My images are about to expire... maybe i will just buy another year of premium. so easy. so goes the $$.

I had a lovely busy weekend, last day of herb class (and people raved about my products! omigosh!) and then sunday was santa cruz pride. we saw many men in butterfly suits, we marched with the peace coalition and got a fabulous response then we worked the kdis booth and hung with sleeky, smarticus, hempymom and their assorted bebes. It was fan fan tastic.

I'm such a bad blogger

Sorry its been so long, faithful readers.

We had a simply lovely weekend. No plans, no roommates, we did a ton of laundry and gardening and such and hung out with family and friends and went to the farmers market and took crap to goodwill and ended up with a date night to see A Mighty Wind.

Lovely lovely lovely.

Friday Five

1. What drinking water do you prefer -- tap, bottle, purifier, etc.?

Our well water is yummy.

2. What are your favourite flavor of chips?

Um, kettle chips new york cheddar.

3. Of all the things you can cook, what dish do you like the most?

Wow, I used to cook a lot but now I am so pathetic. I still really love my pesto. Yes.

4. How do you have your eggs?

Depends. Whatever way, pretty well cooked.

5. Who was the last person who cooked you a meal? How did it turn out?

My mom made us trader joe Spanikopita for lunch and it was fine. Goddess Bless Trader Joe.

Never too late to remember the real reason for Mother's Day

Julia Ward Howe was the "inventor" of Mother's Day. Here's what *she* said it was all about:

Mother's Day Proclamation of 1870
By Julia Ward Howe

Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears!
Say firmly: "We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies
Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all
that we have taught them of charity, mercy, and patience.
We women of one country will be too tender of those of another
to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

>From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own.
It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice.
Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war,
let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women,
to bewail & commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.

In the name of womanhood and of humanity,
I earnestly ask that a general congress of women, without limit of nationality, may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its
objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
the amicable settlement of international questions,
the great and general interests of peace.

So long no blog

Been exhaisted, have ear infection, walked 6 miles today for a fundraiser for RCNV, then went to Bluerose's DS's bday.

EXHAUSTED.

Nap now.

On the Roseola front, the fever broke yesterday am, and Rose seemed so much better, we went to the Beltan fest all day yesterday and were gonna go out today, then she went to sleep *on her own* (weird) and woke up with the telltale rash and a low fever. So no park for us.

This from Rob Breszeny (sp? would go check but Rose screameth)

QUICK POLITICAL SCHOLASTIC APTITUDE TEST
This test consists of one (1) multiple-choice question.

Here's a list of the countries and dates that the U.S. has bombed
since the end of World War II, compiled by historian William
Blum:

China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991-2003
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001

In how many of these instances did a democratic government that
was respectful of human rights, occur as a direct result?
Choose one of the following:
(a) 0
(b) zero
(c) none
(d) not a one
(e) a whole number between -1 and +1

Test created by:
Paul R. Ehrlich
Stanford University

I thought this quiz was lacking in anwers I actually "agreed" with but hey...


You are the Low-Fidelity All-Star. You were born
with your cool, and it's totally natural. You
run the gamut from Hipster Supreme (only they
can ingest as much coffee as you) to the geeky
hipster (Mario Kart, anyone?).

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Now she's asleep but her fever is super high again. I've been giving her infant advil as often as allowed, and a lot of chamomile tea.

Wah.

DH is away all day and eve doing important stuff and I spent a lot of the day at my parents, which helped. Being home alone with sick kid SUCKS.

Rose is sick, 102.5 last night and I think even higher later in the night when I did not have it in me to check.

We think she has Roseola Infantum, though you can't know for sure until they get the rash. Her cousin just had it, its contagious, its been the right # of days. If anyone who we play with's kid gets a *sudden* high fever (Rose was fine, went down for a nap, woke up 102.5) well, you might have it, too. Luckily it is not serious, just annoying. And like chicken pox, they only get it once, and adults evidently can carry it but never get it.

I don't know why the html did not work in my last entry. Whatever!

OK, the tick's head is still there, my dad (who is an excellent tick remover in general) tried but it was soooo far into her belly button (eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew) that he only got the body. We are off to the dR at 1:30, hopefully done in time for a certain small boy's *2nd Birthday Party*!!!

OK, pics, some are from easter, some just from the past couplea weeks...

Rose in diaper only, trying on my grandmother's beaded moccasins:



4 Generations (at the Fungus Federation's "spring picnic" which was rained out into my parents livingroom)

This is my gradma, Ruth, my mama, Patria, me, and my daughter, Rose. Yay!!!



Easter 2003:

Rose on a sugar high, and various persons and beasties in Bunny Ears....


Cay and his Mama:




Rose did not want to be a bunny:





Grandpa made a cute bunny:



There was hunting in the garden:




And there was waaaaay too much sugar:



But it was a wonderful day!!!


And then, there was waaaaaay too much sugar: