If your parents were in a movie, who’d play them?
I am going to answer based on personality, not looks.
I would cast Harrison Ford as my father, because he seems a little rough, and is a smart-ass, and a bit of a recluse. My dad is 14 years younger than Harrison Ford, but Ford’s still got it. Duh! Who else plays action figures at age 66?
And for my mother, hmm… I need to think of an actor who is a bit crazy, but super nice… maybe Didi Conn who played Frenchy in Grease? Ha ha, I haven’t seen her in anything recently! But she seems excited, and sincere, like my mother.
I have a little problem – I can’t keep up with google reader.
I keep adding more blogs, but finding less and less time to read them.
Right now, I am subscribed to 72 blogs… and have 73 unread items! I’ve ended up being that person who has to catch up on the weekend, and is leaving comments on posts that are days old, after the conversation has died out.
My question is this – how do you keep up with reading all the blogs you like?
My ideal solution (are you reading, Steven?) is to buy a small $600-or-so computer that I can throw in my purse and use on the way to and from work. That’s almost 3 hours of time! I could catch up with a lot of internet “things” then too (I didn’t even mention how far behind I get on personal emails) and spend more quality time with the “boys” at home!
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Today’s Idiom: stock in trade – the goods, tools, and other requisites of a profession
The Architect’s stock in trade seems to be a cocky attitude, coffee-addiction, and an affinity for wearing dark colors.
The highlight of my day was seeing these baby goslings.
This goose has been nesting in front of the job site I visit every Wednesday in the suburbs. She sits right near the entrance, and hisses at me every time I walk by.
Yes, I realize it is sad that this was today’s highlight. What was yours?
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Today’s Idiom: to rule the roost – to be in charge, to be master
Data rules the roost in our household.
Now that it’s been mentioned in both the June issue of Glamour and Marie Claire, I have to say something about it.
Open Marriage.
Jenny Block (not to be confused with “Jenny from the Block”) had an affair with a woman three years into her marriage. Instead of divorce, Block and her husband decided to have an open marriage – staying together, but also dating other people. She recently wrote a book about it – Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage.
I don’t think this is completely ludicrous or unreasonable. It may actually solve (or cover up) some issues that married couples have.
But I know this is not for me. And probably never will be.
I’m not possessive and I’m not jealous, but I don’t like to share… my husband anyway!
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Today’s Idiom: Hobson’s choice – no choice at all
We’re given Hobson’s choice when we go out to eat with Steven’s grandma – there is only one restaurant she will go to.
Today marks one year since I’ve graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Architecture.
Woo-hoo!
I hate to admit it, but I am curious as to what my classmates are doing. I wonder who’s working, who’s not, who hates their job, and who loves it.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about how much more I like work than school. School is good for learning to be creative and think conceptually… but it is so much neater to see something you design being built. In real life.
A few weeks ago a client called me and rattled on and on about how much the staff loves the new space we designed for them, and all the details and thought that went into it. That made me feel good.
(The next week the client called and told me the staff was complaining and nitpicking. Hey, I had my moment while it lasted).
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Today’s Idiom: feeling no pain – drunk
After a couple of glasses of wine, I was feeling no pain and ready to meet up with the in-laws. What can I say? I’m a light-weight.
(Just kidding!)
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