Archive for June, 2008

Notes to Self

Manhattans are really tasty. We knew this, this is just a pleasant reminder. I’ve wanted one of these since Friday morning. Badly.
Pitas require a 500F oven to cook. Consider this next time you decide that pitas are required on a hot day. It’s 88F still in the main room of the house at nearly 10:30pm […]

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A Long Weekend

Started off Thursday with a 2.5 hour trip to Yakima for my grandfather’s memorial service. I managed to get sunscreen on my face, but neglected the rest of me. Apparently that wasn’t an issue except for one arm — I thought I’d found shade, but I guess I thought wrong. Oops. […]

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Father’s Day Rhubarb Pie

Can you tell my dad helped me with every single math assignment from the time I was in kindergarten until the time I stopped with the math classes?
Happy Father’s Day, fathers…

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Things and Other Things

Things: I have *no* impulse control, apparently, when left unchaperoned in a bookstore. To my credit, I only walked out with two books for me — one recommended by a co-worker (Good Omens by Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett) & one that I stumbled upon serendipitously (The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson). […]

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Not Strep

So M2 has a negative on the strep test again. They’re sending it out for further culturing to verify, but this happened last time too. Because we treated on a negative test last time (and couldn’t get her to open her mouth for the second swab — we did both at once this […]

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I Survived

I totally earned a lot of Mommy points too.  It was *wet*, it was *cold*, it was *rainy*, it was *windy*.  And did I mention it was cold?  It was *cold*.  And *windy*.  And stuff.  I’ve got a lovely case of windburn — my dry skin just doesn’t take much wet/windy/cold exposure to become very […]

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Worried Man Blues

No, I’m not worried, I’ve just had this song aimlessly stuck in my head all day (which is a relief since I’ve had the freecreditreport.com song stuck in it prior).
Of course, I’ve been listening to lots of Utah Phillips, my ’songbook’, a four cd compilation set of his work arrived on Monday (hoorah!) so I’ve […]

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