Here in Idaho

Archive for June, 2006

I found this fun quiz on NPR this morning. Apparently my easy usage of “y’all” makes me 65% dixie. And it doesn’t help that I call my daily Dr. Peppers “cokes”. Take a look at the quiz and see how you fare. But don’t be fooled by the [...]

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Hitler vrs. Coulter

Who can tell the difference? Take the quiz and find out how well you know your favorite crazy hatemongers.
(I haven’t checked the sources out on the quotes…research that one yourself).

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Emulating Etheline

AFI has issued a list of the 100 “Most Inspirational Movies.” It’s funny how movies can have a life changing power over people. How many politicians say they went into politics because of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”? How many lawyers drew their inspiration from Atticus in “To Kill [...]

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I found this on My So-Called Homeschool. In case you don’t feel like looking it up, it’s a really long article about a new “Christian” video game in which violence is directed by Christians against non-Christians in a future New York City. More disturbing and shocking than anything I’ve read recently. After [...]

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Read this and weep. Shame on big republican government. Shame, shame, shame.

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My best, best, best friend 4-ever from high school dragged her beautiful family across the country to see us this week. For reasons my friend fully understands and can heartily laugh at, I will refer to her as ‘Precious Mom’. I’ll refer to myself as ‘Sarcastic Mom’. Here’s the part where I [...]

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My husband and I will be celebrating our 9 year anniversary this week. If I wasn’t a cool girl who doesn’t listen to country music I’d be quoting the Shania Twain song, “You’re Still the One”….we beat the odds together. But I don’t listen to country so I’m quoting the Smashing Pumpkins instead. [...]

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This is me right now. Only with red hair, freckes and no mustache. I had my four smartest teeth yanked out yesterday and my lower jaw is swollen to Don Corleone-like proportions. Everyone says getting your wisdom teeth taken out is no big deal so I thought, I’ll just spend the day [...]

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