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July 8, 2008: Brown, pink, green and SUPER CUTE
Comments: 6 | Categories: Awesome , Tending to the prince

*RAW BOTTOM UPDATE* All is well. We were fully expecting to be up in the middle of the night changing a screamy baby, but he slept through and didn't make a peep when Phillip changed him in the morning. He...

June 23, 2008: Add three house plants, subtract one car
Comments: 11 | Categories: Awesome , Baby Cheung v2.0 , Too much going on

My car is now posted for sale on Craigslist. SOB. As much fun as I've had shopping for the Next Family Vehicle (and it HAS been fun), I don't really want to get rid of my car. I want some...

February 18, 2008: Important! Items! Of! Interest!
Comments: 37 | Categories: Awesome

Does anyone else use Typepad? Does anyone else type in one of their other usernames in the User Name field, because sometimes they are absentminded, and because Typepad does not helpfully say, "Your User Name does not match your Password!"...

January 15, 2008: It's nice to have the wireless back
Comments: 7 | Categories: Awesome

My internet was down yesterday. I KNOW. But I want you all to know that I survived this horrible gut-wrenching ordeal and have lived to tell the tale. Next time I won't gaily send tech support off to work with...

December 27, 2007: Quick! Thursday! Update!
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome

"Has the Christmas season driven you to therapy yet? No? Just me?" Read more here! (Like I don't post enough neuroticness here, I'm now posting it THERE.) I was going to put some actual content on the blog today, but...

December 16, 2007: Let no one say I hoard my brilliance
Comments: 16 | Categories: Awesome

Many things came between me and the How To Fold Fitted Sheets Pictorial Tutorial this evening, but DO NOT FEAR. I have not let you down, Internet! Even though I am sick (SICK! GAH!), facing a mountain of sticky stemware...

December 7, 2007: Let's be gifty
Comments: 3 | Categories: Awesome

My house is not yet decorated for Christmas, which I find very disturbing. I love Christmas. It is, besides a giant turkey dinner in mid-November, fall/winter's only redeeming feature. I have the radio tuned to the All Christmas All The...

November 27, 2007: All I want for Christmas is you. And the Philosophy skin care line.
Comments: 10 | Categories: Awesome , NaBloPoMo07

I spent hours shopping online yesterday. HOURS. Oh, every ten minutes I was wiping up strings of snot, but then it was right back to the computer. (Don't worry. Phillip took the day off so Jackson wasn't having to eat...

November 26, 2007: It's not Monday, it's Bonus Thanksgiving Day
Comments: 9 | Categories: Awesome , NaBloPoMo07

LAST night I was up fourteen times to put the baby back to sleep because he is SICK. Snotty, snorty and all around pathetic. It's like having a pug in the house- a pug with facial orifice drainage issues. (Which...

October 28, 2007: Awesome!
Comments: 7 | Categories: Awesome

I just found out about Free Rice through Jenny Ryan's site. How cool is Free Rice?! Indulge your inner word nerd and end world hunger! (Sort of.) Seriously. If you like words, games, competition, bragging about your SAT verbal score...

August 16, 2007: I have a degree in procrastination
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome

Phillip gave me this book for my birthday: How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors. I was pretty excited because for the most part I really love books about writing. (Stephen King's On Writing is my favorite in this...

August 7, 2007: Phillip said I should ask the Internet
Comments: 10 | Categories: Awesome

A few months ago a Gigando Corporate Conglomerate swallowed up my husband's Smallish Local Company. We were nervous about this for a few weeks, as we had the impending addition to the family and the impending loss of my five...

July 21, 2007: Harry!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome

This morning my husband went out to buy me the last Harry Potter book. He came home with the book. And a Wii. I've decided I don't mind the Wii, since he watched the baby all day so I could...

July 19, 2007: Why I love you guys, part 487
Comments: 9 | Categories: Awesome , This Mom thing

Thanks for the birthday wishes everyone. There's nothing like announcing it's your birthday to guilt people into leaving you comments. It's the next best comment-generator to giving birth. On my big day I attended my first mom's group thing, went...

July 18, 2007: It was a very good year
Comments: 14 | Categories: Awesome

Happy birthday to me! Today I am 28 years old. Let us not dwell on how dangerously close to 30 that is and instead think about all the presents my husband should be getting me. First on the list is...

April 13, 2007: Status of the Flamingoes, and some linky love
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome

Once again I am gazing shamefacedly at my super outdated layout and to justify the shoddiness, I am compelled to tell you I really DID redesign the whole thing. Again. I mean, I pay for this stupid website so I...

April 12, 2007: A small bit of terribly exciting news
Comments: 6 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV

Last night was not a good night. Drama at work, meetings without end, getting lost inside an apartment complex resembling military base housing circa 1970 on our [successful] quest for a frame stroller off of craigslist. A phone call from...

March 29, 2007: Where the boys are
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome , Places

When Phillip and his friend Sean graduated from college, they moved into a really nice apartment (of course, anything is really nice when you've been living in the dorms since age 18) and entered the Real World. For Sean this...

March 27, 2007: Camilla! And some other people too.
Comments: 7 | Categories: Awesome , Places

Hey, my little blogging break totally worked. I am practically BURSTING with stuff to tell you. So what do you want to hear about first? The plane ride? The wedding? The three hour time difference and how that, combined with...

March 20, 2007: No more room, kiddo
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

In the last day or two the boy has decided to take up residence inside my rib cage. I don't know why this is, as Lord knows there is enough room in my belly to shoot pool and practice Wii...

March 15, 2007: Puppy dog tails part two
Comments: 6 | Categories: Awesome

Sometimes Phillip is done with work at a reasonable normal-person time, so I go pick him up and we drive home together. I work a little bit north of his building in Belltown and it takes me ten to twenty...

March 12, 2007: Glass slippers
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

Going to show that it always works to have desperately low expectations, we did not end up despising every minute of our all-day childbirth class on Saturday. Earlier that week Phillip confessed that he really wasn't looking forward to it,...

March 6, 2007: Photoblog!
Comments: 13 | Categories: Awesome , House , Project Baby Cheung

Honestly. You people are so demanding. This post is brought to you by my 30-week doctor appointment, where I stepped on the scale backwards and sheepishly muttered, "uhh, does prenatal yoga count?" when my doctor asked, again, if I was...

March 1, 2007: Anywhere but here
Comments: 3 | Categories: Awesome

About 8:30 last night we drove up to visit friends who live 60 blocks north of us. There was a slight dusting of snow on our garbage can lid, but the roads were dry and the sky was clear and...

February 23, 2007: Rah rah girl power
Comments: 3 | Categories: Anxiety , Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

Yesterday I said the only movie I'd liked recently was The Departed, but I thought of another one: Casino Royale. What? Try finding anything to criticize about a movie screen-sized Daniel Craig. Yum. Anyway, I bring this up because I...

February 16, 2007: Phillip is eagerly awaiting this post
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome , Phillip

There was much rejoicing and we could finally put out the burning sacrifices when it was announced that The Police were getting back together for a reunion tour. Playing bass apparently chisels out one's brooding cheekbones. You see, when other...

February 9, 2007: A few thoughts on Friday
Comments: 7 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV

Apparently there was a big ferry collision? On Grey's Anatomy? Which I am only recording now because I happened to catch a rerun of last week's episode and was a tiny bit curious to find out what was going to...

January 26, 2007: Robopet
Comments: 9 | Categories: Awesome

Over Instant Messenger, my husband has just informed me that he purchased a Roomba for $100 less than the going rate from Woot.com, a deal he found out about when his coworker emailed him late last evening. I want all...

January 18, 2007: He's just my type
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome , Phillip , Project Baby Cheung

This is my husband in his cave office. In this picture he is on the cell speakerphone helping one of our friends set up an internet repeater. At least, I think that is what it is called, and if you...

January 12, 2007: Snow day
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome

So, um, yesterday? In my part of the world? There was some pretty bad weather. This is what it looked like where my sister lives: And this is what it looked like where my in-laws live: Photos willfully stolen from...

December 27, 2006: It don't snow here, it stays pretty green
Comments: 3 | Categories: Awesome , Family , Project Baby Cheung

Did you survive? I did. I had to spend all of Saturday in my pajamas drinking tea and Robitussin to regain the voice I lost as soon as the guests left my Christmas party, but I was in decent form...

November 24, 2006: Update!
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Sorry for the lack of posting. It can be summed up in two words: DIAL UP. I have all sorts of posts in my head, but we're getting ready to go shopping and it seems there is no amount of...

November 9, 2006: This post brought to you by YouTube
Comments: 3 | Categories: Anxiety , Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

After some truly fabulous anxiety-free days, last night I hit myself with the trifecta of Late Night Church Meeting, Early Morning Board Meeting and Doctor Appointment At Which I Will Learn If The Baby Is Still In There. And while...

October 31, 2006: A heartwarming Halloween story
Comments: 3 | Categories: Anxiety , Awesome , Project Baby Cheung

I'm probably jinxing myself by writing this, but yesterday was the least anxious day I've had in several weeks. Of course, this makes me incredibly suspicious. I spent most of the day waiting for it to return (it always does)...

October 9, 2006: Over the mooncake
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome , Family , Project Baby Cheung

I was all set to write a big thing about the Church Stuff we did this weekend, and maybe a bit about the short visit from the Chinese Relatives, one of whom was bought (yes, BOUGHT) by Phillip's grandfather back...

October 3, 2006: Happy things
Comments: 16 | Categories: Awesome

My newest honorary niece was born yesterday, finally, twelve days late, which is VERY exciting, because now I have a legitimate reason to buy the gigantic Hello Kitty stuffed animal I've been coveting at the Sanrio store. For HER. Yeesh,...

September 11, 2006: The Gospel of Biodiesel
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome

Yesterday Phillip and I earned our Bona Fide Commie Membership Cards when we drove over to Dr. Dan’s Alternative Fuel Werks and filled up with French fry oil and bacon grease. Dr. Dan’s is a little mechanic shop in the...

September 1, 2006: Wherein I am scared of my garage
Comments: 6 | Categories: Awesome

I drove my new car to work today. It is not like driving my old car, for the following reasons: It is very shiny. It is very low to the ground. There is not six inches of dirt on the...

August 31, 2006: Driving. Again. Because did I tell you about my new car?
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome

***If you are at all interested in being a Real Live Writer when you grow up, you must go read these How To Write A Book entries by Maureen Johnson. Because they are hilarious. And feature Muppet screenshots.*** I thought...

August 30, 2006: My new car smells like french fries
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome

I hate salesmen. Okay, that is not entirely true. I work with two perfectly nice salesmen. They are not evil people. They may have absolutely no clue how to use a computer, but they do rather well with that telephone...

August 23, 2006: Ain't no other man!
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome

Yesterday I had plans to meet my friend the Counter Of White Blood Cells after work to see the dancing movie. (WHICH WAS AWESOME. OMG SO AWESOME.) I was driving into the city and waiting at a stoplight, trying to...

August 3, 2006: Everybody wants us
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome

Yesterday Phillip received a job offer. Yesterday I received a job offer AND my own office, which means I totally one upped my husband. The job offer and the office are not in the same location, however, and I have...

August 2, 2006: Phillip is in charge of the theme song
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Ha. You guys are funny. Especially to me, who is always a teeny bit shocked whenever I realize someone besides my mother is reading this website. If anyone still cares, The Pharamcist emerged from her nearly empty gin pail yesterday...

July 31, 2006: A good soak in the gin bucket
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I went to a wedding this weekend. I also helped my parents move. (At least, I THOUGHT I was going to help my parents move, but they'd already done all the hard stuff and all I had to do was...

July 19, 2006: In conclusion (while sort of tipsy?)
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Places

People. You must all go to Hawaii. Like, tomorrow. Even all of you who are like me: people who like to visit important historical cities in November and December, who like to see all the right museums and warm up...

July 15, 2006: Miss me?
Comments: 3 | Categories: Awesome , Places

I am here: Also here: And then it was all just so exhausting I had to go here: So, it may have RAINED today, which you'd think I get enough of at home, but whatever. (Although this is weird rain-...

June 30, 2006: Old business
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Oh my stars and garters I think I finally got the redesign to work. If you are only reading the feed, go look! Validate me! Tell me I'm pretty! And let me know if you see any bugs. For those...

June 28, 2006: Anniversary v3.0
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome , Phillip

Years 19 and 20 were not particularly dignified ones in the Mighty Maggie Space Time Continuum. Year 19 was spent pathetically pining and brooding for the devastatingly handsome Chinese man down the hall from my dorm room, who paid not...

June 25, 2006: Except for the sunburn
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You know how, when you were 12 or 13, and your parents wouldn't let you stay at your friend's house and your hair never looked right and your brother embarrassed you in front of the high school kids and you...

June 19, 2006: Weekend in Hong Kouver
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome , Family

Phillip and I knew there was only one thing in the world his dad would want for Father's Day, so Saturday morning we filled up the car and headed for Richmond, BC, home of the only acceptable Chinese food in...

June 14, 2006: Oh tell me why! We see castles in the sky!
Comments: 5 | Categories: Awesome

Last night Phillip and I played Dance Dance Revolution. By ourselves. Because we are THAT AWESOME. Phillip bought an Xbox right before we got married. Because he knew it was his last chance to buy horrifically expensive frivolous gadgetry. And...

June 7, 2006: Some beach, somewhere
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome , Family , When I was a kid

I just thought I would let you all know that there are 5 weeks and 1 day until I leave for Hawaii. I don't know why I thought you would find this to be as exciting as I do, but...

June 1, 2006: Cake, lack thereof
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Family

Yesterday I left work an hour early and picked up my sister Katie downtown. She didn't SAY so, but I know what she was thinking was this: "The graduation doesn't start until SIX. GAWD. Why do we have to leave...

May 31, 2006: Graduation day
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Family , Ponder

This morning as I drove to work in a jet-lagged Dramamine-induced fog, I listened to the sappiest most miserable my-heart-is-broken song EVER, and I LOVED IT. I even sang along, in the embarrassing way that you sing along to a...

May 28, 2006: Vacation, and it's not over yet
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Today I saw lions, tigers and bears, I avoided all carbs until the evening when I ate nearly an entire pint of Grater's Black Raspberry Chip ice cream, I wore sunglasses, I saw the X-Men movie, I read a Dr....

May 26, 2006: So wise, so brilliant, so completely terrible at public speaking
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Faith

So I bet you guys are all DYING to know how it went being Experts at the pre-marriage class last night. Well, unfortunately I can't give you a transcript to prove how wise and eloquent we were, so suffice to...

May 16, 2006: For some reason playing dress up is more fun NOW
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome

Something that is awesome: Veronica Mars and I share the same birthday. Something that is not: Logan is a Scientologist. Sob. Tis the season of television finales, always a bittersweet time. YAY- (close your eyes, Lee) Jim kissed Pam! BOO-...

May 10, 2006: The best thing my blog has ever done for me
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A week or two ago I was, um, kind of complainy. Ahem. I was bitter and whiny and feeling rather... entitled. I mean, I had a hard week, Internet. I wanted some kind words of appreciation. A box of chocolates....

May 4, 2006: And she'll have fun fun fun
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Ever since my way cool super awesome father-in-law gave me his old digital camera, I have been a picture-taking fiend. (Note: it is in your best interest to score a father-in-law who does not like to keep things longer than...

May 1, 2006: My favorites are gerber daisies
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome

It's been a long couple of days. The first thing is that, as my mom told me the other night, when you have very good, very close, very wonderful friends, their worries become your worries. I am really really bad...

April 24, 2006: Pedicure weather
Comments: 4 | Categories: Awesome , House , Music & TV

Oh dear. I just wrote the most boring post in the world. It was all about my garden, how I love it so, and how I finally dug and ripped and stomped and dumped enough this weekend to get it...

April 14, 2006: Fashion Friday
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Good morning good people of the Internet! It is SPRING, something Seattle has yet to figure out, but that's not going to keep me from spring shopping. Whee! (Also, must get this out of my system now so I can...

March 29, 2006: City kids try their hand at island life
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Do you like pictures of water? Everyone likes pictures of water! Shimmery water with blue sky and little tufts of islands poking out? Beautiful! Check out my weekend. Also, I would just like to say that it appears Nature is...

March 14, 2006: What is love?
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When your husband, trying to make you feel better after a crap day, says, "I know what will cheer you up!" and hunts down the Turk-dancing-to-'Poison' scene on the saved Scrubs episode on your TiVo and insists you watch it....

March 7, 2006: Red red wine you make me feel so fine
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Last night I uploaded a bunch of random pictures with which to entertain you today, but they are not here. I have no idea what happened to them. Perhaps they disappeared when Picasa crashed on my computer not once but...

February 16, 2006: My weekend with Andrae at the Red Lobster
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I believe my love of the fermented grape is well-documented on this website, so it is with Great! and Fervent! Excitement! that I share with you my weekend plans: touring the North Sound wineries for the Red Wine & Chocolate...

February 14, 2006: Born on a mountain top in Tennessee
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I am back. It is not the most fun thing to go from perfect lovely jeans-and-t-shirt weather to waking up to traces of SNOW in your front yard. Can winter please be over now? (Also, I noticed the snow when...

February 7, 2006: Another three-day weekend
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First order of business: my team may have lost the Super Bowl, but at least I don't live in Pittsburgh. (BURN!) Yes, I became a fan the minute my boss informed us that we didn't have to go to work...

January 17, 2006: May
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Faith , Ponder

Somewhere in this world is a little girl named May. At least, that was her name when I met her. She’s at least two years old now, maybe three. When I first held her two summers ago in a Chinese...

January 17, 2006: In which a morning person is entirely too satisfied with herself
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I would just like to say, Internet, that I really enjoyed my day off. Thank you, Martin Luther King, Jr.! (And did anyone watch the Golden Globes last night? I particularly enjoyed how they hauled out a cheery Queen Latifah...

January 12, 2006: Dear Seattle,
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome

I don't think we've been getting along lately. You're too gloomy. I can't deal with this deep dark dread that drenches everything in the mornings. Really. At this point I am considering what it might be like to live somewhere...

January 2, 2006: Hibernation. Also, gratuitous nephew photos.
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Hi. I've been busy. (Not posting pictures, obviously.) I've been busy with this, mostly. Internet, meet the Glorious Cherry Red 4 Bazillion Horsepower Stand Mixer. Here is my work exchange gift. At first I thought it was a leopard print...

December 5, 2005: A recap, a declaration of love and a quick retraction because I am fickle
Comments: 2 | Categories: Awesome , Phillip

We figgied and it was good. There is something to be said for standing on a downtown street corner with a group of like-minded (and by "like-minded" I mean "crazy") folks and suddenly breaking into song at 6:15 p.m. in...

December 2, 2005: Wherein I tell myself to break a leg
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When I got home last night there was about an inch of snow in my postage-stamp sized yard. I will now be licking Steve Pool's shoes and writing a post dedicated to his frighteningly perfect hairline. But it BETTER NOT...

November 23, 2005: My gift to you
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As the daughter of elementary school teachers, the niece of several elementary school teachers and sister to a future elementary school teacher, I now gift the Internet with an elementary school Thanksgiving Day song: TURKEY DINNER (or whatever it's called,...

November 14, 2005: Maybe we'll have ham
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Family

One day I will write about something other than Thanksgiving. But not today. Over the weekend, when I was not shopping or eating dim sum or asking a drunk man at Home Depot to saw my trellis in half (yes,...

November 3, 2005: Time to Get Figgy
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If you were around LAST year at this time (hi Mom!), you may have read some rather exuberant posts regarding something about figs? pudding? crazy people singing on street corners? It's that time of year again, loyal readers! The Sassy...

October 24, 2005: It was like being back in college
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , House , Stupid thing we did last night

The entire purpose for buying a new house was accomplished over the weekend- my new! red! couches were delivered Saturday morning. But first. We had to move the old couch. BLAST. Getting that couch IN my house in the first...

October 17, 2005: As cool as I am
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Phillip

Here's a part of my weekend I somehow neglected to mention: Saturday night, after ungluing my sister from TiVo and driving her home, we stopped by Pochi's for bubble tea. And we didn't leave until 12:30 a.m. because we were...

October 16, 2005: Snazzalicious
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Hi. I like pink. So I, um, did a redesign. This particular redesign is notable in that I actually did part of the designing. Meaning I went here and learned about horizontal navigation bars and archive templates and other things...

October 3, 2005: Taking care of the elderly
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Due to some disruptive rumblings in the Mighty Space-Time Continuum there hasn't been a whole lot of posting going on and for that the Management apologizes. I know you come here for your daily shot of Entertainment and I have...

September 22, 2005: There's probably no cheese on that island
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV

People! THE HATCH. IT WAS OPENED. Last night there was a little slice of heaven in my living room. Me, Phillip, our friend S, a table full of bread, cheese, wine and chocolate (the four major food groups), AND THE...

September 20, 2005: The nerdery continues
Comments: 0 | Categories: Anxiety , Awesome , Music & TV

After last week's no sleep stretch, I've reverted back to my Prevention Comes First self and have stocked up on the following items: 1. Wine 2. Benadryl 3. Computer games Although I have waxed rhapsodic about computer games in the...

September 17, 2005: I'm sorry
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I just want to apologize to anyone who tried visiting this site sometime tonight (Saturday) as there was all kinds of formatting weirdness going on. This is due to the fact that I cannot figure out how to preview advanced...

September 9, 2005: The crap day that was also my husband's birthday
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Cranky , Phillip

Yesterday I lost 1. every single email in my work inbox, including all of those organized and saved in perfect alphabetized folders 2. the five databases I work with, also known as "the company's bread and butter" 3. every folder...

September 6, 2005: Accomplishments
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The red horror. Now? Not so bad. I'm planning to hang that picture too, just not yet because I have only begun to love the red. I'm not going to put HOLES in it. (Also, that picture is a black...

August 30, 2005: Quickness
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Determined to show the world that I am not completely incompetent, I finished staining my bench last night. Read that again, people. FINISHED. So maybe I didn't do it exactly right, with the way I stained one side and propped...

August 14, 2005: I'll be Lindsey, Becca will be Tam and Katie will be the Monkey Girl
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Family

Right now I would like to say this site is undergoing a Big Major Re-Design, except I can't, because I have just spent an hour squinting at CSS tutorials and, if anything, I am getting DUMBER. Seriously. This is not...

July 26, 2005: Retail therapy
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , House , Rants

Extreme Home Makeover, brought to you by Mighty Maggie's Mom Mighty Mom and Mighty Dad came up for a big city weekend this past Saturday. They went out for a local pub dinner, enjoyed some community theater and stayed the...

July 18, 2005: Happy birthday to me
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If you're wondering why the banks are closed and you're not receiving mail, it's because today is MY BIRTHDAY, a national holiday. For some reason my office does not observe this particular holiday, but I plan to take a long...

June 29, 2005: Sing, sing a song
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV , Phillip

So I have eighty frillion things to do today, but not before I treat the Internet to a sampling of the music I'll be listening to on the airplane tonight when I can't fall asleep. Unless I bring a flask...

June 28, 2005: The Anniversary Waltz
Comments: 0 | Categories: Awesome , Phillip , Ponder

I had to be talked into this whole getting married thing. That sounds awful, doesn't it? It's NOT that I didn't want to get married. No, I definitely assumed that one day I would marry Phillip and it would be...

June 3, 2005: At home with the crazies
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K dropped by yesterday to give me back my cocktail shaker. Except she didn't have it. She was TERRIBLY apologetic about something and it took a while for me to figure out that she had dropped the top of the...

May 4, 2005: Gurgle Goo Erp
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In case you haven't dropped by in a while, I went to visit a baby this weekend. I think we can all agree that this baby? Is the cutest. Did you not notice the jammies with feet? FEET! (Also, his...

May 1, 2005: Love!
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April 5, 2005: There WILL be chocolates on the pillows
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , House

Never the kind of people to let the Universe get us down, Phillip and I spent Sunday evening in the company of our cheerful and industrious real estate agent writing up another offer on a townhouse. It took nearly two...

March 27, 2005: Happy Easter
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March 19, 2005: Thinking:
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there is nothing like DOUBLE OVERTIME to rewind all of your hard anxiety-related progress and make you bust out the elephant tranquilizers. Do you think my brother should name his new baby Pittsnogle Pincus? Because I think that would rock....

February 21, 2005: How to Spend the Third Day of Your Three-Day Weekend
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1. The night before, ask God pretty please for beautiful sunny weather, the kind that shines through your bedroom window and gently wakes you up. Don't forget to say thank you in the morning. 2. Try to act appropriately sorrowful...

February 9, 2005: Year of the Rooster: A Photo Essay
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Let the madness begin! After stuffing ourselves silly, we holed up in Phillip's uncle's condo for some all-night mah jongg. I mean, the older people huddled around the mah jongg table and the younger people slouched on the couches and...

February 6, 2005: Gung Hay Fat Choy
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I had an awesome photo essay going last night until the Internet ate my post. Die, Local ISP. Phillip and I kicked off the Year of the Rooster up in Vancouver this weekend- okay, so the new year doesn't actually...

January 16, 2005: At least we didn't order room service
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Let me take a moment here to (mis)quote the esteemed Ferris Bueller: I love staying in hotels. It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend spending a night downtown in your own city. When a night...

January 7, 2005: Crush #47 (this time on a famous guy)
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The snow, it has not arrived. Unless you live north or south of me and all of you people are at home in your pjs eating pop tarts and watching all the goodies TiVo caught for you last night. It's...

December 27, 2004: Presents for me
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Holiday weekend + Sims 2 + DVD "shout out the name of the movie" game (which I rocked, by the way) + Monday morning at work = sleepy, unmotivated, slowly-coming-off-her-sugar-high girl. The best thing about today is that no one...

December 5, 2004: We Figgied!
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After an entire day of stomach butterflies, after worrying about rain, after getting a Figgy staff person to hurriedly fix the team sign so it read "Sassy Santa's: No Talent Required" instead of Wacky Aunt's name (and good GOD, Public...

December 3, 2004: Been an angel all year
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All the pink? Not so much. I wish I was a Photoshop Princess with a staff of cheery technogeek eunuchs scurrying about the Mighty Maggie palace building me a pretty pink masthead with excellent resolution. (The movie I watched over...

November 30, 2004: Three dinners in three days
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Thanksgiving is over and it is now time to Get Our Figgy On. Oh good people of the Internet, there’s still time to donate! Better yet, get yourself down to Westlake Center this Friday night, 6:30-7:30 pm, and be one...

November 10, 2004: How to get me to send you COOKIES
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Hello Lurkers: this one's for you! Perhaps you were in downtown Seattle one Friday evening in December, maybe catching up on your holiday shopping, maybe meeting a friend for a movie or coffee or a look at the Christmas tree....

October 20, 2004: The Great Pumpkin Massacre
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It started out innocent enough. But then... [The internet needs to know that not only am I Oh So Photogenic, I am also wearing the oldest piece of clothing I own, my Model Senate t-shirt from my senior year of...

October 18, 2004: New acquisitions
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I know you are just DYING to know what envy-inducing items I brought home with me from my much anticipated Downtown Shopping Spree and I don't disappoint! I have a love affair going with what Cost Plus calls "stemware" and...

September 23, 2004: Windows: Almost as great as TV
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In my new office there are windows. I know this might not sound like a big deal to you, O Fair Readers, but it is a HUGE (yuge, even) deal to me. My old office had one measly window and...

August 8, 2004: Jam? Goood.
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What to do with the 4 pounds of raspberries we brought home from Sequim? Make jam! I completely forgot to document the initial jam-making process- the mashing of the berries, the exact and careful measuring of berry goop into 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 5, 2004: Genesis
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Hello, First Post. This is where, hopefully, I'll be telling all and sundry about the Foreign Places we'll be going this summer... Alabama, Montana, China... Stay tuned.