what is karen currently reading

today we start a new feature called "what is karen currently reading?"

not that i really expect any of you to care what i'm currently reading - but it's another insight into my goofy little brain.

so here goes. karen is currently reading "following foo: (the electronic adventures of the Chestnut Man) " by bd wong. the actor. from law and order. and oz. and father of the bride. who i met a month or so ago.

the gift that keeps on giving....

i'm pretty much better.

jeff's got it now...

christmas eve 2006

i have the stomach flu. so does mom. we both got it at the same time - so we aren't sure who passed the germ.

i'm totally miserable....

thanks st. nick

THIS JUST IN

the title of the next harry potter book has been released!!

karen's top five christmas songs

5. The Twisted Chimpmunk Song

4. Walking Around in Women's Underwear

3. The Twelve Pains of Christmas

2. The Chimney Song

1. The Hippopotomus Song

AHH! the smilies!!!

my coworker gave me this tree for christmas today. she has these dots on her office wall and there's a yellow one that i've told her needs a happy face. she won't let me put one on there though. then i told her about my friend rob and how i used to draw them on his shoes and how we hunt out cards full of happy faces for each others birthdays....

traditions never die...

nina's annual birthday visit with santa....

happy birf-day nina!

my baby's nine today. i'm so depressed...

zzzzzz

early morning meetings after late nights of putting together materials for your daughter's school's direct appeal campaign is icky....

latest million dollar money making idea...

this one is way better than the heated gas station...

it's a brain wave conductor that you put on your head at night. it attaches to a small ipod like device that records transcripts of all those crazy thoughts and wonderful ideas and drafts of letters and work related things that seem to interupt your thoughts as you're trying to fall asleep at night so that you don't lose them when you wake up. in the morning - you just attach the ipod thingie to your computer and download your transcripts and viola! you'll work way more effectively...

it will also have feature to activate that will allow it to turn off once you fall asleep - because who really wants a transcript of their dreams? especially if you have wacky dreams all the time like me....

i call it - the ibrainrecorder. cause you have to have i in front of the name for it to be a success.

i plan to follow it up with a model that will program someone to do all of your chores when you think of them. like laying in bed and you remember that you forgot to take the clothes out of the washer. it will send a message to someone else so that they have to do it right away so it doesn't get forgotten...

i really think i'm on to something...

cause it's been awhile...

i know i'm down here in the basement and i'm supposed to be workin on my epiphany campaign stuff and all - but i have to get this out of my system...

ICKY CHRISTOPHER HAYDEN - YOU ARE GOING DOWN!!!!

*does a happy little "loralei and luke shared a tender moment and loralei and chris got into an argument and luke wooped icky christopher's boot-tay" dance*

hey - who has time to have a life when you're trying to raise $100,000 before january??

it's official...

nina has the day off tomorrow because we've had sleet all day - have about an inch and a half of ice on the ground - and snow is supposed to be coming in after midnight. i'll be staying home with her and the critters...

i think we'll put up our tree....

gingerbread houses...

i so totally think i should try to replicate this for a decoration for our house...

anyone know how i can make it last forever to make it an effective part of my collection??

chris and amy's wedding...

for those of you who know chris and amy - here are pictures from their wedding this past weekend...

back to the grind...

tuesday morning and i'm back at work...

we had a nice time in kc for the wedding (pictures will be coming). the hotel was crawling with cheerleaders because the regional competition was in town. the hair alone was scary. and conversations you never want to hear in the starbucks line include the words "do you wear underwear under your spankies?" 2 of them crashed the wedding reception too.

black friday shopping went great. i got everything that i went for. including a used pink nintendo ds lite for nina. picked up the hannah montana game and a mario gameboy advance game to test it to make sure it works. and it does. as a matter of fact - i'm on level 3 in hannah montana. :D

happy birthday to my daddy. he's 59 today - not that he'd admit it. i think they ran away to north carolina this week on purpose so we couldn't acknowledge his birthday...

happy turkey day!

Taken from Adam's Family Values...

Eat us. Hey! It's Thanksgiving day!

Eat us. We make a nice buffet.

We lost the race with Farmer Ed - Eat us 'cause we're good and dead!

White man or red man from East, North,or South - chop off our legs and put 'em in your mouth.

Eat me!

Sauteed or barbecued.

Eat me!

We once were pets, but now we're food.

We won't stay fresh for very long so eat us before we finish this song.

Eat us before we finish this song!

i'm just not ready for this...

nina is going to be nine in less than a month.

she says she wants a bra. all the other girls have them. even the loner. except for the bully. the bully doesn't have one. but the cool girl has one. having a bra will make her cool too, she says.

she really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really wants a bra. please please please.

please.

and yet her christmas list also includes barbies, brats, and american girl stuff. and a bra.

i really wasn't expecting this fight for another year. bras don't make you cool. trust me. i'm not cool. i've been wearing one since i was 11.

i told her if she could ask santa for a bra when we went to see him and he brought her one - she could wear it.

funny. she still believes in santa. but she wants a bra. seems like it really wasn't too long ago that santa brought her pull ups cause she was ready to use the potty. i'm not sure santa's ready to send her the puperty message....

filming at du bourg??

i found out that a major motion picture has been being filmed in bishop du bourg high school. david eckstein's wife is in it. it's called alice. stars luke perry. and should be released in march.

and they have been filming at du bourg? why du bourg?? what's so special about du bourg???

it's hardly movie appropriate....

oh computer geek friends?

can someone explain the difference between the nintendo ds, the gameboy advance, and the gameboy micro? i'm so confused....

oh writers of gilmore girls???

what in the h - e - double hockey sticks do you think you are doing?? loralie and icky christopher are NOT supposed to get married and live happily ever after. he's an ex. exes are exes for a reason people! has my life history of men taught you NOTHING?

and i can't BELIEVE she would get married without rory there. that's just so wrong. i don't care if it was paris with lights and eiffel towers and bad accents and comfy beds and croissants. no daughter. no wedding. it's a life rule or something!

if this causes another mother/daughter rift - i'm gonna be super not happy.

and lane pregnant with twins? i have a really bad feeling about her pregnancy. like she's going to have a miscarriage or something...

grr. icky christopher...