“Please silence your cell phones.”

31Jul09

Uh, no one here? Eff that. I’m calling people! “Guess where I’m calling from?”

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Part Two

31Jul09

I’m listening to you, I swear I am.
But ….. you appear to be wearing a plant on your head, and I’m not sure I can take accessories advice from Carmen Miranda.

Oh who am I kidding, I can totally take accessories advice from Carmen Miranda.

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Part One

31Jul09

Urgent text – When I said I didn’t need you to stay and talk me out of buying anything …. I hadn’t seen this yet.

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Healthcare spending is defense spending.

31Jul09

“We maintain that if you support defense spending – and believe that one of the government’s only jobs should be to make sure that its citizens are safe and protected – then spending money to make sure that all Americans are covered is taking this belief to its logical conclusion.”  – Adam Carl.
I hear a [...]

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Hobbies

31Jul09

When a date asks you, “what do you like to do for fun?” or “what are your hobbies?” do you ever consider answering that honestly, instead of filtering the list for the ones that make you sound good?
I mean, I DO read a lot.  I DO love spending time with kids.  I DO actively seek [...]

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Sam is selling her goodies.

31Jul09

Sadly, I don’t mean THOSE goodies, but her delicious baked goods come as close to her luscious curves as a food can.
Stay tuned for a link.

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I really do want world peace.

31Jul09

Coworker – “So the other night at the bar, when we were talking and I just took off?  Sorry, it was just that a few  of our guys were rather drunkenly having words with those guys from Boston and I so I was trying to diffuse it by moving our guys to the other side [...]

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“No, I don’t qualify for a junior member discount.”

30Jul09

“Why do you ask?”

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A completely spontaneous photograph.

30Jul09

That took several tries, two helpers and a minute and a half to get.
It caught us in the act of deciding what matching color scheme we’re going to do tomorrow.

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Celebratory bubbles!

29Jul09

Today I told Drea that doing my hair and feeding me sandwiches and picking my outfits and playing bubbles with me is more practice for having a baby than most young women ever get.

Yeah, you read that right.

Drea’s a mama now, a transition she’s making with joy and reverence and wicked style.

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