Posted in Around Town, Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes on Nov 6th, 2009 No Comments »
The library had a book sale and I went and spent five bucks and got lots of books. So today I’m also thankful for book sales and the libraries that put them on.
Posted in All About Words, Gabrielle, Poems and Stories, Rants & Rambles on Nov 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
(There is a good chance that this will come out completely wrong and will somehow sound like heresy. I mean no disrespect and certainly no heresy so just bear with me.)
I recently wrote my very first short story. According to standards I read on the Internet (insert snarky Internet comment here) what I’ve written previously [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Rants & Rambles, Thoughts About Beauty, Thoughts About Heaven on Oct 19th, 2009 7 Comments »
It’s always a frightening thing to reread a book you haven’t read for a while. We change so much sometimes in just a few years that a book that was once the beginning and end of catharsis for our emotional state is just whiny and dumb. The character who’d once stood on the pedestal of [...]
Posted in Around Town, Books, Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes on Sep 17th, 2009 7 Comments »
Yesterday being our weekly library day I found myself at the library (weird, I know). In the midst of trying to find something for Samuel that took far too long to find and then ended up being not what he’d wanted I stumbled on a book called Dr. Suess Goes to War. It is a [...]
Posted in Friends & Family, Life, Children and Dishes, Quotes, Raquel on Sep 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
This morning started well. The day didn’t look so hard, and even Theresa being gone with three of the older children all afternoon, there should be plenty of time for me to work on homework for my medical terminology class. I had visions of finding time to bake bread, and definitely to continue my [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Reviews on Aug 5th, 2009 2 Comments »
My brother Jonathan loves me. I know he loves me because he convinced me to go see the 6th Harry Potter movie with him. I had seen movies 1-3 and then sworn off all Harry Potter movies because I just didn’t like the third one so much. But Jonathan said he’d buy my ticket to [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, I learned something new today, Life, Children and Dishes, Reviews on Jul 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
Up until very recently I would have told you that my geekness had reached its zenith. My geek cred had risen to a point and then begun to fall as I surrounded myself with people far geekier than I. I used to consider myself a top-notch geek, but then I met some others and discovered [...]
Posted in All About Words, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles, Raquel on Jul 8th, 2009 3 Comments »
Last night at Tuesday Night Dinner (also known as Wednesday Night Dinner on Tuesday) a discussion broke out about ‘christian’ words, and what they mean the way people really talk. I thought of this again this morning as I was trying to formulate an update on twitter.
See, this morning I woke up in [...]
Posted in Books, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Rants & Rambles on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Our playtesting group was recently testing a roleplaying game called Agora. You each play a faction who made it to the planet Agora during a big war. As soon as you get there the orders come through that there’s been a truce of sorts so just stay where you are and try to build a [...]
Posted in All About Words, For Amusement Purposes Only, Gabrielle, Life, Children and Dishes, Not Much of Anything on Apr 27th, 2009 2 Comments »
I was very excited earlier today. My sister had sent me a picture that sparked a story thought in my head. I got the first few sentences and had a beginning so I quickly sat down and started typing it out. Yes, yes, I thought, And where does it go from there? Ah, I answered [...]