tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75600071256733612652011-11-20T12:02:34.246-08:00A thought dropper off'er.Amelia Anne Flores Irelandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12861396207839738027noreply@blogger.comBlogger1831100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560007125673361265.post-27554167718005251932011-11-17T13:05:00.000-08:002011-11-17T13:20:34.296-08:00

My cousin says baby girl doesn't want to come out because the foods too good at the Womb Inn. I might have to agree. Coffee cake and my world famous sea salt chocochoco chip cookies. And these are just what I have photo's of. There's been pumpkin mochi cake (if you haven't tried this or made it and love a really dense cake you must!), a bellewood acres jonagold apple pie, grandma's okanomyaki

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...Because they have HOLLOW WEENIES!!!(groan, I know.) Despite being 38 weeks pregnant we couldn't pass up my favorite holiday. We love this shit so much we celebrated twice. Which is one less than usual, but one more than last year. We did it so good we even had two sets of costumes. Hallownerds, for sure. Happy Halloween from our crazy family to yours. xoxo.

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...wondering where I've been? Well, drowning in the fun o' remodeling a room and decorating a nursery for our up and very soon coming baby girl. Not quite done yet...but here is a preview!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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The official wedding photo of the official wedding cake topper atop the official wedding cake!The officially adorable picture of the officially adorable and officially married bride and groom.I promised a picture of the cake topper on the cake, so here you go sports fans!xoxoUPDATED! Joshua Huston is the photographer and all of the photos he did from the day turned out beautiful. You can check

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Our first nursery purchase. xoxo.

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Woah hey look! More stuff from the past...all hand made by me. Awwwww. I'm so awesome. This was a Kale, Sausage, Potato soup....because this summer has been more of a Wummer, or a Sinter? Either way, it was 55 degrees that day and all I wanted was a hearty soup. It was deliciousness...and good for us! Kale! Lot's of Folic Acid! Good for babies! Speaking of babies, I couldn't actually eat

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Can you tell Baby has been craving berries (any summer fruit really) and pastries? Good thing it's the right season...bad thing is I decided to start baking for the first time in my life. How is this a bad thing? You ask, so innocently. It means we have berry filled pastries around all the time and then...I EAT THEM ALL!!! ahhhh!!! Attack of the giant pregnant fruit loving monster!!!!Raspberry

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You know it's a weird summer when this is the forecast for the day. And just simply reading the words 'decreasing clouds' gets your spirits up.The weather gods are just keeping our expectations low so we'll be grateful for anything.

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Oh! I forgot about these! I made these for the wedding as well...the bride asked a bunch of friends if they would put together a dozen cupcakes for the wedding. It was a great idea, the dessert table was a beautiful array of all different kinds of cupcakes. And there were plenty for everyone to try a couple. I wasn't going to make any but decided someone needed to represent the gluten free

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I am getting realllly good at staying at home! boom! it helps when a very good and old friend gets married and lets you make her boutonnieres and wedding cake topper! Somewhere I have a photo of the cake topper on the actual cake, it really looked at home up there. I'll post it soon for you.The bride and groom looked a million times more beautiful than their miniature versions. And the wedding

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The week after I stuck my hand through a window my dad tried to one up me by drilling a hole in his finger. I learn all my good stuff from my dad. See, he's got this rad new shop filled with all sorts of dangerous goodies, so he had to get the inaugural injury in some time. Luckily he was ok and didn't even need any stitches (nice try, I got you beat dad!). But it did inspire me to make him a

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Since it's been awhile, I thought I'd just go through all my old pictures and do a little photographic trip down memory lane for awhile. Starting all the way back at Easter. Is that totally ridiculous? Who cares! I played a lot this Easter...it was the most fun ever. I crafted and I cooked...and my in laws and my parents and my brother and his fiance all showed up to feast. So here we go...

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I am 31 years old, I am married, I have a fun job, I have a puppy and I own a home. Things are looking up for us kids over here. The only thing is, we aren't actually kids anymore. I know that this is the time when many of us start panicking about our place in life. It used to be that we would worry about our futures, and now it seems we are worrying about whether we have made it. As though

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I got distracted.I apologize.Life sometimes has a way of getting in the way.

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Julia ChildSyrie MaughamWhy these women are my heroes, and should be yours...coming soon to a blog near you. No really, I just need more time to articulate my thoughts. That is how important these ladies are. I am actually going to think before I type. Woah.

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new blanket coat and new boots...best way to start a new year, ever.

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Happy anniversary to us! We unlocked the front door to our home one year ago today.December 3rd 2009, the evening we got our keys to our first home.November 2010, one year, one pup, and one red door later.The original living room. In all of it's pepto bismol glory.A work in progress, December 2009. Adios to the pink walls, hello refinished wood floors!A well loved and well lived living room...

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Look what I did! A little finger crocheted garland for my little frasier fir. Her name is Judy. I love her.

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Tomorrow marks my first Thanksgiving feast made all by myself. From start to finish, from sweet potatoes to pumpkin pie, it's all me. Mr. Ireland is on shift tomorrow, his first holiday shift with the Bellingham Fire Dept. Traditionally they buy the whole meal deal from the local grocery store. Which, I guess, is better than nothing. But since he was going to be gone all day anyways I

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It really is the little things, like sharing a sunset on Whidbey Island with your favorite person and your little wet dog. Thanks end of week week end, you did us good.

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It's the life in your men.

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In my post of Halloweens past I could not find a good shot of Jesse's Cheshire cat from last year. I just stumbled upon this one on someones facebook page and had to share it. This is one of the costumes from our past that I am most proud of. He not only looked like David Bowie in Wonderland but he was comfy as a kid in a onesie all night long.

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I yam.

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We had one fabulous hot mess of a halloween...we did Kurt and Courtney proud. We partied, we rocked out, and we slept all the next day. I love this holiday, and I hope yours was filled with ghoulish and grungey radness as well!

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Bellingham Fright Night arrrrrre yooooooou reaaaaaddddyyyyy?????

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Because they have Hollow Weenies!!!!!!!!!!!!!Even amidst all the muckety muck we've got going on over here, I still adore this little holiday coming up. And even though we will not be getting too elaborate this year, my heart will still be 100% in it. I love Halloween. I would serenade it with love songs if I could sing...I would write it poetry if it would listen. I just love it so much.

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This is the greatest craft project I have seen, ever. Thank you, always and sincerely, Ms. Stewart, you are my hero.When we were growing up, we being my two brothers and I, we would take these long walks through Marymoor park, through the open fields we would wander. I remember having great luck in finding owl pellets quite regularly. They were little bits of the macabre and science all in one

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Next craft project? Blossom hats? I'm going to have to find me some bowler hats...(thank you geometricsleep for triggering this memory)

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I did it. I went red. I smudged my eyeliner. I put on my orange red lips. And now I match the trees outside...although these pictures don't quite capture how RED this hair really is. I glow. I swear. It's good.

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my fall style profile:Hair, red, yep:stylefrizz.comEyes, bringing it back high school style:grungereport.netLips, somewhere between being a lady and a tramp lies the orange red lips:sugarscape.com

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thanks again to ms. marjorie for her skillz.

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I slept a total of 4 nights in my own bed since August 19th. I have filled my last few weeks with so much fun and excitement I can hardly stand it...this is how I spent part of my last week:Saturday September 4th, Charleston SC. I was on a boat. (giggle)I actually arrived in Atlanta on Wednesday morning but I have no record of that, because I am a lousy photo taker.Sunday September 5th, The

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Meet Panda our new little pup! She came to us through the Alternative Humane Society, who we can't say enough awesome things about. I want to use exclamation points for every sentence because I am so stoked. Eeek. She's our first dog together, and Jesse's first dog ever. He has no idea what he's in for... She was found a few days after the fourth of July and she had a firework that had gone

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Look what I did today! It's like a mullet, business brunette in the front, bombastic blonde in the back...or as I like to call it, "the upside down sorority girl". It looks pretty rad down also, the blonde just peaks out when my hair moves. All my urges to cut my hair were squished by this little experiment...also, have you ever tried to take a picture of the underside of the back of yr hair.

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Fourth of July, Fireworks, Fun, Floreses.....FANTASTIC!Instead of appetizers may I offer you a Bee or a Pop-it? How lovely...and just the right weather...cold and threatening rain. I love holidays.Whether the weather be cold,or whether the weather be hot.We'll weather the weatherwhatever the weatherwhether we like it or not!This is the cheesiest post ever. I apologize for my apple pie attitude

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New plan: Need to get back here. 'Here' being the beaches in Barcelona, really anywhere near Barcelona, or anywhere in Spain. I'd take anything on the Mediterranean, how about just a beach, with palm trees, San Diego even to be honest. So, the question is...how do we make this happen?

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A belated congratulations to this little guy (the boy, not the fox) on becoming a big brother. From the looks of it you've got plenty to teach a little brother about the facts of life...like how to properly keep your Tonka in good condition, and that it's ok to ask for help from cool older friends, and most importantly how to win the hearts of all those who come in contact with you...the last of

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I'm posting this picture so that every time I come check up on my bloggy, with the intention of checking on the blogs listed down the side over there, I will be reminded that there are more important things to do. Like finishing tearing down the wallpaper. And folding the laundry.

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Kerr Smith of Dawson's Creek/Final Destination fame and USA world cup star Landon Donovan, separated at birth?No, but c'mon, look at that, I bet you don't even know which one is which. Actually, knowing who actually reads this thing you probably didn't know who either of these people were to begin with. Uninteresting little fact though, they were born almost exactly ten years apart and are both

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Today was terrarium day at casairlanda!

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In 1998 I watched the world cup on a VHS in a dorm room. A friends parents had taped it for us and we watched it a week later when we received the tape. Back then you could do that, the U.S. news wasn't as on top of what was going on as it is now. There was no internet in the way we have it today either, no smart phones, no google news updates, no msnbc home pages, and no constantly updated

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I didn't get a chance to paint yesterday. We had an excessive amount of dishes leftover from our rib dinner fest the night before. And I decided my one to two things would include a lot of yardwork! I mowed the lawn, I pruned back the bamboo, and I cleared out one of our beds that had been taken over by ferns (the kind that take over). Instead of me painting, I had my nails painted! Blue! I

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Do you see what the God's do to you, when you declare to be more passionate about cooking? They toss one of these whoppers on ya! Via a friends facebook post...this has got to be, next to the bacon maple bar, one of the greatest things on this planet. If there was ever a time to get passionate about cooking again it's a giant flippin' griddle with bacon-cakes sizzling on it. I am A) Jealous

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This was, ironically, a blog posted today at hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com...our little one to two things works well for all kinds of people.

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We have a family rule around here...it started with my brother, Houston, when he lived in Tucson the first time around. He had left school, was looking for a job, was 21 and just chilling. He made a point to do one to two things a week, if he accomplished that he would be happy. Here at casairlanda, we've adopted this rule and adjusted it to 'one to two things a day'. We feel pretty good if

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It feels really, really, nice to have a paintbrush in my hand again...it has been, no exaggeration, years. It's nothing really, a little sketch, with my new gouache and some new brushes, figuring out how paint moves again, the way colors like to play together. And on top of that, gouache is something I've never worked with before. It's like watercolors and acrylics made a baby just for me. So

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When did I eat corn?

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I want one of these, in front of casairlanda...it's a Japanese Snowbell, even the name is romantic. Plus, it's one of those trees that turns rusty red in the fall...I love a tree that recognizes seasons...For some reason, as I lie here with a sore throat, achey joints, and no way to breathe through my nose, I had this sudden urge to landscape. Not garden, landscape. I need to move some dirt

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...and this happened:www.incompetech.comAnd while not exactly what I was looking for, isn't this so much better? Ahhhh, dreaming of sunshine and all its gaseous beauty. Somebody get me a margarita, I'm about to chillax and get myself a tan.Arrivederci,sunny bono

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If I have the time to complain about not having enough time, I'm pretty sure I have the time to get something done.Trouble is...it's always just enough time to get something unfun done, like dishes, or laundry.So, I will go on complaining about not having enough time, because that is more fun than dishes.Thanks,turkey giblets

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Can you believe THIS guy is going to be 30 next week?A haiku for you:One last week of youthlast hoorah before you're oldOLD OLD OLD OLD OLD.

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....and get back in the kitchen.Can you get back into something you never were in? Our new kitchen is bigger and brighter and much better behaved than our old one and yet, since we've moved in I haven't done much cooking. Or experimenting. But, after a week of eating out at every one of the best restaurants in Bellingham (tee hee) I missed a home cooked meal, or rather my pocket book missed it

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Olympic gold medalist....Lindsey VonnProject Runway giraffe model...HollyAnyone else think these two look alike? Like, totally, right?

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From millan.netREDUX!

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I loved this song so very much. This is way better then a Hot Tub Time Machine this is the real deal time traveling right here. ollllld school.I've said it before and I will say it again, being a teenager in the 90's was the best thing to ever happen to us. And you know your getting old when this is a thought you actually have "I just feel bad for the aughts, the music sucks, the clothes suck.

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(from Apartment Therapy)Yes, please.

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...makes me want to be witty and awesome here. But usually (always) I end up staying up way too late reading theirs and then just get mad that I'm not sleeping and then I don't post.Just an explanation. That's all.

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Jónsi - Go Do from Jónsi on Vimeo.The first Sigur Ros (Ahem! Solo! Not Sigur Ros entirely. I realized this when I came back and reread this post, no more 3 godawfully too late/early posting for this old lady! My apologies sir!) song that has got me. No, Claire, you are right on. I get it. I love it. It carries me the whole way through. It creates a new nostalgia for me. Our previous

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I am typing this while my computer balances on the bottom side of a Martinelli's Sparkling Cider box. We have no coffee table. There are no books left on our shelves. Although those, the boxes filling our living room, and the cans of primer, are the only signs that we are moving. Our pictures are still on the walls, our bed is still covered in blankets, my clothes are still strewn all over

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to me!

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"just got all up in vicky cristina barcelona...liked it...but is wondering why, in movies, they still turn the lights on when answering cell phones in bed. i mean, i understand old fashion telephonos cuz it's dark and you can't find the phone. but don't cell phones light up, a lot, so you can totally find them in the dark? i've never turned the light on to answer a cell phone. also why do the

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Tonite for dinner I took my solo self out to the Soy House and got myself a big giant heaping serving of rice noodles, nom nom nom, with a side of spring roll all wrapped up in a rice paper wrapper and filled with MORE rice noodle! And for dessert!?!? I made myself a big pile of RICE PUDDING! mmmmmm. And while this all may sound very sarcastic. It's not. At all. This rice puddin' is damn

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no wheatno sugarno clothesno dairyno weekendno porkno caseinno jewelryno hatsno citrusno shoesno cornno sausageno alcoholno strawberriesno scarvesno tightsno red meatno problem.

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Why do people blog? I began a blog because I thought (naively) that people used them as online diaries. I thought the world had needed a new place to rest their thoughts on these busy tech driven journey's. And they had found it in the blog world. I understand better now that many a blog makes many a dollar, but I thought and still do think that most of them are written by people like me.

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This is an interview on David Letterman with Anne Heche, from well, right now. I found it so unbelievably irritating I had to share it with you. Immediately. I have never seen a celebrity act so abrasive. Fingernails across a chalkboard, fork against an empty plate, you know...blech. My ears are bleeding. I dare you to make it all the way through. Although, the spanx, pasty thigh, and

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time travelers wife?nope.another 24 hour shift...sigh.(thanks little bro, for the pic. i can't wait for new zealand. you+camera+lord of the rings=whaaaa????)

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This means something......

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'there is a baby monster hiding near me.''oh look it's grandpa monster!''i'm from the desert. i hope i don't die.' 'i am curly but i won't eat you.''i am safe and warm.''i am very green.''i am spiky in a soft and unassuming way.''i am PURPLE!''we are having a nice little party.'

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In the heatthere is no timefor dietsor errands ran.The rooms shouldbe clutteredwith remnantsof hours spent,passed quicklyand filledwith nothingbut the heatofsummer days.

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Tonite:Clear 70°F Feels Like70°F Updated: Jul 28 12:25 a.m. PT!!!!!!!!!and tomorrow? how about more of the same! I don't know whether to be ecstatic or miserable...I am truly torn. On one hand, if I'm going to be a total insomniac it might as well be nice out, and my skin sure does love being tan, and well being hot is

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yesterday i had to work. and then i was suffering from horrible lady ailments. and then i arrived home to an empty house. and then jesse came home. and he came home with flowers. for me. big giant sunflowers. and he was so happy. and then i was so happy. and then we grilled some skagit valley hamburger patties. and i made a burger using lettuce as the bun. and it was good cause the

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That means...BLUE RIBBON CLAM CHOWDER, son.Ladies and gentlemen, our award winning clam chowder. Photo from thrashermagazine.com.A haiku for you, chowder team:The clams came in cansoh! blood, sweat, and tarragonvictoriously!

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today's facts so far:1. I stayed up really really really late reading last nite and didn't eat breakfast until just now.2. My breakfast was AWESOME: one wedge of Laughing Cow Garlic and Herb cheese, Bowl of fresh blueberries, and a frozen hashbrown in the style of McDonalds with lots and lots of ketchup. All that was missing was a piece of bacon or a really good chicken sausage...mmmm.3.MENDING

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Today's facts so far:1. I actually cried a little when I left my husband in Seattle when I had to come back to go to work. Boy, I either really love him, or I am really pms style. Or maybe both.2. I was openly, and publicly, cranky today. If you know me you know this is rare. (the publicly part, not the cranky part *wink*)3. Davinci Bakery on Greenwood in Seattle is a little slice of gluten

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One of my most favorite persons in the world got married last weekend...in Winthrop. A lone cowboy of a tourist town on the other side of the mountains. The road was long, the days were hot. And every single second was filled with bliss...Take a backwards journey of my weekend.end of the evening dance party for two...my mother and the bride. I've known the bride since we were ten, we grew up

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Amuse Bouche literally translates to 'mouth amuser', and it is used as a tease from the chef. A very small bit of food served before a meal. A bite of something that encapsulates what is about to happen with the full meal. Your mouth starts watering for more almost immediately.So here you are sirs, my amuse bouche, or rather amuse oeil, an 'eye amuser'. Just a tiny teaser into what happened

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I just heard, on my not-so-secret favorite talk radio program TBTL, that one Mr. Oscar G. Mayer has passed away at the age of 95. He was the third Oscar Mayer to be chairman of everyone's favorite wiener company.In honor of his passing TBTL played a little ditty from comedian David Sedaris doing the classic "Bologna has a first name..." jingle, as Billie Holiday. Ahem. I almost stopped the car

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i have so much to do and i cannot for the life of me get off of the computer. somebody unplug me, fast.

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edit: the first is a painting by Cy Twombly. rad.the second is a photo of my lovely gma-in-law in Iowa, by me.

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New Kitchen? Sexy lounge? New living room?Future (very future, mind yr own business sirs) kids room? (it's alice!!!!) oh dear. thank you superbuzzy.com for making me more insane than I already am. And thank you dumb computer for crashing and not loading the other 2 million fabric samples I tried to load. totes ridic.

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I'm a grown up!Today's facts so far:1. This is post number 101. The first journal that hasn't slowly faded away.2. I got the job. I still have to call and accept formally, but I got it. Nice to meet you, I am the new assistant manager at the park location. The place where my love affair began. Where the entire winter I will be able to pull shots while watching the storms come through the bay

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That is something that has been said before, actually sung, by one Bill Callahan. Most recently he sang it to me at the Triple Door. Jesse and I had received a gift certificate to the Triple Door for our wedding two years ago and have been waiting for the perfect show to use it on. The Triple Door is a dinner theatre sort of place that serves pan asian/thai fusion mumbo jumbo and hosts a huge

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I really just wanted to write that sentence down. It is not meant to be dirty, so get your face out of the gutter sirs. Does that ever happen to you? A sentence just starts rolling around in your head, nonsense, but it doesn't go away. Like a song. A song that has never been written. It happens to me a lot. We used to play a game in high school, my friends and I, created by Cori. It was

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today's facts so far:1. yep. it's an open and shut case for certain.2. I closed the shop down tonite, and in 5 hours I'll open it back up again. It will be a glorious day when the opening and closing will be of my own shop. For now, it pays the rent. Or at least it pays for my shoes.3. gf mac and cheese, dinner at 11:30. healthy.4. sleepy.5. ZZZzzz

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"By hand. Everything used to be made by hand. Nobody in 1750 would have said, "This skirt was hand-made." Wouldn't have made any sense. "By hand" is what is called a "retronym." When something comes along that casts its predecessor in a new light, first the new thing and then the old thing get renamed. So we have "acoustic guitars," and "

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Marigold party, chilling with the Allysum, all of which I planted with my mystery dahlia bulbs that I really didn't think were going to do anything at all and I couldn't bare to look at a pot only filled with dirt and I didn't want to be sad when they really didn't do anything. But they did something! And that's them, the little green spikey leaves playing peek-a-boo between the Marigolds in

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As much as I have been uninspired in the kitchen I have even more so been in a rut in the crafting realm. And we are not even going to start the conversation about why I haven't done any art in over a year. I might need a therapist for that one. Once again, as with the food, something clicked last week. Not only did I plan and successfully pull off a last minute doozy of a bachelorette party,

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I haven't been cooking much lately. I'm not sure if it is the weather or the diet (i'm still getting used to cooking light and without gluten), but I haven't been inspired. I've still been reading about food, cookbooks, blogs, Bon Apetit, and this great book about the history of the food establishment in America called, The United States of Arugula. And yet, nothing. Even when we eat out I've

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today's facts so far:-dancing makes everything a little clearer.-i like sitting on the ground staring at my new little tomatoes.-donkey likes new outfits.-i love new shoes.-i also love salads.-alice waters may have invented the mixed green salad we've come to love and expect.-jesse is making a smoothie!-i want a cookie.-yesterday felt like 5 days, morning time, nap time, lake padden time, kayak

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