happy birthday, dear

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 this...is...SO...totally...me.


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When I first moved to Northern California, roughly ten years ago, I remember spending a lot of my time feeling miserably cold.  Everywhere I went, it seemed I was slogging uphill on foot through endless rain, rain, rain.  (We didn't have much of that "rain" thing back home in Southern California, yo.)

I realized today that I seem to have fully ( Read more... )

there is just something about being told tales of how someone was thinking of you and it made their head spin that magically banishes silly insecurities and aims a big middle finger squarely at Mercury and its retrograde communications-skewing evil. for the record, though, even that lovely feeling doesn't get rid of random insomnia.

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I met up with my friend Maggie this weekend and we went to Teance in Berkeley for a tea-tasting.

Maggie and I have known each other more than ten years now, since I first fell in love and moved to Berkeley, and we have a tradition of enjoying tasting lots of things in small portions that goes back all the way to when we met.  At that time, she was ( Read more... )

this is what a conversation is like when my mom visits and she, my brother and i are all gathered in the same room.

mom:  "hey, have you seen 'happy feet'?"
me:      "um. no.  it's not really my kind of thing."
dave:   "what's 'happy feet'?"
mom:   "it's a movie with robin williams, and it has creatures at the north pole..."
me:      "and penguins."
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so I've been convinced - CONVINCED - that my car had sustained a mortal blow, because since it returned from its transmission transplant, the acceleration just wasn't the same.

while working on the car, the mechanic had flipped my driver's side floor mat over so the French tickler part with all the rubbery nubs (which usually prevents the mat ( Read more... )

I'm moving!!!  Will wonders never cease ( Read more... )

i have my car back at last and it's running pretty well.  the mechanic replaced another part (which was apparently finally the actual offending part) and didn't charge me for the additional labor or parts.  it still doesn't drive quite the same - and not just because i've been driving a spanking new rental for literally the last month - but it'll ( Read more... )