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A Witch!
(Picture from Salemweb.com) I’ve told you before of my famous and semi-famous relations, the cousins of ancestors, who turned out to be Presidents, Poets, writers, scholars, and adventurers. My straight lines of ancestry, though…those that don’t branch off into cousins and second cousins, are fairly low key. There are a lot of farmers, some school teachers, salesmen, construction workers, oil men, whatever. On my father’s side, the illicit rumor is that the Marquis de Lafayette had his way with one of George Washington’s slaves, and she had his child – one of my ancestors. Hard to prove without exhuming him and checking DNA, and I sort of prefer the rumor…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow…
A few weeks ago, I found myself at a crossroads. One of the complicated (well, it doesn’t HAVE to be complicated) moments in a woman’s life…to cut my hair short, or not to cut my hair short? Way back as a young child, circa preschool, I LOVED long hair, but I wasn’t allowed to have it. Once I was old enough to care for it myself,  I was allowed to grow my hair long (not that much later, actually). Since then, it’s been a back and forth, a dance, long hair for a few years, short hair for a few years, grow it out, long hair for a few years, always…
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Living in the 20th Century
A few days ago, C-Lo called me to ask me to make a recording for Ted’s birthday, which she then ran on the radio. Cool idea, right? Lots of his friends and coworkers wishing him a happy day on the air. 🙂 That C-Lo, she’s full of good ideas. Anyway, when she called, she thanked me for answering the phone. I thought that was an odd thing to say, but I just said, “You’re welcome”…she must have heard the confusion in my voice, because she explained that when she doesn’t recognize the caller ID, she often figures it’s a sales call, and won’t answer. Crickets. This is when I had to explain that…
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What’s in YOUR Freezer?
Part of getting our place ready for an open house has been cleaning and decluttering all of the places that nosy people might peek. Since the refrigerator and freezer are included in the sale of the place, I suppose they have a right to peek in there to see what kind of science experiments we might be growing. The answer? None. That is one CLEAN fridge and freezer, let me tell you. After cleaning out the freezer, and throwing away a lot of half eaten boxes of Popsicles, things like that, I was making Maya’s lunch yesterday, and I saw this lovely box of popcorn chicken. “Hey,” I thought, “I…
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Thirteen Things I Love About Py
1. He’s AWESOME to travel with. He loves traveling, and it doesn’t stress him out. He’s fine going budget if we need to, but if we can afford it, he likes to surprise me and upgrade us to the best we can get. All without putting anything on credit, of course, because that’s not his thing, either. 2. He’s an amazing father. I was hoping to get one of those for my kid(s) way back when I was dating, and boy, I struck the jackpot with Py. 3. He’s a great cook. We both like cooking, so it’s nice to have the variety, and neither of us get tired of…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Madame Bovary
(image from stereototal.com) I’ve finally finished Madame Bovary, just 2 months late for the Winter Classics Challenge. I have no idea why it took me so long to read this book, why I had so much trouble becoming engrossed in it, especially as I have read it before, perhaps 15 years ago, and I loved it then…so why don’t I love it now? Is it because I’m older now, and not as sympathetic to the youthful Emma Bovary? Or, as a married woman, I’m not as forgiving of a woman who strays from her marriage so readily? Or, maybe, I already know the story, and I’m out of touch with…
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What a Weekend!
Our weekend started on Friday, when we went into San Francisco to attend an Ivy League mixer at a club bordering North Beach. We found pretty good parking on a quiet street just three blocks away, and we set off looking for a place to have dinner. There was a fancy looking restaurant right on our street, Myth, and since I was hungry enough that the golden arches were starting to look pretty good, and Ted says no WAY he’s driving into San Francisco and eating THAT crap, we decided to see if we could get a table. Well, all of their tables were booked, but they had room at…
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Because it’s Friday, and I got nuthin…
It’s Friday…I cut my hair kinda short, today is “spring pictures” at school, Sunday we’re painting our house, Emma Bovary is, sadly, dead, and I missed three days of work this week due to Jury Duty (guilty as charged, your honor), so not much time to type type anything for you. So you get one of these, as your reward for stopping by. Happy Friday! You Are a Hot Fudge Sundae Classic, simple, and divine. Why mess with perfection? What Kind of Sundae Are You?
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Birthday Meme
I thought of saving this until my birthday, but with all of the spring cleaning and a third day of jury duty upon me (Py has Jury duty today too! What are the chances?) and work craziness around here, it’s the perfect time to pull a few memes out and use them, right? So here we go. 1. Go to Wikipedia and type in your birth date only -without the year. December 31st 2. List 3 events that occurred that day: 1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time. 1946 – President Harry Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.…
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Feminine Mistake?
Guess who has Jury Duty? That’s right, I’m juror #2 today, on what is supposed to be a very quick trial, so hopefully I’ll be back to “real life” tomorrow. Yesterday morning was spent in the “Jury Room”, where you go to sign in and wait to see if you’ll be called to meet with the judge and lawyers. (I’ve never gotten farther than this room before, so I’m kind of excited to be on an actual jury today!). The Jury Room is a good place to catch up on your newspaper reading, try to think of interesting ‘interview questions’ for fellow bloggers (I’m working on it…), and catch up…
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Interview Meme…
Here’s a complicated kind of meme that I got from Ms. Mamma. It’s an interview, where she emailed me the questions, and now I have to answer them. What a lot of work, coming up with different questions for each person! WOW! 1. You excel at so many things-writing, cooking, parenting. What is your greatest unrealized passion or what would you be doing now if you could pick anything you wanted? You have the knowledge, funds and other resources at your fingertips and the support of your family. I’m blushing at the compliment at the beginning there…whew. OK, if I could pick anything in the world to do, and have…
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Happy Birthday Mom!
(This is my mom looking a lot like Shirley Temple…) Today is my wonderful mom’s birthday! I wrote a post to her last year that pretty much summed up what I would say today…and if I trusted you to go to the old post and read it, I would leave it at that. But knowing how lazy I am about clicking other people’s links, instead, I’ll paste it into this post, and you can read about my amazing mom: Today is my Mom’s birthday. You may think you have a good mom, but my mom will trump her in almost any category – and since today is her birthday, we’ll…
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Happy Earth Day…
Let’s tread lightly, OK?