I am trying to start a 999 List for next year. I have posted about it on my blog and put a poll on there to see if there is any interest. I would start a blog page for people to get info on the list and it would be a twist from this year's list.......... Check it out and let me know what you think http://redefiningparadise.blogspot.com/2008/11/poll-of-sorts.html

Well there are a few things I only tell certain people...don't want it to get around. 1. I watch Three and a Half Men when everyone is asleep 2. I sleep on our couch (our mattress is terrible and I have major back problems, but I still hate to admit that to anyone) 3. I eat frosting out of the can (chocolate only of course)

Thanks for letting me know about the graphics, I did cut back on the book covers it shows as I thought it was too much as well. I was wondering how the Olympics widget would work...........I'd like to keep it, but maybe if I cut down on some other things it will load quicker. Thank you so much for checking it out for me and for the great feedback!

I'd love to be linked to your blog..........and will reciprocate. Love, LOVE your blog title quote.........my son was Rapunzel's prince in Into The Woods this spring...............AGONY!!!! Rachel

and see how the load times are and let me know if it looks okay...I changed to a 3 column template and added some graphic links and I'm worried it might be too crowded. Please tell me whatya think. Redefining Paradise

Jean especially for the reading schedule..........very helpful!

I got a 20 and I'm 38 1/2..........guess my mind isn't as fried as I thought :)

pray for the patients and employees. We evacuated the critical patients earlier, so now we are evacuating the rest of the hospital. I'm sure you can imagine that this is no small undertaking.........I've only been home 2 hours but am being called back in. My bags are packed by my own front door, ready to go. Technically we should be gone already........but we are holding off for the cop with the bullhorn up and down the street telling folks to leave..........:) dangermom.......thank you for the offer of help, I am taking your phone # with me "just in case"

Unbelievable...........I am at the hospital ER working right now while my family is packing up the house AGAIN We are diverting patients from the hospital and we have 12 ambulances sitting out front as we are transferring ER and ICU patients to outlying hospitals........ Craziness. Prayers for my community, this is really bad..........Nor Cal fires just keep coming back with a vengence. And, it is over 100 degrees and the smoke is thick as fog and ash is falling like snow.......... Yes, and my fridge died so all my stuff is defrosted and warm and how do you schedule a delivery when you don't know when you'll be able to go back home??? Deep breaths, deep breaths

My son is going into 10th grade. He did no history for 9th grade (lots of extra curric activities) He needs American History and World History to graduate I own Human Odyssey with study guide and Western Civ both by Spielvogel. My son is not a big reader (he must have been switched at birth with my real child) and is more science oriented so I'm trying to not make this too complicated. I have TOG but realized that for this child it would be way too complicated for him. He seems to prefer and do better with texts. So, would Human Odyssey be an appropriate text for 10th grade if I'm not necessarily trying to stretch him too much??? Also would both of these texts be considered "World History" on a transcript?? Any and all suggestions or ideas are welcome.......

I can do that! Thank you for the ideas.........

I slacked on my garden in the spring........I have a bunch of green tomatoes out there and that's it. So am I outta luck......or can I still plant?? What should I plant???

for a pipe bomb. And no, I don't live in a big city.........I live in a "town".....we don't even have enough people to qualify as a city and just recently retained town status.......20,000 people and the nearest "city" is a half hour away. One street up (which here is about 200 feet) there was a pipe bomb in the middle of the road. I have 9 teenagers at my house for a 4th party........we were going to go to the races tonight and my husband is trying to get home but they won't let anyone through. So, I now have 9 teenagers staying indefinitely at my home on the 4th of July.........no races............no husband This is on the heels of being evacuated for 3 days because of the fires in Nor Cal Brother!!!!! This certainly qualifies as the worst summer ever.

but we really like MarioKart, Guitar Hero, Smash Bros. Brawl, WiiSports, Zelda, MySims We bought ours at K-mart in a small town when everyone else was sold out........no one seems to remember its here..we bought it Thanksgiving morning

Yes I heard that many of the smaller fires will need to burn themselves out while they work on the bigger, structure-endangering fires. It really is crazy and I can't imagine living in this smoke for several more weeks. It literally smells better inside my car and house than it does in the stores. You walk in the library or the supermarket and it is overwhelming.....I'm not sure if its bad circulation or just that it gets trapped indoors. I really am hoping it ends soon.........my poor DH has asthma and it seems the longer it goes on the more problems he is having.......accumalitve effect I suppose.