We need a holiday

Posted on August 24, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Rowan’s daycare is on holiday this week, which means, I’m on holiday this week, too. Originally, we planned to take our first full-fledged family vacation this week, perhaps a very long road trip through Idaho and to Yellowstone, or maybe a loop down to the places in Northern California I never managed to visit in [...]

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Expectation of expecting

Posted on August 19, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 11 Comments

I’ve been composing this post in my head for many months now. Every time I try to write it, it doesn’t make sense, the words get jumbled, my meaning lost. But, here goes. *** Confession: I miss being pregnant. Don’t misunderstand, though. I am absolutely not ready to have another baby. Not even close. I [...]

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Jon Stewart: I want to thank the organizers for hosting this in Central Florida in August. It allows us to experience the actual conditions on Dagobah.*

Posted on August 16, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 5 Comments

I’ve just returned from five days in Orlando, exhibiting with my company at Star Wars Celebration V (more on that in a bit), but I just as well could’ve been on an entirely different planet, what with the HUMIDITY FROM HELL and all. I’d been warned (primarily by Roth, who spent his formative years in [...]

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Dream kitchen

Posted on August 10, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 23 Comments

Having just (and finally — I may be one of the last among my peers) seen Inception, I can’t help but wonder if last week was all a dream. We started the weekend in a space that looked like this: There was some of this: And this: There was also some aimless, dream-like wandering around [...]

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Kitchen confidential

Posted on August 3, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 1 Comment

The kitchen remodel is humming along quite nicely. (THANK GOD.) Three days in, and we have new plumbing (unforeseen, but not a tragic development in our plan), additional electrical outlets (including a switch for under-cabinet lighting, fancy!), new drywall (with insulation to replace the wadded-up 1988 newspaper insulation that previously existed behind the old drywall), [...]

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