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Posted in Cleaning, Things I Like on Apr 4th, 2008
I love incentive charts! I’ve got a huge one like this on my wall tracking my progress on my goals that I got at the store for less than $2. Yes, I have a couple of mini-charts for the kids (it’s helping Degen with his potty-training), but I primarily use incentive charts for me! I [...]
Posted in Health, Things I Like on Apr 4th, 2008
My favorite site of the day is nutritiondata.com. As you know, I’m counting carbohydrates right now with my current health goals, and sometimes that gets complicated. For example, I’m planning to make myself a burrito for lunch. There are a bunch of ingredients in a burrito, and some of them don’t have nutritional labels (a [...]
Posted in Things I Like on Mar 16th, 2008
Thhis is Colin. I’m writing because it’s Sunday morning my eyes are a bit fuzzy and I’m realizing looking at the computer how easy it is to accomplish a stereogram effect with the icons on the screen. I’m actually typing wihtout looking at the screen and at a weird angle so forgive the unpolished tone… [...]
Posted in Reviews on Mar 14th, 2008
Forgive me for my negativity on this subject, but I really dislike Daylight Saving Time! I grew up mostly in Arizona where we lived independent of the time-changing madness and since I’ve moved to Savings Time-observing regions I’ve come to appreciate the sanity of the state I grew up in. I’ve researched the subject fully, [...]
Posted in Things I Like on Mar 12th, 2008
http://gmapsmania.googlepages.com/100thingstodowithgooglemapsmashups is a link to a cool list of bunch of things you can do with maps. I love maps!
Posted in Things I Like on Mar 12th, 2008
I got an email from my cousin recommending this blog called Letters to a Parent and I really like it! The link over there goes to the specific letter she recommended, but I think a lot of them are certainly worth reading. The blog has letters and transcribed talks given by parents to parents about “the [...]
Posted in People I Like, Politics on Mar 8th, 2008
This is Colin. Bethany and I have spent the last two hours watching John McWhorter on CSPAN. He’s an elitist New York liberal, straight out of Berkeley, but a moderate one–and more than anything I like moderates, people who can speak intelligently and without passion. So the liberal political machine hates him like they hate Joe [...]
Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Feb 20th, 2008
Yesterday the kids and I went to the zoo with my friend Natalie and her baby, Blake. We got three solid hours of sunshine and fresh air and exercise–it was awesome after what seems like months of being cooped up inside a little apartment. The Little Rock Zoo was somewhat larger than I expected it [...]
Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Feb 4th, 2008
Today I’m feeling grateful for Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, the book that saved my life, and to our friend Marcie who recommended it to us. When Degen was about Maggie’s age we were at our wit’s end because he was only sleeping about 4 hours in a given 24 hour period, and then only [...]
Posted in Reviews, Things I Like on Nov 27th, 2007
Last night Colin showed me a site called www.w3schools.com that has free online "web building" tutorials. I just finished taking the HTML tutorial and it was quite thorough. I'd never had any education in HTML besides the basic self-taught trial-and-error of building a web page from a template and messing around in Dreamweaver and building a WordPress [...]