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June 26, 2008: Well, this is depressing
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Jack is now having meltdowns when Phillip leaves for work. We have to distract him and have Phillip sneak out somehow. Then he's clingy and/or getting into everything he's not supposed to be getting into. Which means I am picking...

June 18, 2008: I'll just throw anything up here and see if it sticks
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My sister and I are sitting here drinking coffee. We're at my parents' house. Jack is napping upstairs. My parents are out grocery shopping. And my sister and I are very very bored. "Help me write a blog post." "What?"...

May 22, 2008: Even when I have nothing to say I still manage to fill the compose window...
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Today at Parenting I attempt to rationalize my lack of belly shots, blog posts and new girly bedding for the new baby. "Harrumph," says New Baby. "Good luck with THAT one." After I wrote that Fix Up My Bedroom post...

May 1, 2008: Not a lot of sleeping in our house last night...
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I'm at my parents' house today. My mom took the day off so we can take Jack for his 12 month pictures. Even if I were allowed to drink, it's too early in the day. If you're really annoyed about...

March 20, 2008: Attempting to have a sunny disposition
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I don't know why I'm so cranky this morning. I'm sure it has nothing to do with hauling a baby away from the stairs for the forty-seventh time in a span of fifteen minutes. Or being up half the night...

March 10, 2008: Obviously I'm not quite over it yet
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I haven't been dealing well with People lately. I know I've told you that I'm a Nice Girl who would never willingly incite a confrontation, but that doesn't mean I don't sit and seethe about you when you're not looking....

February 19, 2008: Blog business blah
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Hey, those of you with feed readers get to read the Unedited! and Unfinished! Version! of the discovery of Baby #2. Turns out my husband is not as much of a computer whiz as he THINKS. "I didn't know 'save'...

May 4, 2007: Good morning, sunshine
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It's 6:30 in the morning, so right off the bat you should know I am in a stellar mood. Insomnia without the added treat of anxiety is a new thing for me. But it keeps happening, night after night, right...

April 25, 2007: An almost baby-less post
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My new hire starts tomorrow and I have no idea what to do with her. Isn't that terrible? I'm flashing back to my first day when I was parked in front of a computer and told to figure things out,...

March 19, 2007: Guinness and tofu
Comments: 3 | Categories: Cranky , Faith

So there were a lot of things I wanted to do before I leave for Michigan on Friday. (Michigan! I know! Why couldn't they get married in, say, Bermuda? Hawaii? I'd even settle for Texas at this point. Wherefore art...

February 20, 2007: Nerves=frazzled
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Yesterday afternoon my friends rang my doorbell, dropped their four-month-old baby, a diaper bag and a pack 'n play by the front door and raced away for some well-deserved alone time with barely a, "She'll need to eat in half...

February 1, 2007: The first day of the next three-and-a-half months
Comments: 9 | Categories: Cranky , Music & TV

When I felt my face turning green yesterday I decided to go home early and rest (read: catch up on my television.) I was so excited. I was going to curl up on the couch under the big sunny front...

January 23, 2007: Craptastic excuse for an entry
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I attempted to write a thoughtful, insightful actually-containing-an-opinion post about Catholic Weddings: Who Gets To Have One where I asked for your input and everything, but it turns out I am not so thoughtful and insightful as indignant and irritated...

January 5, 2007: Someone ought to stash me in my third bathroom and shoot me
Comments: 2 | Categories: Cranky , Project Baby Cheung

I am 22 weeks today. I know no one cares about this except me, but I have all of two entries in the "pregnancy journal" I thought I would keep (HA!) so I'm pestering all of you with this uninteresting...

December 13, 2006: He makes up for it by fetching me ice cream
Comments: 1 | Categories: Cranky , Phillip

It's beautiful outside right now. Which is funny, considering a tree fell on my coworker's house last night. I just wrote an entire post about how I woke up at four in the morning with a thick pounding headache and...

October 11, 2006: Is it time for lunch yet?
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I tried to write a halfway intelligent post on genetic testing, I really did, but I decided to have mercy on all of you and deleted it. Turns out I don't really have any thoughts on genetic testing! Fancy that....

October 10, 2006: Nothing to look at here, just move along
Comments: 6 | Categories: Cranky , Project Baby Cheung

I had all sorts of profound thoughts last night, all of which I planned to post to the website, because my millions of readers stop here every day just to find out what profound thoughts I have on any available...

October 6, 2006: Short and whiny
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Today I am wearing jeans I haven’t worn in over a year. They are two sizes too big for me, plus they were loose to begin with, and if someone like my little brother were to sneak up behind me...

October 2, 2006: This is how much we loathe Kim Bauer
Comments: 2 | Categories: Cranky , Faith

This weekend we went to visit Blondie and her roommate who we'll just call Drop, because Drop Dead Gorgeous Movie Star Hair is kind of a long website nickname. Blondie and Drop are living about 3 hours away, which is...

September 28, 2006: Sleeping on a planter at the port authority
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You know how, after you have given your two weeks' notice or, perhaps, have plotted a Scene in which you will march into your boss's office, scream "YOU CAN'T FIRE ME- I QUIT!" at the top of your lungs and...

September 26, 2006: Your daily dose of random
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I heard a new [to me] song on [country] radio as I was driving in today that I just loved. I even thought to myself that the woman singing it sounded as if her man actually cheated, like it wasn't...

September 18, 2006: Lament of the spoiled American girl
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What is it about the change in seasons that always makes you feel like you have nothing to wear? Even though you have several plastic storage boxes under your bed full of colder weather clothes from last year, a stack...

September 14, 2006: While I'm deciding if I should eat the last cupcake
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I said I hoped the church meeting would provide some juicy blog fodder and it did not disappoint. Last night I learned that in the Days of Yore, it was a MORTAL SIN to read a Protestant bible! Can you...

September 13, 2006: So boring my eyes just rolled behind my brain
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I'm a bit bereft of material lately. I have started about five different posts today, all to be chucked away within three or four paragraphs for the crimes of being Unfunny, Trite, Dull and Pretentious. Also Serious, which I really...

September 6, 2006: Heidi Klum can bite me
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My auditor is coming tomorrow. Actually, I'm having two auditors visit me tomorrow, because my boss does not, um, get along with the auditing company and I think they are afraid to show up alone. Safer to audit in pairs,...

August 18, 2006: In which I am furious with everyone for everything
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I'm in a bad mood today Internet. And it has nothing to do with the fact that my bangs are too long and doing some kind of weird feathery Farrah Fawcett thing on my forehead. Although that doesn't help. It's...

August 13, 2006: Who cares? You shouldn't. And I should go to bed already.
Comments: 4 | Categories: Cranky , Faith

We went to a wedding last night and I'm sorry to report I have no wicked mother-in-law stories to share. The daughter of one of Phillip's dad's friends had herself a fancy shmantzy wedding at a golf course, the kind...

August 6, 2006: Most selfish vent in history of universe, soon to be wiped out of the blogosphere
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Poof! Replacing the selfish vent is a day off from work, a field trip with the sainted grandchild to the Pike Place Market, the salmon run at the Ballard Locks and some splashing around at the Seattle Center fountain. You...

July 25, 2006: Will it ever stop? Yo! I don't know
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , Ponder

Yesterday Phillip came home at 7:30. He worked till about 6:30 and biked home. I worked till about 4:30, drove home and proceeded to eat the entire contents of my refrigerator. After hearing my pitiful self-loathing on the subject, Phillip...

July 21, 2006: Why I spent $40 at Target on absolutely nothing
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In Hawaii, where it is a perfect 85 degrees year round, one wears a darling summer dress over one's adorable swimsuit while one peruses the shops on the Waikiki strip. One can either retire to one's perfectly air conditioned swank...

July 20, 2006: Boo hiss
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Let's just say I am not happy to be back. So not happy, in fact, that I am quite unwell and seeing a doctor in about an hour. I think he will diagnose me with Dehydration and Too Much Sun,...

June 27, 2006: Is it bigger than a breadbox?
Comments: 1 | Categories: Cranky , Phillip

Last night I holed myself up in the little yellow bedroom determined to redesign this thing. Which is kind of dumb, because no one looks at actual blogs anymore as they are all using a holy and sainted invention called...

June 26, 2006: Hot time summer in the city
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I love summer. I love gardening and flip flops and grilling hamburgers and playing frisbee and all the incessant checking to see if I have even the semblance of a tan. I love the sun. I even love days like...

May 24, 2006: Karma
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I wrote a GIANT post today about the state of The Job and what is happening with The Job and how it is going to (knock on wood) CHANGE and how I am (knock on enormous centuries-old redwood tree) liking...

May 22, 2006: Can you still find some space for yourself?*
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I feel like I am running on empty lately. It's not completely true, because I bucked up Saturday for the church lady tea party, packing my entire kitchen and hauling it over to the school for the afternoon, then hauling...

May 15, 2006: Spring fever
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You guys, there was another adopted baby in church on Sunday. It's like the church people knew that that would make my heart explode and they are just trying to kill me. Anyway. I feel so BLEAH today. I don't...

April 17, 2006: Whiny and petulant v2.0
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This post originally contained unbelievably mopey dreck and was titled 'Whiny and Petulant'. Because that pretty much encapsulates my day. That and a good dose of BLAH. But it was ONLY whiny and petulant and NOT entertaining, not even in...

April 11, 2006: It's YOUR LOSS, ThisCompany
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The bad news: the data server is down in my office which pretty much FORCES me to surf the internet all day. The worse news: Bloglines is down too! NOW what am I supposed to do? Actually TYPE IN blog...

March 3, 2006: Bad blogger
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Okay people. I suck with the no updating. Here are the things I would like to write about, but feel suddenly oddly uncomfortable sharing with the Internet: my job this book the job I want to have how I spent...

February 23, 2006: Here comes the rain again
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I am one cranky girl today. I got some sleep last night (I even turned off the Project Runway reunion before it was over!) but I still feel like warmed over roadkill. Anyway, I am feeling slightly snarky about the...

February 2, 2006: Several random pieces of inanity
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Last night I went to my friend's art gallery opening. I don't know if you know this, but at art gallery openings? There is free wine. I may have had some of this wine, and then proceeded to call my...

January 30, 2006: Seasonal Affective Disorder weekly deathwatch
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Because of the five-minute sun break we are currently experiencing, I will let you all know that I will not slit my wrists today. Suicidal thoughts shall be reconsidered tomorrow. And maybe I won't have to resort to suicide as...

January 26, 2006: La la la is it Friday yet?
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In the interest of wiping yesterday's dreck off the page, I present you with a bleg: I need to come up with a "topic" for my "final project". In other words, what should my made up website be about? Because...

January 10, 2006: There's a bottle of wine waiting for me at home.
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I am in a funk. Wait, I think that should be capitalized. Funk. FUNK. Gah. For starters, this weather is miserable. There was a time when I was totally unaware of the effects of lack of daylight and incessant rainfall...

January 9, 2006: Liveblogging (sort of) an awards show no one cares about
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I am making chocolate chip cookies. At nine-thirty at night. You guys just don't understand the raw magnetic power of the cherry-red stand mixer. You know those commercials for Axe, the smelly man perfume stuff, where the dude recycles his...

December 1, 2005: Upkeep
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I have been a very dull very boring blogger lately. I have four or five posts rattling around in my head, but I when I go to type them out I sit there thinking, "No one wants to read this...

November 10, 2005: A short time out in the middle of crazy
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Hello Loyal Readers! All four of you! So, I haven't posted in forever because of something called WORK and then something else called BEING BUSY EVERY SINGLE FREAKIN MINUTE. (I had plans to write something last night but after the...

October 27, 2005: And I can't even go home and drink wine because I'm doing the friggin' South Beach diet. GAH
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I do not like messing up. Yes, I know, no one likes messing up. Everybody wants to do well, no one wants to look foolish, blah blah blah. But you don't understand. I hate messing up. I hate it so...

October 20, 2005: I need a nap
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The blog is still working, but my brain? Not so much. Management is very very tired today so play nice. I think I will write about the concert later. It needs to stew. In the meantime, picture a theater full...

October 13, 2005: Maggie vs. The Universe
Comments: 2 | Categories: Cranky , Rants , Stupid thing we did last night

Reasons Why The Universe Hates Me 1. Phillip is supposed to be at work at 6 am. I am supposed to be at a meeting at 7:30 am. Phillip suddenly wakes up at 7. I stay in bed a few...

September 26, 2005: Why can't people just act right?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , House , Rants

So. Five months into this new Owning a House experiment, we have vaulted past the small potatoes painting disasters and drilling holes into fresh walls and into a brand new realm of confrontation: Neighbors. Not the original neighbors. The neighbors...

September 14, 2005: Girl detective
Comments: 1 | Categories: Anxiety , Cranky

You know what's really fun? Playing your new Nancy Drew computer game (for detectives 10 and up) in your pajamas at 11:30 at night because you can't sleep and you're waiting for the Benadryl to kick in and knock you...

September 12, 2005: When I get older, losin' my hair
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , House , When I was a kid

For some reason the electrical outlets in the guest bathroom stopped working. The weekend we had guests. And now the outlet in my bathroom stopped working. And I still live there. What's up with that? When my guest told me...

September 9, 2005: The crap day that was also my husband's birthday
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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...

August 29, 2005: When you go out to the woods today
Comments: 2 | Categories: Cranky , House , Ponder , Rants

Internet, prepare yourselves. My husband and I have started a new Project. (I KNOW. WHAT ARE WE THINKING?) The new Project involves an unfinished pine storage bench that took four weeks to arrive and now needs to be sanded, pre-conditioned,...

August 18, 2005: I can't believe I referenced Star Trek in this
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***UPDATE!*** there are FIVE NEW WEDDING PICTURES! The dress! The helmet hair! Yeah, okay, maybe it's not THAT exciting... I went to a new doctor a few weeks ago. My old one sent me a letter last winter explaining that...

August 12, 2005: In which I turn all philosophical about a friggin PERSONAL WEBSITE
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So, I'm starting to think about turning this thing into a blog format, meaning more than one entry on the page. Sometimes I don't update here because I haven't thought of a full-length post (and sometimes I just go ahead...

August 11, 2005: Vignettes
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Mornin' kiddos. Last night some friends came for dinner and we talked about blogs. Blogs! One of my friends is going to start her own. You have no idea how thrilling this was for me. Other people! Who think the...

July 7, 2005: O Loyal Readers, Please Don't Abandon Me
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Here's another frightfully boring post, posted for the sole sake of those of you who have to work today and need something to do. I am not at work. I'm sitting at my brother and sister-in-law's dinner table checking my...

June 21, 2005: It's like the weather knows I can't go home yet
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I've written the same post a dozen times today and it always comes out overly angsty and wistful, even for me. It's about work and careers and how everyone I know seems like they're in some kind of What Will...

June 14, 2005: It's my website and I'll cry if I want to
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Good morning, Internet. Today I am CRAN. KY. The weather is gray, I forgot my lunch AGAIN, and it's only TUESDAY. Wah. I also had a bad dream. Oh wait, here's some good news. I can't remember the last time...

June 7, 2005: Bread and jam for Maggie
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Three things you should not do while attempting to succeed on a Low Carb Diet: 1. Bake oatmeal raisin cookies for the priest's 25th ordination anniversary reception. 2. Bake, from scratch, a chocolate cake and frost it with the most...

May 26, 2005: Road rage
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Yesterday was not so good. Knowing that when you get off work you'll have to go to your old crummy apartment and clean the bathroom and the kitchen and the grime in the window tracks doesn't make a hard day...

May 16, 2005: Pure unadulterated whining. You've been warned.
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Do you know what today is? Today is the day my townhouse CLOSES. I am sitting here waiting for the instant message from Phillip that we are In The Clear, but he is Currently Away and my telepathic attempts to...

April 26, 2005: So soft and squishy under the toes
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If I want to visit my new nephew- the month-old, extra-adorable, totally loves the sound of his aunt's phone voice, chunk of babywonderfulness in Colorado Springs- I have to leave SATURDAY and come back MONDAY and fly in and out...

April 8, 2005: Neuroses explained
Comments: 0 | Categories: Anxiety , Cranky , House

Here are some good things about today: 1. It's Friday. Fridays are, by definition, extra fabulous. 2. Red Mill Burger for lunch. 3. I have a new database to play with, meaning my crap work gets shoved to Monday. And,...

April 1, 2005: No, in fact, you may not have the salmon. I am Reservations Queen and have decreed it so.
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Since I've seen you last, I've taken my beloved automobile to the shop, spent $110 of my own personal money on supplies for the Big Event, fielded 897 emails regarding the program for the Big Event, attended a meeting at...

March 29, 2005: Today's Poll
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March 22, 2005: Project Townhouse Two: The Freaking
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Last night over a Starbucks vanilla latte/oatmeal cookie dinner, Phillip and I signed nine dozen documents instructing banks, brokers, lenders and agents to systematically suck out our savings with a little black coffee straw. It was more than a little...

March 21, 2005: Not giving up on the dream of home ownership
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I would like to know how the businesses of America expect you to go to work and actually be productive when, at the very moment you are typing up a post for your personal website when you should really be...

March 8, 2005: Wah.
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Hello Internet. Welcome to Tuesday afternoon, except in my brain, where it is Wednesday and I have scheduled fourteen appointments for this evening and where is the phone and I need to cancel and what was I THINKING scheduling all...

February 18, 2005: Dress Recap
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First, Internet, I've been remiss in claiming that bridal store harpies are ancient women with frizzy hair and poor choices of lipstick. Sometimes they are college age girls who are a lot like the cute ones who run Victoria's Secret,...

February 17, 2005: In which I manage to make someone else's wedding all about ME
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A large portion of today has been spent in Abject Fear. For today is the day I hand myself over to the bridal shop harpies for fittings and tryings on of The Bridesmaid Dress. Much has been written about this...

February 4, 2005: Longest week ever, so step off
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It's been a crummy week. Why? Oh, sorta because of that thing I'm not allowed to talk about here, the thing that occupies 90 gazillion percent of my time during the week, the thing that totally made me cry two...

January 20, 2005: And if it has a yard, I can get a puppy!
Comments: 2 | Categories: Cranky , Rants

I've been killing some time doing some extremely premature house-shopping online. And if there is one way to screw up a not-too-rainy and still-light-out-at-four-pm day, it's to look at what you might be able to afford in Seattle, and then...

December 13, 2004: No more sweaty windows
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This will be quick. They're putting new windows in tomorrow and about this I am supposed to be unbelievably excited. Except- not. We had to move the chair and pull out my desk and move the table and we had...

December 8, 2004: Photographic Evidence
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The wigs, the mayhem, the coveted Christmas Light Headband- it actually happened. The China albums are now combined and I'm keeping the Kalispell album up because people still seem to look at that one, Young. Also, the Internet needs to...

November 18, 2004: Complications
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You know those people in college who switched majors seven or eight times, graduated in five or six years, and then shuffled off to grad school because they still didn't know what to do with themselves? I was not one...

November 16, 2004: It's only Tuesday
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Don't forget about the COOKIES! What is the point of having Instant Messenger at work if no one is available to Instant Message you when you are thrashing around in that three-hour Can I Go Home Yet? time period that...

November 12, 2004: Silliest girls in England
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***Figgy Pudding info can be found HERE*** Monday morning. Ugly Monday morning. We're on the couch, half awake, breakfast half eaten, sockless and tie-less, Colin Powell blah blah blah. And Phillip says, "Wanna call in sick?" And I seriously consider...

November 7, 2004: I am not always this boring, really
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Okay, okay, I know I said I was going to post Halloween pictures. And I was going to do it the next day. Which was, like, a few days ago. But stuff came up. And the Halloween pictures aren't even...

October 29, 2004: A litany of complaints. Also, a Birthday Ode.
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All righty kids, I am exceptionally tired today. So tired that I wore my glasses to work and have endured the inevitable and annoying "I didn't know you wore glasses!" conversations with each and every coworker. So tired that I...

July 31, 2004: Crankified
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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 23, 2004: Melting
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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...