min-myinnersoul

I have a few minutes to kill right now. I have to be at a baby shower in about 30 minutes but I am waiting on some blondies to bake...so I thought I would share the hubs little birthday celebration we had for him on Thursday. He turned 37 this year. He feels so old:o) I thought it would cheer him up to have a little family party with all of his favorite things. The kids colored this sign for him and I put it on the front door to greet him when he got home. Here was the goody table. We didn't actually have super that night:o) Just junk He really likes spicy things...I added a few snacks that the kids could tolerate:o) I made the party hats at the last minute. I have a Superman cricut cartridge and it had a party hat design. Super quick. I just drew 37's on all of them.   Here they are eating bacon...who doesn't love bacon??  I love this shot!  This was his "cake." Since I knew we were going to be loaded down on cake with E's party, I thought I would get a littl...

Even if you didn't suffer from aerophobia, there are some non trivial hazards of flying. Missing baggage for example. Or delayed or cancelled flights leaving you stranded in some god forsaken land. Some even allege deep vein thrombosis. Insomnia due to your neighbour's high affliction of stertor could be another. But even the most wildly imaginative sort could not have thought of adding "going to the loo" in that list. But it is now conclusively established that this is a real hazard. Consider the evidence. Last Sunday Frontier Airlines flight 623 from Denver to Detroit was escorted by F16 fighter jets. Why ?? Apparently two men and a women were seated in a three seater. One guy got up to go to the loo. The other guy stood up.  And the guy spent a "long time" there. That was it. F16s escorted the plane and on landing the three were handcuffed and led off to be questioned. The poor lady did nothing. She was simply sitting and yet was considered suspicious b...

We had a great time and are so thankful for those who helped us celebrate E's birthday. I can't wait to share it all with you on Monday....have a great weekend!!

Yet another rogue trader has emerged. This morning is ablaze with the news that UBS (a Swiss bank) could have lost some $2bn on account of the actions of one trader - Kweku Adoboli at its London office. Adoboli has been arrested last night and the details are only slowly emerging.  Nothing is proven as yet , but Adoboli might very well join his illustrious predecessors - Nick Leeson of Barings, Jerome Kerviel of Societe Generale, et al in the hall of Notoriety. Apparently the losses stemmed from the trader placing bets, using the banks'own money on something called Delta One - trading in financial instruments linked to exchange traded funds. To lose $2bn, the trader must have been trading staggering sums of money. Clearly UBS has egg on its face. Quite apart from the massive loss, questions will be asked about risk management in the bank. How could they let such a big loss build up. The question to be asked is what on earth banks are doing even indulging in such activities. They ar...

I can't wait for... our first REAL family pictures which will be taken on Friday. I am normally the one taking the family pics. It will be nice to have some one else do the hard work:o) I can't wait for.... the chance to take a breath, sit down and peruse the pages of these 2 catalogs. I can't wait for... the celebration to begin. I am looking forward to watching E and his little buddies have a great time at his party. It's going to be so much fun! I will be M.I.A. for the rest of the week. Hopefully I will see you back here Monday with some photos of the party!

Of all the great mysteries of the universe, none is more confounding than that of consumer behaviour. You would have thought that it shouldn't be an unfathomable mystery - after all you and I are consumers too.  But no. It is inarguably established that you can even hope to nail down the Higgs boson , but cannot begin to understand this mysterious creature called the consumer. Take the example of the Missoni collection and the outage at Target yesterday. Missoni is an outrageously priced design house - designing everything from clothes to patio sets each costing hundreds or thousands of dollars. I cannot imagine why anybody should pay thousands of dollars for something that is essentially similar and available for $49.99, but we shall pass over that lightly. Target is a discount store in the US. At first glance, its not sure what the two have in common - you would have expected that one would wrinkle its nose at the other and the other should be showing its finger at the worthy. ...

Today is a day for reflection and remembrance. Anything else would be inappropriate. Recommend browsing through today's special report in The New York Times titled The Reckoning . Perhaps the epitaph found on the graves of many who fell in the First World War might be equally befitting. "Their names live forever more".