March 2012
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Spelling
Each week, Aidan brings home a sheet of spelling words he needs to study for a test on Friday. Sarah likes to practice along with him. Or even when he's not around.
Sarah: I want to take a spelling test.
Me: I don't know where Aidan's spelling words are.
Sarah: I want to take a spelling test.
Kathy: You don't need the sheet, you know.
Me: Oh. Okay. Can you spell dog?
Sarah: Umm....M-O-T-U-V.
Me: Great! Can you spell cat?
Sarah: Umm...M-O-T-U-V
Me: That's great, Sarah.
Sarah: I want another one.
Me: Can you spell motuv?
Sarah: Umm...M-O-T-U-V
Me: What a great job!
February 2012
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Aidan wasn't feeling well today
He stayed home from school.
I’m trying to convince Kathy to write on his excuse note for tomorrow that he stayed home because February 29 isn’t a real day, and there can be no grounds for compulosry attendance on such a day.
She’s giving me resistance.
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WatchRussian cannibal Validimir Nikolayev
I gave some meat to one of my friends. He took it home and gave it to his wife. She made dumplings with it. She had some herself and fed it to her children. Well, I said it was kangaroo. We don’t have kangaroos around here. They didn’t know what it was.
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Man arrested and strip searched after his... →
Oh, Canada
KITCHENER — A Kitchener father is upset that police arrested him at his children’s’ school Wednesday, hauled him down to the station and strip-searched him, all because his four-year-old daughter drew a picture of a gun at school.
But, it wasn’t just the picture that got him arrested.
The detective told him that his four-year-old daughter had drawn a picture of a man...
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Sometimes I wonder whether Oddibe McDowell pays...
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Sam Adams is brewing special beer for the Boston... →
“This unique brew is fitting for both runners and spectators on race day.”
That should make for quite a race.
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Rep. Bob Morris: Girl Scouts have 'radical... →
Check out all the crazy in this letter from Indiana State Representative Bob Morris, R-Fort Wayne, to his fellow lawmakers regarding his opposition to a nonbinding resolution to honor the Girl Scouts of America on the occasion of their 100th anniversary.
This past week I was asked to sign a House Resolution recognizing the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouts of America. After talking to some ...
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Why did the chicken cross the playground?
To get to the other slide.
Wareham firefighters rescue chicken from icy... →
I am disappointed that there are no photos or videos to accompany this story.
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Fun Fact
When my mother remarried, my stepfather already owned a golden retriever, also named Jenny. We started calling them Big Jenny and Little Jenny.
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“To get around these difficulties, the scientists developed and demonstrated a...”
– New method for making human-based gelatin
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Happy Valentine's Day
(sqrt(cos(x))*cos(400*x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.4)*(4-x*x)^0.1
It's just a big Lego set, really.
We got a small TV stand at Ikea today. When I took the pieces out of the box, Aidan asked if he could help put it together. He ended up doing the entire thing himself, except for tightening a few difficult screws.
This is why I had kids, people.
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Want Medicaid? Ditch the Vanity Plate →
In addition to wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the Mississippi legislature would also like to prevent Medicaid recipients from getting vanity license plates. Presumably because 1) this is somehow a problem and 2) this is apparently such a huge problem in Mississippi that it needs to be legislated.
From the Jackson Free Press:
Other legislators have targeted specific...
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You need to teach them right.
Sarah (pointing to Kathy's beer bottle): Who's that?
Kathy: That's Sam Adams. He's just a guy.
Me: Um... he was a brewer and a patriot.
“A year ago, Ohio ranked 48th in job creation. We trailed only Michigan and...”
– Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in his 2012 State of the State address. (h/t Emily Steiger for the submission)
“Wackadoodles”
(via discoverynews)
Yep.
(via marleymarley)
I’m glad I didn’t listen to this because:
12,600 words? Holy crap. The guy rambled for 80 minutes.
“You...
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