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Geek Alert

I used to be a huge font geek. I would amass great quantities of fonts only to use my favorite dozen on every project… Anyway, over the years I’ve drifted away from caring about fonts—probably because I don’t do much design/publishing work anymore—until I came across YourFonts.com. The font below? Yeah: my handwriting.

It’s funny: why does what seem to pass for the height of digital cool mean taking an analog “thing” and making it usable on my computer? What’s wrong with me? (Note how I ask this on the blog so Deb has a maximum of a thousand characters to answer that question.)

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Testing

To see how strange Matt can be.

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Of Eco-Crimes and Modest Clothing

A couple of articles worth reading, methinks. One makes me laugh and one makes me happy.

Laugh: Large Families… (I’m all for being green, but c’mon!)

Happy: Mom “Shocked”… (And dad of baby girl relieved.)

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For Posterity (Howdja Hurtcha?)

My dad had a saying he used to dazzle us with whenever we’d “fall down and go boom” or some other similar childhood mishap. He’d say it to us in a surprisingly rapid-fire way that was designed to distract as much as find out what happened. Turns out he got it from his father, my grandpa John V. Ellsworth. I’ll forever associate with my own poppa, but good to know where it came from… In any event:

How’d ya hurt ya, | cut ya, burn ya, | scratch ya, dig ya, bite ya?

Lots of “dja” and “tcha” sounds end up getting mixed in there which always made it a pleasure to hear.

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Dr. Horrible

In case you haven’t already heard about this somewhere else, be sure and check it out quickly as it goes away the 20th. There is an FAQ to explain what it is if you are interested.

Dr. Horrible

Gotta love NPH and the guy from Firefly!!

***EDIT – Thanks to Suzanne for pointing out this sing-a-long!***

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iPhone 3G Straight Talk

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This and that and some pictures…

This: I had a thought last night. When Colin was first learning to talk he called all berries boobahdees. Eventually he only associated that term with blueberries and finally he used the term boobahdee fuffin quite frequently. It was definitely the cutest thing he said consistently during the earlier stages of talking. I love it so much that I often use it as an endearment for both him and Hannah. So, I’m curious, would I be a bad mom if I specifically taught Hannah to say this instead of blueberry muffin when she first starts learning? I guess she will come out with something adorable of her own.

That: Matt will kill me, but I had to tell this story. He was sitting in the oversized chair with his feet up and Hannah sort of beneath him asleep on the bouncy. He farted, quite loudly, and startled the crap out of Hannah. So bad I don’t think she would have gotten back to sleep even if I hadn’t taken her to get her diaper changed and get ready for actual bed time. It was REALLY funny, poor girl being awoken by her daddy’s gas.

Finally, some pictures. The kiddos helped me cook lasagna last night. It was tasty even with the veggies I put in. I do recommend adding a layer of butternut squash to your next lasagna.

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What’s in a name?

So I feel from my experience that in general people tend to like the same name. If two people like the name Fred, then if one suggests another name they like than the other person will most times like it as well.

Here are my examples, funny how they are all Ellsworth related, I guess because the Ellsworth names are pretty classic/popular, so maybe that is more what’s going on…

1. Older son was Zachary (sp?), younger son was Jake.
2. Older son was Matthew, younger son was Zachary.

Ok, so it isn’t a lot of examples, but kind of an interesting coincidence.

We met Matthew (2.5) and Zach (5 months) at the park today for a Pig Pen play group. This was a group of moms getting their under 3 sons together to play and get dirty. Sadly Colin’s injury means he isn’t interested in the slides and such, which isn’t a surprise. He was also pretty easy to cry over toys at the park. Colin spent the entire time playing with 2 year old Rex’s toys. Rex has a brother name Beck (7 months). Very unique names for those boys.

We are looking forward to meeting up with these boys again next week!

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