Category: Life
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“No, you may not use a crowbar as a baseball bat.”
The boys are playing a game in the backyard which involves all of them getting hit by tennis balls repeatedly. When this happens, they almost always yell “Oh, my nuts!” whether or not there was a direct hit on the package. I finally went out there and told them that this wasn’t something the neighbors…
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What’s this hat?
I saw someone wearing a great hat a month or two ago, but she was way on the other side of a chain link fence so I couldn’t ask her where she got it. Now I’m turning to you guys! Does this hat look familiar? It was made of canvas and kind of floppy. Soft-looking…
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I heard the snoring and thought it was the dog
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I heart T Ball
It is the cutest of all the sports my kids have played.
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This is how you do it
I get a frillion emails every day asking me to post about this or that on my blog. And you know what? For over a year I’ve been filtering them all into the trash and don’t even bother to read them anymore. This is how you do it. I’m about to post a Toyota ad…
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Please god let it be Robert Downey Jr inside
It took getting thrown out of the theater to find out…
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I can’t believe I found it!
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…
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No Sex, No Drugs, No Wine, No Women, No Fun, No Sin, No You, No wonder it’s dark
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.
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I’ll leave it to you
What do you think – did Ed enjoy his first ice skating lesson? Thanks mom for the lessons and for taking such a great picture!
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Olympics to-the-death!
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…
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Thank you Palo Alto Utilities!
This morning just before 8 there was a tragic plane crash in the city next to ours. As it went down, the plane took out some power lines which fed a huge area and 28,000 of us were suddenly without electricity. Palo Alto Utilities worked all day to get power restored and right before 6…
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I guess I should have been more clear
I printed out some papers for Charlie (5) to color on and give out to his friends for Valentine’s Day. I left the room when he first got started, and when I returned I couldn’t stop laughing. Not exactly in the spirit of Valentine’s Day, but at least they’re smiling.
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I am middle aged, apparently.
Interesting.
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(You had BETTER be happy since I almost cut off my fingertip.) And the winner is…!
To mark the end of Delurking Week, I did the drawing for the delurked winner of the book “Tears of a Giraffe.” It is late afternoon here, but I need some coffee or something since I had a really hard time with the scissors. After the wound coagulated, I drew the name of the winner.…
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"Somewhere a giraffe is crying? I don't get this, Jane!" It's a delurking contest.
I know, it is already the 9th and I haven’t yet done the first contest of 2007. So here it is! Win your very own copy of “Tears of the Giraffe” by Alexander McCall Smith. It is one in “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series. This time I’m doing something a little different. In…
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Wanna be like a homeschooler, or maybe just have the gear?
Today’s contest prize is a handy book for doing preschool at home. The first person to leave a comment on this post wins the 30 Minute Preschool workbook I reviewed a few weeks ago. If you’re the first commenter (previous winners are not eligible), you’ll then have 24 hours to email me your mailing address…
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Win a Book RIGHT NOW! Hey, it's a contest, dude…
I’ve been trying to think of a clever way to give away some of the items I’ve been sent to review. But I’m just not that clever… SO, the first person to leave a comment on this post wins the PBS Kids Fruit Salad Book I reviewed a few weeks ago. You’ll have 24 hours…