100 things about me 2008

1. i'm amused by the concept of this
2. i'm curious to see how the list evolves over the years
3. i'm curious how long i'll keep this up!
4. i have a very smart 6 year old
5. i have an amazing boyfriend
6. i never thought i'd fall in love with a cop
7. i like being in love with a cop
8. i'm nervous about bill's shift change to 3-11
9. i love snuggling and watching scrubs before bill goes to work
10. i'm watching i, claudius
11. i remember watching parts of this in high school with leah
12. i sometimes wonder what happened to leah
13. i'm a little sad that we didn't keep in touch
14. i tried making watermelon martinis tonight
15. they're not as good as my watermelon margaritas
16. i'm enjoying the summer weather
17. i had fun planting the gardens last weekend
18. it was sad to thin the seedlings down to the strongest ones
19. i'm sad that i don't have a closer relationship with my brother and his family
20. i'm happy that i have good friends
21. i don't understand people who encourage drama in their lives
22. i'm a little nervous about my current job status
23. i'm in limbo between bosses
24. i don't like my potential new boss because he wants to change my career
25. i like what i do
26. i don't think dan ever gets mad
27. i wish i could go with the flow more like dan
28. i'm sad that my friend is thinking of divorce
29. i need to find out who an actor is in i, claudius because he looks horribly familiar
30. i drive a lexus
31. i don't like the soccer moms (or lacrosse moms)
32. i wish i knew my neighbors better
33. i'm trying to get to know them better
34. i'm irritated that my neighbors didn't even wave to me until bill moved in
35. i can't believe bill's been part of our household for almost a year!
36. i'm looking forward to celebrating 2 years together
37. i'm still nervous about marriage
38. i'm undecided about another child
39. i'd kind of like a little girl
40. i'm very used to our current routine
41. i like being able to sleep through the night
42. insomnia sucks.
43. i didn't eat much today and i feel very full
44. i think the actor from i, claudius that looks familiar looks a little like hugh grant
45. i can't wait to take rj to italy
46. i think he'll have a great time
47. i was impressed with how well behaved rj was at the MFA
48. i'm worried that mom will take over the trip
49. i'm looking forward to the show with her and suzanne tomorrow night
50. i'm looking forward to having bill home most nights
51. i'm worried about how it will effect my insomnia
52. i think bill may be awake
53. i can't wait to go upstairs and spend some time with him
54. i think i've done better this year at getting through this list before getting stumped
55. i'm starting to have trouble coming up with statements
56. i haven't read last years statements yet
57. i haven't read last year's statements since i wrote them
58. i'm being really patient and not reading them until these are done
59. i don't want this year's statements to be influences by last year
60. i like our new family room furniture.
61. i love our new bedroom tv
62. i love it because it takes up less room and has HDTV
63. i don't like the zoom features of the new tv
64. i love that bill and i are collecting house stuff together
65. i had fun being wheeled about in the new wheelbarrel
66. i don't know how to spell wheelbarrow
67. i never expected that it was barrow and not barrel
68. i wish everything came with spell check
69. my ponytail hurts
70. i'm glad my hair is getting longer again
71. i still don't like it short
72. i need another haircut to bring it back into shape
73. i'm surprised i'm almost 2/3rds of the way through the list without much trouble
74. i wish i had noted the time when i started
75. i think it was around 9:15
76. i wonder if i noted the time it took me to do this last year
77. i'm a little distracted by the movie
78. i really want to finish this list tonight
79. i don't like the gas prices
80. i wonder if it's really gone up as fast as we think
81. i remember gas being about a dollar in high school ... 15 years ago
82. i feel old when i think about that!
83. i don't think i'm old usually
84. i feel like a parent when i think like that and i associate that with being older
85. i'm getting sleepy
86. i'm losing interest in this list
87. i'm happy that i'm getting to the end
88. i wonder how much you can tell about a person from a list like this
89. i didn't finish all of my martini tonight
90. i'm not going to
91. my foot is asleep
92. i need to stretch
93. i wish i exercised more
94. i miss it
95. i miss running a little
96. i can't believe how much life has changed since i met bill
97. i'm excited about our garden
98. i can't wait to show rj the seedlings
99. i need to make rj clean his bedroom more
100. i wonder if the 3-11 shift will normalize the house more

New wheelbarrell!

Pretty potatoes

Rj's home safe!

Little fisher

bill's friend bill's daughter

First fish of the year

Baby rob

family trees

reminder to spend time with your family and get their stories while you can!

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/04/18/the_secrets_buried_under_a_family_tree/

cops

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/03/25/police_limit_searches_for_guns/?p1=email_to_a_friend

so ... as long as the 4th amendment gets upheld (because they're explicitly promising not to prosecute if the get permission to look without a warrant), this is business as usual and potential a good thing. assuming the 4th amendment gets upheld.

but ... they get permission once and confiscate illegal weapons/drugs and there's not prosecution and all is good. then they get another report that same kid has another illegal gun. now they've confiscated before under this program ... easier to get a warrant and prosecute now? still not necessarily a bad thing ... kid did get one get out of jail free warning on this and is stupid enough to do it again.

i'm seeing good here unless they try to prosecute for the first offense where they promised no prosecution (because of the 4th amendment violation - ya, they had permission, but it was granted on the basis that they wouldn't prosecute for guns or drugs if permitted the opportunity to search; prosecuting would break that verbal contract IMO and make the granting of permission null and void and the search illegal).

my paranoid libertarian side says there must be a down side to this even if the 4th amendment gets upheld and they really don't prosecute for guns/drugs if found with permission to search. but i'm having trouble finding it. where is it?

ok, this just makes my head hurt.

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/04/monte-hall-prob.html

guns on campus?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/14/campus.guns/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

i'm not sure i like this statement: He also said that there are practical concerns from a law enforcement perspective: If you're responding to the scene of a shooting, how do you sort out who is the bad guy and who is the heroic student with a permit?

i mean i understand the difficulty in interpreting a scene when you arrive there and the potential consequences ... but basically a statement like this says citizens should not have the right to bear arms because it confuses the police.

is DSS responsible?

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/04/10/critics_rap_dss_after_fatal_s_boston_fire/

ok, i get that the kids were being neglected and DSS doesn't appear to have done enough on that front, but are the kids' deaths really on DSS? this appears to be an arson fire which means it wasn't mom being neglectful and passing out drunk with a lit cigarette. i don't neglect my son and some one could still light fire to my house without my knowledge or permission - should DSS preemptively take my son?

yes, if the DSS had taken the kids they wouldn't have been in that house at the time of the fire. but if the kids had a sleepover somewhere else they also wouldn't have been home.

until i see that the fire was some how caused by mom's neglect (or kids could have gotten out with mom's help if she had been more attentive), i don't see how this reflects on DSS at all.

-s

digital life

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2008/04/07/the_departed/?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed6

yet another justification for my scrapbooking hobby ... that i really need to get back to. digital media does seem so permanent but even if the storage media didn't change, with software evolution would we still be able to access old files?

digital helps me with my scrapbooks - i can sort thru digital images, chose the ones that tell the story, create stickers and fonts to embellish, use google to find the perfect quote - but it seems to be a better temporary workspace than a permanent medium. the power goes out, we can still look at our family albums by candlelight.

i guess the flip side is the house burns down, i can still access the backups of my digital images on mozy and recreate those scrapbooks.

interesting.

-s