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Calling Engineering Types…
Has anyone ever heard of a microwave oven leaking water? I have never heard of this, but ours definately is. It’s not even plugged in, hasn’t been used in a day or two, but it put out a HUGE puddle. This has happened several times, and ruined several of my cookbooks. We’re going to trash the thing and get a new one, since it’s almost surely cheaper to buy a new one than to get this one looked at, and we’ve had it for maybe 10 years, but I think this is VERY weird. Today, I heated up some soup on the stove at about 11:30. The counter was dry,…
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Scruples
 “Scruples…They are unbearable to me, because I have suffered too much from scruples…” ~ Anaïs Nin All of this talk of infidelity and morals has me thinking…thinking about how some people see the ties of marriage as a pair of shackles, see the mores of society as beneath them, as not appyling to them, because they are ‘free spirits’, and thus, somehow above it all. I try not to be judgemental of folks for the way that they choose to live their lives. If someone wants to have an open marriage, as long as everyone knows what’s going on, OK, whatever. If, for example,  Anaïs Nin feels stifled in her…
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Henry and June
I finally finished the second book in my Winter Classics Challenge, Henry and June. I vaguely remember watching the film when it came out, and we own the soundtrack, which is lovely, but I don’t remember a lot about the movie, other than that I liked it. If you’re not familiar with Henry and June, it’s the journal of Anaïs Nin, written in France during a year of sexual awakening, in which she becomes involved with writer Henry Miller and his wife, June. In the beginning of the book, Anaïs finds herself drawn to June, and they share a kiss. June leaves France and returns to New York and the…
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Queen Mary 2 Enters San Francisco
Did anyone see this on the news or in person? We didn’t go to SF to watch, but WOW, that’s a big ship. So big she had to sail around the Cape, because she won’t fit through the Panama Canal. Whew. Photo courtesy the SF Chronicle, and you can find more pictures here.
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Notes on a Scandal
Saturday, Maya went to a sleepover birthday party at her best friend Jackie’s house. Ted and I took the opportunity (free babysitting! Is it called that when your baby is almost 11?) to go see a rated ‘R’ film, with dialogue, sex, and intrigue. Specifically, we saw “Notes on a Scandal“, with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett. I’ve got one word for you…Oscar. (Both are nominated, Dench for leading roll, Cate for supporting) Judi Dench gives a chilling performance as a British schoolteacher (Barbara), who befriends the new art teacher, Sheba (played by Blanchett), and becomes obsessed with her.  Barbara witnesses a tryst between Sheba and a 15 year old pupil, and they…
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Goodbye
Goodbye to those I loved, lost one sad spring… My Granddad, whom I never had the chance to meet… My dog, whom I cherished… My Grandpa, who spoiled me and who I loved utterly… Spring of ’88, a time of falling in love, while at the same time, saying goodbye, so sadly, over and over again. This is my attempt at the Sunday Scribblings challenge.
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I’m Old…
Worse than being ‘Ma’amed’ at the grocery store, is when you’re buying fancy dog food at the neighborhood feed store, and the guy behind the counter says, “Your last name sounds familiar. Did you have any kids that went to (the local community college)”. My KIDS? Excuse me? Wait a minute, my Grandma was a Grandma at my age. A young grandma, but still….I’m officially OLD.
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Crisis Averted…
 No need to find out if the world will end or not, because of me having nothing to say. Shockingly, the source of my inspiration is me wanting to bestow major kudos on a conservative Christian Republican from Texas. From the A/P: Governor Rick Perry signed an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls get vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer…. Beginning in September 2008, girls entering the sixth grade — meaning, generally, girls ages 11 and 12 — will have to get Gardasil, Merck & Co.’s new vaccine against strains of the human papillomavirus, or HPV. I’m going to ignore…
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Testing a Theory Here…
If I have nothing to say, nothing to share on my bloggy blog today, no secrets or stories or even a meme or a recipe, will the world end? If Saturday fails to arrive, you know who to blame.
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Thirteen Things…
It’s another of those days when I don’t have anything specific to talk about, so you get a bunch of mismatch stuff. Here goes. 1. I saw something on Yahoo yesterday, about Valentine mistakes you don’t want to make. Want to know what the mistakes were? Being too predictable. Roses, fancy dinner, sexy lingerie. See the picture here, from Yahoo? She’s pissed off, because he didn’t get it right. That makes me mad. Because the assumption is, he tried. He was trying to be romantic for Valentine’s day, and darn it, it just wasn’t good enough for her. I’m sure some women are truly like this, and I’m sure some…
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Local Theater…
We have a semi-tradition, which is that once a year, we go to San Francisco to see “A Christmas Carol” at the American Conservatory Theater. It’s a nice tradition, gets us in the mood for Christmas, and sometimes there’s even ice cream involved. Well, with one thing and another, we didn’t go this year. So, should it be a year without theater for us? I hope not. Ted did a spot on the radio the other day for the Reduced Shakespeare Company, which is in our humble town for the month of February. I’m hoping we can go…I’d like to see The Complete History of America (abridged). Could be pretty…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Our Newest Addiction…
We were addicted to Buffy…and finally, it went off the air (ALAS!) and we got the DVDs, and we can watch it whenever we want to, and mostly, we’re OK. We were addicted to West Wing (not like Buffy, but we did watch it every week…) and now, it’s gone away. This happens over the years…Thirtysomething, The X Files, 90210, etc. All of these shows, we love them, and they go away…and whenever they go away, I feel a great sense of relief…like, oh, good, one less show that I HAVE to watch, one less show that calls me, that I want to tape when I’m not going to be…
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A Day in the Life
Back when I was about 21 years old, living in Stockton, I had a little red VW bug that I named “Jelly”. Jelly, by the way, was my nickname in High School for about 15 minutes when my best friend turned from another girl, Kelly, to say something to me, Julie, and it came out, “Jelly”. Thankfully, it didn’t stick. But anyway, it did stick for my car. Jelly was a great little car, Candy Apple Red, with a home installed rag top. She was a 1966, the same age as me (I was born the last day of ’65, but they make the ’66 cars in ’65 mostly, right?),…
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What’s With All of the Stupid Spam?
Just looking at my spam filter, and it caught 355 spam comments. Since YESTERDAY, when there were over 200. That’s friggin INSANE. I don’t know how they found me or whatever, but it’s bad. I have a few ideas of what posts attracted them, but I don’t want to mention them, for fear of attracting even MORE. I’ll give you a hint. Nothing that interesting, just something about managing p*a*i*n in the noggin. I get a lot of spam now for pharmaceuticals. Ugh.