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When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to gain recompense for the ruined rug from his wealthy counterpart, he accepts a one-time job with high pay-off. He enlists the help of his bowling buddy, Walter, a gun-toting Jewish-convert with anger issues. Deception leads to more trouble, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude. [More]

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A tale told over four seasons, starting in autumn when Juno, a 16-year-old high-school junior in Minnesota, discovers she's pregnant after one event in a chair with her best friend, Bleeker. In the waiting room of an abortion clinic, the quirky and whip-sharp Juno decides to give birth and to place the child with an adoptive couple. She finds one in the PennySaver personals, contacts them, tells her dad and step-mother, and carries on with school. The chosen parents, upscale yuppies (one of whom is cool and laid back, the other meticulous and uptight), meet Juno, sign papers, and the year unfolds. Will Juno's plan work, can she improvise, and what about Bleeker? [More]

According to the charges, Lee performed oral sex on her son and took photographs, sending them through e-mail to a friend who forwarded them to the 2-year-old boy's father. The father then called police.

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Someone asked me what my top 5 children's books were so I thought I'd list them here, too. I didn't hve to think too hard to come up with the first two books since the first one is my all-time favorite and I searched for a long to find a copy of it for myself. The second one was easy because I've read it oh-so-many times to the boys since they were born and T can now read it to me since he has it memorized. I had to think a little harder for the next few but they came to my mind fairly quickly. The next one is my favorite to read to the boys at bedtime. The last two were favorites of mine when I was a kid but are above the boys current attention span so they haven't heard them, yet. So here is the list: [More]

While giving Trysten his bedtime medicine, he complained that his mouth was hurting so I checked his mouth and his front tooth was bleeding. It had come loose and is ready to fall out. Trysten started crying about his tooth and not wanting it to fall out. He lost his first tooth quite a long time ago when he fell on the stairs so he associates loosing a tooth with trauma. I put some ora-jel on it to help relieve some of the pain. [More]

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The Kingdom of Alagaesia is ruled by the evil King Galbatorix, a former dragon rider that betrayed his mates and his people in his quest for power. When the orphan farm boy Eragon finds a blue stone sent by Princess Arya, he sooner realizes that it is a dragon egg. When the dragon Saphira is born, Eragon meets his mentor Brom, and becomes the dragon rider foreseen in an ancient prophecy that would set his people free from the tyrant Galbatorix. Eragon meets the rebels Varden and together they fight against the evil sorcerer Durza and the army of Galbatorix in a journey for freedom. [More]

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Lawrence Wetherhold is miserable and a misanthrope: he's a widower, a pompous professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), an indifferent father to a college student and a high-school senior, and the reluctant brother of a ne'er-do-well who's come to town. A seizure and a fall send Lawrence to the emergency room where the physician, a former student of his, ends up going on a date with him. His daughter, Vanessa, lonely and friendless, whose been bonding with his brother, tries to sabotage dad and the doctor's relationship, but Lawrence is good at that without help. Is there any way these smart people can get a life? Can happiness be pursued beneath layers of irony? [More]

Today at dinner, the boys decide that they need to have a fortune cookie after we eat Mexican food. So, Devlyn opens is up and he hands me the fortune to read. He anxiously waits for me to read his fortune and I start laughing. I tell him that his fortune fits him to a tee. I read his fortune aloud, " Your smile brings happiness to others." He responds with a simple statement; "I know, I know." Everyone breaks out laughing at the dinner table. [More]

We called up this morning and double checked her room assignment just in case they moved her and we found out that visiting hours started at 10a. I talked to my mom and she said that the doc would try to squeeze her in at 11:30a. Hubby and I got dressed so we could be up there when visiting hours started so we could see my mom off to surgery. We left the boys at home with the in-laws. We arrived in the parking lot of the hospital about 5 minutes to 10a and our cell rang. Hubby answered it and my mom said they were there to wheel her away for surgery. We ran, well really walked as fast as my back would allow, up to her room on the 4th floor. As the elevator doors opened, she was being wheeled right past to make the turn into the operating area. We wished her well and said we’d be waiting when she came out. [More]

I have seen way too much of the inside of a hospital this year. Yesterday afternoon, we got a call from my mom because she was not feeling well again and wanted us to pick up her medicine. She had not felt good Monday and Tuesday but had felt a little better Wednesday and Thursday. Thurday eveing, she started with the same symptoms from Monday but in greater agony. She called the doc Friday when he opened and he called in a script. He said if he didn't work, she needed to go to the hospital. Even though my mom has never had a surgery that she remembers (had one as a child) and didn't really want to go to the hospital, we didn't really give her much choice. It took almost forever to get into the ER and just as long waiting for all the results. Once everything was in, it was determined to be gall bladder stones and that she needed surgery to remove the gall bladder. They admitted her and assigned her a room. We left at this point because there wasn't much else for us to wait for. The surgeon wouldn't be able to see her until later. It was about 1am when we left and we hadn't eaten since around lunch time so we stopped at McDonalds and grabbed a small bite to eat. [More]

Well, home schooling came much earlier for Trysten than originally planned. We went Thursday to his Meet The Teacher night to find out who his teachers would be and to make sure everything was setup for him to start school. We were misled by everyone at the school so today when we took him in for his first day, they turned us away saying we had to fill out enrollment paperwork. We received that paperwork in the mail and sent it in with copies of his birth cert, proof of residency, and other stuff. At the time, we thought how stupid it was to have to provide copies of all the stuff again since he was only transferring within the district and they already had copies of all his stuff. But, we sent it in anyways and just thought they are too dumb to realize he’s coming from their preschool and were treating him as a first time student. We had various run ins over the phone with very rude front desk staff in the past so this run in was just like the rest. I was also very ticked that all the paperwork they tried to hand to me was in Spanish which last I checked was against state law. When they attempted to hand me the paperwork, I just said ‘Don’t bother. I will home school him before he goes to this school’ and walked out. I told Trysten quite loudly that he will never have to attend this horrid school and I was sorry for making him get up early for this waste of time. Oh, and another thing that got under my skin was his bus route. He is 5 years old and they want him on the bus at 6:25 but school doesn’t start until 7:55. He would be on the bus, bored out of his mind, for 90 minutes. That is like an eternity for him and he would either fall asleep and be a grouch when they woke him up or he would become super hyper and want to run around the bus. Either way, he would be a bear for them and I’d hear about it over and over again from them. [More]

Thursday night we went to Trysten's new school to find out about the school and to meet his kindergarten teacher. At first glance Trysten stands out among the school. He was the only boy with longer hair, the only kindergarten child who looked like he belong in a higher grade, and one of a few non-Hispanic children. Being Hispanic is fairly common here so I expect him to stand out for not being Hispanic. The one things that always irks me is that everything has to be done in Spanish. Now it wouldn't be so bad if Spanish followed English but Spanish is always done first. Most of the responses start out in Spanish and then they realize that I don't speak Spanish and they switch to English. That has always gotten under my skin even when I was a student in the same school district. [More]

Devlyn’s party was tonight. He had so much fun that he basically passed out after his bath tonight. We had a special dinner and invited Grandma and Frankie (cousin) over. After we had dinner, Devlyn opened his gifts. We did cake after that and then the boys played with all the new stuff. We got lots of photos of the party and a few videos. I have uploaded the photos but need to condense the videos so I can upload them. I’ll do that tomorrow as I am exhausted tonight. I’ll have the video link when I upload them. [More]

As of today, I am no longer employed by the software company where I spent almost the last 4 years. It is a sad yet happy day for me. Sad because I will surely miss my work family and the daily interaction with adults. Happy because I will now be able to focus on things that make me happy like working for myself and my family. [More]