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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
5:44 pm	Boy, did they get that one wrong... I've never tested out as anything but INFP or INTP - never E, never S. But then, I do kind of put on a persona for this thing... The analysis indicates that the author of http://shilohmm.livejournal.com/ is of the type: ESFP - The Performers [ESFP] The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves. The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions. Test your own: http://www.typealyzer.com/index.php?lang=en Current Music: Uncle Art (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 18th, 2009
12:15 pm	Toledo Art Museum - The Mind, She Boggles A while back i was describing my location as "roughly midway between Indy, Chicago, and Detroit," and I looked at that list and thought, "there should be an Ohio city in there. I never go to Ohio." When we drove through Ohio to Pennsylvania this spring I thought much the same thing - "Why don't we go to Ohio ever?" - but this time I actually did something about it. Dug up a map, saw that Toledo was the closest big city, pulled up a list of "Toledo attractions." Discovered the Toledo Art Museum had a temporary Chihuly exhibit and that's as far as I went, because no way was I missing another Chihuly temp exhibit. Still kicking myself about missing the Chihuly garden in Indy. ( Ever so much more about the Toledo Art Museum ) Anyhow, highly recommended, and totally going again, oh yes! http://www.toledomuseum.org/ Sheryl Current Music: surprisingly silent (Comment on this)
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
1:29 pm	Lost another body part So last weekend I was looking forward to my Monday doctor's appointment because I had great hopes he'd tell me I was done with chemo. But instead I landed in the hospital Sunday night and had my gall bladder removed Tuesday. Now I am Borg. I have tubes and drains and stuff. It's keen. Grosses the kids out just mentioning it. :D Sheryl (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 5th, 2009
7:24 pm	Why does Television Without Pity Hate Me? I tried to sign up with TWoP way back when and it never took, just tried again with new e-mail and different computer and whatnot and it STILL won't talk to me. Lists the right e-mail on the "registration complete" page but I never get anything to verify myself with. Bah. Maybe I'll just talk LOST here, or maybe I'll just sulk. ( Probably TMI chemo stuff ) I still have Russian Tea mix that I should use up before summer hits, but I'm totally craving the cold teas I haven't made since fall - Lemonade Iced Tea and Lemon Almond Tea and Orange Ginger Tea and Raspberry tea in particular. Decisions, decisions... Sheryl Current Music: the whir of the fan (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
10:35 pm	Please ignore the oncologist behind the curtain... Well, the tests show that none of the tissue was malignant, but the mole/growth/tumor/whatever you want to call it is growing again, so I get to start chemo, probably tomorrow when I see the gynecological oncologist. Rah. The drug I looked into didn't look too bad, but of course it sounds like I'll be dealing with a newer one I know nothing about. Bleah. So benign but obnoxious, I guess. And I get to go in for the weekly blood screening for a while yet. Happily the bruise from the last one (hit the emergency room this past weekend) is in the arm they don't usually do. And there's a car up on blocks in the parking area for the Emergency room at Memorial, what's with that? Taking up a good spot, too. mutters darkly Sheryl (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
3:26 pm	Which Christian Church Father Are You? You’re St. Justin Martyr! You have a positive and hopeful attitude toward the world. You think that nature, history, and even the pagan philosophers were often guided by God in preparation for the Advent of the Christ. You find “seeds of the Word” in unexpected places. You’re patient and willing to explain the faith to unbelievers. Find out which Church Father you are at The Way of the Fathers! Also, it's Play-Doh Day, so I'm going to force my kids to get out the colorful gunk and play with it. I'm a cruel mom. Sheryl (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
3:32 pm	Book Memes 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline (or mark in a different color) the books you LOVE 4) Reprint this list in your blog. The premise of this exercise is supposed to be that the (American) National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below, however nothing on the NEA's website discusses that. Interesting list, anyhow, if oddly quirky.. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling. 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee. 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte. Hated it with a passion, and read it twice, the second time because I was convinced it couldn't have been as bad as I thought. Yah, it pretty much was… 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. - read a fair bit of it but nowhere near all. 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier - started it once but thought the Hitchcock movie far superior 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. - I think… 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 When I was in grade school. First book I read with such a downer ending. 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown. - Started it once, but the prose is unreadable, IMHO 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins. Read and liked his The Moonstone 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 - Read great chunks of it but haven't read it cover-to-cover 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 - read most of it. Supposedly still reading it, but I'm not sure where it's got to. Probably would have liked it better if I hadn't seen half a zillion movie versions. 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</b>. 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker In the Minneapolis Airport when I was stuck there for a day. Thought it awfully hard on the male half of the species. 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert Read it twice, once for school and once for kicks. Didn't think much of it the first time but it moved up a few notches on the second reading. 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. 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 Read it any number of times, and have seen a couple different versions of the play (most of the plays I've read I haven't seen) 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo. THE ACTUAL NEA LIST (which they are slowly expanding I think) ( Lot fewer familiar ones on this list, at least in my experience... ) http://www.neabigread.org/books.php (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
3:18 pm	Happy Lincoln's birthday and Log Cabin Day! The Log Cabin Society of Michigan (not associated with the Log Cabin Society of gay Republicans, so far as I know) has been lobbying for a log cabin stamp for a decade plus, to no avail, but next year we'll have Lincoln pennies with Log Cabins on them, which I think is kinda cool. http://log-homes.thefuntimesguide.com/2008/04/log_cabin_penny_stamp.php ( Foodie stuff ) ( Family stuff ) Sheryl Current Music: Sandra Boynton, "Cows" from my Xmas gift album (Comment on this)
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
3:14 pm	Frank Lloyd Wright ( FLW stuff ) And while I'm talking keen architecture, might as well post a link to pics of some of Earl Young's "mushroom homes" (more recently called "hobbit homes," although they lack the round doors) in Charlevoix, MI that hubby and I checked up while up there in November. Hubby has some good pics, too, that maybe I should link to sometime, but while his are better in terms of details, these were taken in the summer while ours were taken of places prepared for a winter right off the lake, so much of the landscapes were not just winter dormant but covered over and strapped down... http://www.interestingideas.com/roadside/charlevoix/index.html Sheryl Current Music: eldest daughter's muzak - Medwin, I think (Comment on this)
10:28 am	Those crazy Indianans... On this day in 1897, Taylor I. Record, on behaf of Dr. Edwin J. Goodwin, M.D., tried to convince the Indiana government to declare the value of pi as 3.2 exactly. It passed in the house on Feb. 5, but a Purdue mathematics professor, Clarence A. Waldo, convinced the Senate that this was a bad iea, so the bill has been postponed since Feb. 12, 1987. Yesterday was "Spoiled Cat Day", which I forgot, but when I said as much, second son asked, "Well, how would you celebrate it anyhow? Every day we spoil the cats." True enough, around here, anyhow... Today is International Disaster Day, which I have been celebrating by reviewing old Berrien County disasters. Most of which aren't likely to occur again - horribly fatal train wrecks aren't nearly so common as they once were, and there are no more daily boats transferring people from St. Joe to Chicago. An Amtrak from Michigan ran into a frieght train in 2007, though, so it's not like accidents aren't still happening - they're just less disastrous around here than they once were. Sheryl (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
1:26 pm	Avoiding Chores My hip is bugging me. I have no idea what I did to it. Pastor's sermon last night could have been written just for me. Freaky. ( Kid's books ) It's Four Chaplins Memorial Day. http://www.homeofheroes.com/brotherhood/chaplains.html On a more frivolous note, it's also Cordova Ice Worm Day. In the land of the pale blue snow where its ninety nine below And the polar bears are dancing o'er the plain. In the shadow of the pole, I'll clasp her to my soul To be married when the ice worms nest again. Robert W. Service When The Ice Worms Nest Again I think I'll skip the Ice Worm Cocktail and go make myself some Russian Tea. Which is made with Tang and I suspect no Russian would have a thing to do with it, but we used to drink in in Charlotte, NC for some reason - don't remember mom making it the years before in Michigan or the years after in Colorado, just in Charlotte. Sheryl (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
3:23 pm	Poetry Saturday You know those kinds of poems that are evocative and full of stunner imagery and just generally great? These two aren't anything like those. ( To His Iron-Clad Mistress ) ( Valentine's Card for the man in your life ) Sheryl (Comment on this)
Friday, January 30th, 2009
11:18 am	What Hubby's Up To Hubby finally sent me a link to his blog. The picture of the ice on the car is pretty cool, I thought. He does not, however, mention that I did the museum question "the easy way" first off, which he didn't think of until I complained of his approach. Humph. He also advertises the fact that the speed limit is optional for yours truly, which many already knew... http://thosegeekythings.blogspot.com/ ( Barley Breakfast food from Taste of Home ) ( This Day in Science History ) Happy Fun at Work Day! Sheryl Current Music: soundtrack to "Escape From New York" (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
8:55 pm	In Recovery From Hospital Food... Hubby is trying to get middle daughter off the computer - daughter is playing Sims II. "Get off the computer." "I can't, dad, she has to do her homework." "It's just a computer game. OFF!" "But she won't do her homework, and SHE HAS TO DO HER HOMEWORK. So I CAN'T." Punctuated with pathetic sob at the end. At which point hubby cracked up. Took a bit of "step away from your perceptions and try mine on for a minute" talk for middle daughter to appreciate the joke. ( What do you mean I'm pregnant? ) ( Healthy recipe ) ( Totally NOT healthy recipe ) Sheryl (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
8:33 pm	Dunno if it's me but sure think it's purty... Your rainbow is strongly shaded violet.               What is says about you: You are a creative person. You appreciate beauty and craftsmanship. You are patient and will keep trying to understand something until you've mastered it. Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com. Sheryl (Comment on this)
Friday, November 21st, 2008
3:39 pm	Jane Austen Invented Baseball Also, the Marvel stuff is hilarious. The Pope stuff he starts out with I didn't think nearly so good as the other two... but I'm not Catholic while I am fairly rabid about Jane and comics. http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php/weblog/comments/jane-austen-invented-baseball/#com You may have to scan up for the video. And if that link doesn't work - the entry takes a while to download for me, no idea why since I'd think there's less to it than to the main page - try the main index, in which case you'll have to scan down: http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php There aren't any particularly brilliant comments to it there at this point anyhow. In other news... I'm fighting the flu and getting nothing done except surfing. Bleah. Good thing I did a month's worth of assignments for the older two for homeschool so they're covered through next week. Sheryl (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, July 18th, 2008
9:23 pm	Kenshin the Catastrophic Cat, aka Goodbye Decorating Budget Starscream the impossible had a vet appointment Tuesday but we couldn't catch her. She is the most cuddlesome thing when she is indoors - she'll spend the day curled up on a bed with Rita or me and purrs constantly when held - but when outdoors she will not come within four feet of a human unless you sneak up and pet her while she's eating, at which point she'll complain and scamper off. It's like flipping a switch - she'll be lolling happily in your arms until you walk through the door, then it's all "Evil Human, put me down!" But if you put her down she then follows you everywhere begging pitifully for attention but running off if you head in her direction. Moron. Anyhow, I totally spaced her appointment for a booster last Friday, then when I rescheduled we couldn't catch her so I took Ken in to get caught up on his shots so we'd at least make use of the appointment rather than bail again. And of course the vet gave him a good looking over, and within a minute or two of commenting, "This if my favorite of your cats; isn't he the one who required massive surgery?" the vet discovered that Ken had a recently cracked tooth. This is of course an uncommon issue with cats - dogs, now, will crack teeth chomping on stuff, but most cats are brighter than that. But of course the adventurous Ken, while smart enough, is not most cats. *sigh* ( Budget compromises and stuff ) Make a note: Celestial Seasonings Lies Lies Lies when they call one of their teas "Chocolate Caramel Enchantment." Carob is NOT chocolate. Bleah. Sheryl Current Music: Tears for Fears "The Hurting" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
12:01 am	Where's the Joss Wheadon love? One Week Only! No one on my friend's list is talking about Joss Wheadon's current Evil Plot, complete with Master Plan. A mini series which comes with a deadline, no less (although I would assume people will float copies, because it's getting good reviews.) Does no one care anymore? Poor lad. Mind you, I haven't watched it yet myself. :o Anyhow. Joss Wheadon's new series, coming out this week (three episodes), gone as of midnight Sunday. Get it while you can. http://drhorrible.com/index.html Sheryl (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
2:16 pm	Nothin' too thrillin'... 79 As a 1930s wife, I am Very Superior Take the test! Totally need to get hubby to take this... Sheryl (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
10:17 pm	I am most irate ( Ticked with middle daughter's teacher ) (3 Comments |Comment on this)