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June 27, 2008: Five
Comments: 20 | Categories: Phillip

In college, in the spring before the summer before we started dating, Phillip and I went on a camping trip. NOT BY OURSELVES, like the Non-Denominational College Fellowship would have allowed THAT. And not that we would have anyway, because...

March 14, 2008: My mom is going to call and say, "I can't BELIEVE you dare complain about that SAINTED MAN."
Comments: 9 | Categories: Phillip

It's nearly 9 in the morning, but Phillip is still in bed. He's called in sick- which never EVER happens- and I'm glad, because he IS sick. I told him last night, "You should stay home tomorrow." And I may...

December 10, 2007: Well maybe just a half a drink more
Comments: 6 | Categories: Phillip

How many times will I have to change Jack into dry clothes in the middle of the night, not to mention sheets and blankets, before I figure out that he probably needs to move up to the next size diaper?...

December 6, 2007: Excuse me, where is my medal?
Comments: 9 | Categories: Phillip , This Mom thing

I know this is going to come as a shock to many of you, but sometimes Phillip and I don't get along. Publicly we are The Picture of Wedded Bliss, but on occasion we need to have Discussions. One of...

November 12, 2007: I'm wasting valuable television time!
Comments: 5 | Categories: NaBloPoMo07 , Phillip

I didn't think it would happen. Not now. Not ever. And yet, FOOTBALL HAS INVADED MY HOME. As I sit in the living room, computer perched on my lap, Monday night football blaring on the television and my husband chowing...

September 8, 2007: Twenty-NINE?
Comments: 10 | Categories: Phillip

Here are 29 reasons why I love Phillip: 1. He does all the vacuuming. This means I have to clean the bathrooms, but dear God I hate vacuuming. 2. When I'm starving and there's nothing to eat, he'll make me...

August 22, 2007: Why Jackson will not be brainwashed by Saturday morning advertising
Comments: 6 | Categories: Chineseness , Family , Phillip

I hosted the moms group at my house this morning. Rather than bore you with my neuroses (my house! it is filthy! and furnished by the Late Nineties College Dorm Life Catalog!), my insecurities (will they eat my zucchini bread?...

June 27, 2007: Four
Comments: 14 | Categories: Phillip

Tomorrow is our four year anniversary. Guess what we are doing? Baptism class. Woo hoo! Actually, we have spent a lot of time discussing our anniversary, as it is a perfectly legitimate excuse to stash the kid with the grandparents...

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 8, 2007: Where the gin is cold but the piano's hot
Comments: 3 | Categories: Phillip , Project Baby Cheung

I had my glucose test this morning. You shall all be relieved to know that I am still alive, although I'm pretty sure the reason I couldn't sleep between 2 and 4 am this morning is because I knew I...

January 24, 2007: I have to post SOMETHING
Comments: 4 | Categories: Music & TV , Phillip

I did not watch Veronica Mars last night. I KNOW, I KNOW. But see, I have a TiVo, or at least a homemade version, and that means I cannot bear to sit through commercials. I could have waited halfway through...

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 6, 2007: During the Seahawks game
Comments: 2 | Categories: Phillip

Until recently I thought I lucked out in the husband-and-sports department. Phillip just didn't seem that interested in televised games. He liked to go to baseball games and he'd haphazardly follow the Sonics, but he never paid much attention to...

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 26, 2006: Tea-infused peanuts? Anyone?
Comments: 3 | Categories: Family , Phillip , Project Baby Cheung

Just so you know, I'd rather be playing with my new copy of Dreamweaver, but I can't, because the fracking Dreamweaver installation wizard keeps asking me to insert Disk 1, even though there was only ONE disk in the brand...

September 8, 2006: Birthday boy
Comments: 4 | Categories: Phillip

It is someone’s birthday today. I will help you figure out whose: We are not having a birthday party. We will not wear crowns. This person has not spent the last two weeks badgering this person’s significant other about, “What...

August 16, 2006: More than meets the eye: dinner out with the Cheungs
Comments: 7 | Categories: Phillip

When I was a kid and I dreamed about my future Knight In Shining Armor, I never, not for one instant, thought I would marry a man who would gaze at me lovingly and say: "Do you want to go...

August 14, 2006: The Phillip Fan Club
Comments: 2 | Categories: Phillip

Phillip recently spent an evening catching up on this website. You'd think he'd have it open at all times, constantly refreshing to see what bits of written wisdom I've imparted to the masses, but sometimes he forgets that it exists....

July 6, 2006: Why can't you be more like me?
Comments: 1 | Categories: Family , Phillip

Yesterday my parents bought a house. For the record, let me state that my parents arrived in the United States late Friday evening. Saturday at 4 am my mother was driving around the neighborhoods looking at houses. By Saturday at...

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 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...

April 20, 2006: The lucky one
Comments: 0 | Categories: Phillip

Here is a post my husband certainly won't want me to publish on the Internet. Heh! Last week after suffering through the horrid interview and subsequent realization that I'd locked myself out of my beloved automobile, my in-laws helped me...

March 22, 2006: An anniversary post three months early
Comments: 6 | Categories: Phillip , Ponder

I have always been a tiny bit embarrassed about the fact that I was 23 when I got married. I don't know why that is. Ha. I lie. Of course I know! Because you don't get married when you are...

March 6, 2006: New post, but it is seriously nonlinear and makes no sense
Comments: 0 | Categories: Phillip , Rants

So, um, all those things I said on Friday about having new stuff today? Not so much. Right now, at least. Who knows what drivel I'll use to fill up the space below. The pictures are uploaded, but I didn't...

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...

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...

September 20, 2005: More navel gazing, courtesy of the New York Times
Comments: 1 | Categories: Faith , Phillip , Ponder

I took two women's studies classes in college: Women's Studies 101 and another one that was upper level- basically the same thing with better books. The 101 class taught me about being a victim, how to get hysterically offended about...

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...

July 27, 2005: Ode to my Husband after the Third Coat
Comments: 0 | Categories: House , Phillip

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height Your arms can reach, when painting beyond my sight With perfect strokes, you are not fazed. I love thee to...

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...

May 24, 2005: Last night's conversation
Comments: 0 | Categories: Phillip , Rants

"You made it through your first day of work! Let's go celebrate!" "I'm beat." "Awww, was it exhausting? Long day? Lots of names to remember?" "Yeah... it was good, I like it, but there's a lot I have to learn."...

April 28, 2005: Well done, Universe
Comments: 1 | Categories: Phillip , Rants

Apparently all you have to do to get the universe to cave to your demands is whine about it on your personal website. Mighty Maggie management will be flying off to Colorado at an unholy morning hour Saturday morning and...

February 25, 2005: Friday nothingness
Comments: 0 | Categories: Phillip

***Yo Lieutenant Pincus. I finally set up that page just for you. The End of Conversation over Lunch at the Bay Cafe: Maggie: Did you tip him? Phillip: Yeah, I tipped him. Maggie: Did you give him a good tip?...

February 4, 2005: Longest week ever, so step off
Comments: 1 | Categories: Cranky , Phillip

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...

October 7, 2004: Blades of singing grass
Comments: 0 | Categories: Music & TV , Phillip

Had Phillip been born a few years earlier, had he been born English, if the laws were a little different, and if he had more of a tolerance for ridiculous nicknames, this is the person he surely would have married:...