Happy Familyversary msbelle and Mac!

I have a meeting scheduled from noon to 3 p.m. today and we're all hoping it's actually finished by 4 p.m. I prayed for a snow day today, but Snow Miser denied me.

Happy msbelle and mac Day!!! (My boss, who has adopted 2 girls from Guatemala, calls the day she met her daughters "Gotcha! Day" and also "Family Day.")

Proof that buffistaness is in the genes.

How did she get so big?!? It's unpossible!

My Christian Celtic punk band did a cover of "Three" years ago and it's a classic in my house.

The above sentence pretty much epitomizes why Liese (and her SO) KICK ASS.

Happy Uranian Equinox!

The last time Uranus experienced an equinox, planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel was in Kindergarten.

This time, at age 47, she is at the forefront of discoveries about its atmosphere and climate.

The reason Uranus' equinox is of such importance to Dr. Hammel and her fellow planetary astronomers is the planet's unusual inclination, 98 degrees, which means that its poles point nearly directly toward or away from the Sun at solstice, giving Uranus the most extreme seasonal changes in solar illumination by far among the other worlds of the Solar System.

Dr. Hammel has actually been studying the Uranian equinox for the past few years. The exact date is December 7, 2007, but the planet's long orbital period--about 84 years--means that it has been essentially in equinox for many months. Changes that take place on in a day on Earth take nearly three Earth months to unfold on Uranus. It's been the climatic equivalent of mid-September on Uranus since 2005.

We call Gotcha Day the day our case got through court and it was legal - that is in November.

Anyone know of any actor/athlete/etc. types who are young, blond, and handsome in a pretty-boy, not-too-bright way? This year the man-paper for my RWA Christmas party is turning into a collage of my WIP, and I've got not one but two actors apiece for my two bad-ass warrior male leads (one is Nathan Fillion with a touch of Sean Bean, the other Alexis Denisof with a trace of Christopher Eccleston), but I'd like to find someone to represent my pretty boy 19th century cabana boy who dies at the end of Book One.

Susan, how about Ryan Carnes? [link]

I love the idea of Gotcha Day. Happy msbelle and mac-iversary!

So, Noah, bless his heart, woke up at 3:00 AM. But wasn't fussy or mad or anything else. I only got him out of the crib because I was already up with insomnia. I fed him some and put him back in the crib. Where Little Man remained, nary a complaint, awake with his mobile and his stuffed animal for entertainment until 5:30, when K and I woke up again and got him.

Chris Carmack does have that Hi, I'm Beefcake! look down.

Though he still looks disturbingly like the central casting version of my high school friend Jeff.

I've got to stop falling asleep on my couch and staying there all night. It gives me a crick in my neck and doesn't get me completely rested. At least getting up early meant that I was able to get my laundry done this morning and clean the six inches of snow off my car before getting in on time.

Now, I just have to hope that they don't need me at the bookstore tonight (I'm on call, which means I have to call in two hours beforehand), so I can finally put up the tree that I meant to put up last night but slept instead.

Though he still looks disturbingly like the central casting version of my high school friend Jeff.

Sooo... what's Jeff doin' these days? He seein' anyone?

I'm starving. I'm a hungry hungry hippo. Where's Seymour? He needs to feed me.