Well, I intended to do a Seven Things post and had actually been working on it earlier in the week (imagine that!), but then life happened and we ended up at the Emergency Room last night with poor Mags who’s got a UTI. It was as pleasant as you can imagine and we didn’t make it home until well after 3 am…which is why I’m posting this now.
These were our medicinal highlights:
Aaaaaanyway, here are some of the things that went on this week…I hope you had a good one!
1.) Everett can sit in a high chair now. I’m not sure how I feel about it, so I’m going to pretend it’s not happening.
2.) I’m in pre-Lent training and have decided to really limit my phone usage. I got creeped out the other day because I woke up early to get things done and somehow managed to spend over an hour looking at Facebook. I’m a firm believer that great things come from social media. However, I’d be lying if I told you my obsession with “missing out” on something didn’t severely hamper the amount of time and focus I spend on my children. And that’s just pathetic.
You may remember that I attempted to limit my media use during Advent, as well, which was fair-to-middlin’ (oh, yes I did just quote the Oregon Trail CD Rom game I had growing up), but I’m going to be more specific in regards to Lent. So, my specific intentions are to take the Facebook app off of my phone, make the Pinterest app harder to find, and replace them with Daily Reading and Rosary type tools.
So far I’ve been fairly unsuccessful. Facebook usage is down, but Pinterest and Instagram usage are at an all-time high. I may have to get drastic and just pull the entire plug come Lent. Clearly self control isn’t my strong suit.
What are you planning for Lent? Do you give something up or take something on?
3.) Some of you may remember that I work part-time as a Children’s Librarian. That mainly consists of reading awesome books to awesome kids, creating awesome Pinterest crafts with awesome kids, and practicing for awesome puppet shows. As you can see, things are pretty much awesome. However, the other portion of my job is to answer reference questions over the phone. What kinds of questions do people call the library for, you ask? Here’s just a sampling of the questions I answered in the last week or so:
- What is the definition of “frontier” and how does is relate to Star Trek, i.e. Space: The Final Frontier? Answer:
fron·tierˌfrənˈti(ə)r, nounnoun: frontier; plural noun: frontiers
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a line or border separating two countries.
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the district near a border separating two countries.
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the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness, esp. referring to the western US before Pacific settlement.
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the extreme limit of understanding or achievement in a particular area.
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“the success of science in extending the frontiers of knowledge”
- Lordy be, do I really have to explain this in relation to Star Trek??
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- Where are the two highest rated veggie burgers in Cleveland? Answer: Town Hall and BRGR 9.
- I saw a movie on TV and didn’t see the title. It was with Andie MacDowell and she was an American and fell in love with this English guy and her friends told her not to marry him but she did but then she was pregnant at the wedding…what was that movie? The cable company gave me the title, but it can’t be right. Answer: The cable company was right, that movie is called Women and Men: Part 2 and no, the patron didn’t believe me, either.
- How much is an original copy of Around the World in Twenty-Eight Days worth? Answer: Apparently not enough.
- I was cooking some burgers in a pan and, once some had cooked, I added more raw burgers into the same pan. Is this cross contamination? Answer: No. That’s just called cooking burgers.
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How does one find God? Can you email me some articles on that? Answer: Siiiiiiiiiigh…
4.) Apparently there’s this burning ball of fire in the sky that some people call the sun. We Clevelanders have really only ever heard of it, but on Wednesday it appeared!!! I kid you not when I say that Maggie saw the sun and immediately put her swimsuit on.
After a change of wardrobe we went out and built the happiest snow girl I’ve ever seen!
5.) And speaking of wardrobe choices, here’s Lily’s mash-up of Tinkerbell and Yoda.
6.) I have the most wonderful dad on the planet. Wanna know how I know this? He sent me the complete set of The Mysterious Benedict Society books that I raved about earlier this week.
I seriously can’t tell you how excited I am. Best dad of all time.
7.) And, last, because she was so excited, here’s Lily with her brand new car seat. It’s the first one that wasn’t a hand-me-down. We sure know how to make a middle child happy around here!
Have a great weekend!!
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