Lunch break.

I whisked my husband away for a pedicure (he was mortified, but I have to say his feet feel great!) and a sushi lunch today.

I mean, don’t you think a pedicure every 50 years seems like the least you can do for your feet?

50 quotes w/50

Don’t ask me why. If I told you, I’d have to kill you. Shhhh.

Fifty percent of people won’t vote, and fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal

Obviously there will be a sense of achievement… I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K Rowling

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.
Babe Ruth

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.
Sophia Loren

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
Tom Lehrer

I’ve only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
Harry Caray

Nobody expects to trust his body over much after the age of fifty.
Alexander Hamilton

Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.
Texas Guinan

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
Dwight Moody

It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fifty years from now I’ll be just three inches of type in a record book.
Brooks Robinson

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there’s only one, and that’s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Andre Malraux

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings

Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach–fifty miles, looking southward from the highest peak.
Bret Harte

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
Jules Verne

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm
Bill Vaughan

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter Lippmann

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter J Lippmann

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian

Fifty percent of people won’t vote, fifty percent don’t read newspapers. I hope it’s the same fifty percent.
Gore Vidal

Obviously there will be a sense of achievement… I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K Rowling

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.
Babe Ruth

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.
Tom Lehrer

I’ve only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
Harry Caray

Nobody expects to trust his body over much after the age of fifty.
Alexander Hamilton

Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.
Texas Guinan

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.
Dwight Moody

It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won’t speak to me for fifty minutes.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Fifty years from now I’ll be just three inches of type in a record book.
Brooks Robinson

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there’s only one, and that’s to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Andre Malraux

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.
Josh Billings

Snow. Everywhere. As far as the eye could reach–fifty miles, looking southward from the highest peak.
Bret Harte

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
Tony Benn

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.
Jules Verne

A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm
Bill Vaughan

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter Lippmann

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter J Lippmann

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Anatole France

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
Knute Rockne

Love is two minutes fifty-two seconds of squishing noises. It shows your mind isn’t clicking right.
Johnny Rotten

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry – that’s Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island.
Johnny Carson

God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.
J.D. McCoughey

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
H. L. Mencken

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.
Sophia Loren

For certain people after fifty, litigation takes the place of sex.
Gore Vidal

If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn’t be enough left to run it.
Henry Ford

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
Dave Barry

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming… suddenly you find – at the age of 50, say – that a whole new life has opened before you.
Agatha Christie

Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that’s back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
Calvin Trillin

Biology has at least 50 more interesting years.
James D. Watson

Happy Birthday, Honey.

Magenta.

When I’m feeling blue (no pun intended) or out of sorts, I often find myself looking through old pictures. I don’t know why exactly, but it calms me. Since my memory is so good, I can almost feel what I felt when the photo was taken in the first place.

Take this photo. We were at Kings Dominion. It was about 5 years ago… Reed will be 11 next week and you can see how little he was here. This was the first season that the Blues Clues house was there. The lines were long. Really, really long. And yet, for Reed, we waited.

He was so happy to be there. To sit in the chair and check the mail and see Blue. But I remember when he came out, he told me that ‘that wasn’t Steve.’ He wasn’t upset, really. It was matter-of-fact. And he was right. It wasn’t Steve.

I didn’t have the heart to tell him it wasn’t really Blue either.

So Blue has a friend named Magenta. I love the color magenta.

Did you know the dye for this deep purplish red color was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I?

Me neither.

But I do know that I took an intense memory test yesterday where I had to memorize three sets of 30 words with different activities in between to test what I remembered after each interval. It was for a research project that Davis is doing for his long-term science project.

I only remember a subset of those words 24 hours later:

Veto
Electrician
Overruled
Parisian
Italian
President
feline
canine
avian
equestrian
Appalachia
insolent
ruby
topaz
Yemen
Vietnam
koala
cheetah

and….

Magenta.

Reading material.

You have stuff to read in the bathroom. I know you do. Don’t deny it.

I did a survey of our ‘reading material’ and here goes:

In the ‘powder room’ on the main floor:

• 8 back issues of Sports Illustrated for Kids
• 3 issues of Mslexia
• Guinness Book of World Records – Mysteries and Marvels
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Rodrick Rules
• Supercars
• Whodunit Crime Puzzles
• Simpsons Comics #136

In the ‘adult’ bathroom:

• Miriam’s Kitchen (Hey Mom, is this yours? I can return it. If you don’t mind it’s been in the bathroom, that is.)
• Concourse A mystery I can’t seem to finish.
• Atlantic Magazine, June 2008
• Passionate Sex (I can’t find the link. Must not have been a best-seller! It was sent to us by a client when we did research for him regarding a new product. Seriously. I could not make this up. But I also should add that I haven’t read it. And yet, it sits there. Hmmm.)

Now, what do you have in yours? Inquiring minds want to know!