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Monthly Archives: June 2007

I Love a Parade

06.11.07 – 19:06

It’s Rose Festival time in Portland, which means that nine times out of ten, the street you want to drive on is closed. Tony and/or Cenaida made us go to the Star Light Parade this year and then got all mad when we wanted to stay longer than 10 minutes instead of going to Starbucks, [...]

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In Defiance

06.07.07 – 19:06

Stephan told me what to blog about tonight, but I’m defying him. It’s what I do best.* Instead, I will tell you about how when I write a cookbook the recipes will not say ridiculous things like “Prep time: 5 minutes,” because my cookbook will not assume that all of your ingredients have been chopped, [...]

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The Common What-Now?

06.05.07 – 20:06

One or both or my neckular lymph nodes has been swollen for the last couple of days. Having ruled out cat scratch fever, I have narrowed it down to neck cancer and/or the plague. Whose idea was it to make hypochondria a disorder? Like I need one more thing to worry about.

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Mmm…sucrose

06.04.07 – 21:06

I have this husband who thinks that I’m “complicated.” How, I ask, could this be construed as complicated: S: “What kind of juice do you want?” K: “Surprise me.” S: “Orange juice?” K: “No, not orange juice.” S: “So what kind?” K: “Surprise me.” When it comes to candy, however, I am a person of [...]

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Three Things I Learned This Weekend

06.03.07 – 21:06

1. There are no bears in England. 2. The Gilbreths of motion study and Cheaper by the Dozen invented both the flow chart and the modern practice of doctors shouting “scalpel” and nurses handing it over. 3. The Muppets’ “Mah Na Mah Na” song is so much more fabulous when one changes the lyrics to [...]

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