Then again, she left right before the heavy rain and lightening started. If only she could pay for the ripped screen...
(2) A great escape for a rainy day like today- Lego!
Q: What can you make if you take every Lego piece, big and small, in the house and spend an hour building a castle that uses every piece (well, most of it)?
Today our two and half year-old told me that we should “keep an open mind” on something we were trying to figure out. She then went on to say that the bears on TV had been told to do that when they wanted to go to a movie. I asked her if she mean the Bernstein bears and she said yes. Good advice…
Tonight involved a first of sorts: Super Girls and Action Girl agreed that neither wanted to have the first bath tonight- I suggested that we flip a coin… Blank stares… Oh… They don’t know!
I explained what we meant by this time-honoured method of settling questions large and small. It worked. The winner (who about 30 seconds sooner protesting that she should ever again have to have a bath) was happily going upstairs bath-bound and, “the winner.”
B.
Number of Soccer Nights Left: 0
Goals scored by Action Girl in the season’s last soccer game: 2
Goals scored by me in the season’s last soccer game: 0
(It was a parent-child game).
B.
We spent the first few days seeing
Our visit to Drumheller (about 90 minutes from
B.
I haven’t mentioned this before but my favourite place on the Web for Lost information is Jay and Jack’s Lost Podcast. I’ve been listening to it quite a bit and would recommend it. Jay and Jack are from
Here are a few things about Lost that I’ve gleaned from them:
1. The Guys at the end of the Season Finale were speaking Brazilian Portuguese. I think that means it was either an Antarctic station or in a mountain somewhere in
2. The schedule is out for next season apparently. Jay and Jack cited andfound.com (and the Official Lost Podcast from ABC and explained:
Next Season will begin in late September.
> There will be 6 consecutive and “mini-cliff-hanger.” These episodes will be about why Jack, Sawyer, and Kate were taken by the others.
> There will then be a TWELVE WEEK BREAK!!!!!
> Lost will return in February for a twelve week run straight to the finale with NO RE-RUNS.
It’s going to be a long, long summer…
B.
(1) Writing a TV script for a drama about a small-town child protection (child welfare) office, its clients, and staff.
I’ve gone back and forth between making it a sitcom or a drama but it’s really better suited to a drama. Ideally, I’d like for it to follow a couple of social worker, a child who comes into foster care, and at least one family who’s just trying to raise their kids and escape their own stuff/issues/childhoods…
(2) Doing a coffee table picture book on the remaining one-room school houses throughout my province.
Actually, what I mean is the buildings. None are in use as public schools. The survivors are this amazing mix of derelict old buildings that won’t last much longer, private houses, and small community halls.
(3) Going back to school to do my Ph.D.
Not very bloody likely... Maybe if I could place our kids in suspended animation for 3-4 years. I don’t care what anyone says, cryogenic freezing for that long is bound to have side effects. Also, its hard. I'm not even sure where to put the periods- is it Ph.D. or PhD.?
(4) Changing my car’s oil and filter myself.
I actually can do it (I have done it with Dad), but:
A) The good folks at my local
B) They treat me well and overlook my lack of automotive knowledge, and
C) They have freebies like travel mugs and ice scrapers. Tomorrow, I may walk away with a "free" flashlight (after I pay for the oil change and whatever else needs to be done).
(5) Staying in touch with far flung friends and family.
Unfortunately for many people far away (and very near) I do not do a good job at staying touch. E-Mail has helped, but this is the only project I’m listing that I haven’t totally given up. Hey this is a start, right?
B.
As some of you may already know, we will soon be getting a cat, much to the delight of Action Girl and Super Girl (in fact here is Action Girl's drawing, offered as proof).
It’s been 18 years since my last cat er… passed on, so I am starting from square one. Given my allergies, I have to admit that I’m probably starting from further back than that… Our plan is to adopt a fully grown tabby.
So, here’s my question: what is the most important thing the four of us need to do to have a happy cat that we too are happy with?
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
B.
What the…? Michael shot Anna Lucia , Libby, and then himself? Man, I did not see that one coming at all. I guess the implication is that this is what he had to do in order to get Walt back from the others. Here’s what I think: For some reason “Zeke’s” band of others (the medical staff) want Anna Lucia dead because of her killing Goodwin. They also appear to want Michael to convince Jack that he can and should fight that group of others.
Also, I think as we start to try to understand the world’s most convoluted and exciting plot line its important to remember that THE OTHERS BROUGHT DOWN THE PLANE! There is no other possibility as both Ethan and Goodwin were “ready” for the main group of survivors and Anna Lucia’s “tailies.” You needn’t look any further than that for proof.
Needless to say, I can’t wait for next week. I’m a little frightened of what the next episode will reveal as:
1) Libby: Will she die? I liked her character and don’t want to see Hurley hurt. It’s nice to think that the guy that doesn’t look like the captain of the football team can end up with the really hot chick (kind of like my own life).
2) Mr. Ecko: It looks like he takes quite a fall. The kind of fall that can lead to an actor having to find another job (except for flash backs). Too bad, I like him. He still scares me, but I like him.
3) Anna Lucia: Crap… I don’t want to lose her either. Realistically, the writers have put so much time into her character development that I don’t see this being her death being all that likely.
B.
- Henry Gale (not the real Henry)
- Henry Gale (the real Henry, rest his soul)
- Desmond (the Scottish hatch guy)
- Claire's baby (for the life of me I can't think of his name)—okay maybe this one is a stretch, but what is a day in his life really like?
- Libby (sooo many questions)
- Danielle Rousseau (might reveal just too much, though)
I have to admit that I'm really stumped about the others. I accept that the people in the medical hatch (where Claire was taken by Ethan) are basically involved in running the experiment on the survivors. They are the same people that intercepted the raft and confronted Jack with the torches...
But, who are the people that had been opposing the survivors from the tail section? What's with their burlap/sack cloth clothing and bare feet? Why did they steal the children?
I'd suggest that there are two possibilities:
1) They are the same others from the medical hatch who are dressing up/down when they go to steal "tailies"?
2) Or, are they an earlier group of survivors? By this, I’d suggest another set of experiment subjects…
There seems to be a lot of speculation on the web about there being two groups of others. Makes sense, I guess, as much as anything does on that show.
B.
Source:
Apparently the super hero life is not an actual career option for either
Action Girl or Super Girl. 
