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Stuff like this is why I knit compulsively:
and
Too much great yarn. Too many fabulous projects.
Posted at: February 26th, 2009 - 11:21 am - Number of Comments » 5
Overheard at Chateau Awareness on Mardis Gras:
“Harry, you had better behave, or no King Cake for you!‘
“But Mommy! I AM HAVING!”
Posted at: February 25th, 2009 - 10:59 am - Number of Comments » 1
I have given up Diet Coke. For me this is like saying that I have given up breathing. I am on day 8 sans DC, except for one lapse when my wonderful husband unknowingly brought me one when he met me at the airport last Wednesday. I am, surprisingly, not nearly as cranky as I [...]
Posted at: February 23rd, 2009 - 4:10 pm - Number of Comments » 6
I have been on the road for the last week, except for the 14 hours between coming back from Tennessee Sunday night and leaving for DC Monday morning. Everything personal – this blog, my correspondence, my husband and son – have been woefully neglected.
You will note that this absence included Valentine’s Day. Nothing says I [...]
Posted at: February 19th, 2009 - 10:26 am - Number of Comments » 1
This is to be filed under the category of “geek romance”.
What do you do if you want to tell a geek girl you love her, if you know she has a webpage with a geolocating tracker installed?
You google her.
My husband knows my tracker will show the search terms used to find my site and geolocates [...]
Posted at: February 12th, 2009 - 12:55 pm - Number of Comments » 3
Can it possibly be a coincidence that my son needed a shoe box for a school project at the same time that I was in desperate need of gratuitous cheap shoe shopping?
I don’t think so.
Behold, two $10 shoeboxes. Cute shoes included gratis.
Posted at: February 11th, 2009 - 1:49 pm - Number of Comments » 4
I am not one of these people who spends much time wading through the halls of nostalgia. I have had a good life, a varied life, and one that I am proud of. There’s not much I would change if I could, and I don’t play what-if games. There are whole sections of my life [...]
Posted at: February 10th, 2009 - 12:02 pm - Number of Comments » 1
From the annals of stupid design:
Airport bathroom stall doors that open inward.
Um, LUGGAGE, people?
Posted at: February 6th, 2009 - 2:15 pm - Number of Comments » 3
My conversation with my son, upon my return from my business trip last night:
“I talked with the boys on the playground like this – I told them that my Mommy had disappeared.”
If you listen very carefully you will hear the soft sound of a mother’s heart breaking.
Posted at: February 2nd, 2009 - 2:30 pm - Number of Comments » 6
