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12:54pm | mar.20.10 |
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can be expected from the entirely horizontal snow outside the window of my plane in Chicago.
complete with cranky, vocal passengers, i can only hope that our pilot will soon make it successfully off his last flight and onto ours soon.
*sighs* |
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| cheery TSA |
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06:54am | mar.15.10 |
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flying out to Philly this morning, i stood in line at security for 45 minutes at 6:45am. when i got to the TSA check, the woman asked how i was. i replied and asked how she was.
she looked around, looked at me and replied "I'm in the pit of hell. ..look at this!"
that's certainly the ambassador that TSA is looking for; ) |
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| stupid brain |
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06:46am | feb.25.10 |
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mood:  annoyed
| apparently my stupid brain didn't think 3 12-14 hour workdays in a row, running at mach speed to meet a delayed deadline on a project where the clusterfucks are indescribable was enough - APPARENTLY at the end of day 3 of madness, i ALSO need insomnia and starting my period.
i don't even think fate is mocking me....i think she's just looking at me out of the corner of her eye and thinking..."whoa." |
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| thought for fellow cat owners |
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11:03am | feb.05.10 |
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an idea just struck me for helping you travel with your cats.
we own a power adapter that converts cig lighter into plugs. get one,and get the kitty pheromone plugins. start it up before you put your guys in the car and run it for a while while on the road. cats respond SO strongly to the safe versus bad smell, and i think that would chill out even the most difficult guys. |
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| go Verizon |
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10:35am | feb.05.10 |
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i am currently in the middle of fucking nowhere Arizona/NM with a 3G data connection |
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| sparkly |
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09:56am | jan.30.10 |
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we are on our way to bryce canyon right now & the blanket of pristine rolling hills of snow is literally sparkling like microfine glitter.
amusingly, this made me ask the question...
knowing the twilight author is a mormon in UT, do you think this sight could have been her inspiration for the vampire's sparly white skin? that's TOTALLY what it's making me think of! |
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.6) ms_xtine has bent the space-time continuum tonight |
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11:16pm | jan.23.10 |
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mood:  touched
| had i been any more intoxicated when i arrived at local's tasting room this evening, i might have even believed i made it all up.
but as the boy, don_negro, royalbananafish & settled in to have the last tastes for the evening, the owner looks at me and says "oh...i know who you are! you guys are in from seattle, right?"
david and i exchange glances and smile. this *was* our 4th year, and we had seen her many of them.
and then she says "there was a woman in here not too long ago who was talking about you. that you ran a business together years ago."
i looked puzzled and said i couldn't imagine anyone would be in locals talking about me, and that she must be mistaken.
and she said "graphic artist, right?"
and i just started laughing and realized, *of course*, that it had to be christine.
it was like you were there with me, getting our drink on, and remembering conduit dinners, and the world shrank and froze for just a moment.
how fucking cool is that? |
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| highly amusing |
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03:28pm | dec.29.09 |
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mood:  amused
| not that i don't have anything of substance to share, but mostly i am sick and don't have the energy to actually craft any words for you.
so in the meantime, enjoy this excerpt from the Thursday Morning Quarterback columnist that my boy loves to read:
The Prize for the North American Cycle Courier Championships Was Lost in the Mails: The latest North American Cycle Courier Championship was held in Boston. That's right -- a competitive race for bicycle messengers. Tuesday Morning Quarterback suggests these other sporting events based on everyday modern life:
Western Hemisphere Speed Barista Challenge: Objective is to get through the line at a high-end coffee shop and obtain a half-skim double-caramel rapafrapazapachino before your double-parked car is ticketed. Use of elbows technically illegal, but skilled competitors get away with cutting the line.
North American Multitasking Finals: Contestants must drive an SUV, talk on a cell phone, use a PDA and watch a movie on a portable DVD player simultaneously, without striking spectators.
East Coast Recycling Evasion Championships: Contestants must get rid of glass bottles and plastic containers without using recycle bins; severe penalties for being caught.
Suburban Soccer Mom Rally: Entrants must take children to sports events on opposite sides of a county at the same time, while picking up dry cleaning, buying school supplies, shouting into a cell phone and evading randomly located traffic jams.
Regional DMV Marathon: Contestants must get through the line in a Department of Motor Vehicles office. This day-long event characterized by foul language, pushing and shoving. Warning: Clerks may ignore you even if you're standing right there! |
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| thank god |
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03:34pm | dec.06.09 |
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mood:  relieved
| christmas shopping is done.
whew.
this was imperative, since i will be home for 4 days between now and when we leave for denver! |
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| Spring Sojourn: Fo(u)r Play! |
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10:40am | dec.05.09 |
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mood:  energetic
| It is my pleasure to announce our 4th annual walkabout dates! :D
you'll notice in our decadence, we are leaving a bit earlier this year, yet again increasing our time in austin...someday thad & stacie will say they have hit their threshold with us, but until then, i suppose we'll just keep testing it.
Map with all details is here.
Details below:
Jan 21 - Redding, CA - pass out
Jan 22 - Jan 24 - Healdsburg, CA - 3 happy days of wine tasting
Jan 25 - Bay Area, CA - visit liz & mike (is this good for you? :)
Jan 26 - Feb 3 - Saint George, UT - time with d's parents
Feb 4 - Tucson, AZ - pass out
Feb 5 - Ozona, TX - pass out
Feb 6 - Mar 25, Apr 5 - Apr 22 - Austin, TX - Settle in for a nice, long visit, interrupted by a field trip to nola
Mar 26 - Houston - visit b's parents
Mar 27 - Apr 4 - New Orleans, LA - More food, more wine, more merrymaking.
Apr 23 - Hays, KS - pass out
Apr 24 - Apr 27 - Denver, CO - Visit Paul & Sarah
Apr 28 - Tremonton, UT - pass out
Apr 29 - One of the wine valleys in WA/OR - pass out, wine taste, drive home (note the order!)
Apr 30 - HOME! |
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| perfection |
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04:07pm | dec.01.09 |
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mood:  chipper
| hot honeycrisp apple cider
mulled with spices
spiked with rum
sipped in the hot tub
on a chilly day with perfect blue skies
at 4pm
on a tuesday |
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| thanksgiving, indeed :) |
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04:25pm | nov.29.09 |
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mood:  content
| man-oh-man did i need this holiday :)
after a 21-hour 2-day week, i turned off my work laptop on tuesday night, and sunk into the bliss of 5 whole days off in a row.
wednesday was filled with general life and house puttering. i made pizza sauce, i prepped a few things for thanksgiving in seattle. i played a little with my new droid (yes, apparently even i can find lust in my heart for smartphones, though i doubt i will ever feel the all-consuming passion that many do :) then we went to dave & rebecca's around 3:30 and gamed and made pizza and hung out until 10ish.
thursday, we succeeded in catching an 11am ferry and settled into an afternoon of cooking, snuggling and general food and friend goodness. it was lowkey and delicious on all fronts. i'm soooooo happy that this has become our thanksgiving tradition :)
friday was sleeping in way late, lounging about and eventually going out the the Merc. it was great to drink and dance and generally be a social, chatty creature. i was definitely feeling deficient in this department.
we headed home on saturday, watched movies, snuggled kittens and today has been cleaning, soil sifting, christmas planning, wall-scraping, and other domestic bliss.
so all in all, i feel immensely grateful for time with friends and time for myself. i could still use another 5 days, but that would just be greedy, huh? :) |
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| zephyr just blew my mind |
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04:31pm | nov.12.09 |
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mood:  shocked
| my adorable old man has always been particularly cute when he "pretend sprays" things in the house. obviously, it's cute because he is pretend claiming things :)
i was just sitting in the hot tub and witnessed with my own eyes, him ACTUALLY spraying something.
my head exploded.
in his entire life, i have never seen it happen for real, and now i have to wonder when he figured it out and if he understands inside vs. outside.
i have fear in my heart. |
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| november? really? |
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02:35pm | nov.08.09 |
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mood:  calm
| it's hard to believe we are careening toward thanksgiving already.
things continue to be busy but good. for the last couple of weeks, the boy has worked less and slipped back to his earlier state of houseboy, which (of course) makes me giddy. i wouldn't cry if this was the trend for the future.
the good:
we just ordered this for the greatroom. 360 degree swivel will mean this baby can play nicely with both the living room and the kitchen side. i'm very excited :)
i thought my gerber daisy discover card was very me, but now my capital one card has a photo of jack and ponce as kittens asleep together. it's a good thing i am no longer a compulsive spender, or these adorable credit cards would be problematic!
we are slowly making headway on prepping the garden for winter and next spring. today we got 3 bins of chicken poop from dave & rebecca so we can get fertilizer in to enrich the soil all winter.
next weekend is early friends-thanksgiving with dave & rebecca's closest friends and then we have thanksgiving proper in seattle with our beloveds there. i am starting to feel like the karma angels are purposefully creating loving, friend-filled thanksgiving events to help wash away my original distaste for the holiday :)
the bad:
apparently we missed one of the cats presents to us, and downstairs has the distinct smell of death in the air. we have torn apart the zen room and bedroom and found no culprit. the search continues. |
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