Okay, you guys are starting to know me a little too well. No, Moonstruck was not adapted from a book :) But if it had been, it'd be dog-eared on my bookshelf, believe you me! The quote I wrote down is more of a contemporary classic. A hint? Mellors is the name of the hero. Maybe "bane" was a little strong, but it's certainly annoying that Every Single Term, at least one student asks, with wide-eyed tabloid eyes, if Mary M. and J. really did make babies... Have you heard about those historians who have filed a lawsuit, claiming that Brown plagiarized from one of their books? You know, if my academic work were in ANY way associated with that book, I wouldn't advertize it. To their credit, though, they claim that one of the reasons they've filed the lawsuit is because they feel that being associated with Brown's book makes their own work look bad. I like the idea of a "truth-sorter", though :) Sounds like some sort of futuristic, robotic computer device - like you'd find in a "Jetsons" court room.

Sounds like a wonderful day. Hang gliding is something I've always wanted to try but never gotten to. I understand it is best left to the more athletic, not to mention coordinated people. So glad you enjoyed it.

We are actually days away from making 2 separate rooms, and doing a whole house remodel. We designed our addition to work for now and the future. We have 3 children 11, 8, and 5, who will get bigger and so will their friends and my father will be moving in with us, as he is lonely since my mother passed. I want our home to be a place the kids feel comfortable bringing their friends without being cramped...which is what we are now. Our current living room is about 20 x 15. We've decided to open the wall to the garage with large french doors and make it a rec/family room. They will still be two separate rooms, but we'll have the option of keeping the doors open or closed. The room was supposed to be a substitute for a basement play/fun area, but then our architect came back with the drawings and there was a large playroom upstairs for the kids. We still thought the family room would be great since we have large outside family/pool parties (60-80 people) three times a year, and one of these times it's going to rain. We will probably have several smaller gatherings now that we'll have the room. I figured the french doors would allow privacy, but not too much - thinking of those testosterone filled years. ;)

One halloween we bought 23 pumpkins to carve. We put them in DH's trunk, and decided to keep them there because we didn't have room inside (it was full of life size witches, a wolfman, and Frankenstein waiting to be deployed for the big night LOL). I didn't want to leave them in the yard because I was afraid they would get smashed. Forward over a week later, we go grocery shopping and it is a BIG trip because we had to buy food for several family birthday parties, a big anniversary, etc. We open the trunk to put the groceries in, and nearly screamed when we saw it was full of PUMPKINS! Ever have a moment of complete shock and incomprehension? "Pumpkins? Where did THOSE come from?". We laughed hysterically in the parking lot and I am sure many people thought we had lost our minds completely. We managed to pack all the groceries around DD in her carseat and drove extra careful so she didn't get killed in an avalanche of party food. Now whenever we have a big grocery trip, on walking to the car one of us will say "There better not be any pumpkins in there!". Tee hee!