all the little things of the day

Thoughts on grief by dsmoen

One friend lost a spouse and another lost a grandmother last night. So much sadness.

I am making black bean and ham soup. It's cold outside. They are predicting snow (hah!) for Friday.

I bought a copy of The Very Hungry Caterpillar and a Spanish translation of Where The Wild Things Are at B&N. The store assists a program with the women's prisons here. The program records women reading to their children, then gives the recording and the book to the child to take home. It's a popular program, encouraging the women to be positive presences in the lives of their children.

Squishable T-Rex! He was designed with help from Dinosaur Comics, which I know some of you love.

According to the Squishable newsletter, the most popular squishables of 2009 are:
1: Squishable Panda
2: Squishable Octopus
3: Squishable Penguin
4: Squishable Sheep
5: Squishable Cow

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I feel sort of emotional and fragile today, which is probably why the news story made me cry.

"Transsexuals and gays will never enter the heavenly kingdom," said Javier Lozano Barragan, until recently the Vatican's 'health minister'.

Yes, I know. The Catholic Church is full of people who believe I'm an abomination. Please don't lecture me on how I should know that. But really, what a cruel thing to say. I also think you have to be stretching a bit to infer that Paul is talking about sex in that damn quote. Degrading acts could just as well be murder, or being bigoted, self righteous jerks.

Mario is hard. Apparently "Mario hard" is a term these days. I decided to show Mike the secret Star levels in Super Mario World since he's never seen them. I forgot how much I hated them! Aaargh Mario hard. My thumbs!

It is cold.

My Yuletide story is giving me fits. As in, it just won't come to life. I need to think of something to do for it. I have a sort of idea but not much to go on.