Blogging
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Calling All Dead Heads
Any Greatful Dead fans in the audience? Ted did an awesome interview, just for fun, with a HUGE Dead fan who works with him. I’m not a huge fan, but it’s fun to listen to someone who is, and hear what a smart guy who loves the music has to say. Go check it out. 🙂
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Ode to Vegan Lunchbox
Inspired by ‘Jennifershmoo” and her Vegan Lunchbox, and requested by Cherry, here is yesterday’s lunch. Maya takes her lunch every day to Girl Scout Camp, and I ordered one of the cool Bento Lunchboxes that Jennifershmoo turned me on to. We’re not vegan, so there’s dairy in here. Lunch is a homemade bean and cheese burrito, rolled like a wrap (with pineapple/mango salsa in case she wants it), apple/apricot sauce, grapes and cherries, and a Costco brownie bite that came with the lunch Cherry and I had at a new Japanese place near Kohls. Who ever heard of brownie bites at Japanese restaurants? Not me, but Maya will be glad,…
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Too Many Random Thoughts…
Better grab yourself a beverage and sit down, because I have way too much today, and I suspect it’s just going to spill out in a bunch of randomness. If I were to make a post of each one, and save them for future use, boy, I’d have a lot of posts ready, wouldn’t I? I could use them one by one when we go on vacation or something. But I have faith in my bloggareah, and that I’ll still have other things to tell you all in the future, so I’ll just spill it all now. Some of it is thoughtful and important, some is more of the ‘light…
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Please Stand By…
I’m working on a “Weekend Wrap Up”, but I have other things I have to do first…like feed the child, get dressed, take her to school, etc. Enjoy this picture while you wait. BTW, look closely, and yeah, there’s a parrot in there. *Picture courtesy of SFGate, Day in Pictures. Thanks to Maya’s Granny for telling me about it.
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Why I LOVE me an Angry Black Bitch Once in Awhile
Because I have this thought in the back of my head, which goes something like, “Why would we want a Constitutional Amendment outlawing Gay Marriage, which will be overturned someday when our ideas of Civil Rights are a bit more defined and humane, and when we have bigger fish to fry?”, and she writes this, which talks about so much more…about how our Congress is a bunch of mamby pamby asshats that worry too much about stupid shit and not enough about REAL issues. Like poverty. Like health care. Like education. Here’s a quote of her brilliance: “Tell me how a bitch prepares to look the desperate, denied, hungry and…
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13 Things I Love About France
I should have saved this post for July, I suppose, since the only time I’ve ever spent in France was on our Honeymoon, way back in July of 1993. But for some reason, I’m thinking of it now, so we’ll do 13 things I love about France today, and see what comes up in July. 🙂 La Perouse. Without question the best meal of my life. They eat whatever they want. (Although I find this book to be a bit disingenuous, since it talks about how French women don’t diet, don’t need to because they don’t overeat, they just enjoy their food…and then it talks about how to start off…
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What’s W doing at Mom 101’s Blog?
Looks like he took over for a few minutes and did a meme. Mom 101, I hope they didn’t ship you off to Gitmo while he worked on this! ‘Cause you know, it probably took him quite awhile!
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Good Food/Bad Food
The other day when I went to give blood, it turned out to be a volunteer/community type faire at an office building near my house. So in addition to the Red Cross, there were several other worthy organizations there, and they were also giving out little gift cards to thank you for coming, either to Starbucks or to Jamba Juice. Since I don’t drink coffee, I chose the Jamba Juice. The woman said, “Good for you!” A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with my friend at a buffet (I don’t like buffets, but I like my friend…), and the options for dessert were lime jello or chocolate cake.…
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Another Meme? Kill me NOW.
OK, I’ve done one meme today, and I said I wasn’t going to do any more, but I lied. So here we are, two meme Thursday. I think I’m going to get cut off if I try to meme more, so don’t worry, this is it for awhile. I hope. I don’t even know why I like doing these things, but I do. So, here’s a meme that I grabbed from Autumn’s Mom. Here goes! I AM: Looking forward to Autumn’s Mom’s birthday party, and the Margaritas that will be involved! I WANT: $5,000 to buy myself new clothes, like on What Not To Wear. But I don’t want to…
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Places I’ve “Visited”
Create your own personalized map of the USA I got this one from Ally Bean…she often has fun things like this on her site! I confess…I only drove through the little corner of Arizona between Las Vegas and southern Utah…I’ve only been in the airport in St. Louis…I’ve only driven through a lot of these states on Interstate 80 between CA and PA, and Maryland and Virginia were just about getting to and around DC. But still…it LOOKS like I’ve been quite a few places, doesn’t it?
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Welcome to the Blogosphere!
My darling husband, Ted, started a blog today. I can’t wait to see what he’ll come up with. 🙂
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Five Things
I got this one from Hope, who did not tag me, but tagged Gina in the comments to her paper plate post, and I read it and liked it, so here we go: Five Things In my fridge: Leftover ingredients from softshell chicken tacos we had for dinner last night. Old film for Ted’s broken camera. (I used it much more than he did, but since it was a gift from me to him, I will still call it Ted’s camera. He prefers the digital, though.) Berries – Strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Eggs – with Omega 3 added, since we don’t eat a lot of fish or flax around here.…
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Nothing to See Here, Folks…Move Along….
Friday morning, did some work on a company newsletter already, getting ready to wake Maya up for school. I have nothing for you, my friends, though I’m hoping for some cute pics of Maya feeding ducklings on the way to school today…we’ll see if it happens. Oh, I have a friend who JUST started a blog a few days ago. He wants to be a writer, maybe, and is thinking this is a good way to write a bit every day. So far, he writes about important issues like Napping. Since I’m big on the napping thing, I thought I’d give him a shout out. Go Ramzi! Ted is thinking…
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Is it a Thursday 13? Or a HNT? You be the judge.
Guess what? It’s 87 degrees here (or was last night at 6:00), and our pool is finally open! I knew there had to be a benefit to this condo livin’! So, in honor of the pool being open, and how happy that makes us all, I’ll do two posts in one day…I could play it safe and save the movie post until Friday, but I’m throwing caution to the wind! Here is my Thursday 13…13 things I’m liking right now… 1. That the pool is open! YIPPPEEE! 2. That I got a pedicure, and you get to see it. (That’s my HNT, if you hadn’t guessed) Try not to be…
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What Kind of Mom Am I?
I read on Cape Buffalo about an idea for a Mother’s Day Collaboration, and I thought, I guess I could chip in on that. I don’t want to write about my mom, because I just did on her birthday, and I’ve got another post in mind for Mother’s Day itself, so for here and now, I’ll write about my goals as a mother…the kind of mom I would like to be. I want to be the kind of mom who supports her child no matter what. I want Maya to never doubt for a second that I believe in her, that I love her unconditionally, and that she will always…