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Movies
Last month I watched a movie called "The Visitor." I no longer remember how it got into my Netflix queue, but I'm glad it did. It's about an older man whose wife died 4 years ago, and he's just sort of drifting through his days as a professor teaching the same course he's taught for 20 years. Suddenly he's told he needs to present a paper he co- ( Read more... ) -
Dream
I had a dream last night that seemed to go on a long time and surprised me. In it, the owner of the kid-friendly coffee shop near my house told me he was expanding to the East Coast and had just opened a coffee shop in Washington, DC and was opening another one in Gaithersburg, MD. Then out of the blue he asked me if I wanted to run the one in ( Read more... ) -
Weekend on Whidbey
Photos here if you haven't seen 'em ( Read more... ) -
Advice to prospective home sellers
1. If you do not include images of the interior online, even after your home has been on the market for 6 months, I am not going to come look at it ( Read more... ) -
Meal planning advice?
I've decided to make this my New Year's resolution: learn how to plan meals in advance. I have always sucked at this ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year!
I know that 2008 brought a lot of suckiness into my friends' lives--I sincerely hope that 2009 treats all of us better.
My year got off to a good start with Max obediently going to bed early so I could enjoy a free night out courtesy of lori_thantos--thank you! (Of course, the little guy then woke up at 6:00 and tossed and turned for 2 hours so neither of us ( Read more... ) -
In memoriam
My older cat, Drayton, passed away this evening. She was 16 and had been in declining health for the past several months (kidney issues). Although a special diet and a course of antiobiotics over the summer made her better, in the last few weeks she started to decline again. She hid all day in a spot we didn't think to check, and by the time we ( Read more... ) -
Yuletide stuff
The light is always so eerie outside when it snows at night... like the world is glowing a sickly yellow. Still, the snow is pretty even if it does mean even more days of being TRAPPED.
And it wouldn't be Christmastime at the Moore household if something major didn't break. Last year it was the fridge on Christmas Eve (what a mess that was). This ( Read more... ) -
Another Max update
We took Max to a private speech therapist today for a second opinion evaluation. She told us ( Read more... ) -
Five Things
I've been reading a book called The Geography of Bliss in which an NPR reporter travels to different places to see why some countries score higher on a "happiness index" than others. It's an interesting book overall and written in an engaging style. In the chapter on Great Britain, the author talks about an experiment done in Slough (a place I've ( Read more... )