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So I have this necklace. No, I don't wear it. I'm pretty sure it came from my great aunt or her sister, my grandmother. I can't remember who. That's bad isn't it? Yeah, I thought so.  Right. So. I'm wondering if anyone has seen one like it? I'm going through all of my jewelry today and a couple pieces stood out.  It's a nice piece, I like it, but I wouldn't wear it.  It's more of a "let's display it in the hutch that has the family stuff in it" type piece. Plus? I don't know what the symbol on the back means, if anything.  It says "sterling" and then has a music note (?)/backwards f (?)  I don't know. And.............maybe *you* know? You can tell me. It's ok. Side note? It's almost 1 am here and my one yr old has decided this is  prime time to practice her singing/screeching/sqawking  (sqwauking? sqwawking? WTH?) 

After watching this show, I had a couple thoughts: I wish someone had done this experiment in my schools in South Carolina and N. Chicago. The amount of racism I saw was astounding to me. There are several people that I know that should watch this. I think it would open their eyes and possibly their minds. Wow, Ms. Elliott can be mean when she needs to be. I kinda wanted to punch her in the head a couple times. I imagine that was the point of the exercise. Well played Ms. Elliott, well played. Holy crap! I'm watching a PBS show that doesn't involve animation. Especially Max and Ruby. Gah, I can't stand Ruby. Pushy, bossy, overbearing sister. Good lord, that's going to be my 4yr old when she's older. Awesome. Can't wait. This is way more than a couple thoughts. Call the press.

So did you figure out the questions from yesterday? Did your eyes glaze over? Mine did. I thought it would go better after a full nights' sleep but yeah, no. In looking at my scores, I thought I did ok but um, I don't know now. I just googled ACT score and it wasn't pretty. If I tried to get into a decent school with a 20 on my ACT, I think they would laugh at me. And my SAT? Bwahahahaha. 354 Verbal and 409 Math. Thank goodness I didn't go into debt by going to school right away. At least now, when the baby that's baking goes to school, I stand a shot at getting a degree that I can actually use. Has that happened to you? You miss the school work but not the drama of school? Is it just me? I find myself really into the books you were forced to read in school. Beowulf (before the CGI Angelina movie came out thank you very much), The Great Gatsby (though the Robert Redford one is my fave movie version). I've found that the book is usually better than the movie. I t...

See if you can answer these questions (click on the photos to enlarge them). Lord knows I couldn't answer them then so I sure as hell won't know it now. I don't use this stuff when popping in a Princess movie or weighing a banana. Shit, that's what the computers are for. Heh. See those doodles and whatnot on the last one my young readers? That's called long division . Yeah, we had to actually show the work. That's the only proof I have that at some point in my sad high school career, I knew something remotely educational. And no, these tests are not written on papyrus paper as my brother in law suggested. They're from the 80's. Not from the same era as the Dead See Scrolls.

Whilst in my nesting phase, I've been organizing. Sometimes that means moving piles of crap from one place to another. Just moving it. Sometimes it means actually ridding myself of whatever crappola is there. The following almost caused me to have an anxiety attack. Talk about flying back to the old school days. Yikes! I totally blew the SAT. I couldn't bring myself to post my score. And I took the test nearly 20 years ago. Double yikes. I loved the ASVAB. It was my favorite "mandatory" test there was. I did pretty well on it but still couldn't get in the military. Bah. The ACT. I did pretty decent but I've never liked the pressure of tests. I always choked. Kinda like the Vikings. Gosh, that was low lady. So low. I clearly wasn't as nervous with the PSAT given that I wrote our class "motto" on the bottom. Enjoy that little tidbit. You're welcome. This weekend: Sample questions, pathetic attempts to answer them and my sad, sad scores. On the...

You know what always puts me in a good mood (or better if that's the best I can do)? Pretty much any song this man sings. If I want to be taken back to summers in high school or the sailors and other dumb boys I had crushes on back in those days? All I have to do is listen to this , this or this . If I need some perking up, I can listen to this , this or this . I could listen to this and this all the time. I think he has such a distinctive voice and sound, musically. Every once in awhile I think back to when the husband took me to see them in concert. I still get shivers and am still a little embarrassed that I cried at the concert. A few times. (In my defense, I never went to a concert until I was 18 and living in Germany. That's another story for another day {if I ever remember to tell it}). I hear this music and other groups like them and really, it's like I'm back in the late 80's and I love it. I miss those days. Really. I do. So, what music takes you bac...

High school. Yikes. I miss little parts of it. Some of the friends I had. Some of the boys I liked. A couple teachers. Mostly I didn't like it but I can live with that. In hindsight? Not as bad as I thought it was. I'm still friends with a couple people from my old high school in Chicago but for the most part, I don't know what's up with anyone. Well, until now that is. Thank you Facebook. Facebook that's free. Classmates.com, that charges a yearly fee for pretty much the same service, doesn't give me what Facebook does. I've "found" several people that I went to school with and holy shit, have some of them changed so much. I almost didn't recognize a couple of them. Some are pretty much the same, not a bad thing really. It used to be I had mainly kids that I work with on there. Now? I have quite the spread of friends. I feel weird calling them all friends though. I saw somewhere, like at an amusement park or county fair, in one of those astrol...