Monthly Archives: September 2008

The Charity Smackdown* Is ON!

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DonorsChoose.org is a fantastic web site that helps fund micro-grants in classrooms, written by teachers, funded by people who care, and they are working hard to get lots of proposal funded in the month of October. They are challenging bloggers to get the word out and see who gets more projects funded: the tech guys vs. the mommies! GO!

 

Here’s the post I put up on LA Moms Blog about it. Check it out and if you do decide to fund any of the projects, please click through our LA Moms link so we can whip the tech bloggers’ butts track how effective our challenge has been. 

 

(*”Charity Smackdown” from this article on CNN Money.)
An original post by Sarah Auerswald.

Finally! It’s About Time They Found It!

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Here’s the headline in the LA Times that caught my eye this morning:

UCLA mathematicians discover a 13-million-digit prime number

 

And here’s the first sentence:
“UCLA mathematicians appear to have won a $100,000 prize from the Electronic Frontier Foundation for discovering a 13-million-digit prime number that has long been sought by computer users. ”

 

I mean, I don’t know about YOU, but I’VE been seeking it for YEARS. Probably ever since I even STARTED using a computer.

 

So I’m taking the rest of the day off.
(Read the whole story here.)
An original post by Sarah Auerswald.

Reptilian Face-Lift

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So our snake, Commander Cody, had been looking a little pekid not so good, and quite frankly I was worried about the worst-case scenario: snake funeral proceedings.

 

But, not to worry! It was simply the need to shed that was getting the little 0-legged guy down!
Snake skin
Close-up: can you see the eye spots? Cool, huh?
Snake skin CU
And now he’s done it and feels much better, apparently. (Whew!)
Fresh snake
Sneaky guy, he did it while we were all sleeping.
An original post by Sarah Auerswald.

An Evening of Memoir, And Of Inspiration

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This evening I went to Village Books in Pacific Palisades to hear the author Myra Shapiro read from her memoir, “Four Sublets: Becoming a Poet in New York.”

This is a delicious, heartbreakingly honest book, so well written it feels like you’re on the journey of self-discovery with her. Hearing her read from it is a treat not to be missed if she comes to your town on tour, for she’s a terrific storyteller and she’s got a killer sense of humor. I highly recommend it to all moms, but also to anyone on a voyage of self-discovery. Sublime!

 

I know this author because she is the mother of 2 friends of mine, one a woman I went to college with almost 25 years ago and the other a woman I’ve worked with much more recently, but I also know this author because she is a mother who, when her children were grown, began to live her life on her own terms, for herself.

 

I don’t have children going off to college. No, quite the opposite: my youngest just started Kindergarten for god’s sake. But I share with her the longing for an outlet for my self that I think any mother can.

 

What I have at my disposal, that Myra Shapiro did not, is this blog, and the entire virtual world it inhabits, that are, for me, that outlet on a small scale. It is a different era, and I am truly grateful to be in it.

 

I won’t be moving to New York to take poetry workshops any time soon, for many reasons, but because I can blog like this when I want to and when I need to, I probably won’t want to move away when my kids do go off to school. 

 

I only hope that I can come close to being as good a writer as she is by then. And that I can keep my sense of humor.
An original post by Sarah Auerswald.

 

Mirena! (Sung To The Tune Of “The Love Boat”)

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Mirena box
Mirena, Mirena, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways:

 

1. No pills to take.

 

2. No shots to get.

 

3. No mess, no fuss.

 

4. No unwanted pregnancies.

 

Ladies and gentleman: I am a 46-year-old monogamously married woman with 2 children who is finished with childbearing, thank you very much. I’m doing the responsible thing and insuring, to the best of my ability, that I will never again need to pee on a stick.

 

Oh, and 

 

5. No more periods.

 

Change it out once every 5 years and you’re good to go. I highly recommend it!
An original post by Sarah Auerswald.

Conflict Of Interest? Nah.

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See I’m doing a weight loss program these days, inspired by lots of factors, including a friend who lost 20 pounds last Spring. But I’ve been facilitated in this effort this time by my latest addiction: social media, specifically Twitter.

 

A woman named Audrey created The Tweightloss challenge on Twitter and I jumped on board. We’re grouped into teams and we support each other that way — and guess what, my team won this week’s challenge! Team Twinners rules!

 

Anyway, some might ask why I would bother posting about the free ice cream day tomorrow. I have no problem with this. Personally.
An original post by Sarah Auerswald.