Quotable Friday
“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you,
not knowing how blind that was.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.”
Go To The Circus… and Help Some Children!
BananaBlueberry wants everyone to know about a special night at the circus that is coming up!
It’s the 13th Annual Children’s Premiere Night-
Tickets are discounted and proceeds go to Friends of the Clinical Center, The Children’s Inn at NIH and Special Love for Children with Cancer!
You can print this page and send it in with your money for the tickets,
or email my friend, AND MOTHER OF 5 BOYS (Woo, Woo), Mary Jane at
She’ll answer any questions and can even meet you somewhere
with your tickets.
She’ll answer any questions and can even meet you somewhere
with your tickets.
Join us for the 13th Annual Children’s Premiere Night !
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at the Verizon Center
6:00 pm – All Access Pre-show
7:00 pm – The Main Event
You won’t hear about this on the radio or television because this night is only for special
invitees from the NIH R&W…and you and your friends and family are invited!!
Proceeds benefit Friends of the Clinical Center, The Children’s Inn at NIH and
Special Love for Children with Cancer
Plus, help provide free tickets to over 3,000 needy children from area hospitals and social service
agencies! The Children’s National Medical Center, Ronald McDonald House, Howard University
Hospital, Bethesda Cares, The Dwelling Place, Linkages to Learning, Boys & Girls Clubs, St. Ann’s Infant
& Maternity Home, and the Marie H. Reed Community Learning center identify children who would benefit
most.
______________________________________________________________________________________
Circus Ticket Order Form
Name:_______________________________________________ Phone:___________________
Address:_____________________________________________ E-mail:___________________
□ Count me in! I will purchase _____ tickets at $ 24 (regular ticket price is $35)level 100
□ I will purchase _____ tickets at $ 14 (regular ticket price is $18)level 400
□ Front Row _____ tickets at $ 60 (regular ticket price is $75)
□ Circus Celebrity ____ tickets at $ 90 (regular ticket price is $110)
□ I will sponsor ___tickets for needy kids at a cost of $ 15 per child for a total of $_____
Please make checks payable to R&W Foundation
Mail your check and order form to Friends of the Clinical Center, PO Box 340139, Bethesda, MD 20827
Questions? E-mail Heidi Grolig at groligh@mail.nih.gov
Friends of the Clinical Center is a 501(c) non profit organization providing emergency financial aid to patients of the
National Institutes of Health and their families.
What to Always Have in Your Home, a.k.a.- What I Learned from the Snowpocalypse
Well, we all made it through… the DC Snowpocalypse of 2010…
Mister Rogers Rocks! Vote For Your Favorite Episode!
I love Mister Rogers! He basically Rocks!
I mean, what’s not to love? He plays pretend, always gets into ‘comfortable clothes’, has snacks, and visits cool neighbors!
Do you love Mister Rogers? Of course you do!
So celebrate his birthday by voting for your favorite Mr. Rogers episode!
PBSKIDS is providing the opportunity to vote for a favorite episode of MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD. Voters can choose from seven favorite MISTER ROGERS episodes available at www.PBSKIDS.org/rogers. The winning episode will broadcast on-air and online on Saturday March 20th, celebrating Fred Rogers’ birthday.
Along with voting for a favorite episode, you may also be interested in the never before-seen clips, behind the scenes moments and outtakes from MISTER ROGERS NEIGHBORHOOD online at www.pbs.org/video.
Happy Birthday Mr. Rogers!
Sledding- Thanks to Bulldozing Snow!
Well, the impossible has happened.
Pigs must be flying,
And Hell must be frozen over…
because-
my son is able to SLED down this HUGE mound of snow in our flat front yard,
thanks to the BULLDOZERS, yes, BULLDOZERS that plowed our street and covered every front yard with literally, walls of snow.
Everybody’s yard, lawn and landscaping is shot…
But that is another post, for another day…
The kids on our street are happy !
Quotable Friday
“I am the greatest… I said that even before I knew I was.”
Believe in Yourself
I’m Reminded of Just How Incredibly CHEESE-TASTIC The 80’s Were
While my son played with Letter People, I accidentally turned on the ‘Sounds of the Seasons’ channel on our TV; I usually turn on ‘Light Classical’ during the day. Valentine’s Day/Romantic songs were playing on this channel- okay, appropriate, I thought, although Valentine’s Day was pretty much a non-event this year with over 3 feet of snow on the ground.
With ‘romantic music’ playing low in the background, while I straightened up the kitchen and my son played in our computer room/playroom/pretend-classroom I noticed something:
EVERY song I heard was from the ’80’s…
and I was taken back… and realized that the ’80’s were… CHEESE-TASTIC !
LIONEL RICHIE had a GREAT decade, in terms of commercial success,
so did Linda Ronstadt, (I heard lots of their songs 
and do you remember… GLORIA LORING?! She was on ‘Days of Our Lives’ and sang, ‘Friends and Lovers’… she also sang the theme song to ‘Facts of Life’ and was married to Alan Thicke… who knew?!
Do you remember the band, Sheriff ?? They sang the ‘power ballad’- ‘When I’m With You’…
The ’80’s were great… And I’m so GLAD they are over.
Ugh- did you hear though that Shoulder Pads are back??!!
That’s 1 trend I’m not doing again,
Just remember,
Don’t Let Your Child Stack Magnets on Your Laptop…
I’m back online, ahhhhhhh.
Something I learned during the snowstorm: Tell your children that it is a rule not to put magnets on your laptop.
Yep, my son put these TINY magnets on my MacBook and POOF! It Broke.
Long Story Short: The employees at the Apple Store are fantastic and gave me instructions on how to install a new hard drive and recover my files from my old hard drive- I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t do any of this- my husband did.
FYI- Apple will install a new hard drive for you for $210. This is not a crazy price, but you can easily buy a very good hard drive for under a $100 and install it yourself. The hard part was ‘recovering’ my old files from my broken hard drive. APPLE WILL NOT DO THIS. And I understand why now: We recovered MOST of my files, but not all of them. Apple basically doesn’t want the headache of customers saying, “But 3 out of the 350 files didn’t come through.” They don’t want to be in that game. And they don’t have to be. I don’t blame them. And like I said, they will tell YOU how to do it… And just one more thing: make an appointment online or call beforehand- then you don’t have to wait!
And just to reiterate:
No Magnets on Laptops!
Make it a Rule in Your House-
Quotable Friday
“NO MORE SNOW!”
After 3 feet of snow has fallen within a week here in the DC Area,
I say,
no more…
I’m done with you, snow.
Stop Saying North Dakota Gets This All The Time!
Washington DC Area.
Here we are in our 2nd blizzard WITHIN a week.
I have lived here all my life and cannot remember EVER getting this much snow.
We have survived a power outage, and my laptop hard drive breaking (FYI- don’t let your children put magnets on your laptop… yes, I’m serious).
I’m content with the exception of 1 thing-
I wish commentators and reporters on TV would stop saying things like,
“Ya know, people in say, ‘North Dakota’ get this all the time.”
MY RESPONSE:
“Yes, I know they get a lot of snow. But we usually don’t. And people in North Dakota have the right tools for snow removal and survival. Even in Cleveland they have whole departments set up for snow removal, we don’t. Everyone has a 4-wheel drive in North Dakota, I think it may be a state law even. Not everyone here has a 4-wheel drive…like us for instance.”
DCers: Hunker Down and Stay Warm!
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