Thanks for the books

So yesterday evening I got a delivery from Amazon - addressed to me and Karl. I opened it, two books - a Dave Barry book about homeownership, and the Way of the Weasel Dilbert book. When Karl came home, I told him the books had arrived, and hey, I hadn't known he'd ordered books. He looked at me blankly and said he hadn't.

So presumably somebody sent these to us, and Amazon simply left out the gift card. Well, thank you to whoever it is! If that person reads this, let us know so we can thank you properly!

Classic novels quiz

Darling, it seems that you belong in Gone with the
Wind; the proper place for a romantic. You
belong in a tumultous world of changes and
opportunities, where your independence paves
the road for your survival. It is trying being
both a cynic and a dreamer, no?


Which Classic Novel do You Belong In?

Okay, I'm amused. And having checked all the options afterwards, yes, that's the closest. Pride and Prejudice would be 2nd, the others wouldn't do at all.

Pagan meetup

So a while back somebody had posted about a poly meetup, on one of the LJ communities, which introduced me to the concept of meetup.com. Fascinating. I signed up for a bunch of local Fort Worth communities, including the poly one, figuring it was a good way of getting to meet local people. Sadly, most of them have been coming up with not enough people in the area voting on a location to actually HAVE a meeting. Lessee, I've signed up for stay at home moms, homebirth, homeschooling, pagans, pagan homeschooling, pagan parents, knitting....

So anyway, the pagan group actually had enough people for meetings, and they had one last night at the downtown Barnes and Noble. We ended up going really late - had to wait for the guy checking out our A/C-heat to be done (looks like the problem that the previous owners were to have fixed before closing didn't get fixed. Darn thing keeps blowing the circuit breaker. Agh), but there were still a good many people sitting in the cafe and chatting.

We sat down and started talking to the people at that end of the tables. Karl had to go off to keep the kids occupied for a while - he's such a saint of a daddy - and ended up setting Brendan up in the kids area to sit and read happily. What a good boy. Then he got to come back and Maggie got to flirt with people. We met a lady who works with the local UU church that has a CUUPS pagan group, and is setting up a Spiral Scouts group for kids. Yay, we'd hoped to find something like that! Not really close to us, but not too bad. Got contact cards for her and another lady. Chatted with lots of people, hoping to see them again next month.

Got home kinda late, and I was REALLY tired out. Sigh, actually next month may not work, Thumper may be too newborn and me too postpartum wiped out to go. But at least we were meeting some local pagans. And it was just nice to sit around and chat about anything and everything with other people.

Need a RUG

Darn it, Corell plates are supposed to be the next thing to unbreakable.

In our new living room, there's a fireplace diagonally across one corner, with a ceramic section of floor just in front of it. We currently have the ComfyChair, a wide armchair with ottoman, pushed in front of it, since we're not using it and that way it keeps Maggie baby from playing with the screen. But some of the ceramic floor part pokes out on either side of the chair.

I have a bad habit of leaving a small corell plate sitting on an arm of a chair or sofa. Never been a problem before. Twice this week Maggie's managed to knock it off the chair - onto the ceramic floor. Where it then shatters into many small sharp pieces all over.

I want to measure that area when Karl gets home, and go out to Lowe's or Home Depot and buy an area rug to put under the chair, before I start seriously depleting my corell supply, or somebody gets cut.