Alright, so I am forever faithful to the Dooce. However, after reading this today, I have a new crush. It might be one of the most beautiful things I’ve read on the internets. (except for my own postings of course because… I love me!)

 For those of you not sure about making the jump, here is a teaser:

“It was sixty-some degrees in January. The air was filled with the smell of the false hope of spring. I pictured myself with my son in a sling, my 3-year old chasing the dog, me yelling at her not to follow him into the cattails. It was summer.

And now the only thing that I am really scared of is somehow losing this.”

Here is the Mornin’ Round-up:

The Terminator Likes the Mac.

Brit is still C-R-A-ZY.

Ten years ago this would’ve been a non-event, today it is a total nightmare.

I’m getting closer and closer to my government check…Don’t you mess it up Senate!

Bill Clinton was quoted yesterday in Denver, Colorado as saying “We need to slow down the economy to help reverse the effects of global warming.”

Um, what? Please tell me that was misspoken because that is frighteningly short-sighted, even for Bubba.

If you haven’t gone shopping at Etsy you should. It is a wonderful community of people peddling their unique handmade gifts.

So dear husband if you are reading this… I would love this for Valentines!

This makes me crazy. The National Organization for Women (NOW) basically accused Senator Ted Kennedy of turning his back on women because he isn’t supporting Hillary. This is a perfect example of why women are our own worst enemies. You want to play into the stereotype of an irrational and emotional female? Become a leader in your local NOW chapter.

I don’t understand the notion that women should support Hillary simply because she is a woman. I wouldn’t want anyone to vote for me simply because I have the same private parts as them, just like I wouldn’t want someone NOT to vote for me based on that reasoning.

As a society will we ever move past the idea that what is under our clothes somehow counts more than what resides between our ears?

Seriously.

Watch out people I am on a roll. I installed a kick-butt image plugin for this site so that I can finally embed some of the great pic’s I have been taking with my camera. Also, I added a Twitter update on my Nav Bar. Twitter is awesome, if you haven’t checked it out yet then do so here. Once you’re on, come find me and we can chat!

In other news, I am working on a new site layout for February. I am pretty excited about it, hopefully I won’t screw up my site too much when I launch. I have to say…the more I learn about technical stuff, the more I realize I don’t know.

I will update later with some newbits of the day. We have major developments leading up to Super Tuesday and I am soooo excited (in a way that only a lame political nerd would be)!

Finally, yes I am aware that the title of this post has nothing to do with the content. I just had the unfortunate pleasure of having that Wham! song in my head and I thought I would type it to relieve the pressure in my head from the constant repetition. Is it stuck in your head now? Sorry….

Rock on!

Alright so I played with the color spectrum a little but this was quite seriously the most beautiful rainbow I’ve ever seen. It appeared right after a major downpour at our house on Sunday afternoon.

So a long time ago my sister bought a toy school bus at a garage sale. She gave that school bus to Isaac and he loved it. As he played with it, a tiny little present fell out. It was a pig, a very small pig. At the time, Isaac was about 18 months old and we were still worried about him putting things in his mouth and choking on them. So we took the pig and put it someplace. I really don’t remember where, maybe even the trash. However, the pig would not be disposed of quite so easy…

Here is Piggy:

See, I am not kidding he is really small:

Little did we know that unlike other animals, this pig wanted to stay at our house. Quite seriously this pig won’t go away. In the begining when he would show up in a shoe or drawer we would simply try to throw him away. After a while though, when the littlest piglet began to show up on closet shelves or in the car, we started to think that the piggy was here with us for a reason. However, we realized that the pig only showed up on his terms, if we are looking for him, he will not be found. The pig has become quite the joke around our family. When one of us comes across Piggy, there is always a shout of glee, “Hey Piggy was in the silverware drawer, can you believe it?” It means it’s going to be a good day.

So tonight when I found piggy in Isaac’s sock drawer I decided I should test out the macro settings on my new camera and formalize the pig’s union with the Stone family. He is now the Stone Family Piggy.

You know that tomorrow, when I go to look for the pig…he is going to be gone right?

So, due to all of the rain and gloom in my part of California today, I did a bit of web surfing to find out what is happening in this fine world of ours.

So far I came up with this list of 3 random newsbits:

White is the new Silver

Starbucks is considering bargain basement coffee

I can still be shocked by the actions of “christians”

My sons are three years apart, almost exactly. I found a pic of Isaac from this exact day, three years ago. I thought it might be fun to see the comparison between brothers….

Here is Isaac:

And here is Joshua at the exact same age, almost to the day:

It cracks me up how they look so much alike yet they are also so very different. Clearly blue eyes are one of their common traits.