The Schmidt House

This morning little man went to Sunday school, during class he was asked to pray for something. He prayed for his team to win their hockey game tonight. Well, the Wolverines won and JG somehow or another managed to score 5, yes 5 goals. It's like something finally clicked. On the way home we called Gramma Sharon to share the news. "Yeah, Gramma guess what? Praying really does work, we won." He paused. "' cept doesn't work all the time cause I still didn't get the Webkinz turtle."

Yesterday when I sat down at my desk a little unassuming email from Sysadmin@mail came through with the Subject: Notification. The email stated: You have been assigned to the following workflow step: Message: The document GE10000085 has been put on hold Workflow Name: invoice_SugarWorkflow Step: First_Approval Content Item: Invoice 2 (GE10000085) Little did I know that that this email would eventually bring the corporate email to a near meltdown. People began hitting "Reply All" and that is when the real fun began. By then end of the day each of the 60,000 employees had received between 250-300 emails in their Inbox. It started slowly with a few folks telling everyone in the world they didn't know why they were receiving the email, then the quandary turned to frustration to the "Reply All" onslaught. Next people began telling EVERYONE TO QUIT REPLYING TO EVERYONE in at least 5 different languages that I saw. These then became angry emails, I believe one stat...

The other night at dinner my friend Sue mentioned that she likes the music I add to the Schmidt blog - she especially liked the litte tune by Peter, Bjorn and John awhile back. So... I had this elaborate plan that I was going to do something like a little New Music Monday. But as you know, Monday has come and gone and it is now Thursday and I really don't think New Music Thursday has the same je ne sais quoi as New Music Monday. Maybe I just like "New Music Monday", because it reminds me of "New Moon on Monday" - vintage Duran Duran - 'nother story, 'nother day. Then I got to thinking - it is cold, too blasted cold and where would I rather be than where I am freezing my tookis off? The answer came to me: somewhere warm on a beach, with my book, little foo foo drink and just hanging out listening to the "Just relax will ya?" playlist on the iPod when I couldn't get this little song out of my head because it is Track 1 on the playlist - quite...

Today JG learned about Martin Luther King Jr. in school in celebration of MLK Day on Monday. I thought it was amazing that: 1. They discussed it kindergarten 2. JG wanted to talk about what he had learned, we all know how forthcoming he has been in the past. So I asked, "So what did you learn today about MLK?" JG sat there a moment, reflecting on what his teacher had shared. "Well, he lived a long time ago and it was really sad cause he was poor when he was little like me. Then there was something about a bus." "Do you remember?" Pause. "Oh, yeah. He said, 'MOVE THAT BUS !'" Close. At least we had a bus, then movement of someone on the bus (later identified as Rosie by JG, which was corrected to Rosa Parks by the 4th grader - AE). We reviewed the non-JG slant of facts at dinner and all seemed well in the world of history by JG.

Yesterday morning on the way out AE mentioned that she wanted to get a new "dog" on her Nintendo DS. She has the "Dogs" game and evidently wants to branch out into new dog breeds. "You know mom, NB (JG's buddy) has the other Dogs game and on there it has the dog I want." "Which one is that?" I asked. "You know one of those Suburbian Huskies." I told AE they really Siberian Husky, but origin is of little consequence to AE, she just wants one "super bad".

I am a complete Jane Austen junkie, in fact I think that I need to maybe seek help. Shelly tells me I need help and we all know Shel tells it like it is, so it must be true. "Hello, my name is Susan and I love Jane. Jane Austen." I read "Pride and Prejudice", annually. Yes, every year I spend a weekend with Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy. Now that I think about it I may need to skip my little tradition this year because I have so many other never read books piled up and there is a due date looming from the library. The reason I share this closeted truth with you my friends is because there is a TV event starting this weekend on PBS. It is basically the 10 weeks of Jane, every Sunday night PBS will air a adaptation of Jane Austen's novels. Here is the schedule. So, if you have never had the opportunity to get to know Jane, maybe it is time. Think about it, there is no new TV, it's cold out and you can learn new some new sayings for Monday. Nothing ...

Was listening to the new, old iPod this a.m. and this little tune I haven't listened to for awhile made an appearance at just the right time. This week has been insane, we have a basketball tourney today, but first I must do slides for a presentation @ 8:00 a.m. Monday morning to a bunch of VPs, deep cleansing breath. It's just a ride, it's just a ride... Happy Weekend my friends.