As the sun set over a sunny Des Moines day in February, uh, wait, I don’t actually write like that.
Jackie and Matthieu are married! Whoo hoo!
The wedding was fantastic. The weather in Des Moines was great. I was bundled up, but I think the 20-30 degree temps were balmy for the locals as most were wearing what I would consider a spring jacket. Also, the pizza at Centro was amazing.
May Jackie and Matthieu enjoy many many years of happiness. There are a few more pictures over at my Picasa album.
For those of you who don’t keep up with my baby nephew’s YouTube page, here he is with a new trick.
For those not in the know, the favicon is that little image that appears in the address bar of your browser and on tabs and sometimes other places.
Currently a little red letter ‘E’ is the favicon here at Easysticks. A lot of other lazy website owners also have some form of the first letter of the site as a favicon. I wish not to be associated with these people so I need your help.
Any favicon ideas? Something that represents this site? Something that represents me?
This new gadget I’ve got is really the cat’s pajamas. The Eye-Fi wireless memory card does exactly what it says it will and has banished my camera’s USB cable to a dusty corner. I snap some pictures, leave my camera on for a few moments and like magic they appear in both my online web albums and my computer’s photo folder. No fuss, no muss, just take the pictures and wait (ever so briefly) for them to appear from clouds of fairy dust.
My friends, family members and stalkers can enjoy the benefits. There are a few shots up in my Picasa Web Albums.
Now no post should go without the thousand words a picture has to offer. So I’ll give you my latest obsession, the Meyer lemon. I’ve just been squeezing them into beverages and sleeping with them under my pillow. Anybody have any good recipes to take advantage of these lemons?
This single mom break-up story has great potential due to some unique elements. Exotic dancing to pay the bills and homeschooling a misunderstood son while working towards a writing career makes for an intriguing mix. Unfortunately, a few flaws made the book less enjoyable than I had hoped.
It is a compelling story and I had no trouble turning page after page, but the cluttered somewhat clunky writing started getting in the way of my reading enjoyment. Her son is charming and that mother-son relationship is a great piece of the story. There are some great scenes and I was certainly never bored, but I felt like the rest needed a little something.
As with any break-up, it’s easy for an outsider to pass quick judgment on the situation and I found myself in that very position, frustrated that she wasn’t just getting over it already and moving on. One contributing factor was that I just never felt like I got a sense of the weight of the relationship and so found it hard to really feel the heartbreak. And I think that’s essential in this type of tale.
I scored this book from LibraryThing Early Reviewers. This is the review I wrote for the site.
Baby nephew Oliver lifts his head to say hey to me!
He loves me already. For the complete Oliver video collection, visit his YouTube site.