LadyGypsy.net – the blog of Kimberly Dowd of New Jersey

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Ew.

I turned where I always turn for girly advice (the internet) and apparently I’m supposed to use a base coat under dark colors. Good thing Fairy Teal has a base built in. Which didn’t work. Well, now I know. In the meantime I’m leaving them polish free and trying to hide my Statue of Liberty fingernails.

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The dogs don’t eat unless I’m home. Even on the days that WM isn’t subbing and is home with them all day, they only eat when I’m there. I guess it’s a pack thing – that they’re not comfortable unless all of us are together. In any case, the “Mom’s home, let’s eat!” mentality is a bit disturbing. Charlie, on the other hand, eats constantly.

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Here’s a newish pet peeve of mine: When somebody wants you to do something for them (or more likely instead of them) so they stand in front of what needs to be done and announce it. Now this is acceptable if the human is a child…

Young child: “Oh! Oh! The phone is ringing!”

But what I mean is…

Grown-ass adult: “Oh! Oh! The printer is beeping! It says it needs paper!”

Yes they do, wee terrier. Yes they do.

do i hav 2 moov?

But the weekend itself wasn’t bad. On Saturday we went to the Franklin Institute and saw the Cleopatra exhibit. Two observations:

1) Most of the items on display were items that could have existed during Cleopatra’s reign. Cleopatra “may have used” this bowl.
2) There were placards about that urged us to share our experiences at the exhibit by Tweeting our friends (#Cleopatra), checking in with Foursquare (uh, no) and/or Facebook pages and taking mobile phone photos.

I can take photos? Cool!

Not Cleopatra

Not Cleopatra

Definitely NOT Cleopatra

Flashback!

The best part was a piece of papyrus with Cleopatra’s actual handwriting. She was ordering a tax break for Mark Antony’s friend. (sigh) The more things change…

After we were done with the exhibit, we went to the planetarium to see “The Sky Tonight.” I love the planetarium – I have since I went there on my 3rd grade field trip.

To the north of Leo, you can see the Douchebag Major constellation...

Then we saw the train room…

Come on ride the train, it's the choo-choo train!

Saw the giant pendulum…

Click the picture to learn more about the Foucault Pendulum

And zapped the hell out of each other in the Electricity room. No pictures of that because I was running for my life.

And because it was Space Week, there was a guest of dishonor…

There was a museum guest — a grown man — dressed as a Jedi, light saber and all. I wanted to tell him that the big ComicCon was actually 2 hours north. I mean really, this is a science museum. That was just weird.

Many thanks to Groupon for letting us snag tickets for half-price, too.

I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, but we’ve been hit with quite a bit of snow over the last week. The last storm that hit was over the past weekend, and it was lovely being snowed in without having to worry about work!

This is a park bench.

This is a dog who likes snow. The other dog does not like snow so he is back in the apartment while we play.

It's cold and wet, but gorgeous.

The roads were plowed well AND in a timely fashion — our South Jersey towns got bashed soundly after the December storm for rotten road conditions. The sun was shining, and the snow started to melt. Ah. A little snow is good for the soul, yes?

Yes. But another blizzard three days later is not so fun. This is the scene out my window now:

Ugh.

The warnings on this one are so dire (life-threatening! pack a survival kit if you drive!) that the Courier-Post actually let us out at 12-noon today. They’ve never done that in the 10 years I’ve been there!

I have to go to work tomorrow or else I won’t get paid, but I’m completely enjoying my paid snow day today!

(Sorry for the absence from the blog. Time is FLYING. Back now.)