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new members of an elite club, and time to rent a corral
To anyone without children, this may not sound as earth rocking as it is, but L woke up this morning in underwear. It was dry. I'll let that, um, sink in for a minute. The final step in her sudden evolution into a potty user happened last night! We are officially a NO DIAPER household. I am giddy about it and deeply satisfied in a maternal way ( Read more... ) -
Take me out
...to the ball game!
Whee... we missed out on the Dalai Lama, but of course not the Dalai Lama traffic - my niece barely got here in time to let us leave and catch the party bus to the game, but we made it. First time at Safeco for me, our first time to the annual party and hopefully not the last. Weather couldn't have been better!
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day of suggested mushiness
I woke up with a headache, earaches and a stealth cough that made me gag ( Read more... ) -
first batch
The thought of homemade ice cream will always remind me of hiking up an alpine hill, looking out over meadow flowers, cranking a barrel full of cream, sugar, ice and salt we'd dragged up with us for an eternity (both the dragging and the cranking,) muttering a few expletives, and finally dishing up the sloppy mess and inhaling it before it melted ( Read more... ) -
that's the way
Having heard this version all the way through only once, I'm ready to say that it is THE definitive recording of Rhapsody in Blue. I'm biased, though. Fazil Say (fuh-ZEEL SIGH) gives it the same flavor I would, if I had finished the damn thing. I still feel like I let myself, and my uncle Ben, down by not performing the solo WB edition I was ( Read more... ) -
in my dreams you're blowin' me
I have me some lust real bad for this movie.
Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story
Not sure if Kristen Wiig actually does the singing in the movie, but it sounds like it (Pam from The Office lipsyncs)
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2008
Happy New Year! I wonder how the tree is doing. It is preternaturally green and shiny, yet nobody has been watering it ( Read more... )
