The Happiest Place

Tuesday, Jun. 29, 2004 - 7:45 a.m.

I'm still not done using up the pictures on the roll. Hang in there.

I'm a little ansty about what I'm going to find there, though; the bar was dark, and I expect both Dave and I to have ghostly white faces and red bunny eyes.

Then again, it was two in the morning. I have a feeling we looked like that with or without a flash camera.

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Last night, John bought me a pint of Half-Baked, which is the Ben and Jerry's ice cream that is low carb.

I opened it and found it only about two thirds full.

Then I scooped some out and tasted it. It tasted over-iced and gummy, just like ice cream that has been melted and refrozen.

Ewwwie.

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The transfer of power took place in Iraq.

Yeah, right. Sure it did.

We have fourteen permanent airbases in Iraq now. We have many dozens of thousands of troops there, and there is talk of sending more.

And we transferred power? What exactly did we accomplish by doing that?

The only analogy I can think of is when you buy a five-year-old boy a Playskool Tool Bench so he can pretend he's helping daddy.

Obviously I have missed something somewhere.

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I was making my rounds this morning in Diaryland, and I found a couple of questions from Elgan that I felt like answering.

Did you take your husband’s name or did you keep your own? Why on both counts?

I took my husband's name, because he offered it to me. :-).

In Canada now, a child can be given either one of the parents’ names, or both hyphenated. We just called the kids by their father’s last name because it was no picnic growing up with mine, even though I have so staunchly kept it. How have you named or would you name your children? And why?

I probably would have gone with conventional practices and had the children use their father's last name.

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Recommended reading: "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynne Truss. It's been a very long time since I bought a hardback book that is actually on the bestseller list, but this is a real winner, especially if you are a punctuation stickler.

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And finally -- Thank YOU, Old Buddy Dave, for being so kind to me when I was in your neck of the woods. I had a wonderful time at Cero's, and it was good to meet your friends. I really felt like part of your extended family. You are gracious and good-natured, and I am so very glad I made the trip.

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3 of my readers commented on this entry

John
Second Bob's comments on Iraq. You can't hand democracy on a silver platter to people who've been living several centuries in the past. They've got to want it. They've got to earn it.
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Jamie
Now there's a little dolphin. See what I missed? :)
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wench77
Hello hello! I totally agree about the five yr old and the work bench. yup. Did you get my thankyou for the chocolate? It arrived and I scanned it in my diary and linked to you and thank you thankyou it is very good and a wonderful surprise and I didn't know if you got the thankyou? :)
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