2008
in this town we call home, everyone hail to the pumpkin throne
maura @ 9:14 pm
I might be slightly insane (and I barely even had any wine with dinner tonight so I’m definitely not drunk), but I just up + signed up for NaBloPoMo again. “But, but, but,” you splutter, “you haven’t managed to blag more than 3 times this month, and next month you think you’ll have time for 30 blags?” To which I reply: yep, and yep. Clearly I need the push right now. I mean, it’s not that I’m not busy (I am), but I’m sure there’s some space for blagging if I squint and look at my days sideways. Or upside down.
The holidays are coming, so we’re breaking out all of our favorite holiday videos. We’ve watched the Charlie Brown trilogy and The Nightmare Before Christmas a few times in the past week, and now all of the music from all of them is running on an endless loop through my head. Which is not so bad, really.
Somebody had a birthday today, and got lots of new electronic things with which to play. Including a 200x microscope that plugs into a computer. Said person is now roaming around the house looking for blood (literally). One cool thing is that you can take a motion capture video from the microscope. I’ll let you know when our friends the sea monkeys become You Tube stars.
4 comments on “in this town we call home, everyone hail to the pumpkin throne”
I was given my dad’s microscope (50x? 25X?) when I was about Gus’s age. I had one slide. It was animal blood.
The microscope is in Henry’s closet – it uses a mirror instead of batteries to light up the slide. I love it to death but the idea of one that plugs into the computer is very appealing.
Em, those old mirror microscopes are so great! We also have one that has a mirror — we registered for it for our wedding, because we are weirdos. But it is hard to use.
No blood yet, but tonight Gus was reading Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body and there’s an experiment that involves cheek scraping and iodine (both of which we have), so I think that’ll be the next event.
Argh, we need to get our pumpkins! Should have done it over the weekend, but flaked. Unless the boys get them after school this week we will not have time to do it until Sunday.
I don’t know why I clicked back here from your last post, but I did — and happened to see the comment about the microscope and your wedding.
It made my day.
And yes, it is hard to use. You need to be near a window.
Looking forward to hearing how the cheek scraping turns out.
Wow that IS cool. I’m not telling Max.
Next thing you know he’ll want to sign up for forensic daycamp at the museum.
He should have been here when A. went through the door — lots of blood and glass everywhere! I don’t recommend trying that at your house tho.
We have to do pumpkins tonight. Well don’t “have” to but it would be good. Also need to find overalls for A’s Big Boy costume!!!