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We're not verbally challenged, we're just…y'know…right…
My sister and I were talking about how several members of our family (including we two) are somewhat challenged when it comes to speaking. It’s always been this way. She’ll say something and stop mid sentence, and her husband will say, “Where are the words? Where are the words? I need words!” And Marty will…
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America Bowls
America Bowls Light box enlargement Went to a kiddie’s birthday bowling party this weekend. Out in the suburbs. H.o.p. had a great time. I took photos. Of people bowling. Yes, you who were there who will never find your way here, I was the older lady squatting on her haunches with a camera or right…
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Yes, yes, I'm watching C-Span
I’m sitting here writing and watching the filibuster or procedural block or whatever on C-Span 2 on my computer (don’t have cable). Had been listening to music earlier (yes, Bowie) on the headphones then gone away for a while and returned. So I picked up the headphones before I went to C-Span and put them…
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Bad parenting
I was in the next room and heard H.o.p. questioning Marty endlessly on something and heard also a note of exasperation entering Marty’s weary voice. Then… Marty: How many times have I told you the answer? Why do you keep asking me that? H.o.p. (with a laconic touch of extremely dry nonchalant humor in his…
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At least I don't get trolls…
At least I don’t get trolls. But I do sometimes get confused people, who confuse me. Jordan has confused me. I think he’s for real and not joking.
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"This is going to be fantastic!"
I’m ashamed of my son. I shouldn’t be. I should be accepting, I know. But…here he started making this wonderful clay Brachiosaurus and a T Rex last week for another stop animation attempt, and was making backgrounds as well, and stopped. Y’know what he’s spending his time doing? He knows nothing about IPods and he…
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Cheap or resourceful is sometimes just a matter of perspective
No, no. I’ve been tagged again on the Eight Random Facts About You Meme. This time by Lavonne at Born Famous. I’ve done it before but will give another shot at randomness, supposing my mine of randomness hasn’t been exhausted. 1.) I keep on my desk what used to be a nice Orchids of Hawaii,…
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Tagged for the Random Eight Meme
Going through posts I’ve never posted, wondering which ones I might salvage, and came across one made Jan 14 2006 in which I’d noted H.o.p. was wondering if Bush could be farted out of office. I also had noted how much I like marshmallows but rarely eat them. Jennifer at Saying Yes has hit me…
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Walking is good for your health…sort of…you say…as you try to ignore the smog…
I tell myself that walking is healthy for me and for H.o.p. Before he was born I used to walk miles. It was how I got around. Though sometimes in the summer it was difficult as the air quality here is horrible and it would give my asthma problems on hot days. H.o.p. doesn’t like…
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In which I’m treated to a show at the coffee shop by some seriously embittered service workers
On the way to a first birthday party, stop at a book store and find something that is not Winnie the Pooh or Beatrix Potter, of which ten copies will already likely be had. While Marty pays, my job is to grab two coffees. I order. The tables are full. Several pennies and a nickle…
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The Child Experiments with being a Comedian, 2007
I’m not a party person so this was an exceptional event for me. And I loved every minute. Marty and H.o.p. outdid themselves. And H.o.p. really did help. He went down to the studio with Marty in the afternoon and he washed grapes and cherries and trays and he laid out the grapes and cherries…
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And Then…
And then, the CAT 5 finally done, standardized testing lows, and mediums, and the weird high at the end over (“I don’t want it to end!” said H.o.p.), I’m sitting here unwinding, watching Albert Brooks’ “Lost in America” while Marty and H.o.p. were out shopping for groceries and a few things at Ikea for the…