Tuesday, November 23, 2004
My life via Europe
When I graduated high school with little more direction than I began with, my parents began to fret. I was all ready to settle down in Hawaii with my boyfriend Dan of six months (who was ridiculously younger than I) and run a pineapple factory. Fearing I may actually do just that, my parents sent me...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2004
lessons from big brother
My older brother is reserved and kind; I followed him around most of our childhood and adult lives, and I still believe that most of what he says is true and accurate. My brother’s neighbor constantly parks in his parking spot, which is both well marked and assigned according to location of the...
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Thursday, November 11, 2004
If in need of coherant thought, please look elsewhere
Like the evil bald guy in The Forbidden Zone (Molly Ringwald’s finest work, aside from The Breakfast Club, and Sixteen Candles, oh! And Pretty in Pink…), my son pedals around the house running over toes and into walls that I recently painted. Ruddy Orange, thanks for asking. And speaking of reddish...
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Monday, November 8, 2004
Jai, Chow Fun, and a whole lotta yak
The reason I do not eat Chinese food is twofold: 1) As a teen in high school in Hawaii, it was an assignment in Religion class to being some kind of ethnic food. Being white, I brought McDonald's. Evidently, some of the students took the assignment seriously, and one of the...
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Sunday, November 7, 2004
Thanks to Hollee
I figured out how to get my picture on here! My husband and I celebrated our First Anniversary a week ago. Here's us a year ago. We have one more child now, so try to imagine us with many more wrinkles and gray hair. And pissed off looks. And no clothes without stains. Oh, and food in our hair....
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Friday, November 5, 2004
Noah Webster's long lost cousins
My parents seemed to enjoy watching me fail miserably in social settings. Or so one would deduce after seeing the vocabulary my family armed me with. Below is a selection of words as they were used in my family and thought to be correct by me until someone let me in on the secret: my parents were...
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Wednesday, November 3, 2004
We are so lucky! Oh, crap...
My brother was 16 and new to driving; but as my older brother he was required to take me everywhere and wait for me before bringing me back. His joy was well masked. On one particular day we were headed back home when we got a flat tire. We did not have cell phones back then, and we knew our mother...
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Tuesday, November 2, 2004
Diary of a Diary
I wanted to be a writer when I was 12, so I started a journal of my life. It started out very sacred; I had to write with the pink pencil shaped like a giant matchstick, and I had to start off “Dear Diary” and end with “Love, Me”. I attempted to write at least a page for each entry, though it was...
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Monday, November 1, 2004
Anniversary thoughts, with wedding photo
Today is my 1st wedding anniversary. I got married in the snowy cold of Washington on this day. It was a busy, harried day. My husband forgot to drop off the bridesmaid dresses to get pressed until two hours before the ceremony, the cafe my bridesmaids and I went to was out of clam chowder (that...
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Thursday, October 28, 2004
Beep beep!
I haven’t ridden a bicycle since I was 6. My dad was walking ahead of me on the sidewalk and I went to pass him on the left when I lost control of my Huffy, knocking him into the busy street next to us in front of a car. Horns honked, cars swerved, and I fell. People came rushing over from across...
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