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Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to all of my Easter Celebrating friends! Whether you celebrate the Resurrection as part of your faith, or the return of spring, as symbolized by bunnies and eggs, I hope you have a wonderful day, and have some chocolate. 😉 This is my favorite Easter book, bar none. It’s about the Country Bunny, who wants to try out to be an Easter Bunny, but as she is a single mom, the old Easter Bunny doesn’t think she will be able to manage. But, like good single moms everywhere, she has taught her little bunnies to do all of the chores around the house, which they demonstrate by cleaning,…
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Smells…
 The other day, after getting dressed, I sprayed a bit of perfume on, and then went in to wake Maya. She sleepily said, “It smells like mama in here”. Very cute. I love that she identifies the smell of my perfume (Eternity Purple Orchid) with me, and then I noticed that I’m almost out of said perfume, which sucks. Gonna have to get some more, I guess. She also has mentioned the sound of mama, which, when it’s not me yelling at her or saying, GET OUT OF BED, is the sound my bangle bracelets make when I walk. That felt cozy for some reason, too. But the perfume comment…
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Dear Me, 1981 – 1987 version
I tried this two weeks agp, and I liked the idea. So here I’m trying with a slightly younger, much more insecure version of me. Again, the original idea came from here. Dear Me, I hesitate to give you advice, to warn you of the pains and slights that you will suffer, for I wonder how much of who I am now comes from the lessons learned due to these slights, and the resulting pain. I like who I am now, I like that I am sympathetic, loving, and caring. And yet, somehow, I hope that I would still be these things without these hardships, that they are part of my…
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Stupid Allergies
I’m grumpy and allergic this morning.  Blech. Usually Py is the member of our household who suffers from allergies, but I started yesterday, and it’s yucky. I’ve taken everything I can take, got the windows sealed up, the air purifier on…as soon at it hits 70 degrees in here, I’m turning on the a/c. That usually helps, too. So I was griping (so much for a complaint free world, huh?) about allergies to the admin at Maya’s school this morning, and she gave me a tip that her husband tried this year, and seems to help him. It’s too late to try it for us, but next year, I’m giving…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Wordless Wednesday II
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Are you who you want to be?
My friend Cherry likes the TLC show, Shalom in the Home, and has suggested that I might like it as well. So, I plopped myself down last week to watch it. The premise is that a family that is having problems writes to the Rabbi, and he goes and stays there for a week, trying to help them figure things out. Kind of like Supernanny or One Week to Save Your Marriage. This episode was one where it was a bit more than the Rabbi could handle. It was a family trying to help their teen daughter to cope with her anorexia. If only that were something you could heal…
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Happy Passover
Happy Passover to all! When I found out that the traditional Passover meal includes 4 glasses of wine, it made me wonder…how do you get up and go to work the next day? So, please, I gotta know…what do you do…do you go to work during Passover? Or take the day off?
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J & Curtis Sitting in a Tree…
Saturday, we hopped on BART and went to San Francisco to see Curtis Stone. (To see the coolio video Ted put together for me, click here) He was signing cookbooks at Williams Sonoma on Union Square, and Ted and Maya were willing to indulge me in seeing my boyfriend in real life. 🙂 He’s mighty tall, and he forgot to shave, and from what we could see, he seems like a very genuine and nice person. YAY! So then, of course, I told Maya that was her future step-father. She was happy about the money and fame, but not too thrilled about me and Ted not being married anymore…but then…
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Good Enough for Jehovah*
After meeting Curtis Stone on Saturday, I was inspired to try one of his recipes, one that Ted has been talking about on and off since we saw the episode on TV. It was mighty darned tasty, so I thought I’d share it with you. Here goes. This recipe isn’t in his book, but you can find it here. Pan Fried Halibut with Sautéed Black Beans and a Cilantro and Chili Salsa Serves 4 Ingredients: For the cilantro and chili salsa: 1/4 cup/60 ml extra virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons/25 ml red wine vinegar 1/3 cup/15 g chopped fresh cilantro 3 serrano chilies, seeded, finely chopped 1 shallot, finely diced…
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Friday Five…Food Edition
1. Cute cake, huh? Laluna made one for Maya last year, with little tiny Oreos on it, which inspired me to put little cookies on the cake, rather than trying to make little flowers or leaves or something fancy. I almost bought a cake platter thingie to present it on, just so it would look nice for the blog. But I have no room in my tiny condo kitchen for a cake platter thingie, so even though the colors in our dish pattern totally don’t match the cake, just go with it, OK? 2. I made chocolate chip muffins (Betty Crocker, same as my cake…no recipe from me, follow the…
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A Birthday Meme for my Birthday Girl!
Last year, I wrote a post about Maya for her 10th birthday. Ted no longer has the mac account, so you can’t go view the slideshow…but the rest of it remains as true today as it was then. (And it turns out, he’s made a new slideshow…be patient, it takes a minute to load) I can’t believe it’s a year already since I wrote that post, and 11 years since she was born. That was an amazing time for us, and we feel blessed to this day. Maya is the child every parent wishes for when they’re wishing for kids, except she’s even better than that. She’s smart and funny…
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Favorite Songs Meme
I got this one from Ginger over at Stuck on Survive. I don’t have any great ideas today…lots of work to do, and Maya’s birthday is tomorrow, so stuff to do there as well. 🙂 So, when in doubt, Meme, right? Here goes. The thing is, I’ve done a few music memes before, so some of these aren’t new. And for some, I’ve changed my mind, and probably will again before you even read this. Oh, and I’m not claiming these are the best or the coolest choices…just songs I really like. Anyway, here goes. Favorite Songs Meme Favorite Song From Childhood: Cecilia, by Simon and Garfunkle. I thought the…
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TiVo Alert!
Sunday night, Maya and I stayed up past our bedtime watching a new show on the Discovery Channel, Planet Earth. Planet Earth is an 11 part mini-series that took 5 years to make, and utilizes a lot of cutting edge video technology. If you’re an early adapter, and have High Definition TV, this show will probably make you glad you spent the money. It’s beautifully filmed. So far, we’ve only watched the first episode, Pole to Pole, which discusses the different environments of the world. Think of it as an introductory chapter of an essay, with more depth to be added in later installments.  We did get tired of hearing Sigourney Weaver say,…
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Are You a BSG Fan?
If not, why? Why not? Are you an idiot? Are you sure? Really sure? It’s really a good, good, GOOD show. Maybe even…GREAT. Better than 95% of the stuff out there, and I’m not generally a huge fan of sci-fi. If you ARE a BSG fan, what do you think? Is Starbuck a figmant of Lee’s imagination, like Number 6 to Baltar? Is she the Chosen One? Or the 5th of the final 5? And what of the other 4? Are they truly Cylons? Or have they somehow been tricked? And what about the President? Is SHE a Cylon? Why is she sharing dreams with Sharon, Hera, and 6? Is it because…