know what went through my mind when she did this?
"Ooo! I have something to blog about today!" Ugh.
97 comments:
- roseys madhouse said...
I dont know what shocks me more, that you now are the mother of a smurf or the fact that you have plastic spiders that look so real????????
I love how your other daughter had to get her head in the photo too lol.
- December 5, 2007 at 1:05 AM
- kimikki said...
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
Too funny for words!
- December 5, 2007 at 1:13 AM
- Rick said...
You've given birth to a smurf!! Which side of the family does that come from?
- December 5, 2007 at 2:13 AM
- Aubrey said...
At least your bathtub looks clean and the plug is shiny. :)
- December 5, 2007 at 2:28 AM
- manda said...
Dawn that's a really nice shade of blue. Does it blend into the chair? Plastic spiders are cool - imagine what you would have felt with that many real ones in the bath:)
- December 5, 2007 at 2:31 AM
- jeanie said...
he he - she is a Wee William Wallace!
- December 5, 2007 at 2:35 AM
Two things to keep in mind....
#1 - At least it was confined to her highchair, and
#2 - Speaking of her highchair, the blue totally works.
I feel your pain!
- December 5, 2007 at 2:39 AM
OK I just KNOW I'm not first, but that girl should join Blue Man Group! As for the house size, we're growing out of our same sized home with no basement. We have 1 child, and one on the way. We are just the worst packrats, and I'd love to know how you don't clutter everything all up. We call one of the bedrooms the "basement" and it's where we store a bunch of stuff lol.
- December 5, 2007 at 4:36 AM
- Denise... said...
She looks great in blue!
- December 5, 2007 at 4:39 AM
- majikfaerie said...
UGH!!! What kind of mother are you!? How could you let your child paint herself like that? I mean; that shade of blue is soooo 2006! I mean, really!
- December 5, 2007 at 4:43 AM
hahaha that is too cute!!!
Watch this - it will make you feel better
- December 5, 2007 at 5:22 AM
- Valarie said...
Ha! She looks like a cute little smurf. We have those little spiders. I have a mini-heartattack everytime I come across one.
- December 5, 2007 at 5:50 AM
- Irene said...
LOVE IT! I remember my now 2 yo got a hold of a purple marker about a year ago. She covered herself head to toe in markings. I tried to be stern with her, but it was just too damn funny. And she was just so proud of herself!
Unfortunately I wasn't blogging then, it would definitely be a great post. I scrapbooked it as "The advertures of Kallie and the Purple Crayon".
- December 5, 2007 at 6:10 AM
- Char said...
That's too funny! I so love when you turn your back for a few moments to come back and find something like this.
- December 5, 2007 at 6:38 AM
I got into a fight with a crazy old man today at the groucery store in front of my kids...of coarse it was not my falt. Anyway, my cart scratched his car when I was loading kiddos in the mini van. I ws very apologetic...I'm soo sorry sir, yada yada yada. ANyway he wouldn't let it go. Kept screaming at me..did I menion I was with my babies?? Ok, so I'm walking the cart to the cart return thingy and he is behind me bitching about said scratch....I snapped. Turned around and gave him a very large piece of my mind. And God did it feel good. Grandpa Jerky wips out his cell and continues to call the cops on me...whatever dude, I left and told him Merry Christmas and "God Bless you b/c you need it." Not sure why I feel you need to know this story.....maybe you can relate.
Anyway, I have been reading your stories and you make me feel better about this whole mommy gig. It is a very isolating job and it is real nice to know there are others out there like you and me!
- December 5, 2007 at 6:41 AM
Smurfs come to mind when I saw this LOL!!!!
- December 5, 2007 at 6:44 AM
- Tami said...
How is it that you're not living in a mental institution yet?
You're amazing.
- December 5, 2007 at 7:00 AM
Could have been worse...you don't keep the SCISSORS in that drawer, do you??? Somehow we have avoided adventures in "home haircuts" with kids #1-4, but lately I've been less dilligent about making sure the scissors aren't within reach, and kid #5 is not quite 3, so we may yet experience it.
How fun was it to clean the blue out of that tub?!?
- December 5, 2007 at 7:00 AM
LOL too funny. Could be worse though - my youngest two did the exact same thing, on the couch, with what HAD been a full jar of peanut butter. All over themselves, the couch, the carpet, and everywhere else they'd wandered or touched. Giggling all the way. We're still trying to get it off the couch *sigh*
- December 5, 2007 at 7:04 AM
- Lucille said...
Oh my!
That is just PRECIOUS! She looks like a SMURF!
I wish our lives were that simple, don't you? Just cover yourself in mystery blue and giggle?
- December 5, 2007 at 7:04 AM
- Stella said...
She looks like a little smurf!!
- December 5, 2007 at 7:13 AM
- Brenda said...
You can just say your daughter has a colorful personality!
- December 5, 2007 at 7:23 AM
- wencanscrap said...
wow...I'm speechless...
- December 5, 2007 at 7:23 AM
- Heather Everingham said...
Bravo, for being able to take pictures of that. I would have been way to furious!
- December 5, 2007 at 7:24 AM
Blue's her color
- December 5, 2007 at 7:29 AM
- Anita said...
Makes me think..."I'm blue dadadedadeda" ...um, it's a song if you didn't know that.
The spiders freaked me out, then I read your caption.
- December 5, 2007 at 7:35 AM
- Cat-a-holic, Lilly and Laila said...
You are my hero! I don't know how keep your sanity. ;)
- December 5, 2007 at 7:35 AM
Oh how I know how you feel! It seems like you're always taking one step forward and hundreds backwards! All I can say is just hold out until they are all in school and it does get easier!
- December 5, 2007 at 7:40 AM
- Hildigunnur said...
That's exactly the colour of my kitchen cabinets :D
- December 5, 2007 at 7:46 AM
- Cyn said...
I've been freaked out by plastic spiders in unexpected places before - ay yi yi!
- December 5, 2007 at 7:48 AM
- Tina said...
I have to laugh at the fact that you just left the plastic spiders in the tub while you gave her the bath!
- December 5, 2007 at 8:05 AM
- Kristen & Jason said...
At least they were plastic spiders. I can't look at the picture without feeling a little squeamish though. I seem to have passed on my spider phobia to my 7 year old, E~. Last night he came sobbing into his bedroom because there was a big spider by the sink so he couldn't brush his teeth. As any good mother would, I thought he was trying to get out of brushing his teeth. There really was a spider, albeit a small one, & I was able to take care of it without too much trouble. I guess there goes my plan of making E~ the official spider killer when my husband isn't home.
- December 5, 2007 at 8:22 AM
- Deb - Mom of 3 Girls said...
Oh this is just too funny - it looks like something one of my kids would do too... Hope she enjoyed her spider-infested 'blue' bath! :)
- December 5, 2007 at 8:32 AM
- Kristy said...
aww what a beautiful child, blue paint and all! lol
- December 5, 2007 at 8:33 AM
- suburbancorrespondent said...
Blue is pretty. Too bad it isn't Halloween time - she could go as a Smurfette.
- December 5, 2007 at 8:54 AM
put her in a white dress next year and she can be smurfette for halloween.
- December 5, 2007 at 8:57 AM
Yikes. I don't know whats worse, seeing a blue little girl or the shock of all those spiders in the tub! I HATE spiders and those are so life like! (at least from the picture) I almost jumped out of my computer chair. I just have to commend you on providing me with a great laugh!
- December 5, 2007 at 8:58 AM
- Liz said...
She looks so happy to have been smurfed!! LOL My 3-year-old drags his rocking horse all over the house to enable himself to get into whatever he wants. So while I'm downstairs doing laundry, or helping the two older boys with their homework, or anything other than looking directly at him, he's off sneaking into something! Playing in the bathroom sink, that's a favorite of his! The one time we made the mistake of taking all of his things away that he used for stools, and every day he went and put the dog's food into the water. We gave him back his step stool since he needed it to wash his hands after playing in dog food and water anyway.
- December 5, 2007 at 9:05 AM
- The New Mom on the Blog said...
She is definitely proud of her 'body art'! Look at that smile!
Its times like this that you really can't get yourself to scream at her when she is soooo gleefully smiling back at you, even though you know you've got extra work to do now - cleaning her and everything else that's blue...
- December 5, 2007 at 9:10 AM
- Veggiemomof2 said...
That girl is going to be an artist! She paints w/everything she gets her hands on..now get that girl some canvas! LOL
- December 5, 2007 at 9:13 AM
- Stephanie said...
Oh, I'm so sorry!!! It is pretty funny though!
- December 5, 2007 at 9:29 AM
- ashley nicole said...
she's adorable...kinda looks a little bit like a smurf though...and at least it washed off...
have a great day!!
- December 5, 2007 at 9:35 AM
- johnsonfamilyof6 said...
My four girls have done this sorta human art work before. She looks a lot like a smurf.... of course, our kids don't even know what a smurf is. Weird.
- December 5, 2007 at 9:36 AM
- Midwest Mommy said...
Oh my goodness! Too cute and too funny!
- December 5, 2007 at 9:45 AM
- Michelle said...
- December 5, 2007 at 9:46 AM
- MissHum22 said...
On the bright side, she wasn't sitting next to the permanent marker drawer... We now only keep one sharpie in the house, in a special safe place. Problem is, I forgot where that place was & haven't been able to find it since.
- December 5, 2007 at 9:46 AM
- My Semblance of Sanity said...
God bless you my friend!
God bless you!
- December 5, 2007 at 9:56 AM
- Grace said...
That is so funny. My 3 year old Foster son loves to be an artist when he should not. For our christmas cards this year I had a picture put on them that I took one day when I caught him trying to color my carpet, as soon as I asked him if he was coloring my carpet, he threw the crayon, and said NO with his guilty face, in the picture you can even see where the crayon landed when he threw it.
- December 5, 2007 at 10:00 AM
- Kresta S. said...
My 2-year-old is always doing this too. I can never figure out why they get it all over their face... do they try to taste/eat it? I think my confusion is because my daughter does this with markers... but she comes away looking exactly like your little girl. And ugh!! I realize kids are supposed to get dirty and play, but am I the only one who stresses out when they make messes like that?? lol
- December 5, 2007 at 10:06 AM
- Cami said...
Oh, what a mess!!! This looks like something my 4 year old would still do! I LOVE it...I mean, I love that it's your kid that did it and not mine!
I've been reading your blog for a long time, and I love it! I finally decided to leave a comment. Thanks for sharing moments from your life with us.
It makes me feel like I'm not the only one who wants to strangle their kids sometimes.
P.S. I would never really strangle my kids, but sometimes you just get that urge...
- December 5, 2007 at 10:45 AM
- Manic Mom said...
You absolutely crack me up.
I don't get it.
Why does a mom with six kids add that kind of chaos to her life? Why do you let her do this?!?!!? I do know she is going to be one heck of an artist when she grows up though, that is for sure!!!
And she definitely has a thing for the color blue!
- December 5, 2007 at 10:45 AM
- Franzi said...
hahaha...i think i had just as much fun as your daughter...
you learn something new every day :-)
- December 5, 2007 at 10:52 AM
I think it's just fabulous that when your kiddos do something messy, bad, lazy, or disobedient, they must pose for the blog picture before being cleaned, grounded, sent to their room or whatever. :) This must give you a good window of time to try NOT to freak out about the small stuff.
Heard a great quote from my M-I-L yesterday:
"I don't sweat the petty stuff; I also don't pet the sweaty stuff." :)
Have a great day, Dawn. Good luck with your laptop.
- December 5, 2007 at 10:56 AM
- ummmhello said...
She looks Maaaah-velous!
- December 5, 2007 at 11:07 AM
- godlover said...
I don't know you and you don't know me, but I thoroughly enjoyed your blog. I found that with life you either laugh or you cry and laughing sounds so much better. I will visit your site again.
- December 5, 2007 at 11:11 AM
- Dawn said...
Hi Dawn...My name is Dawn :) Be thankful that the art supplies were washable today...my little "spawnlings" favor permanent markers when they decorate :)
- December 5, 2007 at 11:27 AM
You know what I like? A woman who leaves the damn plastic spiders in the tub!
- December 5, 2007 at 11:34 AM
At least it was confined to her high chair! Just imagine what the house would have looked like if she's been free to wander around with the paint...
- December 5, 2007 at 11:37 AM
- strikkegal said...
What a lovely color!
- December 5, 2007 at 11:43 AM
Wow, that is BLUE! Well, at least she had a good time.
Eew, for a second I thought those insects were real, then I read your caption, phew! that would have been some major plomubing problem!
- December 5, 2007 at 11:54 AM
- Lisa said...
No doubt others will have said the same, but.... She makes for a very cute smurf.
I think kids do this just so they can play in the tub.
- December 5, 2007 at 12:02 PM
- Jennifer said...
Mama said there'd be days like this!! God Bless you Dawn! You need a massage and an appletini!
- December 5, 2007 at 12:18 PM
- Kate said...
Compliments the chocolate face one quite well *giggle* I kept all the art supplies in a 10 gallon plastic thinger up on the highest shelf in the pantry. I'm finding it harder to deal with teenagers. DS/14 gets into EVERYTHING, so we've resorted to locking up stuff with something very similar to this. http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40100192
Heavens forbid if they ever figure out that the back of it can be unscrewed~! LOL
We have a keyed door on our study which is where I keep all the Christmas pressies as well.
- December 5, 2007 at 12:24 PM
- Nicki said...
Hey! It's Baby Smurf!! Too funny!
- December 5, 2007 at 12:59 PM
At least it was blue paint that washed off "fairly" easily. My little bit got ahold of a laundry marker when she was 2 1/2. By the time I caught her, she had a black moustache, black drawings up and down her arms, her little brother had black "eyeliner" and a goatee...and our Basset Hound, who moved too slowly (okay, she was drowsing on the couch) had a black line down the side of her body. Oh, and there were black lines up and down the hallway, too...thankfully there is Mr. Clean erasers!
- December 5, 2007 at 1:12 PM
- ComfyDenim said...
It's probably been said before - but I'm rather impressed by the fact that her choice of colors matched so well with her high chair.
And that smile is precious!!
- December 5, 2007 at 1:28 PM
- zabadu said...
I am not a mother. That being said, stories like this prove to me that children are much more than I could handle!
How you stay sane with these things happening every day is beyond me. Motherhood must be the hardest job in the world, and all of you must have the patience of Job.
PS: She looks good in blue!
- December 5, 2007 at 1:31 PM
- Stephanie said...
You're the expert, please help me:
My SAH husband just called to ask if the ink from the ink pad I gave our 3 year old daughter will come out. I asked why and he said our DARLING 21 month old son got ahold of it and it's not only all over his face but the carpet and the couch too! I probably shouldn't have done this but I said, "Take pictures honey, this is great blog material." Then I said to try baby wipes because I've heard they take anything out of anything.
Any other suggestions? Our furniture had no blemishes before this.
- December 5, 2007 at 1:47 PM
- Grandmother Goddess of the Garden said...
I soooo remember things like this! I awoke to giggling one morning to find my son in the hall growling and pretending to be "The Hulk". His sister had helped him get the food coloring off the top shelf and proceeded to assist him in turning nearly every inch of him green! He didn't enjoy the scrubbing that's for sure! By the way, food coloring is harder to remove than paint! I only wish we had digital cameras then, mine was out of film at the time.
- December 5, 2007 at 3:55 PM
- Patty said...
I have a picture from this summer of all three of my kids looking similar to that.
- December 5, 2007 at 3:55 PM
Do you think that when your kids are all grown up, that you will look back at all the mishaps they did and think to your self "I miss that"?
What an exciding life you live!
- December 5, 2007 at 4:29 PM
- Staciesmadness said...
- December 5, 2007 at 4:54 PM
- Lauren said...
I adore the blue! But, those spiders, they looks so real.
- December 5, 2007 at 5:48 PM
- Burgh Baby's Mom said...
- December 5, 2007 at 6:40 PM
a girl who won't be afraid of spiders, good parenting!
i could not take a spider with any type of spider, even plastic ones...
that's amazing!
- December 5, 2007 at 8:26 PM
Have you seen this? Nothing to do with your blog.(which I LOVE BTW)Just thought you might like to know. Seriously, wow....
- December 5, 2007 at 8:29 PM
- miss_nicole_85 said...
Hi Dawn! I've never commented on your page before, but tonight I really have something to say….I really love reading your blogs because they're so sweet and HONEST (something that's hard to find in the world today!) I admire your strength and humor, and I hope that I show those qualities when I am a mother someday… I'm not a mom yet. I'm getting ready to graduate college and start at one of those business jobs my mom always dreamed of for me, so I'm not going to pretend like I know much about parenting. But like I said, I do have something to say and I think I'm gonna piggyback on your fame a bit so I can say it and think that someone might actually read it! I'm from Omaha, NE, and anyone who watches the news knows what happened today. Some 19 year old "kid" decided to open fire at the mall, killing 9 (including himself) and injuring several others. My grandma likes to shop, so the first thing I did when I got off work was to call her and see if she was okay. I asked her if stuff like this happened when she was raising her kids…all she could say were that times are way different these days. To me, this is really, really sad because it is my generation that seems to be starting all of these horrible things (Columbine, VA Tech, now this), and I'm so frustrated because it isn't hard to see why these things are happening!!! I really think that many parents today are to blame. They're so focused on careers and materialistic possessions that they allow their kids to be raised by overflowing daycares and video games. Heck, with these new "learning video games" parents don't even have to sit down and help their kids learn numbers or spelling. And it's very rare to see a parent discipline a kid today. With all of the political correctness and "it could hurt their self esteem" business, kids get by with basically anything and everything. And parents are making up for not being around by buying them anything their hearts desire instead of taking the time to sit down a couple times a week and read with them or play a game with them….It's so sad! My stepmom has been a teacher for nearly 10 years in a small-town school, and she has always had great things to say about being a teacher. However, the last time I visited home she said she wanted to go back to school because kids today are getting worse and worse. Parents want TEACHERS to teach their kids discipline and they get mad when the teacher does discipline!!! Needless to say, all my friends who are teachers feel more like zookeepers and babysitters than educators… And these kids who grow up getting by with everything and who watch so much TV that their brains are filled with ideas about what they should have and how they should look to be happy end up sad and disappointed when they learn that they will never be skinny or that daddy will never afford to buy a BMW. And what do these kids do? Because they lack parental involvement to teach them confidence and self-acceptance, they take a gun to school…or the mall… I don't know, but I have a feeling this is going to get worse before it will get better. I just know that I'm going to do my part to be the solution someday. Like you Dawn, I am going to be around for my kids (even if it means quitting my job). I'm going to play with them, read to them, PUNISH them (when needed), and teach them to respect themselves and respect others. I will NOT buy my kids' love and I will NOT allow them to be disrespectful. I WILL love and educate them. I am just happy that you share your experiences with the world so that more parents can learn how fulfilling it really is to be a good, honest, hard-working mommy! I commend you!!!
- December 5, 2007 at 8:33 PM
- Sarah Grace said...
Great stuff! When does the instruction manual come for these kids? Wanted to say you've inspired me to start blogging. I have a long ways to go, but I wanted to say thanks for doing what you do!!
- December 5, 2007 at 8:44 PM
Is it just me but has no one kind of wondered what she was doing by herself in a high chair long enough to pull this off....
- December 5, 2007 at 9:23 PM
- Robin said...
It never ends does it?!?!? = )
- December 5, 2007 at 9:39 PM
- gianna said...
You gotta read the book Kid Tea (I don't remember who wrote it), but it's a quick 10 page read for those of us with kids. It's all about dunk the kids in the bathtub to make a different color kid tea each day!
- December 5, 2007 at 9:56 PM
- Tammy said...
I almost spewed the food I was eating onto the computer screen when I read this:
Know what went through my mind when she did this?
"Ooo! I have something to blog about today!" Ugh.
My friend and I call each other dorks because every little thing we do, we say, "oooh! we have a blog post now!" Dorks R Us!!! I think we'll have to make up some tshirts that say that! ha ha
- December 5, 2007 at 9:57 PM
- E said...
Okay, I totally enjoyed your post, but my favorite part was the last line. Every time we do something interesting at all, I say "Oh good, now I have something to blog about!" Sometimes we go do things JUST so I can have something to blog about. ha ha ha
Glad I'm not the only one!
- December 5, 2007 at 10:02 PM
There's only 74 comments when I'm leaving this but I thought I'd leave my 2 cents. The spiders really creeped me out. My kids got a lot of the plastic spider rings for Halloween.... and they've almost all found the garbage now.
Loved the comment about the blue being sooooo 2006! (At first I thought you had another real yeller.)
God Bless - KR
- December 5, 2007 at 10:07 PM
PS Yes, your drain is so shiny too, as noted by others. And is that a smoke detector on the side of your tub? (the white thing)
- December 5, 2007 at 10:10 PM
- Nicole said...
These are the stories that will keep you laughing over Thansgiving dinner, 20 years from now. You will have photos to prove it and can embarrass the crap out of her in front of her new boyfriend. See, parents revenge!!!
Seriously, my daughter once painted the bottoms of her feet with nail polish and then made foot prints on the floor. That was soooo fun to clean up!!
- December 5, 2007 at 10:13 PM
- Jennifer said...
Oh my goodness - how cute is she? Blue and all. I'm sure that cleanup of that mess wasn't in your plan today, but like you said - at least it makes for good blog material. And great pictures to show her when her kids are making messes - a nice reminder!
And not trying to stir up any trouble, but the the mom who commented above, "Is it just me but has no one kind of wondered what she was doing by herself in a high chair long enough to pull this off...."
Ummm, hello? My daughter could have done that in a minute flat! It doesn't take that long to make a big mess! At first I thought, well - she must not have kids. But according to her 'name', she has 3, so I imagine her kids must not make many messes. Sorry, but it would offend me if someone just assumed I left my child unattended for huge blocks of time because they were fast mess makers! And I have a fast mess maker! I need to keep my camera a little more handy to prove it!! LOL!
- December 5, 2007 at 11:32 PM
Dear Dawn,
This child is surely going to be an artist as much as she is drawn to painting on herself ( not to mention the inspiration she surely must be geting by being a human canvas to the other budding artist in the family).
I LOVED this picture! It is one of the funniest things I've ever seen, who needs tv?
Thanks for sharing!
God bless,
- December 5, 2007 at 11:33 PM
Hi Dawn
Was it really "wordless" or speechless? Or then again was it that the only words you could think of maybe wouldnt look that good in print? Having been on the receiving end of those types of pranks, more times than Ive got space to mention, when I saw your pics a few choice words came immediately to mind.
Funny how those kids of ours just keep on finding something else to do that stretches the bounds of our imagination, send us through every emotion known to man, plus a few more that we've only just invented, and no matter how angry we are when it happens much later we can manage to laugh about it.
Its a pity that she didnt have time to roll herself over a canvas prior to her bath, the work of art she would have produced could have been worth a fortune later on when your books are published. LOL!
Well a couple of things you can be thankful for this time is that it wasnt the contents of a daiper and that the damage was limited to the immediate area thanks to the restraints of the high chair. Blue is certainly her colour as possibly red or purple would have clashed with her beautiful eyes. LOL!
Keep on smiling Dawn, your kids are wonderful... we always find time to laugh about things later even if we dont always happen to think so at the time.
- December 6, 2007 at 2:55 AM
- Angela72181 said...
I am just catching up as I missed a few days with a sick girl. Your daughter and my son are so similar. He's done the whole blue paint thing too. But his latest was mommy it snow....he used a whole bottle of baby powder to create snow in the living room...only pictures do that justice though. Best part was when our dog ran upstairs and I couldn't figure out what she had gotten into as she had white on her face. Figured flower or something. Come to find out he thought the dog needed some snow too.
- December 6, 2007 at 7:55 AM
Hi Dawn, The spider thing reminded me of what my dad use to do to us kids and my mom. He would roll back the toilet paper and draw a black spider on the paper and roll it back up. That was a scary thing to see! Scare the poop right out of us! Kristine in Michigan.
- December 6, 2007 at 8:03 AM
Well now you have an idea of what she can be for Halloween.
- December 6, 2007 at 10:09 AM
you know you are a blogger when.....
- December 6, 2007 at 4:43 PM
Love to read your stories. I've got 4 girls (15, 14, 12, and 16mo - yes you read that right - oh, and planning on adding another in HOPES for a boy, but will take what God gives us). Was really moved by Mimi's Quote on Michelle's ebay posting and send it off to several other mom's. Thanks for the laughs and good luck with the book.
- December 6, 2007 at 5:27 PM
- jaj said...
That girl is a hoot!
- December 11, 2007 at 6:31 PM
What IS that stuff? I hope it's non-toxic! That rivals the chocolate picture!
- December 11, 2007 at 11:31 PM
- Ari said...
oh, gosh, I looked at the bathtub, and thought "now that she´s ready to throw her personal blue man into the tub, there are spiders running around having a party in there!" I mean, that would have been kinda funny, having a whole spider family in the bathtub.
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But you know, nice glasses can be expensive. My mom is an ophthalmologist, so for many of my formative years of glasses-wearing I relied on the insider connection with the optometrist to get a good deal on frames. However, in adulthood, I've had to get a few new pairs of frames (mostly related to my glasses getting smushed by someone's butt or cruelly twisted by my offspring--oddly, now that I never take my glasses off, my frames are much more protected) and every time I go to LensCrafters or what have you, I am floored by how much a pair of frames cost. A pair of designer frames (which, of course, are the only kinds that the big chains peddle) can cost anywhere between $150 to $300, and I'm not even talking about the ones with a blingity-bling Chanel medallion hanging off the sides.
At most chain optical stores, this also does not include the price of the lenses themselves, which--if you are a high myope like me and require a high-index refraction pair of lenses to lessen the Coke bottle effect--can jack up the price a couple hundred dollars more. Couple that with the fact that most people who wear glasses like to have a spare pair lying around for emergencies (see above: butt squashing, toddler torquing, etc.) and that's many, many hundreds of dollars for glasses.
Then I found this site called 39dollarglasses.com.
First of all, there are plenty of sites out there that offer cheap (albeit not brand-name) frames, some even for less than $39.00. However, 39dollarglasses.com is the place that I ordered my glasses from about a year ago, so it's the only one that I can speak to from personal experience. (Let me just explain in case this is in question that I am not sponsored by this or any company, nor do I generate any revenue or goodwill whether you click that link or not. I just really think that this is a hidden secret that people need to know about, because the last pair of glasses I got prior to discovering this genre of website cost more than six times the amount I spent on my web-bought frames, and now I am burning with self-righteous indignation against the brand-name glasses frame industry.)
The thing with glasses (which most of you who wear glasses understand) is that there is a highly specific fit, and not every frame fits every face. I know this as much as anyone--I have kind of a low nasal bridge (as many Asians do) and a roundish face, and on average I have to try on something like twenty pairs of glasses before I find a pair that feels right for me. So that's a problem with ordering glasses online--you can't try them on first. It's like buying shoes online. How particular are you about the fit of your shoes? If you are very persnickety, perhaps this is not the solution for you.
However, if you have a general sense of what kind of glasses look decent on you (I knew I wanted dark plastic frames with an ovalesque or rectangular shape), let me tell you a secret. The secret is in the numbers.
Glasses come with measurements, did you know that? They do. Look, take off your glasses, and look on the inside surface of the stems. There should be three numbers. Those are the top three numbers listed above. The first one (in this case, 52mm) corresponds to the width of each individual lens bracket (or to be more precise: eye hole). The middle number (16mm) corresponds to the width of the nasal bridge piece. And the last number (140mm) corresponds to the length of the stem, which is the stick piece that goes over your ear. 128mm in this case is the width of the whole pair of glasses, and 25mm is the height of the lens frame (basically how librarian-reading-glasses-narrow or Carrie-Donovan-wide your peeping window is going to be top to bottom). If you can't try on the glasses before you buy them, these are the figures you need to know.
(I personally have kind of high cheeks so I know I can't get too wide of a measurement on the latter--I had a pair of rounded tortoise-shell glasses once that, due to the height of the frame, rested directly on my cheeks, and the constant feeling of having something on my face drove me, by small and insistent increments, completely insane. So insane that I eventually shelved those frames altogether and just swapped out the lenses into an old frame that I had lying around.)
So what do you do? Provided you already have a pair of glasses that fit OK and are not too different from the new pair that you want to get (for example, I'm not sure how it works with wire frames with the nose pads and the conversion to plastic frames), look at the numbers on the inside of your current glasses, and use those to extrapolate for the pair of new glasses you want to buy. THE NUMBERS ARE IMPORTANT. Trust me on this. No matter how adorable a pair of glasses looks online, if the numbers are not right, DO NOT BUY THEM, THEY WILL NOT FIT. This was of particular concern to me regarding the measurement for the nasal bridge; as a low-nasal-bridged individual, I knew that I needed a pair of glasses 16mm or narrower so that they would not slide down my face. If I went to Pearl Vision (or whatever) and tried on a pair of glasses, I would usually employ a test wherein I would put on the glasses and violently shake my head back and forth to see if the glasses would fall off. Since I cannot try on glasses online, I just go by the numbers. For the most part, if the nasal bridge part fits and the frames are not too wide for your head (example, if your current glasses are 128mm wide, do not buy glasses that are 134mm wide, even if they are super hot black with green trim OMG NERD CHIC!! Again, they will not fit). Believe me on this. I have spent way too much time trying on glasses to steer you wrong.
The glasses above are the ones I got a year ago, by the way. They are sturdy and well-made (not like the reading glasses you get next to the cash register at Walgreens or anything) and even with the upgraded package that offers a high-index refraction lens (you know, so the glass is thinner and not as heavy) it still came out to less than $80. For a pair of good glasses, that's a very, very fair price. (If you don't have a very strong presecription and don't need the high index refraction lenses, it's actually less than $50, which is yet another way in which people with better vision win. That and not needing glasses at all.) I got two pairs last winter--an heir and a spare, as it were--after my old pair of glasses from med school finally bit the dust (and yes, there was a period of time before the new glasses arrived that I was indeed wearing glasses haphazardly patched with some electrical tape, and also, briefly, some surgical suture) and I have been extremely pleased with them ever since. I even just ordered a pair of prescription sunglasses for driving, an extravagance that I'd never allowed myself, because really, who's going to pay hundreds of dollars for a pair of prescription sunglasses?
Not me. And hopefully, now, not you either.
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Originally Published: November 21, 2012 1:30 AM
Updated: 11/20/2012
It seems like everyone is flying this week, but ...
By Scott Suttell
If you're in the office today, you're probably eager to get out, so let's make this quick:
There are some pretty remarkable numbers in
New York Times
op-ed piece
about the decline in the number of flights at many of the nation's airports. "Between 2007 and 2012, airlines cut the number of domestic passenger flights by 14 percent, according to the Department of Transportation — with the biggest drops occurring at midsize and smaller regional airports," writes Clifford Winston, a senior fellow in economic studies at the
Brookings Institution
. "The five heartland hubs of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Memphis, Pittsburgh and St. Louis have lost a stunning 40 percent of their scheduled flights." The reason? "Airlines have decided that the best way to earn a healthy return on their investment is to maintain tight discipline on capacity," Mr. Winston writes. "That's a fancy way of saying they want their planes to fly as full as sardine cans. And the way they've been accomplishing this is by concentrating service on the big domestic and international markets and by cutting flights in smaller, less traveled ones."
Former GE CEO Jack Welch's
Twitter paranoia
about the "Chicago guys" cooking the jobs numbers has helped push him back into the national spotlight, with an upcoming
cover story
about his "unretirement" in
Bloomberg Businessweek
. Among the details in the long story: Mr. Welch and his mistress-turned-wife, Suzy, invested $2 million alongside online educational entrepreneur Michael Clifford in the
Jack Welch Management Institute
at Chancellor University in Cleveland. Mr. Clifford describes Jack and Suzy as "totally focused and totally passionate" about the startup. "Suzy was the ball bearing that made it happen," he says. Mr. Welch ultimately "moved his institute to a larger, publicly traded for-profit college with a better reputation called Strayer University, in Herndon, Va.," according to the story. "Strayer agreed to pay $7 million to Chancellor to buy the Jack Welch Management Institute, with 40 percent of the funds contributed by Welch. Strayer also entered a licensing agreement with Welch and agreed to pay him a royalty for use of the curriculum he and Suzy had designed." The institute, which targets midlevel executives willing to pony up $30,960 for 12 courses leading to an executive MBA, has yet to turn a profit.
Cleveland restaurateur/food truck entrepreneur
Chris Hodgson
is featured in
USA Today
in which social media made a material difference in people's lives. The newspaper notes that Mr. Hodgson was able to recover his stolen food truck last month when he put out a digital APB on Twitter. "I sent out one tweet and said, 'Food truck thief, I'm gonna find you! If anyone sees the truck, please let us know.' Within about 30 minutes, we had one of our fans e-mail a picture of it and told us where he had seen it." Mr. Hodgson, 26, tells
USA Today
that his business has been able to boom because his more than 11,000 Twitter followers (spread over three accounts) are able to follow his food trucks wherever they go. "In Cleveland, it wasn't a big foodie scene, there's not a lot of other trucks, and so there really was no way to spread the word about who we were other than Twitter and keep people posted on our location," he says. "Twitter became our lifeline to start our business and really, really I give Twitter and Facebook credit for launching our career into food trucks, and now we have seven restaurants and a catering company in just a very short amount of time."
Looking to buy a cheap house? Youngstown's the place to go, according to
this data set
from CNNMoney.com, based on third-quarter figures from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index. The index ranks U.S. metro areas based on a combination of low prices and competitive wages. Youngstown is ranked as the second-most affordable market, with a median home price of $82,000 and median income of $55,700 producing an estimated 92.9% of homes considered "affordable" for Youngstown residents. Only Ogden, Utah, ranks as a more affordable place to own a piece of the American dream. (Buying a home still is considered part of the American dream, right?)
A book based on an exhibition at the
Cleveland Museum of Art
lands on
New York Times
of the best art books of 2012.
"Wari: Lords of the Ancient Andes"
was produced in conjunction with a show of the same title running through Jan. 6 at the Cleveland museum. (It will travel to the Museum of Art/Fort Lauderdale in Florida and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth.) "Overseen by Susan E. Bergh, organizer of the exhibition and a curator at the Cleveland museum, this lavishly illustrated, often breathtakingly beautiful book pulls together essays by more than a dozen scholars,"
The Times
says. "Historical and geographical contexts are detailed, and there are essays covering architecture, religious deities and rituals, textiles and feather work, sculpture, and inlaid and metal ornaments. For a sense of the revelations in store, consider the full-page reproduction, on Page 144, of a Wari urn decorated with delicate and varied plant forms that presages American and European folk art motifs by several hundred years."
Let's go from high culture to low culture. When we write about Jim Brown here at
, it's usually in the context of his complicated relationship with the Cleveland Browns. But some of us in the office are fans of older movies, so Mr. Brown isn't just a football player. He also had an eccentric movie career, and
The Wall Street Journal
that some of his crazier career choices are part of a new show, "William Lustig Presents: A Tribute to the Warner Archive," at the Anthology Film Archives in New York. From
The Journal
For raw action enthusiasts, there's also a mini-festival of blaxploitation hero Jim Brown's caper flicks, including "Dark of the Sun," "The Split" and "The Slams." And for a softer side of the former Cleveland Browns running back, "The Grasshopper" is a real change of pace. He's a pit stop in the free-spirited life of Christine (Jacqueline Bissett), an innocent young British Columbian who comes to California with dreams of love, only to wind up as a Las Vegas prostitute—although she doesn't seem all that upset about it. Because … hey, man, it's the '60s. The film is sprinkled with bids at social relevance (homosexuals, psychedelic rock bands, interracial marriage, pot smoking) and maudlin pop ballads.
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So what did I pick up from this collection? I picked up both beauty powders: "Blush of Youth" and "Summer Rose", "Silverthorn" eyeshadow, and "Magnetique" lipglass. I have "Mutiny" pigment from when the "Naughty Nauticals" collection came out. I forgot to get "Steal My Heart" lipglass, so I have to go back and get that! The see-thru lipcolors (lipstains) are pretty neat, but didn't tickle my fancy enough for me to get any of them (but let me tell you, they really stain and stay on! So that might me awesome for some of you looking for a sheer colored lipgloss that lasts). The MUA recommended wearing these see-thru lipcolors underneath your lipstick or lipgloss so when those layers wear off, you still have the stain underneath!
The lipsticks (A Rose Romance, Odyssey, Way to Love) were pretty but were TOO sheer for me, not to mention I have tons of lipsticks that look close to those colors (California Dreamin' and Curtsy, both LE) of course they may be slightly different from each other, but I really don't need that many pink-tinged lippies especially that are too sheer for my taste. And "Odyssey" is permanent, so no need to rush to get that.
The eyeshadows were bleh to me personally, I already have "Shadowy Lady" and "Creme de Violet, and the other ones "Of Summer" and "Et tu, Bouquet" seem like colors I would just "collect" but never put to any good use. Hence I only picked up "Silverthorn" (veluxe pearl) since it's really pretty and I don't have a lot of silver eyeshadows to begin with. It looks similar in color to MAC e/s in "Cumulus" from the "Blue Storm" collection except "Cumulus" is a tad bit darker and less shimmer, more on the matte side, and "Silverthorn" is a nice light-medium silver with an opalescent bluish tint to it. Definitely stands out!
The Beauty Powders have dainty embossed "rose petals" that you don't even want to touch it! I like the natural, barely-there look both of the beauty powders give, the only con I have, is that for my skintone, it takes quite a few swipes for it to even show the slightest bit of color on my face, I KNOW THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SHEER, but I just wish they were pigmented just a pinch so there's less effort on my part, LOL. But at the same time, I DO LOVE that you can BUILD up the color gradually and not worry about overdoing it like other blushes (for example) where half a swipe is too much color. So this is definitely my favorites out of this collection because it gives a nice natural glow to the entire face or cheeks for those with light and medium skintones (not sure how it shows up on those with darker skintones). Although I must admit at times they almost look alike!
As for the gel blush, I didn't even give it a second look to be honest. For one, I personally am not into cheek stains, not that I don't necessarily like them, I just prefer powder form blushes, and of course it's the angel on my shoulder telling me I don't need it. :)
The Fix + Rose Spray smells super yummy, but that's about it. No different than MAC's current (and permanent) Fix+ spray which I still have a lot of, so passed on that.
The Nail Color "Love & Friendship" is a nice pretty rose color and looks really pretty on, but I am not into MAC nail polishes for some weird reason...so passed on that too.
What do I think are must-haves? BOTH of the beauty powders ("Blush of Youth" and "Summer Romance"), "Silverthorn" and "Of Summer" eyeshadows, "A Rose Romance" lipstick (I think this is perfect for others), the see-thru lipcolors, and "Magnetique" lipglass.
What are nice to have but not a necessity? "Shadowy Lady", "Creme de Violet", and "Odyssey" lipstick (as these are permanent),"Steal My Heart" lipglass, "Mutiny" and "Circa Plum" pigment, "Way to Love" lipstick, and "Just a pinch" gel blush is great for some of you...
I say skip: "Virgin Kiss" and "Et tu, Bouquet?"
***Sorry I was unable to do swatches of the entire collection, but there are tons of swatches online!***
I had to swatch the beauty powders on tissue since it's hard to see on my skin...
(Mutiny Pigment is the only one in this new collection)
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MAC: A Rose Romance Review & Pictures
So what did I pick up from this collection? I picked up both beauty powders: "Blush of Youth" and "Summer Rose", "Silverthorn" eyeshadow, and "Magnetique" lipglass. I have "Mutiny" pigment from when the "Naughty Nauticals" collection came out. I forgot to get "Steal My Heart" lipglass, so I have to go back and get that! The see-thru lipcolors (lipstains) are pretty neat, but didn't tickle my fancy enough for me to get any of them (but let me tell you, they really stain and stay on! So that might me awesome for some of you looking for a sheer colored lipgloss that lasts). The MUA recommended wearing these see-thru lipcolors underneath your lipstick or lipgloss so when those layers wear off, you still have the stain underneath!
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- Sophie said...
Great haul! I really like the Blush of Youth beauty powder.
- April 23, 2009 at 11:54 PM
- FuN and MakeUp said...
wow i like the BLUSH Packagin!! i swear nessaa! I cant get my blush to look like urs =( even wit ur video tutorial.. sigh* mayb i just need the brushes likr u! hehe but great post! thanks for sharing xoxo
- April 24, 2009 at 12:18 AM
- Jo said...
oooo they are so pretty and very subte on the cheeks. i like!
- April 24, 2009 at 12:21 AM
- Melissa said...
i did back2mac today, so I could get a free lippie from rose romance...but I didn't like the lipsticks! I was really hoping to get either way to love or a rose romance, but I had to pass! So I got a dazzleglass =). Good review, I was not really impressed with this collection!
- April 24, 2009 at 12:40 AM
- M said...
you make me want those beauty powders!
- April 24, 2009 at 12:57 AM
- Jéssy said...
I am curious to know what you do with the product when not used or do not like?
This collection is really beautiful with the roses designed =)
Just thought that the colors are not much different, I am curious to know if the MAC will be able to leave their consumers always surprises with new colors, tones and Shines! This is difficult when you have several products on sale .. but they are a great company that I believe is not so hard to create an innovative color =)
- April 24, 2009 at 1:01 AM
- Vespa GirL Make Up said...
Thanks for the post...I didnt think to buy much from this collection (just 2 l/s and the gel blush) but i think, i am going to buy "Blush of Youth" bp... by the way it looks great on you (:
- April 24, 2009 at 2:23 AM
- Jenn said...
Great haul Vanessa!! You make me want the Summer Rose BP again!! >.<
- April 24, 2009 at 2:27 AM
- mszcheysser said...
Oh wow! Those are super pretty! I wouldn't want to use the rose though. Haha (:
- April 24, 2009 at 2:46 AM
- Soapaholic said...
Both the Summer Rose and Blush of Youth look gorgeous on you.:)
- April 24, 2009 at 2:53 AM
- Syn@3sTh3sI@ said...
oooooo i love the cheek color on you
- April 24, 2009 at 2:59 AM
- Yin said...
Gah I'm loving the colour-beauty of youth!
awesome review. =)
- April 24, 2009 at 3:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
Great haul! The beauty powders are gorgeous!
- April 24, 2009 at 5:29 AM
- FabDiva20 said...
Pretty!! I ordered the Fix+ Rose yesterday and right now and will order the quad off of Nordie's website along with Circa Plum and Mutiny.
- April 24, 2009 at 5:58 AM
- ~Mel said...
hehee.. i got the fix+rose bc i'm a sucker for anything rose-scented. =P and i love that name "et tu bouquet" haha plus i dont have anything in my recent collection for that.. oh and i wasn't going to get the gel blush either? but the SA says you can also use it for your lips so I'm a sucker for anything multi-purpose as well. =P great haul vanessa! =)
- April 24, 2009 at 7:41 AM
- Janelle said...
Yay, A Rose Romance! This was my first big splurge since I got off my beauty diet. ;D I also got the 2 beauty powders, as well as Tender Tryst see-thru color, A Rose Romance Lipstick & Fix+ Rose. I'll be posting my haul tonight. :)
Thanks for the review & swatches. I want to go back & get more but I know I shouldn't!
- April 24, 2009 at 7:44 AM
- MakeupByRenRen said...
i was sicky yesterday so i couldnt pick up the goodies...but i'm goin today! i'm thinking at least one beauty powder and definitely magnetique
- April 24, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- princessvalecia said...
thanks for the info I've been wanting bell botoom blue forever and couldnt find it at a cco glad its back
- April 24, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- princessvalecia said...
LOL aww boo that was the only thing that caught my interest
- April 24, 2009 at 8:40 AM
- kitanablade3 said...
Okay, I wasn't going to get the beauty powders, but now I'm contemplating...Darn you Vanessa!! j/k LOL At least just the Blush of Youth one would be great.
- April 24, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- divinexjanice said...
Goodness, picking between the two beauty powder is soooooooooo hard because they BOTH look so good on you.
- April 24, 2009 at 10:47 AM
- jilliandanica said...
GREAT review! Thanks for the swatches as well...looks like I'm only going to pick up Silverthorn & Magnetique lipglass. The BP look gorrgeous and the collector in me is totally wanting them, but if they barely show up on you then they'll probably not even show up on me. Happy weekend dollface!
- April 24, 2009 at 10:58 AM
- Tammy said...
I really like the Blush of Youth on you!! I passed on these beauty powders, they are way to sheer for my complexion.
- April 24, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- Anonymous said...
The pigments are really the only thing that have caught my eye, imdebating if the bauty powders are worth the money
- April 24, 2009 at 11:48 AM
- Stephanie T said...
I don't really like those as much as other items from previous collections! Guess I don't have to worry about spending too much on it. lol :p
Who won the contest?
- April 24, 2009 at 11:55 AM
- Vanessa said...
Stephanie- Tina Marie won the online contest! :)
- April 24, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- A. Rose said...
I could've sworn I left a comment earlier! Anyway, Summer Rose looks lovely on you! I think I need to make another trip to MAC...I'm itching to get one or two more things from this collection. Thanks for the review and swatches! :)
- April 24, 2009 at 12:55 PM
- sanniet said...
pretty! were the lipsticks that sheer? hrmm I guess it wouldn't be worth it. I must try those permanent ones you mentioned! =D thanks <3
- April 24, 2009 at 2:28 PM
- aquaracer said...
i also picked-up silverthorn (the only e/s that caught my attention!) and i think it's really pretty :) i got the two sheer lippies (sheer is my taste, haha) --way to love and a rose romance. but i didn't get any beauty powder. idk, but for some reason i didn't like the texture =/
- April 24, 2009 at 2:43 PM
- Chels said...
Blush of youth looks really pretty and natural on you!
- April 24, 2009 at 7:34 PM
- Anonymous said...
Great post - I picked up Summer Rose and love it too! Gosh I'm a sucker for pretty things like that haha
- April 24, 2009 at 7:45 PM
- Whit said...
silverthorn is super neat- it's like IDOL EYES but with gold in it-yumz.
oh and i agree- i actually backed to mac the for the two new lipsticks- now i am kicking myself in the ass cuz they're so damn sheer!
- April 24, 2009 at 11:29 PM
- ♥Leigh♥ said...
omg! Both of them are such pretty colors! I love how you do reviews! they're always so helpful and informative!
- April 25, 2009 at 1:59 AM
- crystal said...
ok i am going to get my stuff after work, it is official. thank you!!
- April 25, 2009 at 5:36 AM
- yummy411 said...
great post! thanks for heads up!! i def want the beauty powders!!
- April 25, 2009 at 7:55 AM
- ♥ Kendall ♥ said...
So pretty, I'm going to go check out the collection later, I just have to build up my willpower do I don't over do it...
- April 25, 2009 at 2:53 PM
- SPECiAL x GiRL said...
You are unbelievably convincing when it comes to makeup, Nessa!
- April 25, 2009 at 4:26 PM
- Beauty Addict said...
Thanks for the comment! I love your blog!
Blush of youth looks sooo yummy! I'm gonna have to go grab myself one!
- April 25, 2009 at 8:03 PM
- EducatedBiatch said...
Vanessa dear, just to let you know, I used your picture on my beauty blog -http://adorebeauty.onsugar.com/3083174
But i did give credits to you as I never steal anybody's property. So just to let you know yes? I love your blog. I am such a big fan you dont even understand! :) hehe
- April 27, 2009 at 7:16 AM
- PinkyKathy said...
sooooo pretty. :j: I wanna get Summer Rose beauty powder.
- April 28, 2009 at 1:11 PM