happy stuff.

a co-worker at the library introduced me to book worm at www.popcap.com. it fulfills my word-building urges that i normally have to wait until i can find a boggle or quiddler partner to satisfy. and i can play it all by myself. also at work, i learned today about “guess the google”. that’s a fun [...]

i like this poem. i haven’t ever found anything quite that titillating, but i have, as a librarian, found lots of things in books. mostly snapshots of random people’s backyards or other innocuous scenes, pharmacy reciepts, copies of tax papers…. once, we found a three page letter written by a woman to a man that [...]

so i finally caved in and signed up for my own ebay account this evening and as i dutifully read through the fine print (ever since watching the original willy wonka movie, i read the fine print–if you don’t know what i’m talking about, watch the movie!), i noticed this sentence, which i’ve edited, but [...]

i just recently realized that there are still lessons that i learned from my parents that i specifically remember learning. here are two from my dad in the kitchen: –one day, he left me in charge of supper which was cooking in the crockpot. he told me to turn the crockpot off when the meat [...]

no, not together. i’m just excited because i made my own homemade yogurt and i am trying my second pickling experience this weekend. i was pretty sure the yogurt wasn’t going to work because my oven was too hot, but it did end up setting up quite nicely. it’s terrific with yogurt, but it’s still [...]

today was the (first annual?) madison mennonite mini-triathlon at devil’s lake. i organized it in about two weeks (it was very informal and low-key) with some help from a friend who just moved up and is still job-hunting and looking for projects to keep her busy (she picked up some of the freebies i discovered). [...]

last night, i went to see cycropia for the second time (in three years) at the orton park festival. this is the group that people casually refer to as, “oh, those people who fly around in the trees?” because that is what they do. they hook up trapeze bars in a sprawling tree right there [...]

things that made me happy at the farmer’s market today: the local piccolo player playing the sesame street theme song. there’s just something inherently happy about that tune for me. a guy walking around with a large, red parrot (or was it a macaw?) on his hand. he was talking to it and it was [...]

i love seeing examples of other people’s creativity. here’s a recent example from one of my favorite sites to peruse occasionally. their tagline is “no tea cozies without irony.” just looking at their site makes me want to go make something.

does this link work for you? i ran across this article today at work and it cracked me up. maybe non-children’s librarians won’t be amused, but…it’s funny ‘cuz it’s true!