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my brain has a new trick
My car was totaled in a car accident. (No, it wasn't my fault. Yes, I'm basically okay.) I'm driving a rental that has electronic door locks.
You know how you try to put your car key in your house door or vice versa? I just tried to unlock my house remotely. -
malapropisms
My favorite misspellings from today (with definitions):
Annpouncement: When you announce to your lover that you intend to pounce them when you get home, or announce to the room that the reason you're dragging your sweetie away is urgent desire.
Blahg: A really uninspired blog, i.e. someone posting about their cats and what they ate for breakfast -
all the colors of the sky
The sky today is luminous, like a pearl, a pale mottled color that isn't quite gray and glows with its own internal light. Sometimes it's that dense, matte gray that that Seattlites know so well. Last week I saw a sunrise that looked like a perfect watercolor wash, fading from red through pink, orange, yellow, the faintest hint of that color that ( Read more... ) -
Seuss verse
The other day, while eating breakfast ( Read more... ) -
Greenlake, January 12th
If you go to Greenlake on a sunny day in January you can see the local wildlife sunning itself. People and cormorants spread their wings wide, turn their faces to the sky, and soak up the rays while they can ( Read more... ) -
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The other day, while bent forward over a laundry hamper to find something, I was hit on the back of the head by an X-wing fighter. My life is strange and wonderful. -
Conversations at my house
Me: Would you bring me a glass of port ( Read more... ) -
word play
Limeynade: juiced British soldiers -
my knight in shining armor
I was at an event where they had helium balloons. My munchkin loves balloons, so I brought him one. He played with it off and on that day and by bedtime it had drifted near the door of his room ( Read more... ) -
Science!
The kiddo and I are currently science experiments. This would be easier if I had access to some simple lab equipment, but I don't, so I'm performing the experiments on us directly.
He got head lice, probably from school. We have each shampooed twice with louse shampoo, which is supposed to kill them and leave a residue that "prevents reinfestation ( Read more... )