I just finished Douglas Coupland's "The Gum Thief" aaannnnnnddd......I really liked it! Thank you, Doug. I had almost lost faith in you. Now I want to go back and reread Shampoo Planet for nostalgia's sake.

Also, I did not know that there is a jPod TV series - as I do not live in Canada and why would I know. Huh.

The grocery store where Jeffrey and I met closed yesterday. It was a little sad. We went down to say goodbye to the owners and they kept giving us free food from the deli case. It's been two years since I worked there but it seems like a lifetime ago. Apparently they are selling it and will reopen soon (hopefully with better food and better prices ( Read more... )

SO my kids want to see Juno. I haven't seen it yet, but it's only PG-13 - is there anything really objectionable?

I don't know why I worry, they have seen and heard quite a few things in their time.

We made it back from ROFLCon without any obnoxious travel related problems! This is unusual for us. It was a strange weekend, full of huge nerds and Hello Kitty moon pies. Thanks to Ryan, we got to hang out with the Homestar Runner brothers, who are just about the nicest guys you could ever imagine.

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I woke up this morning and discovered that the freckle fairy had visited and placed a new freckle right at the corner of my mouth. Now I keep thinking that I have a piece of food stuck there, and I keep trying to wipe it off.

Liza: Mama, how did you and Kristina meet, anyway?

Me: I met her online, actually.

Cam (from backseat): Where, eharmony.com?

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I held my nose, closed my eyes, and made a MySpace account for TopatoCo. You can find it here if you are a MySpace kind of person. Please be our friend? It will make us happy when skies are gray.

The kids are dressing up for New York ComicCon, which is just fucking adorable. Eliza wants to go as Kaylee from Firefly which, up until five minutes ago, I considered a pretty easy costume. I was just not thinking about having to drive 20 miles to the nearest Army/Navy store to get a jumpsuit (or pay 40 bucks for one on line that will be way too ( Read more... )