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Archive for April, 2007

Sayid is earning our love back

Thursday, April 5th, 2007

Just by being his good old suspicious, bad*** self. We’ve missed you, man. Glad you’ve gotten that Shannon-mourning thing out of your system. She was no good anyway, even if she did stop doing her nails while other people searched for food and shelter. I’m especially excited about the preview for [...]

For those of you with sophisticated senses of humor

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Saw Blades of Glory yesterday.
OMG. HiLARious.
Totally inappropriate for the nine-year-old and twelve-year-old I went with. But in between all of us laughing so hard we couldn’t sit up straight, I’d lean over and whisper, “Totally inappropriate,” and I think that probably handled it.
Just be warned: this is not Will Ferrell as Elf. [...]

Tuesday Book Club

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007

As I mentioned last Friday, my gift to myself last week was ditching a book that did not bring me happiness. Which prompted Mother Reader to talk about the topic in a much wittier way than I could have, so please give yourselves the treat of reading this.
It just so happened that right [...]

A John Mayer’s-worth of cleaning

Monday, April 2nd, 2007

All my angsting yesterday paid off, because not only did I discover I’m not alone in my conflict over blogging time versus chore time, but the post also pried this fabulous suggestion out of Deborah:
“I’ve had a really crazy-busy couple of weeks and my desk literally had 6 inches of papers covering it and I [...]

Sometimes someone has to call you on your bull

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

I went for a day-long hike yesterday, just me, the husband, and the Bear, and somewhere about halfway up the mountain I started feeling really, really sad.
Because of my desk, of course.
Because remember this? Apparently I completely deluded myself. Because not only did I not fix my office as it was, I’ve allowed [...]