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July 31, 2004: Crankified
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky
Well! That last post was a little irritable, don't you think? I'm not always that cranky, really. I am often Very Very Sweet and Wonderful. But here are some items contributing to the increasing Cranky Factor: CRANKY FACTOR #1 My...

July 30, 2004: Cranky nest
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When I got married I turned into a frenzied, brunette, way-nicer-to-other-people, Martha Stewart. I hung pictures, I matched place mats to candles to napkins, I put up shelves in every room (and by "put up" I mean "supervised my husband"),...

July 28, 2004: Reading at the zoo
Comments: 0 | Categories: China , Music & TV
I bought the plane tickets today. I walked into the travel agency and Charlotte didn't remember me. It was a little disappointing. But I walked right up to her and said, "Hi, I'm Maggie, I'm the girl who reserved the...

July 24, 2004: All Folked Out
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I had a good friend in high school who graduated a year before me. She went off to college, learned how to be a conflicted and introspective college girl, and tried to introduce me to conflicted introspectiveness when she came...

July 23, 2004: Melting
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky
When people talk about Seattle it's all about the rain. Ugly gray drizzle, rain rain rain. Rain. More rain. But today? It is 92 degrees. NINETY-TWO DEGREES. That's six degrees short of a boy band. Ha ha, I am so...

July 20, 2004: Domestic Goddess
Comments: 0 | Categories: China , Rants
Welcome to my third week of Blissful Unemployment. Unemployment is being very good to me. Except for the laundry. What is UP with the laundry? And who was doing the laundry before I quit my job and became a Domestic...

July 18, 2004: Oh yes, Montana!
Comments: 1 | Categories: Places , Rants
Okay, so I wrote this a couple days ago when I still believed my hotel was going to provide me with wireless internet service. Ha! I'd write something up to date, but it's 11:24 pm and I have exactly 36...

July 12, 2004: Chinese Red-Tape
Comments: 1 | Categories: China
Anyone out there know how to get a Chinese tourist visa? Anyone? Anyone? I've spent the past hour in the company of the friendly recorded voices who answer the phone at the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco. I kept telling...

July 9, 2004: Power Steering? What? And the Story of the Radioactive Green Fluid
Comments: 1 | Categories: Rants , Stupid thing we did last night
I had car trouble today. The car I JUST BOUGHT. (Okay, the car my father-in-law gave me for free. Still.) But before I get to that, let me tell you about last month's car trouble. LAST MONTH'S CAR TROUBLE or...

July 6, 2004: Wherein Yoga Kicks My Butt
Comments: 0 | Categories: Rants
I am taking a yoga class. Since I'm currently unemployed, I figured I needed some kind of exercise routine to combat the hours I plan to spend chilling on the couch with my TiVo and vats of chocolate fudge brownie...

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