thank you, astronomy 101

& thank you too to rachel roth for inspiring me to post my own pictures of "jupiter & venus dancing" in the sky.  i took two photos from my balcony.  there's an even better view from the living room, but there're screens & child-safety bars on the window that just won't budge.  any old ways, here they are w/ a cropped shot of the first one in between.  (not-too-shabby of a sight on a wednesday night in forest hills.):

now this... this is really a beautiful thing.

pretty frickin' cool

ascan avenue & queens boulevard, forest hills, NY, 3/14/2012

knowing the clock sprung forward makes me feel less sloth-like, i guess

i woke-up this morning w/ the cable box clock greeting me at 10:03am. (missed "breakfast w/ the beatles," but for the extra zzz's that's alright.)

i can't even remember when i fell asleep. it was shortly after i last updated my post about claire's sleepover & before i could find something decent on TV to watch (or maybe not then... i'll double-check w/ carl... for now, let's just stick w/ this).

speaking of carl, i gotta thank him for letting me sleep late while he did the laundry & tended to the girls' breakfast. pretty righteous of the man to do that.

after helping fold the laundry, i had me a bowl of LIFE cereal, dropped-off louisa, returned something at target (was not as torturous as expected), picked-up some things at target, & then went to the dentist (really was not as torturous as expected & that's w/ the gobs of blood i kept spitting out). claire tagged along w/ me & i was happy to have the company. (funny how running errands w/ a 10-year-old is sooooo different from one half that age.)

saturday sleepover fever

just finished japanese (me) & chinese (everyone else) for dinner at home w/ the family & claire's friend louisa.  the girls are gonna hang out for a few hours & then we'll attempt bedtime. curious to see what ensues this evening.  so far, so great, though i see this being a looooong night.

[update, 8:39pm: the girls're playing "just dance" on the wii, complete w/ outfit changes.]

[update. 9:38pm: the girls're just finishing their bowls of cereal & then it's' wash-up n' fall asleep to "scott pilgrim" in claire's room.]

thinking of seuss

for some reason, i LOVE dr. seuss' birthday.  every march 2nd i look forward to it & in honor of theodore this year, i'm posting 30 seuss'ian quotes, thanks to mamiverse.com... (& my friend mary for pointing me in the right direction for this one):




[Via: 30 Dr. Seuss Quotes to Live By]           

[update, 2:48pm: mary just sent a disclaimer... "i did not verify the quotes.  #21 is bernard baruch."  so there you go.  it's really, "29 seuss quotes & 1 by baruch."]