>so today the girls and I went to the dairy store for icecream treats and then cut through the agriculture building to get to engineering to get scott. anyhow, as we were walking through the agriculture building i noted that there was a wall in the hallway with a ton of pictures on it. Im looking at it thinking, wow thats a lot of white men on this wall – where are the women and people of color in MSU agriculture? I dont say anything but keep walking. Bee is walking about 10 feet behind me and Franks and when she gets to the pictures, she says, hey mommy, look. man. man. man. man. man.man. man. man. man. man.man. man. man. man. man. lady? mommy, where are the other ladies?

>I recently discovered dark chocolate M&Ms. I understand that they must be heart healthy, right? When we were in japan i bought dark chocolate kit kat bars (the 4 fingers). Ive been looking for those ever since. If anyone can find them here (US) for me, I will give you a prize! honest!! I just love those things!

>we may have gotten another 4 inches of snow last night but the extended forecast shows that we will get to 50 on march 12!!! I wonder what scott’s rule will say to that?? Which reminds me of a wager scott and i have going: What day do we think the big snow piles from plowing the parking lots at school will be completely melted. they are about 6 feet tall or so.

>so the girls and i went to the store yesterday to buy pea seeds, sprinkles, tissues and chocolate chips…. and we came home with about 6 bags of groceries and forgot to get the tissues. I swear I dont know what happened in that store. We did get the party hats that Bee has been asking to wear since it turned march. She picked out red ones with colorful polkadots and frankie picked out Diego hats. So as you can see bee’s birthday month has just kicked in another notch.

>There is nothing like the pure unadulterated enjoyment of an icecream cone. Seriously, I do not want to dilute the joy this moment brought us.

>So next weekend we ‘spring forward’ with the time changes. March 11 this year. Today in mid michigan, the sunrise and sunset are set for:

Sunrise: 7:10 AM EST

Sunset: 6:29 PM EST

So next weekend, springing forward, and factoring in about 20 more minutes of daylight (a minute at each end a day) we will be at:

Sunrise: 8am
Sunset: 7:40 pm

Maybe this is because my formative years were spent in the eastern end of the timezone… but dark at 8am and light at 8pm? that is just plain weird. I think scott is right when he says that 8am is the new 7am (in mid michigan anyway)!!

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Boy in the plastic bubble. he was my friend. Until the end.

Love that song. I was thinking of watching that movie this weekend. I just found it in the TV cabinet. Got to love 70s vintage travolta.

>Ao one of my new years resolutions is to do push ups every morning. so I can do 16 on a good day but most days average about 12 or 13. Last night I dreamed I could 25 pushups and it was easy. a breeze. what the heck does that mean? I dont think it means like I feel like i can do anything as my life is feeling a wee bit out of control right now. any other thoughts?

>’nuff said. carry on.

colleen – hope y’all made it home last night in one piece. we thought of you at 10pm and wondered.
Kevin, there is left over saag if you want it. LOL.

>so the polling website i used generates a map so you can see where the votes come from. it showed votes from lansing and kalamazoo… hmmm… but then it showed san diego. boy am I confused. no votes from new mexico, illinois, kansas or virginia. weird. OK, so Im gonna do another poll just for the heck of it!!

As you know Koompa’s centurian b=day party is coming up this summer. What should the theme be???