Apr
9
April 9, 2007
Between yesterday’s endless drive home from Oregon and today’s all-day meeting at Workplace (with, if you’ll pardon the random geeky name dropping, Merlin of 43Folders.com, who after being trapped in a room all day together I’m afraid may now consider me about on par with a yapping Pomeranian in terms of overall usefulness. I will attempt to win him over tomorrow by spinning in manaical circles, barking at his pantleg, and crapping all over the floor) my brain feels battered and toasted, with a gooey center.
Mmmmm, neural Twinkie.
Anyway, in lieu of words, let me subject you to a boring slideshow from the weekend. OH YOU ARE WELCOME.
The Umpqua River, from JB’s family cabin.
JB’s dad, shaking down petals for Riley.
We went to a park on Saturday, to Riley’s unending delight.
Catching the boy, who would otherwise go shooting happily off the end of the slide TO HIS DOOM.
Oh man did he love this slide.
Swinger.
A fungus is among us.
Some purty flar we saw while hiking near the beach in Coos Bay.
ORP ORP ORP ORP! Seal lions are so very cool.
Shaggy cows.
Container ship gliding by our spot on the coast.
View of the Coos Bay bridge.
Easter morning.
You should have seen how suspicious he was of some egg hiding locations.
Hee.
Spelling out something in blocks. A cuss word? Maybe.
Apr
5
April 5, 2007
I feel compelled to update you on the Mystery Smell. I’m sure it’s indicative of some kind of blogging-related dementia when you start thinking the internet really needs to know why your kitchen smelled like Elvis died in the fridge, but, well, I don’t exactly have content standards or anything. Frankly, based on the typos I spot whenever I browse my own archives, there is a distinct lack of quality control around here in general. Shameful.
So! On top of our kitchen sink next to the spray nozzle and the faucet, there is this Thing, a protruding whatsit which seems to have one purpose: to funnel out a stream of water when the dishwasher is running. It only happens for a few seconds, about halfway through the wash cycle, and the water just runs down into the sink. JB happened to lift the cap off the whatsit yesterday, and we discovered that it was very foul indeed—coated black by layers of icky dirty dish runoff. Gross, right? I gingerly swabbed at it with a scrubby brush then doused it with vinegar for good measure, and lo, the Mystery Smell is no more.
Okay, now back to telling me what you’re doing this weekend if you haven’t already. Also, if you have any suggestions for non-irritating teeth whiteners (Crest Whitestrips, which have worked wonders in the past, now make my gums feel like they are being doused with battery acid), won’t you help a sister out? My coffee habit is wearing on my not-so-pearly whites and to my unending sorrow the dodge tool only works in Photoshop, not real life.
Oh, and I would also like to know if the following things are worth their hype, because they are all tempting my wallet right now:
• Amy Winehouse
• Lululemon pants
• Superhero necklaces
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