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From the monthly archives: May 2009
This past Memorial Day weekend we did something we’ve been talking about doing for the last eight months or so: take Hobbes to visit Hakone Gardens. It’s been almost 5 years since we were married there, back in June of 2004, and we haven’t been back since. Every year we talk about it; every [...]
The other day as we were doing an inventory of our pantry — we’re battling an infestation of drugstore beetles, a tiny bug for which I have developed an all-consuming and obsessive hatred — we discovered that for some inexplicable reason, we currently own two giant bags of sugar.
“Well, that’s stupid,” I said.
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After I posted my last post, I spent some time thinking about the whole Mother’s Day thing — “Which was a waste of time,” I told the Guy, “because all I came up with was, hey, I like being a Mom. Hey, I like my Mom. Yay? Which is pretty boring.” To which he gave [...]
For my very first mother’s day, the Guy gave me a beautiful digital photo frame to take to the office, pre-loaded with the greatest hits of Hobbes pictures.
Hobbes trumped his dad. He gave me a two-hour nap.
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I expected to have some profound reflections on my very first Mother’s Day, but somehow [...]
Irregular discoveries.
In one of my random jaunts through the endless RSS feed that constitutes my blog reading, I came across a mention of a book called The Ramen King and I by a man named Andy Raskin. I paused and considered. Then I went to Amazon.
A few minutes after that, I googled [...]
I bought my Blackberry in January of ’08, partly because I needed a new phone, but mostly because my company’s software had just come out on Blackberry and we didn’t really have a lot of devices in-house that we could test on. Our company policy is that we get a certain amount of money back [...]
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