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I can’t believe I found it!

Erika Jurney — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:06:17 +0000

The other day for some reason I remembered the beat-up apartment I lived in when I lived in LA. At first I couldn’t even remember the city, but after googling ‘towns near Venice, CA’ I remembered it was Mar Vista. (And then I felt really old.)

Then I remembered it was right near the Mar Vista Bowl, so I googled that, switched to Street View, and drove over to my old place. Amazing! 10 years ago I would have just been left with a nagging question about where this place was.

{ I think you’ll need to click-through to see the picture if you’re reading this in a feed reader… }

Wow, the place is really fancy looking now. Flowers, a metal gate, new shingles… It looks nothing like when I lived there. The window in the front was mine, and right under that was where this crazy woman would rev her Camaro from 6-6:30 every morning. It was awesome.

No Sex, No Drugs, No Wine, No Women, No Fun, No Sin, No You, No wonder it’s dark

Erika Jurney — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:40:28 +0000

Kirsten Dunst in a great remake of a fun Vapors song from the 80s. (A few seconds of moderately NSFW cartoons.)

Update: bummer, the video has been deleted. Now you have to enjoy this live version by the Vapors instead.

Via boing boing.

I’ll leave it to you

Erika Jurney — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:52:43 +0000

What do you think – did Ed enjoy his first ice skating lesson?

Thanks mom for the lessons and for taking such a great picture!

Days like today

Erika Jurney — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:25:39 +0000

I love my kids, but (a lot of posts I write in my head start like that) I am so glad that they’re all at school for the day.

They have do much energy – which is great – but there’s not enough coffee in the universe to get me through all that screaming wrestling fighting playing in the morning.

Some days. Like today. I’m really glad that they’re the schools problem for a while.

I’m also glad that no one is staring at me in the preschool parking lot as I stand in a light drizzle writing this post.

Hey, I guess I have lots of things to be thankful for today :)

Olympics to-the-death!

Erika Jurney — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:38:01 +0000

Two years ago we were watching the Summer Olympics and Fencing came on. Henry and Ed (then about 5) were really excited until they learned that it wasn’t a fight to the death kind of competition. Oh, how we laughed.

So you’d think I wouldn’t have been surprised last night when Biathalon came on. You know Biathalon, the ski-SHOOT-ski-SHOOT sport?

I came into the room just as Craig was explaining to the boys that it wasn’t a shoot-out. You had to shoot at the targets, not the other competitors.

I laughed so hard I fell on the ground and could hardly breathe, but you know, NBC should consider it for next time. The ratings would be fantastic.