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Happy Canada Day!
Today is Canada Day, which comemerates the formation of the union of the British North America provinces in a federation under the name of Canada. We’re celebrating with surf and turf for dinner…the surf being Crab imported from Canada. YUM!  Ted was born in Canada, so we enjoy celebrating whenever/however we can. Happy Canada Day to our neighbors up North!Â
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Purnima
Photo found here. When Ted and I were married, almost 14 years ago, we had a wonderful Hindu ceremony. When we were setting our date, our pundit, who also happens to be Ted’s 2nd cousin, I think, looked on a calendar to make sure that we were going to be married on an ‘auspicious day’. As our wedding fell on a full moon, it was deemed to be an auspicious day, and thus our marriage was blessed with good fortune. Today my bloggy friend Tracy marries her eSuitor, and as today is the full moon, I trust their marriage will be blessed. Hope your day is magical Tracy, and that…
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Discouraged
art by mockery I’m discouraged that we haven’t had any good offers on our home yet. There was one offer a couple of weeks ago, but it was insulting. To those who would say that all you have to do is lower your price to sell, I would counter that there are quite a few places almost as nice as ours that have lowered their price a few times, and still not sold. It’s a slow market. Part of me says, don’t worry, if you have to accept less on this side of the deal, you’ll make it up on the purchase of your new place, which is in this…
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Admiration
Artwork by blueskysunburn I just started a summer read type book, The Sunday Wife, by Cassandra King. It’s the story of the wife of an up & coming preacher in small town Florida, who is strongly influenced by her friendship with one of the more powerful women in town, Augusta. Early on in the book, Augusta is reading from a book that the preacher husband has written. There’s a section of advice to women on how to keep their husbands happy. He longs for your praise and admiration more than anything. Brag on his accomplishments, tell him how much you admire him, and watch how he responds. Give him your…
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CLEARLY I need to start swearing more around here.
UPDATE Py checked, and he’s rated “G” too. Jefito, however, got more daring results: Which of course, is why all the cool kids want to hang out on his site. But if they’re under 17, they can’t get in, even if their parents are all lax and shit. (Do you think that helped, that I said ‘shit’? Do you think it helped that I said it twice in a row? PG maybe?)
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Wordless Wednesday III
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Wordless Wednesday II
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Wordless Wednesday I
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Get Your Feet OFF THE….
I found this picture at MoCo Loco.com. Ginger’s post the other day about the difference between barbeque and a cook-out made me think of some other regional terms, as well as some that might just depend on the era in which one grew up. For example, a sofa has several other names: Davenport, Settee, Chesterfield, and Couch are the ones that come to my mind. My grandpa used to call it a Davenport or a Chesterfield, and he was born in Oklahoma, but came to California as a young man, so I’m not sure where that came from. I grew up saying ‘soda’ when I wanted a soda. The CEO…
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Cloud Atlas
Wow. That’s the word I have for this book, just Wow. For a little background, I picked this book up quite awhile ago, probably at my favorite San Francisco bookstore, Green Apple Books. Green Apple is one of those independent bookstores where the smart and savvy employees write little comments on a note card, tempting you to make purchases you might not have otherwise made. Thus it was with me, and I made the purchase, brought the book home, put it in my TBR pile, and promptly forgot about it. Months later, I picked it up, and started in. Chapter one was kind of boring, and I gave up and…
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Wedding Day!
Today is the day when our dear friends, Cherry and Eric, are getting married. (No, this isn’t their cake…I found this picture here.) So far, it looks like she couldn’t have asked for better weather…it can be kind of hot here in late June, or, conversely, we can get some of that SF fog, and it can be downright chilly. Looks like mostly sunny skies, and smiles all around. I hope that everything comes out wonderfully today….they have been planning this day for months now, and I want it all to be just right for them. But even if the cake doesn’t look how it’s supposed to look, or if…
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Asking Permission
Yesterday’s parenthetical about my ex-coworker (circa 1990) saying he was surprised that Ted ‘let me’ buy floral sheets got me thinking…thinking about the way that couples communicate, and how power struggles come into so many relationships. The idea that I should only buy masculine sheets, because Ted’s virility might somehow be at stake if he slept on floral sheets is insane. The idea that he should only buy floral sheets because I might defect or something on solids or stripes is also insane. It reminds me of a couple we know. I’ll call them Bill and Meg, which aren’t their real names, just in case they ever should come across…
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Yummy New Sheets
 Anyone who has ever been shopping for new sheets knows, it can be a tricky project. I remember once going to buy sheets, and not even knowing about thread counts and so on…I came home, put them on the bed, and that night was pure torture…it was like sleeping on sandpaper. (We won’t even get into a discussion about my then-coworker, who was surprised that Ted “let me” buy floral sheets…I said, “Ted doesn’t ‘let me’ do anything. I buy what I want. If he wants more manly sheets, he can buy them.” Really, I hadn’t considered whether Ted would like them or not…we had just moved in together,…
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Memories Meme
(Yellow Dawn, by artist Ken Bushe. Find more of his work here.) I saw this short meme on Lotus Reads and Stealthybean recently, and thought it was a kinda nice one…list three memories from your early childhood. I don’t know about you, but I don’t remember a lot of my early childhood…images, glimpses of moments that were transitory and are now lost…but I’ll try for a few anyway, OK? Here goes. I remember waking early one morning, before anyone else, and looking out the windows, and the whole sky was yellow. The whole wall was windows, it seems to me, so the view was pretty spectacular. Most of my sky…
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Busy Busy Busy…
These last few weeks have been SO busy….the kind of weeks when you realize how much quieter your life would be without children. We had a parent appreciation potluck, which I was inclined to skip, but they were having a play about mother earth, and Maya was playing a member of the Boston Tea Party, so who can skip that? There was an end of year potluck at girl scouts, where they received their bronze award (boy, the girls worked HARD for that one…very proud). There was a talent show at school, in which Maya performed a dance number with her best friend (I have been forbidden from posting video,…