mighty maggie: Places

Places

May 2, 2008: Too much to ask
Comments: 6 | Categories: Places

My parents live in a cute little subdivision about an hour south of Seattle. Adorable little houses, manicured lawns and play areas and not so big that you get lost in a cul de sac maze. Yesterday afternoon my mom...

February 11, 2008: Maybe it's the weather
Comments: 12 | Categories: Places

Well, I did my civic duty this weekend and caucused. (Is that a word? Caucused?) The caucus location was quite literally a block away from my house and as Phillip and I walked over, we saw heaps of people doing...

January 21, 2008: Thank you, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Comments: 7 | Categories: Places

Our little family just returned from Chinatown where we honored Dr. King by eating heaps of steamed buns and shrimp dumplings and Guy Lawn (gai lan? stir fried rice noodles with beef) and broccoli beef (CHINESE broccoli which is 100x...

December 8, 2007: Flood Washington with relief
Comments: 1 | Categories: Places

It's Saturday afternoon and I am putting the lights on the tree and stressing out over where the Advent calendar should go. Hanging off the bookcase? The mantle? And what about my big ceramic angel and the holly garland? I've...

October 29, 2007: Oooh, a writing prompt!
Comments: 11 | Categories: Places

I'm sitting here attempting to take advantage of PRECIOUS PRECIOUS NAP TIME, but my brain is mush. (Specifically, multigrain cereal mixed with formula, if you must know.) So I'm fluttering about the internet, as I do, and I see this...

September 27, 2007: At least we got some cute pictures
Comments: 7 | Categories: Places , Tending to the prince

He slept so badly last night. SO. BADLY. Before Phillip left for work we discussed which state-run homes we're willing to live in, should we lose our minds and need to be institutionalized. Jackson, of course, thought the entire conversation...

September 20, 2007: "Vacation"
Comments: 8 | Categories: Places , Tending to the prince

Wow, vacation was hard. I know part of the reason (what am I talking about? MOST of the reason) things have gone so well for Phillip and me in the Taking Care Of A New Baby department is a large...

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 13, 2007: Wherein I get all local blogger on you
Comments: 5 | Categories: Places

I'm the kind of person who thinks government should stick to catching criminals and filling potholes, but OH MY do I love daylight savings time. I don't even know why it's early this year (saving energy? really?) but bring it...

February 26, 2007: The end of the world as I know it, and I feel fine
Comments: 3 | Categories: Family , Places

Have I told you my parents are moving back to the United States this summer? For good? For real? As in, no more free European lodging for Maggie, forever and ever? [Insert moment of silence.] This new development is so...

November 29, 2006: I'm not that girl
Comments: 2 | Categories: Places

You know what is funny? I am watching a British cooking show. Better yet, a British version of Iron Chef, wherein the host is trying to get the guest Italian cook to compliment English wine. As we were given dire...

November 27, 2006: Only a European vacation could make me even more boring
Comments: 2 | Categories: Places

I've decided I'm not going to write about how sad I am to leave Italy, for possibly the last time in a long long time, and how I will no longer have my parents to take me out to a...

November 26, 2006: We've been here a week already
Comments: 1 | Categories: Places

You guys, the dial up, it is killing me. Seriously. Tonight my mom told me that she plays a game of solitaire while she waits for her email to load. It's about 9:30 at night. My parents went to bed....

November 21, 2006: What is wrong with me and the not sleeping?
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Buon Giorno! Well, actually, it’s more like G’day, Mates! As Phillip and I are currently loitering in the Gatwick Airport Hilton lobby, slowly sipping our foul cappucinos and attempting to kill the next five hours. Five hours! Who arranged these...

November 14, 2006: A bit of Tuesday random
Comments: 4 | Categories: Places , Project Baby Cheung , Rants

Guess who bought tickets to 'Wicked' this morning? Eleventh row, orchestra stalls, and those seats better be diamond-studded. Also, I better be sitting next to a movie star, preferably someone tall and English, like Colin Firth. That would do nicely....

November 1, 2006: Nineteen days
Comments: 2 | Categories: Places , Project Baby Cheung

I bought the rest of my tickets this morning. It's final. I am going to Italy in nineteen days. Cappuccino for everyone! I'm pretty good at this trip logistics stuff, I think. My husband pays the bills and calls the...

October 23, 2006: Still here
Comments: 5 | Categories: Anxiety , Family , Places , Ponder

I thought a bit of an Internet Hiatus might do me good, but HA. THAT was a dumb idea. I was away, but I was Working. Here I am attempting to deliver the first reading at my cousin's wedding on...

September 15, 2006: Eiscreme bitte
Comments: 2 | Categories: Places

My parents sent Phillip a box full of travelers' necessities for his birthday. I waited patiently for him to open it with a pair of scissors and an exacto knife and a stud finder and a level and a razor...

August 10, 2006: Yet another way to make air travel the most dreadful experience on earth
Comments: 6 | Categories: Places , Ponder , Rants

Well. I have to say that this British airplane terror plot thing upsets me terribly. I happened to be on hold with my frequent flyer award reservation desk (aka: The People Who Have Never Heard of Direct Flights, What Can...

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-...

July 8, 2005: Friday blathering
Comments: 0 | Categories: Places , Rants

It's early morning in Seattle again- someone woke up on East Coast time. No work today! The Parents flew in from Italy via Colorado (the new baby takes precedent over EVERYTHING now) and I am so excited to drive down...

July 7, 2005: O Loyal Readers, Please Don't Abandon Me
Comments: 0 | Categories: Cranky , Family , Places

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...

April 13, 2005: Travel the world and the seven seas
Comments: 0 | Categories: Music & TV , Places , Ponder

Near the top of my Must See TV list is The Amazing Race, the only reality show I could ever see myself doing. Except not, because, hello, it's on television. Also, I like taking showers every day and people like...

September 27, 2004: And we'll have fun fun fun
Comments: 0 | Categories: Places , When I was a kid

When I was a little kid, my family used to make a trip or two to the beach every summer. After packing up the van with food and towels and extra clothes and all manner of shovels and buckets, after...

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...