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Archive for March, 2004
Why I’ll be the one to teach Andy to drive.
Thursday, March 25th, 2004iTunes
Thursday, March 25th, 2004I registered for iTunes a few months ago. I admit before the RIAA started lawsuits against 12 year olds and grandmas we were using Kazaa, and I managed to get quite a stash of songs collected. Almost all are songs I actually own in other formats- mostly impossible to rip cassettes and near impossible to rip LPs and 45s. So I don’t feel too bad about using Kazaa to get them digitized.
But we have kids, we need to be a good influence, so now I use iTunes. This is way too easy. I sat here one day and spent three hours clicking around and buying songs. I only spent $18, but of course half of that was songs I own already on those hard to rip LPs. Which drives Pat nuts. But he’s the one who hasn’t set things up so we can use the expensive ripping software I bought to rip those LPs! So it’s not my fault.
But I promise not to buy the number 5 listed download today- William Hung doing She Bangs. Just goes to show how far the value of 99 cents has fallen.
Tuesday is Memesday
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004
1. “pop” or “soda”? Soda. Pop is what you do to balloons.
2. chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate. Never got the point of vanilla.
3. potato or rice? Potato generally, but I like rice too, mmm, this is a hard one.
4. coffee or tea? Coffee. No contest.
5. cell phone or email? Email, but now that I have a new cellphone that I’m lovin’, that may change.
Brr, this is spring?
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004It’s too damn cold for tball! I’m still warming up from only 45 minutes of watching them practice.
They really were cute, though. They’re always cute at first. Most of the kids on the team (if not all) are younger than Tim. It’s gonna be a loooong season.
Little League… we’re ba-ack!
Monday, March 22nd, 2004Seems like all the the other mommies in the blogosphere are getting into spring sports, and I’m not far behind. Tim’s first t-ball practice is tomorrow evening, and Nick starts soccer in a couple weeks. Timmy’s going to be one of the Big Boys in t-ball. Used to be back when Nick was in kgarten that all the kgarteners played t-ball, but now they move most of them up (via tryouts) if they’re 6 years old and have a year of t-ball behind them. Tim didn’t play last year, so he really needs a year of t-ball to get his feet wet before coach pitch (which quickly becomes machine and player pitch as the season goes on). But it’s cool, Tim isn’t the type of kid who gets wrapped up in that stuff, he’ll play with whoever he’s with. Or not!
We’ve been out of Little League for a couple years, since Andy aged out and Nick decided to stick with hockey and now soccer. It’ll be fun to start going to the fields again (especially if the weather warms up!) It’s kind of the social hub around here, you always find someone to talk to. It’ll be nice not to have a little one to drag along like I had to when Andy & Nick were playing, too. I can relax, have my coffee. It’s a nice place to be, the mom of Big Kids.
Snow day?
Friday, March 19th, 2004We got more snow last night. TPTB decided to cancel school, even though the new snow and half the old snow from the other day was melted by noon. Luckily the kids have kept busy.
Nick went to his friend’s house, they’re trying to start a band (these are 5th graders.) How cool! He came home saying he’ll be playing either electric or acoustic guitar, nevermind the fact that he’s never played (he’s taking trombone lessons now and had piano lessons for a couple years.) I pointed out that our keyboard takes batteries and it’s portable so maybe he could be the keyboard player, and he liked that idea. Somehow I’ll get this kid back into piano lessons! He has a great ear and likes to mess around on it. He picked out a big chunk of Coldplay’s Clocks by ear and it sounds great. He just chafes at the idea of the lessons, but likes learning trombone so he can play in the school band.
Paid a huge batch o’bills today, yuck. Our tax refund got direct deposited this morning, and it immediately went to pay down the credit cards. Sigh.
More on mommies
Thursday, March 18th, 2004The Cost of Starting Families First
Found this at Time Mag, too. It was published about two years ago. Premium content so I’ll c/p the relevant part (relevant to me anyway, as someone who had her babies at 26, 29 & 34 years old.)
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