Rozey Thorn Trees

I referenced Arnold Schwarzenegger having played Hamlet in a parody of Shakespeare's play: Student: Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger? Sigh. I'm old. It reminds me of a time long ago when I stunned my middle school substitute teacher by asking, "Who are The Beatles?" He nearly fainted...

I called Laura at her work because I had searched all over the kitchen and couldn't find the Girl Scout S'mores cookie package I bought a couple days ago from my cousin: Laura: Really? You have to ask? Seriously?... Me: Oh, no! I was afraid of that! Laura:  Uh, excuse me, but have we not met? Shall I reintroduce myself to you?  –  "Hello, I'm Laura, your very pregnant wife who you left alone with a box of Girl Scout cookies, like two days ago. What were you expecting!..." Me: (pained laughter) Hahahaha!... Laura: Besides, they weren't very good anyway. Me: Noooo! That's even worse! If they're not good, then you don't eat them; you leave them for me to eat them! Laura: (evil scornful laughter) Hahahaha!...

My wife has a prenatal care checkup coming up: Laura: Is there anything I should ask the doctor tomorrow? Me: Uh, yes. What to name our baby. We knew a few months ahead of time that we would name our first born, Sophia. But with our second born, we searched every possible girl name to finally decide on Thalia just at the last moment when the nurse handed us the clipboard. Now we fear we're just not going to name our third baby at all. Nope. We got nuthin'...

My AncestryDNA results came in! Wow! It was pretty exciting pouring over the details last night. Fascinating to see that my ethnic heritage is quite multi-cultural, some of which I predicted based on what I had been told growing up, and some of it quite surprising: 35% Native American (Mexican/Peruvian roots, I presume) 22% Iberian Peninsula (My Old World Spanish/Portuguese roots) 18% Italian/Greek (La famiglia!) 12% Ireland (What? Irish? Haha! Didn't see that coming. Laura said she's going to buy me a "Luck of the Irish" T-shirt. Awesome.) 5% Middle Eastern (I would have guessed more than that for some reason.) 4% Northern and Southeastern African (Very cool!) And the rest are trace results from various other parts of the globe. I look forward to learning more about it as I talk to family members. I read on someone's blog that Ancestry.com "is very broad, but also very shallow, its accuracy limited to four generations, great-great-grandparents. This is beca...