Tag Archives: Flirting with disaster

I can see!

A couple of weeks ago I finally got my eyes checked. (Life List! Or, if not Life List, then Life Errand.) After checking my eyes and examining the eBay reading glasses that have been living on top of my head … Continue reading

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Got MLK

In honor of Martin Luther King Day (or, if you depend on Twitter for your research, Martian Luther King Day, or maybe Martin Lutheran King Day), I woke Jackson up and told him he had the day off school to … Continue reading

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Fun with retail

Yesterday, I returned my birthday cake. This was not at all Jack’s fault, he bought it in good faith from what is normally a fine bakery that today shall remain nameless *cough* on West East Figueroa Street *cough*. We came … Continue reading

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In conclusion

Unfortunately, it looks like a meteorite did not hit our house. As my husband unsportingly pointed out, the bird’s nest above Jackson’s window can account for the streak of dirt below his window pretty convincingly. And the rock I found … Continue reading

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That whale’s going to have one hell of a bruise

Last night, about 1:30 in the morning, I heard a BANG. At first I thought maybe a box fell over in the next room — I’d bought some boots online as an early birthday present to myself but they were … Continue reading

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Winter sky

This may be a bad idea, but I’m going to try to post every weekday of 2012. So, yeah. How about that! (The exit is behind you, try not to knock anything over on the way out.) New Year’s Resolutions … Continue reading

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I haven’t been avoiding you!

I didn’t really mean to stop posting at the end of November, I was on a roll! But then December 1 was World AIDS Day, where you’re supposed to go silent to honor all the people who’ve died of AIDS, … Continue reading

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Day Fifteen

Draw a squirrel choking a chipmunk. Why does the chipmunk look like Hitler? Put sunglasses on the squirrel! Put a fedora on the squirrel. Now give him a beard. Let me do something to the chipmunk! *Adds little mustache* Yes, … Continue reading

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Day Two!

Today is my fifteenth wedding anniversary. Fifteen years ago today it was a Saturday morning and I was in a cold sweat. Our neighbor, Linda, was arranging chairs in the backyard, Jack was standing around laughing and being far too … Continue reading

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Done

A friend of mine who’s into what I’d call alternative therapies? I wouldn’t call it self help, mostly because rightly or wrongly I associate “self help” with a lot of earnest oversimplification. It’s still my belief that all the insight … Continue reading

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