Archive for June, 2009
My precious little kidlets are practically grown now.
Seems like just yesterday they were seventh graders and I was teaching them to drive stick shift at 1:30 in the morning in the mall parking lot.
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Fish are friends, not food.
There are fish in this picture, really. They’re just really, really fast.
My little long finned danio Siren has outlived all of her tank mates, and since danios are a schooling fish, I knew she’d appreciate some buddies. Yesterday I picked up a regular and a long finned danio, and today I got two long finned [...]
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Adam – “At school when they all drew pictures of what they wanted to be when they grew up, she said she wanted to be a teenager.”
Valancy Jane – “Are ……. are you sure she’s not mine?”
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Park and C St.
We weren’t the closest people to the man beating on his wife on a street corner. Lots of people were standing closer. But we were the only ones to do anything. I sprinted forward, then cast a look backwards towards Drea to let her know that if she wanted to stand back and just quietly [...]
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Up on the roof
The door’s not even locked. There are no signs. Are we not supposed to be up here? Why am I always the only one up here?
It’s pretty much the coolest spot in the city.
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Lazy Saturday
After seeing me naked yet again (while the self tanner dried), Dulce conked out to avoid the sight and Mau tried to scrub off the shame.
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Bug, on dealbreakers.
“If you tell me you’ve killed someone, I’d first ask why. If I find kiddie porn on your computer, I don’t care why.”
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… (and today I am) remember that food is not love, and will not make you feel any better.
Except possibly cheese.
And a brie on wheat with wholegrain mustard, or a swiss on sourdough with dill and red onion will remind you that the whole Earth gives freely to nourish and sustain you, with everything you [...]
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Working with tech guys.
“Is that a hard drive floppy cable in your hair?”
“Uh, it’s RIBBON.”
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Renaming the Anteater.
A flickr contact and I were discussing that the anteaters were a surprisingly endearing exhibit at the zoo, and she suggested that perhaps anteaters would be more popular if they had a cutesier name.
Suggestions? So far we have “snugglefuzzytubes” and “crawling nuzzlebars.”
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