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May 5, 2008: Bread belongs in its own styrofoam bread-sized carrying case
Comments: 12 | Categories: Rants , When I was a kid

Last week I was all GAH, HATE BLOGGING and WHINE WHINE WHINE and POOR WITTLE ME and barely looked at my computer this weekend. I KNOW! I actually spent my weekend with real people! I even went OUT! Friday night...

February 27, 2008: Totally vague drama cont.
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Did you guys read Angela's post this morning? Go ahead, I'll wait. After I hit 'send' on my oh so heavily edited email at midnight last night and was lying awake panicking about what would show up in my inbox...

February 26, 2008: Worth
Comments: 11 | Categories: Faith , Rants , This Mom thing

Some time ago Phillip sent me a link to Suze Orman's new book Women & Money, which he swears he downloaded legally from Oprah's site. (What he was doing on Oprah's site and why he thought I would read this...

January 28, 2008: Nothing to see here, stop by tomorrow
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I swear I had a million things to say today. I have erased, in this order, posts regarding 1) Catholic School 2) Why grown ups don't act like grown ups ie: is that 45-year-old woman I know smoking pot on...

April 3, 2007: My last day is May 4
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I hate looking for jobs. Hate it. I would rather talk to that annoying guy who keeps calling me about buying a plot in a Catholic cemetery. I tell him I'm not ready to talk about it and he somberly...

January 30, 2007: Procrastinating
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So does anyone know why my report left out a heading? Anyone? The Perfect Day Job still has a few nerdy bits floating about. I am thinking about this while eating peanut butter straight from the jar. The extra-crunchy kind....

January 15, 2007: My morning, with a lot of tangents
Comments: 4 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung , Rants

So apparently the baby does not like oatmeal raisin cookies. Tragic, no? I love oatmeal raisin cookies. But I suddenly woke up at 3:30 am in Dire Horrible Pain, even though Phillip convinced me a foam eggcrate thing on the...

December 19, 2006: Six weirdish things
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I have spent most of the day draped across one of my two red couches, looking at the television through half-closed eyes and strewing used Kleenexes about my living room. I got a sore throat sometime last week and it...

December 12, 2006: Soon the bells will start
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You have no idea how heartened I am to find that other people know the Joseph songs backwards and forwards. The world suddenly became a more friendly place for nerds like me. Also, my mother wants you to know that...

December 7, 2006: Ms. Bad Attitude strikes again
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Last night's training session (if you're wondering about what I'm being 'trained' for, go here) wasn't so much a training session as yet another introductory, please help us do this, it's going to be awesome, just wait and see get...

November 30, 2006: For your information
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I'm home, back to the land of high speed internet and 400 TV channels and knowing what is going on in the world. Also? It snowed. All over my yard. Phillip is distraught- DISTRAUGHT!- that he missed the big snowstorm...

November 16, 2006: Thursday- watch the walls instead
Comments: 4 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung , Rants

So what shall we talk about today? How fraudulent one feels to enter a maternity clothing store when one is most definitely not yet showing? How I've filtered my anxiety triggers down to the lowest common denominator, only to find...

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 8, 2006: Could I have the pizza now, please?
Comments: 1 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung , Rants

So! There was an election yesterday, I'm sure you heard about it, and I'm sure you did your civic duty. Yay you! I must say, I do love elections. I rarely feel strongly enough one way or the other to...

November 2, 2006: Housekeeping
Comments: 5 | Categories: Music & TV , Rants

Look! I made a blogroll! Sort of! Did I forget you? Do you not want to be there? Are you all, "Oh, God, she linked to ME?" I figured that link to my Bloglines account just wasn't cutting it so......

October 30, 2006: Just in time for Halloween
Comments: 4 | Categories: Project Baby Cheung , Rants

One of the many pregnancy symptoms I am not having is cravings. Well, there may be an exception to this. I drink milk like the the power is out and everything in the fridge will go bad in a matter...

September 25, 2006: The best reason to get married
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So here is a word to wise for those of you interested in Alternative! Fuel! Vehicles! After you have filled up your car with B99 biodiesel at the little shed over there in Ballard, you will need to put down...

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 28, 2006: Assistant [to the] Regional Manager
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Phillip gave me a bobblehead for my birthday. Normally I think bobbleheads are pretty stupid, but this one is a Dwight K. Schrute bobblehead. My Dwight is a bit off kilter, as he arrived with his head broken off and...

July 11, 2006: Aaaaand the freak out begins.
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Even though I pride myself on my tremendous ability to do 400 things at once, I am sort of in huge denial terrified of sick to my stomach about overwhelmed by the number of things I have to get done...

July 5, 2006: Four Days Off
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People. Why am I not going to Hawaii TOMORROW? First: the beloved automobile began spewing smoke Friday afternoon as I crossed the Ballard Bridge on my way back to the office. I don't really want to talk about this. All...

June 9, 2006: Is it time for lunch yet?
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In honor of the start of the World Cup, I will tell you my one single professional soccer story. Once upon a time I went to a soccer game. Fut-ball! I think it was AC Milan vs. a team from...

April 3, 2006: Things that make you cringe
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Oh God. I just went through all my crap ("crap" being my term of endearment for the boxes full of papers left over from school) to see if there's anything I can use or edit for a new call for...

March 21, 2006: Killer tomatoes
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Yesterday, because I am lazy, and also in an effort to slow the sucking of my life force whenever I enter my place of employment, I stayed home. It helped that it was to be the last sunny day for...

March 13, 2006: It's a good day for a Guinness
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Either I am sick or, unbeknownst to me, I drank an entire bottle of gin last night. I feel like someone was playing drums on my head while I was sleeping. There are ten pound weights hanging off every one...

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...

February 21, 2006: Notes from stir crazy
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I don't have the pictures uploaded yet so I'll save the Winextravaganza Weekend post for a bit later on. For now I'll just say that it's a good thing it was too cold for Phillip to go do anything requiring...

February 9, 2006: Stars fading, but I linger on dear
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It's fairly late here at Chez Cheung, but I'm resisting the call of my comfy bed and Richard Jury novel because I haven't seen my husband all day and I'm holding out hope I'll see him before I fall asleep,...

February 8, 2006: I know I carry misanthropic tendencies, but you've gotta give me this one
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I have to go to the dentist today. I think the last time I saw the dentist was when I got married, part of a whirlwind of medical appointments I made to please the Man Whose Shot Record Is Kept...

January 25, 2006: Tomorrow I'm going to write about sunshine and rainbows
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I have a friend who thinks the internet is “creepy”. The other day she said: "Have you heard of MySpace?! You can make this page! And have 'friends'! And people are, like, meeting each other! From their MySpace pages!" And...

January 24, 2006: In which the point is lost and, by the end, I implicate myself
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When I was driving to work this morning, some guy on the radio was interviewing a Seahawk fan. (Lest you have been living under a rock (and oh, how I envy you), the Seahawks are in the Super Bowl for...

December 27, 2005: Bah humbug
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I have a nice little photo collage draft going for you guys, but someone was too lazy to upload pictures last night. Instead she chose to reorganize her kitchen, the better to accomodate her beautiful new stand mixer (oh the...

December 13, 2005: Missing Person Report
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Perhaps you thought the party killed me? That the sheer amount of gin imbibed Saturday night kept me in bed through Monday evening? Nah, I'm just lazy. After the Saturday night festivities (gin! artichoke dip! some rather excellent white elephants!...

December 6, 2005: Should I create a new category for Paranoia?
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So people, my brain is practically bursting with Nerdness this morning. I just sent an email to a coworker outlining possible nerdy solutions for a nerdy problem including the words "pro" and "con" and with BULLET POINTS. In an EMAIL....

October 31, 2005: The great pumpkin is rotting on my doorstep
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I would like to say that feeling like you have a hangover without having actually imbibed anything on which to hang is REALLY UNFAIR. If I'd known Monday would feel like this without the second and third gin and tonic...

October 19, 2005: Testing pattern
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So. For a while there I broke my blog. There was great sadness in the Cheung household and a certain person woke up at four this morning to review and reconsider her entry into the world of CSS Nerddom. I...

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 7, 2005: There's not much tonight
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It is September. And do you know what this means boys and girls? It means Television is coming back into our lives. Our boyfriend Television, who went to camp all summer and forgot to write us letters, is finally coming...

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 22, 2005: A smattering
Comments: 0 | Categories: House , Rants

Wanting to take advantage of their very first nothing-to-do-no-obligations summer weekend AND both having left work rather early on Friday, the new homeowners spent their entire weekend fixing up the new house. There are actual pictures hung on the wall....

August 4, 2005: Hopeless
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Phillip is standing in the bedroom doorway cradling the laptop. "I'm going outside to see how far the wireless goes." "Okay." I am on the computer finding Amtrak tickets to visit Blondie. Which probably isn't going to work. How much...

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 22, 2005: Filler
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I spent most of this week insisting Phillip hurry up and read the rest of his Harry Potter book so we could talk about it. He's done now, but rereading certain sections because he's much more thoughtful and deliberate than...

July 11, 2005: All of the beautiful colors
Comments: 1 | Categories: House , Rants

I am having a housewarming party this weekend. Actually, it's a housewarming/birthday party (and maybe we just added the "housewarming" part because I really just wanted to throw myself a birthday party but didn't want to be all, "Hey, come...

July 8, 2005: Friday blathering
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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 5, 2005: It's 6:45 a.m. in Seattle
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We survived the wedding. And I think the word 'survive' is appropriate when you are in charge of herding the bridal party around in your brand new rented Ford Escape (love!) and you are extremely unfamiliar with Hartford, CT and...

June 27, 2005: Ho hum Monday la la la
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Sorry there hasn't been anything interesting up here in a while. Pictures of adorable nephews captivate for only so long, right? We're only days away from our East Coast trip (and, praise all that is holy, the purple dress fits!)...

June 23, 2005: These babies are the cutest.
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A week from right now I will be just about landing in Atlanta where I will wait two hours before boarding another plane to Hartford, Connecticut. Yes, we are taking a redeye to the East Coast- a redeye with a...

June 8, 2005: Much ado about books and backslashes. Topped with sour cream. Mmm!
Comments: 1 | Categories: Rants , When I was a kid

Do you know that book? Bread and Jam for Frances? I love that book. Other books verily adored by yours truly when she was fresh and impressionable include anything about Nate the Great (with his dog Sludge and weird friend...

May 31, 2005: Weekend paint-by-numbers
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So! How was your weekend? Mine went like this: Trips to Target: 47 Sunburns acquired: 1 Girly cocktails consumed: 3 Hours locked out of brand new house: 2.5 Fabulously cool and understanding neighbors met during hours locked out: 1 Square...

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."...

May 23, 2005: Salesladies are the Bane of my Existence, Part 234908
Comments: 0 | Categories: House , Rants

I don't have anything fabulously interesting to say today. That's one of the little walls I run into with "blogging" (although the format here is more "web journal" than anything else.) When life is happening, ie: traveling in China or...

May 9, 2005: Of refrigerators and boxes and that stupid dress again
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So... I miss the baby. Yeah. I brought my grandma pictures yesterday and we babytalked and doted over all of them, even the one where his head is drooping over his shoulder Pope-style and there's spitup on the bedspread. Sigh....

May 5, 2005: About work, but trying really hard not to be
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I woke up at six this morning to attend a meeting at the Port- where you have to sign into a slick touchscreen computer, wear a dorky yellow "VISITOR" badge and where none of the meeting room doughnuts are chocolate-...

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...

April 25, 2005: The only beauty advice I will ever give the Internet
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I haven't cut my hair since Thanksgiving, and then only because my cousin, the Professional Hair Priestess, was in town and giving trims away for free. She sat me down in my grandma's utility room, wrapped a towel around my...

March 25, 2005: Whine. Whimper. Moan.
Comments: 0 | Categories: House , Rants

The dream of home ownership? Currently on pause. Our offer was rejected and it turns out that our next options, well, those are all pending sale too. Yesterday my boss sold his house. He got his first call after it...

March 14, 2005: Monday List Mania
Comments: 1 | Categories: House , Rants

Things I can buy now that we no longer are in the market for a house and will not bother saving for a down payment, seeing as how the most we can ever afford in our fair city is the...

March 7, 2005: Observations after attending my first NBA game
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Dear Irate Readers Who Keep Emailing To Complain About The Ultra-Slow Posting of Oscar Party Pictures: They're up! They're up! Now, back to business. Last night I attended a Sonics-Suns game with my husband and my father-in-law, both of who...

February 14, 2005: Hugs & Kisses
Comments: 2 | Categories: Faith , Family , Rants

It's Valentine's Day and I totally forgot to bring in my tub of heart-shaped sugar cookies I made with my grandmother this weekend. I hate it when I forget things. But it may be just as well because the frosting...

January 25, 2005: If you are breathing you can teach
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The day before I took the WEST-B, I called up my sister, a future teacher- the kind who will flunk your butt should you forget your multiplication tables- and asked a very pressing question: "HOW MUCH MATH?" You see, Internet,...

January 24, 2005: Mis. Er. Y.
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Twice in the last week I have attended services at [local house of worship] and twice I have endured the searing agony that is The Reader. The Reader, I'm sure, is a very pleasant and amiable man. He has a...

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...

January 7, 2005: Crush #47 (this time on a famous guy)
Comments: 1 | Categories: Awesome , Music & TV , Rants

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...

January 6, 2005: Winter wonderland
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Speaking of my New Year Resolution, I would like the Internet to know that I live in the Fittest City. I think this means that the Americans who live here are a little less fat than all the other Americans....

December 15, 2004: The morning after
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The day after last year's white elephant gift exchange, I found a stack of crappy cds in the kitchen drawer. A month later I found a Buddha figurine in a tub of vanilla ice cream I was about to throw...

December 9, 2004: Wherein Banana Republic elevates itself to an important government position
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When I woke up this morning it was light outside. And that's how I knew it was going to be an Alexander kind of day. I woke up about 5 minutes after I should have left for work. It took...

November 19, 2004: Sugar high
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There is a crazy amount of sugar in my office. All the time. My boss was on a candy corn high the entire two weeks leading up to Halloween. (And candy corn? Why eat candy corn when the World provides...

November 3, 2004: Concession speech
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Here is a list of things I should have posted by now: 1. A Halloween Extravaganza Gallery featuring a witch, a farmer, Wolverine, a furious-looking cat dressed up in an angel costume, and my husband who went as a Giant...

October 25, 2004: Call me call me anytime
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As a friend of mine so gracefully put it, I have "rejoined the rest of the world". Namely, I am now, once again, in possession of a cell phone. Having devoted more time and treasure to AT&T Wireless than should...

October 19, 2004: Monday Night Football
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I was hoping to have pictures posted from the Great Pumpkin Massacre that ocurred at my home Sunday night, but we'll have to wait on that. Bigger things took precedence. Like going out for garlic mashed potatoes and an empty...

October 15, 2004: Me? Technically inept?
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The best thing about my new job is that is comes with its very own IT Consultant. At my last job, in addition to my important duties as Chief Mind Reader and Vice President of Hand Holding, I fulfilled the...

October 13, 2004: Really running out of things to write about
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Sometimes, when I've run out of other things to be paranoid about, I think about how much time I spend with a computer each day and freak out just a tiny bit. My computer at work, my computer at home,...

October 11, 2004: No more I love yous
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The concert? It was fab. And I have flogged myself in the presence of the Gods of Rock for ever daring to turn up my nose at Annie Lennox, O Powerful Belter of Crazy Fun Songs, who made Sting look...

October 5, 2004: Is this all you've got, Helen?
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I've resisted writing about this, but things are so tragically dull around here that I don't have anything ELSE to write about. So I'm sorry, all you people with REAL natural disasters going on (Hi Florida!), but I'm from Washington...

August 4, 2004: Nature: It's dirty and there are no stores
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My aversion to Nature has already been documented on this website, so I wanted to let you know that I've just returned home alive after two nights in the wilderness- namely, the Olympic Peninsula. There was no camping, thank God,...

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 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
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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...