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Marcia is Amused.: I made mini meatloaves for dinner and I put cumin in the loaves and...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:04:44 -0400

Marcia is Amused.: I made mini meatloaves for dinner and I put cumin in the loaves and...:

I made mini meatloaves for dinner and I put cumin in the loaves and added hoisin, garlic, and soy sauce to my ketchup glaze and dear god these were delicious.

(2 eggs, 1/2 c bread crumbs, garlic, 1 c diced onions, s&p, oregano, thyme, and cumin. And whatever other spices look awesome. Mix. Add 1…

Yeah, just made this and it is delicious.

ellpea: phantasypunk replied to your post: So I just got a voicemail from a librarian in… ...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:37:37 -0400

ellpea:

phantasypunk replied to your post: So I just got a voicemail from a librarian in…

Digital story time, you say? Do tell.

OHMIGOSH it was the best ever. Our normal storytimes are half an hour but this one was 45 minutes to add in a bit of teaching. For the most part it was a regular storytime but the catch was that everything was digital. We hooked our laptop up to the digital projector thingie which projected onto the big screen on the wall. Our music was from Overdrive as well as one of the books. We did two books through tumblebooks, and a handful of fingerplays through youtube. Before every element I gave a short lesson what I was doing (long enough to hopefully make sense but short enough that I didn’t lose the kids), “This next book we’re going to read through Tumblebooks! Tumblebooks is a database the library subscribes to so you can find these right on our website under resources then it’s all alphabetical so if you scroll down to T you can click on Tumblebooks!” Then the next time I used that same resource I expanded a little on that explanation. “We’re reading this book in English but Tumblebooks has a great Spanish selection as well as some super fun nonfiction books that you can sort by reading level and they even have Accelerated Reader information for all their titles!”

After the storytime was over I invited anyone with questions to stay behind and I would run them through anything they wanted. My coworker brought in a basket of big trucks and dinosaurs to keep kids happy while I showed the parents exactly how to find tumblebooks and showed 2 families how Overdrive works with their devices (everyone was already good on how to use Youtube). It was awesome.

So I just got a voicemail from a librarian in Virginia who wanted information about one of my...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:10:32 -0400

So I just got a voicemail from a librarian in Virginia who wanted information about one of my programs and in my head I’m thinking, “My Digital Storytime? Circulating preloaded ereaders? The Early Literacy Summer Reading Club just for babies?” No - she wants to know about my book club for 3rd - 5th graders. Ugh - can’t we talk about a program I’ve done that was wildly successful instead of the one that was just me begging kids to show up?

FINALLY A PRONUNCIATION WAR WORTH FIGHTING! Does AT-AT rhyme...

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:36:00 -0400

FINALLY A PRONUNCIATION WAR WORTH FIGHTING! Does AT-AT rhyme with cat-cat or do you pronounce every letter separately (Ay-tea, ay-tea)?

(background from the internet, “AT-AT is pronounced “at-at” in Force Commander and Galactic Battlegrounds. They are also called “A-T-A-T”s briefly in Rogue Squadron II. In Star Wars Battlefront II both terms are used. However, in Star Wars Battlefront I, it is pronounced “A-T-A-T”)

mar-see-ah: It’s the Internet. Who gives a fuck if you’re saying “gif” or “jif” in your head while...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:42:17 -0400

mar-see-ah:

It’s the Internet. Who gives a fuck if you’re saying “gif” or “jif” in your head while you read a post on your phone in the bathroom.

My 4 year old tells jokes at dinner time

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:21:00 -0400

Pippa: why did the letters jump up and down?
LP: why?
P: this is a tricky one! Here is a clue. The answer is either the moon or the sun.
Kaylee: I don't know!
P: ODBEEously the answer is the moon.

yiaichenn: 221b-mine-please: pirenstoletheimpala: mycroft-queenofcake: iamjayse: thenerdfighterk...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:52:33 -0400

yiaichenn:

221b-mine-please:

pirenstoletheimpala:

mycroft-queenofcake:

iamjayse:

thenerdfighterkid:

slydig:

tsarbucks:

slydig:

dont be mean

be median or mode

damn math fandom bloggers

shut up we have a good range of jokes

this is our domain

guys we’re forgetting the point of this post and going off on a tangent

Are you all done cos I’ve had enough of this by now

Damn math fandom bloggers

shut your pi hole

These jokes are getting pretty derivative.

"I was born to save the Doctor."

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:37:55 -0400

“I was born to save the Doctor.”

- A minute thirty into the Doctor Who finale and I have already given it ALL THE EYE ROLLS.

spacetwinks: wanna become a popular, important book reviewer just so one day i can say someone...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:02:50 -0400

spacetwinks:

wanna become a popular, important book reviewer just so one day i can say someone writes ‘like a total wiener’ in a professional publication

Kaylee was all, “They shouldn’t have written it that...

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:50:26 -0400

Kaylee was all, “They shouldn’t have written it that way because someone will think they mean ‘it up mix’ when they really ‘mix it up!’”

So I told her that they wanted to MIX UP the order of the words and now she thinks it is the funniest pun in the whole wide world.

Cats II: The Cattening: TUMBLRS ASSEMBLE!

Mon, 20 May 2013 20:13:32 -0400

Cats II: The Cattening: TUMBLRS ASSEMBLE!:

kelsium:

As many of you know, our friend Rosa Sparks is having a real shit time of it lately. The most recent in a long string of personal upheavals is that the house where she and her daughter live was just robbed, and many of their personal belongings were taken. Rosa is about to start…

You know what I don’t get about all this Yahoo hoopla? IF you look at who might have bought...

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:11:25 -0400

You know what I don’t get about all this Yahoo hoopla? IF you look at who might have bought Tumblr -

If Facebook had bought it everyone would be complaining about how tumblr is DIFFERENT from Facebook and they need to stay different
If Google had bought it everyone would be complaining that THE MAN is just buying everything

…

That’s really all I’d heard of as possibilities but seriously - tumblr needs to make money somehow, someone was going to buy it - if not Yahoo, who were you hoping would buy it?

heretherebdragons: WHAT IS THIS? WHY ARE THESE NOT ALREADY IN...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:37:27 -0400

heretherebdragons:

WHAT IS THIS? WHY ARE THESE NOT ALREADY IN MY LIFE? OMG think of the epic battles I could have, pitting the cookie dinosaurs against one another. And then I’ll have them all kiss and make up and be friends. AND THEN I WILL EAT THEM! HAHAHAH!

I’m reblogging this for my friend Amanda.

Is anyone else having trouble with the Droid tumblr app seeming like it posts everything perfectly then cutting out all the captions on your pictures?

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:36:11 -0400

‘Cause I just went to fix that one of Kaylee’s chalk drawing and realized that Pippa’s graduation picture also lost it’s caption!

Pippa: Kaylee! Is that you? K: Of course not. Do I have yellow...

Sun, 19 May 2013 14:29:00 -0400

Pippa: Kaylee! Is that you?

K: Of course not. Do I have yellow hair?

P: Oh. Is it me?

K: Of course not! Do you have bangs? Or glasses?

P: Oh. Who is it?

K: Mommy.

LP: But I don’t have yellow hair. Or bangs. Or glasses.

K: Well, you’re wearing a wig and sunglasses. Duh!

Getting out of bed is for chumps!

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:45:22 -0400

Getting out of bed is for chumps!

Why doesn't anyone put their hoods up when they are beyond the wall?

Sat, 18 May 2013 00:33:06 -0400

Sam is so cold that his years are frozen on his cheeks but his hood is laying against his back.

My Gimpy Life Season Two

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:03:27 -0400

My Gimpy Life Season Two:

scaredystark:

More episodes of the award winning online comedy series MY GIMPY LIFE!

My Gimpy Life is an online comedy series created by and starring Teal Sherer, who is best known as “Venom” from Felicia Day’s The Guild. Loosely based on her real life, the show centers around Sherer’s awkward adventures as a disabled actress trying to navigate Hollywood in a wheelchair.

you should donate money to this

Oh oh oh oh! I love her so much!

Pippa’s preschool graduation dress! She’s been...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:35:00 -0400

Pippa’s preschool graduation dress! She’s been coveting this dress of Kaylee’s for ages and now it fits her!

Pokeproblems

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:06:14 -0400

Kaylee: Daddy promised me he’d get me some animals in Pokemon.
LP: I don’t know if you can call Pokemon “animals,” I mean … some of them are plants, some of them are rocks …
OP: Some of them are ice cream