Valentines, Lupercalia and chocolate.

20 year of not celebrating Valentine's Day - because it is the other 7,280 days that count ;)

True love is that part that involves more garden projects than roses, more paperwork than pastel cards, more budget meals than dinners out, and more fights and making up than heart shaped chocolates.

A Happy Lupercalia to you all.

Superbowl offenses

Superbowl and sexism, lots of Twitter on #notbuyingit !

The top offenders were Go Daddy, Fiat and Teleflora. Chevy got an honorable mention.

To view the ads from yesterday's game go HERE.

Advertising Executives are 95% male. And bitter and repressed apparently. 

cat yoga

The cat is asleep in a shoe box on my desk. If I move the shoe box from her spot she sits on whatever important file is sitting there and stares me down. 

After the sun comes up she will want her box carried to the window for early morning birding.

She has also taken up yoga. I find her laying in the sun on the yoga mat all stretched out in a pose with her head on the foam block used for more advanced stretches. It is hard to admit the cat has advanced in yoga further than I have.

I have not yet discovered how those scratches got on the Pilates ball.

makeup, mirrors and hair, oh my

Why is there MORE conflict now, with 2.5 bathrooms, than there ever was before with only 1 bathroom.

DH jokes that he wanted one child and I wanted two, so we "compromised."

Had I known then what I know now I would have let him win that one.

Two teenage girls in the morning in the bathroom. 'nuf said.

silver lining on cloudy days

I keep thinking that I got paint in my hair, but we have not painted anything silver.

There are just a few strands, right at the part and bangs, and they sparkle in the sunlight.

* Bam * I am going to own these silver hairs babe!

I grew the highlights out of my hair for my 40th birthday. I use to be blonde. I figured at 40 I needed to be myself and stop trying to be someone I thought everyone expected me to be.

internet social networking and teens

So, I have been baffled by the teens who claim over a thousand "friends" on Facebook. According to Facebook, the average user has 130 friends. What does this say about today's young people and their relationships?

 Rosalind Wiseman does an excellent job explaining the issue of internet social networking on today's schools and teens in her latest edition of Queen Bees Wannabees. During a recent parent meeting, I was really very pleased to hear the level of awareness of the administration at the girls' new school. They stated that most conflicts in the school originate from Facebook.

 Opinions? How does FB affect your your child? Your classroom? Your 24/7 reporting? Your relationships?