Category Archives: Chris

Please, have a seat and look at slides of my summer vacation(s), Part IV

This is the last installment of look at all the places I went this summer. We took an impromptu trip to Santa Cruz a few weeks ago. Neither of us are very big beach people, but we wanted to beat … Continue reading

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Please, have a seat and look at slides of my summer vacation(s), Part III

My aunt and grandma coordinated some professional pictures to be taken of the entire family when we were in Hawaii in May/Jun. Here are a few favorites (I would like every picture of me ever to be Photoshopped, please and … Continue reading

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Please, have a seat and look at slides of my summer vacation(s), Part II

In July, we went to Vegas to celebrate my friend Kim’s 30th birthday. It was a great time, but just about one day too short. I needed an extra day to lounge by the pool/drink cocktails/people watch/all the other stuff … Continue reading

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Please, have a seat and look at slides of my summer vacation(s), Part I

My webmaster (Chris’s cousin) (happy belated birthday, Brant!) updated my Flickr plugin so now I can post pictures to this here blog again. I thought I’d go ahead and post the pictures from our summer vacations here, in case you … Continue reading

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Documentaries I’ve watched recently* plus the Emmy’s

*Do I know to live or what? Even though we’ve got a ton of tv shows we already can’t keep up with (this weekend we finally finished season two of The Kevin Bacon Show that ended in…April) we have been … Continue reading

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A bunch of unrelated stuff

1. I’m rewatching The L Word from the beginning. Showtime is replaying it two episodes at a time on Thursday nights and I’m finding it quite enjoyable even though I have seen it all before. Shane continues to be the … Continue reading

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What kind of mommyblogger am I if I don’t talk about potty training?

Chris and I recently potty trained LG in one (very tense) morning and I thought hey, maybe if you’re looking to potty train your child, perhaps you’d like to know the method we used. I got this method from my … Continue reading

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11

This morning I was doing some early-morning blog reading, as one does, and I read this post by Jennie and I was all, I haven’t blogged in awhile, I should do that! And then she tagged me at the end … Continue reading

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A birthday story in two parts: Food and booze

My birthday was last week and it was my very favorite birthday in recent memory. I very rarely feel the need to recap my own birthdays, but this was a great one. The weekend before my birthday, I got to … Continue reading

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Newish stuff to report

Well hey, happy February! I really meant to post more (as in, more than once) in January — I have all this free time now, you know — but I guess I was busier than I thought. I did run/walk … Continue reading

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