The Cat's Meow

So my mom's new husband is a meterologist. Not the kind on TV, some other kind. Apparently he can't get enough of the weather at work, he has to obsess over weather maps online at home too. He acts like a little kid when we are going to get a big snowstorm...which we did today. My mom, on the other hand, dreads snowstorms, because she's a fraidycat about driving to and from work in it. I don't know why, she's been doing it for years. I personally think she just can't slow down enough even in snow to keep from sliding all over. Well today she told me how awful it is that her hubby thinks snow is the cat's meow while she loathes it so much. She asked him which he liked more, snow or her. He said he'd think about it and still hasn't gotten back to her.

I'd say we have about 6 inches so far and it's still falling pretty steadily.

Stretchin

Stretchin
Originally uploaded by Pooqueen.

Doesn't he look pooped?

States I've Visited

This is a fun little game. 

create your own visited states map
or check out these Google Hacks.

A fun day with Nathan waiting for Daddy to arrive home from his business trip. Everyone says he looks exactly like his dad and not a thing like me, but he does have my blue eyes. 

dooce: The Beginning of the End of All This Talk About My Boobs

dooce: The Beginning of the End of All This Talk About My Boobs

This is an extremely well written and insightful blog kept by a woman who recently had a baby and is suffering from post-pardom depression. She left a very successful career and writes about how overwhelmed she feels caring for her baby. Some of her posts have struck a chord in me. At a time when I have been wrestling with the idea of weaning Nathan, I read this post and understood exactly how she felt nursing her baby for the last time.

WIL WHEATON DOT NET

I just stumbled across this site and it is rediculously hilarious. Just read the part where it says, "if this is your first time on this site, click here." I died laughing. Too bad he's a flaming liberal. I'm glad some of these liberal bloggers are actually really good writers and so funny. One of my best childhood friends, Theia DeLong, had a huge crush on Wil Wheaton when that Star Trek show was running. She was pretty much a sci-fi geek.

WIL WHEATON DOT NET

Knowledge is like manure

I just read the funniest quote from a woman who I really look up to and respect in my industry. She said, "Knowledge is like manure, it's only good if you spread it around." If you're not in our business you might find that disgusting but we love to talk about poo, especially when it is well treated and put to good use fertilizing farmland. Her name is Lynn Orphan and she has risen to the position of President of the Water Environment Federation for 2005 at a relatively young age. She is a consulting engineer from Nevada and she has two daughters who she clearly adores. I have had the pleasure of spending time with her at many industry functions and she is a genuinely nice person. She has always made time to talk to me and encouraged my efforts in our trade association. Her position requires her to be away from home a huge amount of time for four years so she must be dedicated and I'm sure she makes time for her girls. Anyway...here's to Lynn!

WEF - Public Information - WEF Leadership - Lynn Orphan

Hook 'em Horns

Days like these I have to look at pictures like this one and smile, because there's not much else to smile about. Mike is away and we are getting significant accumulation of snow, which I will have to clear if I want to go anywhere tomorrow. There's stuff with the business that's not good but I can't go into that here. And I just talked to my good friend who's only 40 and has terminal cancer. I wish there were something I could do to comfort her more than just telling her I'm praying for her.

I didn't find anything to comment on in the news today because the local news doesn't cover anything except weather and traffic during snowstorms. The only other thing I know is that the Pope is in the hospital again and had a trachiotomy. Which makes me remember a funny conversation I had with my former boss about how the Pope has been walking death for years and when is he just gonna die and how do they pick a new Pope. My former boss is Catholic so I didn't feel bad being so sacreligious since he was pretty much the one joking about it. Remembering that bums me out too because I miss those conversations so much and I can't talk to him anymore what with his company suing me. UGH!  

The Deep Freeze

The Deep Freeze

I'm just testing out the Blog This! feature. Let's see how this works.

Juiced

I just need to get this off my chest. Jose Canseco is an ass. The man is clearly lying about something, even if it's not about who is using steroids in baseball. He can't answer questions in a straightforward manner. He's sketchy. He has obviously been coached by his publisher to always drop a teaser in his interviews about the next big bombshell. First I saw interviews a couple months ago about the book that hadn't even been written yet. He wouldn't say what was going to be in the book, just that everyone would be shocked. Now that the book is out, he says all the people who are saying he is lying will be silenced in a month when something else happens. It turns out that something else is a Pay-per-view event of him taking a polygraph test. Talk about a moneygubbing jerk! I'm sure it's true there are plenty of baseball players using steroids. But if I have to watch Canseco sensationalize his life in one more interview, I'm going to hurl.

Google this!

Have you ever tried to "Google" someone you know? How about "Googling" yourself? It can be kinda fun to see where you pop up in cyberspace. Who'd have thought the name of this little search engine would become such a well known verb. Recently I googled my grandfather because I couldn't remember if his name, Stanley, was spelled with and 'e' or without. I figured that since he is an accomplished expert in the field of chemical separations he might pop up. He did turn up on the University of Houston website where he teaches, but more interestingly I found a website dedicated to my late uncle, Melvin Stanley Marple, composed by some guy I had never heard of before. I still have no idea what the connection between this computer guy who lives in Israel and my uncle is. It's amazing how the internet connects us. After that surprising find, I decided to google myself. First I was astonished by the number of Sarah Hubbells in this world. More to my surprise was the number of hits that actually referred to me. Mostly either from my former emloyer's webpage or my involvment with the Water Environment Federation. But there were some definate surprises. Like one from my church's website announcing when I had nursery duty. And one from my college alumni association. Who knows what you can find if you really dig. I googled my husband and found one reference that was actually him quoting something about using SAP in a case study of his company on the SAP website. Imagine that! News to me. Then I started googling all sorts of people. People that I used to be friends with and don't know where they are anymore. People I would expect to have something published about them. Since my sister is in the news all the time there were thousands of references to her. I guess being a spokesperson a conservative lobbying group will do that. So give it a try. The best way to do it is to put the persons full name in quotes. Go Google yourself!

Me too, me too!!

Being the politically aware person that I am, I have been hearing about the world of "the bloggers" ever since the presidential primaries last spring. Here I thought these blogs were maintained by professional journalists. Silly me! Imagine my surprise when my husband came home from work one day and announced that he had a blog! It's not bad either. So, not to be outdone, I have created this blog. Please keep in mind that I spend most of my time talking to a 5 month old so my once sharp and insightful mind has been severely dulled of late. Hence the lack of a creative name for my blog. I hope that taking the time to compose these posts will help rectify that situation. I will welcome comments, positive or negative, as long as they are thoughtful and not base or profane.

Nathan

Supernanny

One of my favorite new shows on TV, Supernanny, is on right now. Unfortunately each week the plot is very similar, with the same techniques being taught to each new chaotic family. Many of these techniques for discipline I have already learned from various books, but I like seeing them in practice. My favorite reference guide in learning how to handle him has been "On Becoming Babywise".