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Art by: mudblood428 

Header and Icon designed by: bistyboo1974

... and we'll keep on fighting to the end...

Congrats to the Pittsburgh Steelers (and my boys ;) ) on winning the Super Bowl.  You almost lost it, but pulled it out in the end!

For my birthday, the loverly aggiebell90  has written me a Remus/Tonks story.  Go. Read. Review.  Click here for a story by the bestest beta and friend in the world.  :)  *huggles Jules*

All I'll say about the Super Bowl -

GO STEELERS

(That's actually more for my hubby and kids than anything - they're the Steelers Fans)

Happy Belated Birthday to gardengirl6  !!  I hope you had a wonderful birthday filled with all sorts of good things!

Testing out LJ mobile

Time to pimp one of my authors:

aggiebell90
Fortifying the Keep
On the run from the Carrows, Neville finds safety--and a friend--in the Room of Requirement. A missing moment from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

Posted at PhoenixSong.net and aggiestories 

Go. Read. Review.

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In other news, we had snow today.  The boys had their first snow day of the season.  The good thing?  All their evening activities got cancelled, too, so we had no where to go tonight!  Yahoo!!

Heh.

Cameron Mathison danced a Viennese Waltz to the theme from Harry Potter.

And Tom Burgeron made a HP joke about the Judges as the Dursleys.

*snort*

Because the computer was wonky last night...

Happy Belated Birthday wamfof !!



I hope it was a great day (even if you did have to work) and that your family spoiled you rotten! 

I hope you have a loverly day! *huggles you*

 Quarter boy is fine - Quarter is in the stomach and should pass in a few days.

Thanks for everyone's comments - And you have to laugh at this situation.  It is funny in a lot of ways (once I calmed down!)

...about life raising four boys.

Evening:

Dinner has to be on the table early on Monday nights because hubby has band practice (plays in a local community band).  Has to leave house by 6:20.

Son 2 has basketball practice in the same general vicinity at 7:30 - decided to take him tonight to figure out where everything is to see if we can't coordinate something with hubby's band.

Pouring buckets when son 2 and I leave for practice.  I've left son 1 in charge of sons 3 and 4.  All have had showers before I left.

Get to school by 7:20 - go in wrong building.  I know this because I asked a girl coming out of the building.  Sent to building across parking lot.  Took four tries to find an open door.  In the pouring rain.  Found my hubby's band practice, but no basketball.  Found a janitor Found out that the gym is in a building across the campus.  And no, it's not a connected building.  So, we are back out in the pouring rain again of which it took me three tries to find an open door this time.

Found the gym. As I was going in the door and putting down my (sopping) umbrella, I pinched my finger so hard It bleeds.  A Lot.  So, I'm now sucking on my finger to try to get the bleeding to stop, because I have no kleenex in my purse. One of the ladies that has a son on Matt's team took me back to my car, since, frankly, I had no knittin' clue where it was.  Found car.  Went to big shopping mall (outdoor shopping mall, no less) that is right across the street to go to Panera to you know, sit and maybe write (or edit).  Ordered a decadent piece of chocolate/caramel pecan sin brownie and a chai latte.  As I'm sitting down, my cell phone rings:

Me:  Hello.

Son 1: Mom?

Mom:  Yes, J?

Son 1: N (son 3) swallowed a quarter, but I did the Heimlich maneuver and saved his life.

Mom: what? (I couldn't hear very well at that point, as they were finishing up making the chai)

Son 1:  N swallowed a quarter, but I did the Heimlich on him and saved his life.

Mom: WHAT?!?

Son 1: N swallowed a quarter by I did the Heimlich on him and saved his life. 

Mom: (at this point, I am totally, 100% completely speechless)

Son 1:  Hello?  Mom?

Mom:  You have got to be kidding me.

Son 1: No, Mom, N really swallowed a quarter and I saved him.  He's fine.

Mom:  Let me talk to N.

I proceeded to talk with N, who's crying, but apparently is fine.  I'm too far to come right home to assess the situation, so I call my trusty mom and brother.  My brother went over to look in on them and give me the true skinny on the situation.

The quarter has evidently gone on down.  I will have to take him to the ER when I get home to get him Xrayed to see exactly where it is.  He's breathing fine, and talking, so it's not currently "life-threatening".  My brother is staying there until I get home.

Why am I so calm now that I know what's happened?  Son 1 did the EXACT SAME THING six years ago when I was pregnant with Ben.  Been there. Done that. Got the darn t-shirt.

I've texted the hubby at band, but more than likely he won't get the message until band is over.  At 9.

It's going to be a late night.

But I'm so writing that book.  No one will believe my life with my boys.

Remind me to tell you all about the ceiling fan fiasco sometime.

Happy (very belated) birthday to bistyboo1974!!  I hope your day was as special as you are!! 


ETA:  *grumble*  LJ won't let me make this bigger and in pretty color. *grumble*

...what I can get up to at 3AM when I can't sleep...

Nicked from most of my F-list

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" quiz.
4. Post the top ten results.

My Results

1.  Botanist
2.  Biologist
3.  Microbiologist
4.  Scientist
(Not bad to match the top three of four - I don't work with plants - that would be aggiebell 90 but I am a Microbiologist/Biologist/Scientist)

5.  Epidemiologist (worked as a hospital Microbiologist for years doing some epidemioloigical stuff)
6.  Mathematician (I love Mathmatics!)
7.  Market Research Analysist
8.  Pharmacologist (When working in the hopsital, I thought about going back to school for this)
9.  Chemical Engineering Tech
10. Pharmacy Tech  

ETA:  Stupid LJ won't let me put aggiebell90 in as a LJ user. *kicks it*  If I put it as a LJ user, it keeps moving her name to random spots in the post.  Tried coding it, too, and that didn't work, either.  *kicks LJ again* 

I have watched three children battle this disease.  One lost her battle last November at the age of six.  The other is currently out of treatment and doing well, despite the fact treatment left her with brain damage and other side effects.  The third has just had a bone marrow transplant after relapsing twice.

I honestly cannot imagine losing a child.  And some of these brave faces in this video are now angels having left this world.

Please pass this on to anyone you want to make aware of Pediatric Cancer Month and their fight for funding.

Thank you.

/soapbox 

(since I missed yesterday...)

L is for laughter.

"Laughter is the best medicine."

I do believe that statement to be true - I always feel better after a really hard laugh at whatever catches my fancy at the time.  Usually, it's one of the kids - Ben in particular can really get us going.  I love to laugh and it always feels so good to really laugh long and hard at something.  I think that's one of the reasons I like this new job as much as I do - my office mate and I do a lot of work, but we share a lot of really good laughs along the way.  Makes work so much more enjoyable.

My children are really a constant flow of joy for me, and I do laugh long and hard at some of the antics they get up to.  They are a lot of fun!

More later as I need to do M is for ... .   And My M stands for my second eldest - Matthew!

E is for Excited!

*points to icon and header*

smooches to  mudblood428for the art and bistyboo1974for making the icon and header for me.

Nicked from sherylyn