tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-177390902024-03-13T08:26:05.624-07:00Donut Fridays...Because Everyone Needs Something To Look Forward To...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-39197357808518260342018-11-21T07:37:00.000-08:002018-11-21T07:37:55.865-08:00"Reck" The Christmas Tree<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Written by Savvy, Age 7</td></tr>
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Hi, my name is Lion. It's around Christmas time so I'm gonna tell you of how I 'reck' the Christmas tree every year. The first thing I do is I 'noc' down the things around the tree. Next, I climb up the tree and finally, I break the 'speshall' ornaments. Whatever that is. <br />
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Big Shout-Out to cats! I like breaking Christmas Trees, do you cats? If you don't, you're 'lasy'. "Ha ha ha, nan nan nan a fou fou", I'm better!<br />
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And this is my speshall song:<br />
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"Mess the Halls When Trees Are Falling<br />
Fa La La La Laa, La La La Lah..."<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-11439051471746326472018-11-21T07:29:00.001-08:002018-11-21T07:29:42.832-08:00Parkour Master<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Written by Jacob, Age 10</td></tr>
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There are many secrets I have, but my biggest is that I am a
parkour master.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Normally I’m just a
“normal” cat, doing cat stuff, but when the time is right I use my secret super
power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slowly creep down the hall, and
then, I pounce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I jump the hallway walls
one to the other, then I scale the curtains with lightning speed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I leap off the curtains onto the couch and I
repeat this action three to four times more until I take a well-deserved nap on
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When I need a break from Parkour, I hang in my curtain hammock.</td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-89011927782041687192018-10-25T20:48:00.000-07:002018-10-25T20:49:13.524-07:00There Are Kids Here Too<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Written by Savvy, Age 7</td></tr>
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Hi, my name is Lion. Guess what? There are kids here too. The
first kid is a boy and he plays on an ipad, whatever that is, and he reads books
at dark time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The second kid is a
girl and she all ways steals my spot when I snuggle. Seriously?!? and she sits
on a red thing and I like to nuzzel her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I also like to peek on her book too and put my butt in her face, and
also knock her lantern off the ‘dark’stand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I play with their pencils when they are doing their
homework.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helping the first kid with his homework </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Savvy’s first blog entry </td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-72630977651547488542018-10-21T15:04:00.000-07:002018-10-21T15:04:55.043-07:00The Life of LionSomeone once told me cats can't have blogs. Well, you know what I think about that? One big hairball! My owner has let her blog lie dormant for years. She says she is "busy", but that's bonkers. I see her watching TV and folding clothes. I think she does this all the time, and I should know because she's constantly kicking me out of the laundry basket. Something about me being "in the way", whatever that means. And, don't even get me started on how much she sleeps at night. I mean, what is the <i>deal</i> with these people sleeping when it's dark? That is the BEST time to be awake. It is so quiet that when you knock something off the nightstand it makes the BIGGEST noise. I love it! Oh, how my human jumps! I really love to sit on her headboard when she's sleeping and stare at her - <i>all the time</i>. When I sense she is stirring, I'll leap onto the bed. She always covers her face when I do this because she thinks I'm going to jump on it. Just because I did that <i>one time</i>. Sometimes I don't jump, and instead I just stare down at her intently until she is fully awake and stares back up at me with just a slight amount of fear in her eyes. Oh, the power I feel being able to look down on her for a change.<br />
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But, how rude of me, I've gotten quite side-tracked. Let me introduce myself. My name is Lion. I am a cat. And I am taking over this blog.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-54332921501551337462015-01-21T23:19:00.000-08:002015-01-21T23:20:01.976-08:00The Heart of Communication<style>
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">It's been far too long since this blog saw a post, so I'm very happy to welcome, for the very first time ever on Donut Fridays - a guest blogger! Actually, it's two guest bloggers: Mama J and Aunt G. Mama J is somewhat social media savvy (aka she has a FB account) and Aunt G's specialty is texting emojis. Therefore, when they said they might like to have a blog (but didn't know how to go about it) I suggested they use mine to share their thoughts. Not really thinking I'd hear much further, I was surprised to receive an email about a week later with the following post. So, without further ado I introduce you to the first ever blog post from the esteemed team of Mama J and Aunt G:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">We’re two
sisters-in-law with 40+ years of history together who meet for breakfast once a
month to catch up.</span></i></span></div>
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lot of combined experience. We’ve been around for the rotary dial telephone,
the typewriter, the introduction of main frames and personal computers, the use
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</span>Where we can see each other’s smiles and grimaces and winks and eye rolls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is where you can jump into the
middle of someone’s sentence and still hear what they’re saying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(hard to do on the phone). This is an
art with the potential of becoming extinct in the face of texting, tweeting,
twittering, game playing and what-all that’s coming down the pike.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">We like to experience
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place.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were surprised by the
question from the waitress of whether we’d like a starter while thinking about
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a starter, before the first meal of the day.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we were told it might be the scone of the day or a batch
of fritters to munch beforehand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“No
thanks.“ <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But hmm…unnecessary,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but…its a thought.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So of course we caved and ordered a
batch of fritters (fancy donut holes) with the idea of taking some home to the
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be reasonable for the “main meal” and ordered yogurt parfaits with home-made
fresh pecan/raisin granola.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
were asked if we’d like bacon too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“No thanks, just the parfait would be great. “ Now to us “parfait” meant
a light meal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The waitress came
with an 8” tall, 4” wide goblet full of what appeared to be an ice cream
sundae.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was pretty funny to
us and even to the ladies next to us who laughed and complimented us for being
so “good” as to order yogurt – and so much of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, what should have tasted like pecans and
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<span style="font-family: "Lucida Grande";">Might I recommend sky-diving or flame throwing? Because I have no doubt that an account of you two trying one of those things would go viral! Thank you for your contribution and hopefully we'll see more to come! </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-39310882128500689792014-08-14T22:49:00.002-07:002014-08-14T22:49:53.583-07:00The Cinderella Diaries<style>
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To follow up on yesterday’s post, one of the activities that
Princess S did, to entertain herself while mama was trying to clean, was to write
in her diary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mind you, she
just turned 3, and she doesn’t know how to write.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, she took this very seriously and got out her pen, her
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I watched her sit down at her little table with pen in hand
and scribble in her diary as she dictated her daily life out-loud: “daddy went to work…
Mama breakfast… Savvy pre-school…”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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And then Mama continued to nag her to pick up her things
until we finally all mopped together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A little while after that she sat back down to continue ‘writing’ in her
diary and with pen in hand the scribbles began again in earnest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time, all I heard her saying was “Clean, clean, clean,
clean….” in her little voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
am a little concerned that she is taking this Cinderella thing seriously...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Clean, clean, clean, clean"</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-61690774397787253492014-08-13T22:40:00.000-07:002014-08-13T22:40:12.829-07:00Just Give Me This Moment
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Yes, the couch and chair are lined with piles of clothes and
we can’t sit down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, the kid’s
beds are unmade, and their floor is so littered with toys that it is difficult
to walk without stepping on a sharp-pointed car or dull-headed baby doll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, it’s true that for every ten
minutes that I get to clean, it is first preceded by a half-hour of kids
needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, the bathroom needs
cleaning and don’t even mention the kitchen stove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, almost every carpeted surface has a towel lying on it
because that’s where my daughter insists on having her pull-up/diaper changed
as she also refuses to use the toilet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes, there is a constant battle with ants that have become so smart that
they only show up in groups of ten and they don’t reveal where they come
from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, we do have an aging cat
who is starting to lose track of where her litterbox is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, we even have fleas that seem to
train with the ants and come from nowhere, and travel sparsely, but never go
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, my house is a mess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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But, on Tuesday, I made it my mission that I would sweep and
mop at least one room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
mean the kind of sweeping and mopping that requires you to move furniture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I pushed my clothes-laden couch and
chair out of the way, and I began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Ten minutes here, thirty minutes with kids, ten minutes back – always
trying to convince my kids, encourage my kids, nag (but ever so slightly), beg,
and pester my kids, to pick up all of their things off the floor so that I
could in fact sweep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally
the floor was clear, and I began to mop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They were downstairs playing when I started, but came up shortly
thereafter and suddenly, I had my Tom Sawyer moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I want to mop!” my 3-year old shouted (while wearing her
Princess dress of course), so I gave her the toy mop, showed her the bucket and
let her go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I want to mop too!”
shouted my 5-year old so I handed over my mop to him.</div>
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Yes, they have no idea how to mop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, there were additional puddles of water on the floor.
Yes, I pretty much had to re-do all the places they mopped first. BUT, they
were so happy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was so happy
they were helping!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They even got
on their hands and knees with rags to dry the floor after that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, when I told them I was going to
mop the laundry room next (where the litterbox is) they shouted, “WE WANT TO
MOP THE LAUNDRY ROOM!!”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As they
mopped, I told myself that I needed to remember this moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The kids were being helpful, the house was getting cleaned
bit by bit, and at this pace … we might be done by Christmas.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who knew mopping the laundry room could be so fun?</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-67019703933718889162014-07-26T12:29:00.001-07:002014-07-26T12:29:36.677-07:00Employed!<style>
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I got a job!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
sorts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of about two weeks
ago I am employed again, and I am very pleased to report that I just turned in
my first invoice for a grand total of nine hours worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wait, what was that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nine hours in two weeks you may wonder…
what kind of a “job” is that??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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Through an alignment of the stars, an old client
of mine needed some project support and reached out to me at the
same time as I had reached out to them just to see how they were doing because,
through the years, we had become friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all happened very quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My friend put me in touch with
her boss and we had a twenty minute conversation about all of the upcoming
projects they have, after which he said, “<span style="color: #0b5394;">Okay.. well, I think the next step is
for you to provide us with a Statement of Work, and we’ll see where we
want to go from there</span>.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I
kept very cool and professional on the call, inside a hundred questions were
going through my head…”<i>A Statement of Work for what exactly?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is it they want me to do? How do I
present this to them? How much do I charge them? I hope I have a week to work
on this…</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span></span><span style="color: #0b5394;">“Can you give it
to me in the next two days?” </span>he asked, “Sure! [<i>crap</i>]”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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So, for the next two
evenings, after the kids were in bed and I finally had time to think quietly I put on my old work hat and drafted out a Statement of Work (SOW).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is something I had done for
my previous employer, so it wasn’t completely foreign to me, but in all honesty,
it was one of the functions of the job I liked the least. I searched on the
‘interwebs’ for a template and did a little research on a few type of things to
include, and then I thought back to my interactions with this old client to
reflect on what services I thought they had always needed – only then, they
weren’t paying me directly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the end, I had a five page document and at the top was “Meghan Ingle,
Independent Consultant”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
feeling when I finished that document was one of pride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“<i>I can do this</i>” I thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“<i>I hope <b>they</b> think I can do this</i>” I thought next.</div>
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I sent the SOW over to my contact and had a follow up
meeting to discuss it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
worried he would think I quoted too long (through September), or he’d think I’d
quoted to high (to remain a secret).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, my fears were immediately squashed when he said
that I had “exactly captured the spirit of what they were looking for” (<i>Yes!
Yes!</i>) and “let’s target the end date to be Oct. 3, but if this works out, it
could be a long term engagement for both of us…” (<i>yes! Yes! Yes!</i>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hadn’t even done anything yet,
and he’s already imagining extending the contract out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was the shot in the arm of
this job hunt that I needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
also didn’t blink at the price quoted (shoot, should I have aimed higher?).</div>
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From there things moved very rapidly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, I have never seen a SOW
approved so quickly, and two weeks later I was attending my first meeting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only downside to this
engagement is that it is not consistent hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t be guaranteed a certain minimum each week as
it’s solely depending upon the needs of the projects and the timing of
activities there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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And here’s the best part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are in Chicago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But they know that I am in San Francisco and that I do not want to
travel much, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they are okay with that</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being said, I will not turn down a
trip to Chicago, and am excited to go out there for a couple of days next week.</div>
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This company has already taken such good care of me and I’m
so very grateful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have
provided me a laptop in quick haste, their help desk support was immediate and
they’ve been quick to respond to my queries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most importantly though, and I won’t feel ashamed to say
this, I feel respected for my abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was so unceremoniously escorted from the last
company, and then it has been a bit rough with the job hunt, I started to doubt
my abilities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had I just
skated by?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was my knowledge base
too narrow to apply elsewhere?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why
won’t people let me in the door for an interview??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But these guys remember working with me fondly through
the years, they know I can deliver and they believe in me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They believe in ME.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday, I received the following
email from one who works there “Have I told you lately how happy that I am that
you are on board!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be
honest, she had, once before, but you know what? I’ll take that compliment again
and again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because that just makes
me want to try harder to support them and make this work out for all of us.</div>
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“Independent Consultant”…that has a nice ring to it doesn’t
it?</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-55987529677848767572014-07-24T23:51:00.002-07:002014-07-24T23:51:50.671-07:00Public Pools
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I hate public pools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I really do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially
crowded city pools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It feels
almost blasphemous saying this since I grew up a swimmer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From age 6 thru 17 I was on a summer
swim team, and the high school team.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Later in college I played water polo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t get me wrong I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">love</i>
the water and I love swimming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
public pools.. especially during free rec swim…ick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I yearn for those days when I lived in a hot
place and there were always outdoor pools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since I grew up on a swim team, and it wasn’t a community
pool nearby my house, I don’t have memories of hanging out at the pool during rec-swim, I just
have memories of lap swimming during practices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few friends had pools, and later my parents did, but
it was always still a little hard for me just to hang out and play. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">swim</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Now that I have two little kids, I really want them to learn
how to swim and for a while they were taking consistent swimming lessons and
were learning and enjoying it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Unfortunately we had to cut back on the lessons when I lost my job and
we haven’t found a regular (and cheaper) class to replace it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both my kids like the water, but
my daughter really loves it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This morning I came out to find her in her swimsuit and goggles sitting
on the couch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The last time we
went swimming was three weeks ago, and we had no intention of swimming
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She just likes to wear the
gear.</div>
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She and I had a free afternoon together today so I thought I
would surprise her and take her swimming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I sought out some free-swim time at a local pool and told myself to suck
it up for her sake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a
newer pool and nice so I thought I could handle it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then we got there…and it was packed with splashing
bouncing kids of all ages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And,
oh… the locker rooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
really the reason I hate community pools… they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gross me out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Nothing
is ever clean enough and I hate hate hate seeing other people’s hair
everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ew ewe w – gagging now
just thinking about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But again,
I told myself to suck it up for my daughter and I kept my flip-flops on as much
as possible.</div>
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We got into the pool and I took her to find a little space
of our own near the wall so she could practice jumping in and kicking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t help but glare at the
tween-age boys who kept splashing us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They didn’t know what they were doing but I still was annoyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the time we got to the pool there
was only 35 min left of free-swim so I figured that would be plenty of time to
make my daughter happy and also wear out the kid so she would nap nicely
later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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She was enjoying it and we were having fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We walked across the entire length of
the pool (it was all shallow) so I could get her a noodle to float with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About 10 min in we were just getting
into the groove when the lifeguard blew his whistle and said “Everyone
Out!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<i>What</i>?!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wanted to scream.. “<i>Do you know how
hard it was to get us down here and in the pool???</i>”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the building was so cavernous I couldn’t understand
what he was saying as the reason for our exit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got out, and when he came closer I asked what
happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Someone threw up in the
pool”.</div>
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OMG!! (btw, what did we say before ‘OMG’ became popular –
because that really suits my feelings here).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OMG!!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is why I hate public pools!!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Despite only swimming for ten minutes, she still had a good nap today.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-75334674669019652242014-07-14T23:02:00.003-07:002014-07-14T23:02:21.192-07:00Children for Rent<style>
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As I’ve been looking for a new job over the last five
months, and trying my best to be a stay-at-home mom, it occurs to me that I
might be able to make a little money renting out my children to others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are looking for a little
excitement in your life for one week at a time, then I encourage you to read
the below.*<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can
negotiate pricing later.</div>
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When you rent my children, you will be guaranteed the
following benefits for the week:</div>
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<ul>
<li>
A free daily wake-up call</li>
<li>
Learn to juggle (demands, not balls)</li>
<li>
You will be on kept your toes with stimulating brain activity</li>
<li>
You get to hear your name spoken, shouted and yelled - almost like having your
name in lights</li>
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A chance to challenge yourself, become a master multi-tasker! </li>
<li>
Exercise!</li>
<li>
You can catch up on all your favorite kids television shows</li>
<li>
Hugs at random times, it doesn't matter if your arms are full of groceries, if you
are changing a poopy diaper, or carrying a knife - they aren't afraid!</li>
<li>
You can learn all the words to the entire Frozen soundtrack</li>
<li>
You can enjoy all the food you used to think fantastic as a child, twice over,
since they don't like the same things as each other</li>
<li>
You can wake up super early to enjoy your quiet time alone</li>
<li>
You can stay up super late to enjoy your quiet time alone</li>
<li>
You might be able to take one nap</li>
<li>
You can learn how to type with one hand while fending little fingers off the
computer
</li>
<li>You will develop a whole new appreciation for clutter, laundry
and poop</li>
<li>You never have to go to the toilet in private</li>
<li>You’ll be forced to watch your language</li>
<li>You won't need to talk on the phone to anyone all week (because you couldn't
hear them anyway)</li>
<li>You can play</li>
<li>You can play again</li>
<li>You can play some more</li>
<li>You can goto parks to play</li>
<li>You can play in their room</li>
<li>You can play while you are cooking</li>
<li>You can play while you are going to the bathroom</li>
<li>You can play the moment you sit down</li>
<li>You can play the moment they are done eating</li>
<li>You can play when you are done playing</li>
<li>You can work on your improvisation skills as you answer the same questions many
different times</li>
<li>You can play with toys you wished you had as a child</li>
<li>You can read lots of (childrens) books</li>
<li>You can create new and inventive knock knock jokes and puns</li>
<li>You can explain what 'puns' means</li>
<li>You can interpret their puns and knock knock jokes</li>
<li>You can improve your vocabulary (please be prepared to define 'raffle’,
‘reputation’, and ‘tomorrow’)</li>
<li>You can get into deep metaphysical discussions on why balloons pop and stickers
get ruined when they get wet</li>
<li>You can become the master of 'spin'</li>
<li>You can laugh at mispronunciations and misuse of words</li>
<li>You live everyday like it is Groundhog Day - doing the same thing, only
differently</li>
<li>You can appreciate the things that seem easy to you, so you will never take
them for granted again. (For example: getting dressed, eating with a fork and a
spoon, putting on socks, brushing hair, drinking without spilling…)</li>
</ul>
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If interested, please contact me directly and send your
resume and any other supporting documentation to prove that you are truly ready
for this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Payment in advance will be
necessary.</div>
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*Not recommended for those considering having children of their own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your children
will not be my children, and you will experience new and different joys than
you would if you rented my kids.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All Packed Up and Ready to Ship</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-61894713024473509662014-07-11T16:59:00.000-07:002014-07-11T16:59:58.075-07:00The Sad Truth
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When I posted “<a href="http://www.minglesreflections.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-family-audition.html" target="_blank">The Family Audition</a>” and wrote about our family traditions, a few friends commented on Facebook that we should have mentioned
the Donut Friday tradition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But,
you see, that is MY tradition, and sadly, my kids do not share in the same donut
joy as I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No matter how hard I
try to convince them of the sweet bready goodness, they just won’t get as
excited as I do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh sure...I may post pictures on FB that make it look like my family and I eat our donuts regularly in blissful harmony, but that is Facebook lore. Yes, my friends it's true...not everything is at it seems online.</div>
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This morning is a
case in point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband
had left for work and when he got to the BART station he realized that his wallet
was at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The kids and I hopped
in the car (as fast as one “hops” with little kids in tow) to take his wallet
to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since we were out early
AND it was a Friday, I couldn’t help but think that it might be good to stop by
the donut shop on the way home.</div>
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“Hey kids, would you mind if we stop for donuts on the way
home?” I asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I have to
actually add “YOU don’t have to get one, it’s for me.”</div>
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“I want a smoothie!!” shouts my daughter (who doesn’t
actually eat smoothies). “No! I want a bagel! A Bagel!!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a result of another day’s
adventure where we went to a Noah’s Bagels, which was right next to a Jamba
Juice (aren’t they all?) and I got a smoothie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They both scoffed at the time and said they wanted a bagel
next door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then salivated the
whole time I ate my smoothie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My
daughter has wanted one since.</div>
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Anyway, so I explain that this place does not have all those
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It just has donuts, and if
it’s going to be such a big deal we don’t have to go (but secretly, I was
heartbroken).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then my
daughter pipes up “I’ll have a donut!”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew she would come around, but it’s less than
satisfactory because she only enjoys the donut because of sprinkles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She doesn’t love them like I do.</div>
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Meanwhile my son of five has already mastered the sort of
scoff, hoity-toity view of those who eat junk food. “I don’t LIKE donuts.” “I
don’t LIKE cake.” “I don’t LIKE ice cream.” And, when with me, he knows he
doesn’t have to keep reminding me, so he’s taken to just looking down his nose
in disgust dare I suggest such sweetness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(To be fair, I adopt that same look of disgust when
someone tells me they like sugar in their coffee.)</div>
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So, I drag my poor poor kids to the donut shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Get two for me and one with sprinkles
for my daughter and head home to make them eggs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ate one donut in their presence, and after I had
dropped them off for the morning, I made myself a fresh cup of coffee and
enjoyed my second donut in peaceful silence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahhh….</div>
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If anything, the crazy pleas that I have to make just to get
the kids to the donut shop with me are the family tradition...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is what my daughter's donut looks like when she's done with it. It looks like she murdered it.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-61091092114981330812014-06-26T23:01:00.001-07:002014-06-26T23:04:30.600-07:00The Gift That Keeps on Giving<style>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgC0oegn0WbHxfa6MWP_qWM_7j9MNan4WxILE5vXElvpSIgBmI02aomCArDxJ-SYbobhrSl-lIaUhUOwRbrNYVd9aYUfMyZq2r0IujI-ClH0b0AEUFpc5baQI6g4o7KD79exIug/s1600/DSC01630.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfgC0oegn0WbHxfa6MWP_qWM_7j9MNan4WxILE5vXElvpSIgBmI02aomCArDxJ-SYbobhrSl-lIaUhUOwRbrNYVd9aYUfMyZq2r0IujI-ClH0b0AEUFpc5baQI6g4o7KD79exIug/s1600/DSC01630.jpg" height="200" width="132" /></a>When I was five or six years old I received a box of wood
for Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
disappointment I felt when opening that gift was almost equal to, but not
nearly the same, as the disappointment I felt the year Santa brought me a box
of material (later to be made into a dress by my grandma).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It turned out that the wood was a
make-it-yourself doll-house kit and it became something much grander then just
slats of wood which lasted a lifetime (the dress might have lasted a
year).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The money to purchase the
kit originally came from my Grandpa but the people who spent the most time
working on the dollhouse through the years were my Grandma, Mom and Pop, and
sometimes me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For someone who
seems to have kept everything, I cannot find any photos from those early days
of building the dollhouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I have many
memories of the process, so we must have worked on it quite a lot.</div>
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This dollhouse was a classic and it had everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Three floors, 4 bedrooms, a bathroom, a
kitchen and a main dining/living room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First, my mom and dad worked together to build it, and I played with it
in its raw un-painted state for a few years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, my Grandma got involved and took it to the next level
over the next many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once we
painted it, the house was blue, the roof a darker blue and the balconies and
windows were all white.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I recall
picking out these colors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through
the years my grandmother helped to decorate it by making a lot of the bedding
and curtains.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once the house was
built I remember working with Grandma and Mom to put up wallpaper and install
carpet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every single holiday
following the box of wood, I received dollhouse accessories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furniture, food, people – <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was literally a showpiece, and
in the house that I lived in from ages 8 to 20, it was on display in the front
room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People might recall the blue
house that sat to the left of the TV if they ever visited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, by the time it was fully
complete and decorated, I was getting too old to really be into
dollhouses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I appreciated the
novelty and uniqueness of it, and I enjoyed decorating it each Christmas time
with it’s own miniature version of a Christmas tree, lights and wreaths, but I
wasn’t at an age where I would spend any length of time making up imaginary
tales for the family that lived there. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>And
yet still, we held onto it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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When my mom sold my childhood home, she took the dollhouse
with her and it remained in storage at her house for years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We would talk about it occasionally all
those years I was single... “what do you want to do with it?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I don’t know, but I’m not ready to get
rid of it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked about it
when I got married (and kids were a vague distant thought).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“what do you want to do with it?” “I
don’t know, but I’m not ready to get rid of it.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then my son was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“What do you want to do with it?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“I don’t know.. let’s see if Jingle might like it later….”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then two things happened
1) We bought a house that had storage, and 2) we had a daughter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure which one my mom may have
been more excited about – the fact that she was having a granddaughter, or the
fact that she could finally unload this dollhouse on me.</div>
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And, for the last three years, it sat in a closet
downstairs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Miraculously never
found by either of my children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The box of furniture and accessories was stored under the house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hadn’t looked in that box, nor
studied the dollhouse since I was around 20 and my childhood home was sold.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwje5p9U8hyBxZDGPwBoXlarbJIEUjkT5MW2mzyZUw1L0Ede4cADyKFjOGHZcSVwRqzIq6BcCluLIEqHRrwc-LU77trxHIZSC5kwDNbXBThPgDDlCodz1HMGBDt16glbB6Atg2sQ/s1600/DSC01604_2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwje5p9U8hyBxZDGPwBoXlarbJIEUjkT5MW2mzyZUw1L0Ede4cADyKFjOGHZcSVwRqzIq6BcCluLIEqHRrwc-LU77trxHIZSC5kwDNbXBThPgDDlCodz1HMGBDt16glbB6Atg2sQ/s1600/DSC01604_2.JPG" height="192" width="200" /></a>Then, last week, for my daughter’s third birthday, we
decided to clean it up, pull out all the furniture, and give it to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had spent weeks cleaning up the
downstairs in order to turn it into a playroom so that there was space to hold
such a large piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My mom came
over on Savvy’s birthday (while she was out of the house) and spent hours
cleaning and decorating the dollhouse with everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a true walk down memory lane
seeing all of these miniature pieces that I hadn’t seen in twenty years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had temporarily forgotten all
of the love, attention and detail that had gone into the house. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people were still
dressed in their 70’s clothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The furniture in the front room looks like it was literally shrunk down
from the furniture we used to have in our cabin in the late 70s, early
80s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a sewing
machine and a rotary phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are bunk-beds, a crib, and even a tiny Monopoly board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided that rather than place all of
those tiny accessories into the house it would be fun to let my son do it, so
that he could feel a part of the gift too.</div>
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When our kids got home that day, we called them downstairs
for their surprise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were so happy to see the dollhouse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My son even registered the fact that it used to belong to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They know it’s special.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have also already broken some items,
but I can’t let myself be concerned about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because, after 35 years, since receiving a box of wood
one Christmas, the dollhouse is actually being <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">played</i> with, as it was intended.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The look of happiness on the kids’ faces that
day was only out-measured by the look of love and pride on my mom’s face when
she saw their reaction to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And,
we both couldn’t help but think of my Grandma who made the house a home.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The dollhouse master and her onlooking admirers</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-11753436928066202812014-06-25T16:28:00.000-07:002014-06-25T16:28:48.735-07:00A Day of Noise and Silence
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It is eerily quiet in my house right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of my kids are asleep, and I too
just got up from a little nap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How
did this happen??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not a
complaint or a worry mind you… it is a question of, how can I repeat this
daily??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Eight short hours ago it was not so quiet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My daughter was having a tantrum over
who knows what, while my son chattered on incessantly about who knows
what.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had been trying to get my
daughter to come to the table for breakfast and this set her off the first
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That, and the fact that her
brother took the iPad from her and turned it off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was doing exactly as I requested, but you know how it
goes… it doesn’t matter what Mama may have wanted, it was NOT what Savvy
wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, she didn’t want to
come to eat and claimed she DID NOT WANT CEREAL!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just let her cry it out on the couch and didn’t worry too
much whether or not she did eat since I know she always gets breakfast again at
her daycare, and usually likes their food better anyway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I sat down with Jingle and we
ate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She occasionally shouted from
the couch to remind us that she DID NOT WANT CEREAL.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally she wandered over so she could quietly remind me up
close that she did not want cereal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I said calmly, “that’s fine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Go pick out some socks then.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And to my surprise she did and she brought them back so I could help her
get them on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I thought the
tantrum was behind us, and I ate her cereal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That set off the next one “I WANTED MY CEREAL!!” She
yelled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Well, I’m sorry, you said
you didn’t so I ate it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And now we
don’t have time for a second breakfast session.” At which point she collapsed
onto the ground and began crying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then,
my son starts giving a play by play of her tantrum… why she’s having one, what
she’s doing wrong, why she should stop…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her crying sounds alone, I could handle, but his
chatter layered over the crying – because he also follows me around as he
announces what’s happening, and expects responses from me – was a little more
noise then I could handle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At one point I tried to pick up my daughter to carry her closer to the
door and her shoes as ultimately we really did need to leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, sadly, I’ve realized, she has
reached that age and size, where that is not so easy anymore, especially when
she plays boneless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I left her
where she was, and brought the shoes to her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I DON’T WANT THOSE! (Of course not, I should have known
right?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean she wanted them the
last 5 days, so the law of averages when it comes to children’s decisions means
that she would not want them today.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fine.. (sigh)…I continued to get myself ready and sent
my son out to unlock the car as I mustered up enough energy to pick her up and
haul her to the car myself, with or without shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said to Jingle, “now we have to drop you off first so
you’re not late.”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly Savvy,
from across the room, stops crying. “What?” she asks, “What did you say?”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said that we have to drop off Jingle
first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh! Does that mean I can
come in too?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Which it does since
I can’t leave her in the car).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
suddenly she’s up, grabs the shoes she so vehemently despised two minutes prior
and announces, “I’m not crying anymore” sweet as can be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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That was my morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But my afternoon was different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are having a wintery summer day here in San
Francisco, which means that where I live, it’s barely 60 degrees and it’s windy
and foggy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes me want to
hole up inside and do nothing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I picked the kids up in the afternoon and we went to Trader Joe’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had both had lunch, but I
had not yet eaten, so I knew I was potentially asking for trouble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am known to get horrible cases of the
hangrys (hungry and angry).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I told myself to keep it together in the store, but I also made sure the
kids knew I was very hungry which is code for “watch out for Mama”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bless Trader Joe’s and their mini kid
carts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used to hate them, but
now that the kids can actually navigate them without driving into my heels, or
other people, it makes shopping fun for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got our things and I picked up something for lunch
at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we got to the car, I
announced “when we get home, the first thing I am going to do is eat lunch. You
guys can watch one show [so you will leave me alone while I eat] and then Savvy
can take a nap.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did this and
Savvy went off to nap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, I was
really sleepy too, thanks to the dreary weather and full belly, so I told
Jingle that I was going to lay down for a half hour and he could watch one more
show on his own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twenty minutes
into my nap he came and lay down with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten minutes after that he said he was going to lie
down in his own bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, a short while later, I had
the moment of realization that both my kids were asleep in their own room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I napped a little longer then
half hour, and then forced myself out of bed to take advantage of this quiet
time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Afterall, I needed to write
a blog entry.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-17289331566367379672014-06-24T16:36:00.003-07:002014-06-24T16:36:32.185-07:00The Family Audition
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About a month ago I posted this on Facebook: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“<span class="usercontent">My family and I
auditioned for a reality show today about something or other. If they want to
film the most boring family ever, we just might get chosen! On another note
though we had a big busy day today even before the audition and nobody had a
meltdown. Matthew was
great.”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">It was one of those posts that leave
you hanging (for those that care for details) so I thought it might be time to
follow up on what that was all about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It all started when my husband told me <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“I submitted our family for an audition”</b> and we had been called to
come in person.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“oh?
What for?”</i></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“I’m
not sure, some family thing, I had to submit a heart-felt story”</b></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“What
story did you tell?”</i></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“The
one where Jingle was born 5 weeks early and how he had to stay in the NICU for
awhile and how friends told us they weren’t sure he’d survive.”</b></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Friends
told you they didn’t think he’d survive???”</i> [This was news to me – that thought
had never crossed my mind.]</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">So, while I dwelled on the story, I
also inquired as to the specifics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What are we supposed to wear?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are we supposed to do?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answers were vague… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">they just said wear something you’re
comfortable in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know
what they are going to ask us.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Oh, and by the way, the audition was the same day as Jingle’s
kindergarten graduation, which was a full day at the local park for all of us,
and three classes of kindergartners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And no, we could not reschedule.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">So…the audition day came… we prepped
the kids as best we could<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…”listen, after the park, Jingle has to go
back to class for a short while, Mama, Daddy, and Savvy will change clothes and
we’ll bring clothes for Jingle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then we need to rush to BART to go downtown.”</i></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seriously, while intrigued that
we had a family audition, the thought of dragging our tired family on a train
was not at all appealing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, the
four of us held it together, and I think we were all excited about what we were
going to do.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">We got to the place and waited for
our turn while the kids had snacks and played games on the iPhone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every chance I could I asked Matt, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“what are we supposed to do/say in the
audition?”</i> and every time he answered the same <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“I’m not sure”.</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had
forwarded me the email that he received, and it was equally vague.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">Finally, we were called in to the
room and all four of us sat on a tiny bench in front of a video camera while a
lady asked us some questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First it was the basics… our names, the kids ages, and then Matt had to
start to tell his story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
were all so tired, the story sounded flat, and I was more nervous about Jingle
hearing the part where “people thought he wouldn’t survive” then launching us
into his questions of “what?? Why wouldn’t I survive? What are you talking
about…?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily Matt glazed over
that part and Jingle didn’t hear it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the lady asked “Do you have any family
traditions?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Blink, Blink].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘um’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘um.’….well, we do this thing
where we always joke about who the silliest person in the family is? “</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Every single meal time and it drives
Mama crazy].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that, I don’t
even know what was said, but it seemed pretty bland.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We finished and left, not thinking we’d ever hear anything
again.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">And yet, we did!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were asked to come back two weeks
later for a Callback Audition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This time, we had no big plans on the same day, so the kids and I were
relaxed and took our time getting dressed and ‘pretty’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Daddy still had to go to work, so
he met us there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tried to
discuss any traditions we had, but still were coming up blank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the biggest tradition we have
in my family is that my uncle dresses up as Santa Claus every year and comes to
the house on Christmas Eve, but that’s not something you can share when the
kids are sitting on your lap.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">As we sat in the waiting room the
second time, I was listening (eavesdropping) to others who were there who
seemed to know more about this audition than we did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got a sense that the people in the room really wanted to
hear Jingle speak more than the rest of us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I took him aside and let him know that he was encouraged
to speak when he wanted to and also to be confident!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At times, my son has the confidence of five people, and he
certainly can talk, but at other times when he’s a little unsure, he reverts to
baby talk and it’s difficult to understand him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, he’s already wise on the audition scene (I think he’s
wiser than his Mama) and takes direction really well, so he was all over this.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">We get in the room and again pile
onto the tiny bench, but this time there were at least 5 other people in the
room with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One of the men
started to ask us again about Family Traditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We fumbled through with stories about our clock and bedtime
routines, and I discussed Santa in very vague terms (which was met with a
response of “oh, Santa comes to your house on Christmas Eve?” While I’m sure he
was really implying “You do know many people think he comes to their house right?!”)</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">Jacob was talking a lot, and the
more he talked, the more Savvy wanted to interject her thoughts, so the kids
were doing great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At some point we
got on the subject of Grandma coming to our house weekly, and suddenly all 5
people lit up and started asking questions…”What do you do with Grandma?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">“Fold clothes, play animals…” Jingle
responds…</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">“What do you mean ‘play
animals’?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They inquired.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">At this point I think both Matt and
I knew to just shut up because we didn’t even know quite how to answer this,
but Jingle did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told them all
about his carpet that has a river, and trees and footprints and how they go on
adventures with their stuffed animals.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">“What makes Grandma so good at
playing animals?” they asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
again, Matt and I stayed silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, with pure innocence, Jingle thought about this carefully “ummm…”
he said as he shrugged his shoulders, and then, as cutely as anyone could ever respond, said
“Because she’s Grandma!!”</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">And…Scene.</span></div>
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<span class="usercontent">We ultimately did not get the part,
but I was so proud of the kids for how they behaved in there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were engaged and trying, and I
felt they did far better then I did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If something like this presents itself again, we will keep trying, not
so much because we’re dying to get a gig, but just because the adventure of it
was fun. Oh, who am I kidding, it would also be fun to be cast.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-12876270813689514962014-06-03T15:08:00.000-07:002014-06-03T15:08:56.101-07:00When To Use a Time-Out
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixo7gNdX8MkvxickaNZqs4f_Ypb6vWmbumfsRiBJdYgfeIQKkUOwZXaYGImIJdIzcR92w7JKtNuGWKOoDfY1MrX3KommwV827W1jMgYifNHE3VC_h4yO0nLZDOG_ZTvbGKvOUGTQ/s1600/IMG_6114.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixo7gNdX8MkvxickaNZqs4f_Ypb6vWmbumfsRiBJdYgfeIQKkUOwZXaYGImIJdIzcR92w7JKtNuGWKOoDfY1MrX3KommwV827W1jMgYifNHE3VC_h4yO0nLZDOG_ZTvbGKvOUGTQ/s1600/IMG_6114.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a>Last weekend when my daughter was still pretending like she
may want to be potty-trained, (she gave up the thought when she realized she
would not get a present each and every time she used the potty) she was
sitting on the toilet when her big brother came into the room “to keep her
company”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At first she was
fine with it, but then I could hear her yelling at him when I left the
room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I came back to find out what
was wrong.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Jacob needs a time
out!” she says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>‘Oh really, why is
that?” I inquired… “Because he’s bothering me.” What he was in fact doing was
sitting in the bathtub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just
because.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was fully clothed, and
there was no water involved, but he just thought it was fun to sit there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And that bothered his sister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Technically, I don’t think he was doing
anything wrong, but I did try to explain to him that some people (aka ME) would prefer to have privacy when going potty so could he please
leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also explained to
Savvy that I could not give Jacob a time out just because he was bothering her
by sitting in the bathtub.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After the talking, Jacob never left, but at least Savvy stopped yelling
at him.</div>
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I was surprised by her request to give him a time-out
because we don’t use that punishment too much in our house.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not that we disagree with it, but
overall they are pretty good kids, and they have to be behaving pretty badly to
warrant a time out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I chuckled at
the thought of Savvy believing that Jacob deserved a time-out just because he
was bothering her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, if I
truly gave the kids a timeout each time they <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bothered</i> me, well then, they might be in their rooms quite a lot!</div>
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“Stop shouting, I can hear you just fine. I am right
HERE”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You get a time-out!</div>
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“Don’t make me ask you to set the table for a third time!”
You get a time out!</div>
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“Time to wash your hands… Please go wash your hands now…GO
wash your HANDS!” TIME OUT (AND GO WASH YOUR HANDS!)</div>
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“Please stop asking me what a ‘raffle’ is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have explained it five times before,
but you won’t listen to the answer.” You get a time-out.</div>
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“If I ask you to do something for me, like get a diaper,
stop asking me “why?” first. Just do it!” You get a time-out to think about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">why</i> that is.</div>
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“Stop repeating yourself over and over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I heard you the first time.” You get a
time out. You get a time out. You get a time out. You get a time out. You get a
time out. You get a time out. </div>
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“Stop following me into the bathroom. Please shut the door
on your way out. Shut the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>door.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SHUT THE DOOR.” Time
out.</div>
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You know, just saying “Time Out!!” in my head when I’m
annoyed is making me feel better already! </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-88689739240830354642014-06-02T16:46:00.000-07:002014-06-02T16:46:53.369-07:00Summer, Day 1
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So, this is what summer is like.</div>
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I am still home full time, and last Friday my son
‘graduated’ from kindergarten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That means he is home full time now too .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Starting next week, I have him in half-day camps so that I can still use
the mornings to search for work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My daughter has half-time care for June, but after that our situation is
a bit up in the air, and I’m not yet sure what July will look like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, after today, I think I need to get
a job STAT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man, I love my
kids, but they are exhausting!</div>
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This morning started off with a very unusual situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Mother’s Day, my husband had given
me a gift of a mother-daughter photo shoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This came about because he had a father-son photo
shoot almost a year ago which turned out great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was really excited and had our outfits all planned
out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This photo shoot is unique
because it was to resemble old-time pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not the kind where you dress up in cowboy outfits and hold
guns in sepia-toned photos, but the kind that are kind of a stern old fashioned
look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to get my daughter
excited about it and tried to get my son to get my daughter excited about it
but she would have none of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
two hours we traipsed around Stern Grove trying to get her to 1) stay still, 2)
look at the camera and 3) either smile if Mama was smiling or look serious if
Mama looked serious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the
pictures progressed, I just became more and more miserable and it showed in the
photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Savvy wouldn’t look
at the camera unless it was to grimace and Jacob was bouncing around behind the
photographer yelling “Mama! Mama! Mama!...Mama!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[This was half hour into the miserable shoot] </div>
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“WHAT IS IT?!” </div>
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“I finished my apple!”</div>
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“Then throw it away!!!!”</div>
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“What did Jacob want?” asked Savvy</div>
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[Oh.. now she chooses to engage…]</div>
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Jacob wasn’t supposed to be part of the shoot, but once I
knew he was to be joining us, I didn’t want him to feel totally left out so he
got dressed up too and took a couple photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best one of the day is of the two of them together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much for mother-daughter…</div>
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I tried bribing Savvy with snacks, with flowers, with the
promise of going to a park afterwards.. but nothing worked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally we called it quits.</div>
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Back home to eat lunch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then back out again to a park with a playground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My intention was to wear them out so
hopefully they might nap in the afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
worked out a deal that they would stay in their room and play quietly or read
for one hour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within the first
half hour they’d both come out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>three times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By 40 minutes,
Savvy was downstairs sitting on my lap in front of the computer.</div>
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I currently have them parked on the couch watching a show. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve been looking for work a bit online,
but realizing that this is not going to be easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only will it be a challenge to find quiet time at the
computer for any length of time this summer, but the house will forever be
messy because we are here all the time!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have not proven to be very effective at house cleaning since I lost my
job, and I’m afraid that will only go downhill from here…</div>
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And, on top of this.. our summer weather has hit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where I live, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that means it is a permanent overcast
sixty to seventy degree day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
HATE having to wear coats to the park in summertime!</div>
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Okay, rant over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’ll give it some time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
all need a chance to settle in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Here’s the photo that inspired us to do a mother-daughter
shoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">And here's a hint of the photos we took today:</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-38350652254385686542014-05-08T21:21:00.000-07:002014-05-08T21:21:06.575-07:00#tbt: Poems from the PastOh, the things I have kept.... <br />
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During my senior year of college I lived in Washington D.C. for a quarter where I had an internship at an esteemed institute which shall not be named and I was <i>bored out of my mind</i>. To quote a letter I sent to my friend Katie back then <span style="color: #0b5394;">"The reason I'm typing your letter is because I'm at work and when people walk by it sounds like I'm busy. ...I have a lot of time to kill right now. I'm sure I could keep myself busy by researching in the library downstairs but I can't stand to do that ALL the time. I work in a freezer box for a scatter-brained professor....he doesn't arrive until at least 11am everyday (I'm here by 8:15)...I get peace and quiet and I can do whatever I want because my office is around the corner and no one even knows I'm here half the time." </span> Please keep in mind that this was my first full time "real" job...<br />
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So, apparently to fill this time void, I wrote nonsensical poems to my roommates back home. One of the poems below was written by someone else, but I have a feeling she won't mind that I share (plus it's probably the best one).<br />
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<i><b>Oct 20, 1995</b></i><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">From: Meg</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">To: KW</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">How'd you like that poem?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">What's up at home?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Hows' Dan the Cat?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Did he catch a rat?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">We have those here,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">oh dear, oh dear.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">When on the street</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">It's easy to meet </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">A rat, a bum or a man/</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Yes I choose the guy </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Who catches my eye.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">This peom never ends</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">But oh how it lends</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">to my entertainment here.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Now I'll go have a beer!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">---------------------------------- </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">From: Meg</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">To: KB</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I sent one to Lori</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">It was a short story</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I sent one to Weim</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">cause I had the time.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I send one to you</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Cause your time is due.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">So, what's new?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I'm on a bus going home</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I am all alone</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">But that's alright with me</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Cause I can write poems -- oh gee!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I got one from Scott</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Although he is not</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">The one that I like</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">And neither is Mike (?)</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">a guy that I know!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I want cookie dough</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Ice cream to eat,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Oh, what a treat!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">...</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394;">---------------------------------------------</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">From: KB</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">To: Meg</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Meggie,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">You are a freak,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I know I shouldn't speak,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I know this poem reeks,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">but not as bad as a TKE!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Noah says hi,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Katie wants you to die,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">cause in your last note you left her out,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">so now all she does is pout.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I'm going to keeping writing more,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">so hold on if you think this is a bore,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">we want you to stay away from whores,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">and by the way,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">have you met Al Gore?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394;">okay, okay, enough is enough,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I'm getting tired of writing such fluff,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">maybe I should try study or write</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">that paper that was due last night!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Nah, why would I do that,</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">instead Katie and I can harass the cat!!!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394;">-----------------------------------------------------</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">From: Meg</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">To: Katie <span style="color: #666666;">[Notice how I came full circle to the Katie mentioned above? huh? huh?]</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #0b5394;">What's up Katie D.?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Are you mad at me?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">I left you out </span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">but please don't shout!</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">You got a long note</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">That I personally wrote.</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Do your remember Doll?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Cause I recall</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">That I wrote you..</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Did you write me too?</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Ah but that's cheap</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">And I'm a creep</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">Cause you called</span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;">And I was enthralled!</span><br />
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Sometimes I wish I could get another boring job so I could just write silly stuff all day long...Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-48374158715303449452014-04-24T10:08:00.003-07:002014-04-24T10:08:58.207-07:00#tbt: November 2000 - My Plane Crash Experience
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I recalled the following memory vividly while I was writing
up yesterday’s blog so I thought I would pull this one out of the archives for
re-publishing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the fall of
2000 I had finished teaching English in Osaka, and traveled for about a month
prior to returning to the States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My travels first took me to Thailand, where I travelled by myself, then
to Australia, where I stayed with friends, and then to Vietnam where I met with
some friends for that leg of the trip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When we left Vietnam, I was on a separate flight that took me back to
Osaka by way of Bangkok, Thailand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Upon landing in Bangkok, my flight crash-landed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Fortunately, it was not the type of crash where the plane
broke apart, or anyone was badly hurt, but it was scarier than hell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I learned from this experience that if I fly
internationally, to always keep my passport with me at all times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not just in the overhead, but WITH
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you leave the plane in an
emergency you are not supposed to take anything with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, not all countries may treat passengers
who crash-land with as much care as the US might.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When my plane ‘landed’, we were stuck out in the field
for a long while before a bus finally came to get us to take us to the airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, we had to stand in the customs
line just like anyone else and we had to wait for our bags to be unloaded,
which was a particular challenge, as the plane was on its
nose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just had to wait inside
the airport until the bags came.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Fortunately I had taken my backpack and my passport with me when I left the plane, so I could get
through customs without issue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There was no special treatment, nor apologies from the airline.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had called home to my parents,
concerned that they might see this incident on TV and worry about me, but it
was not that newsworthy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was
only my call that really scared them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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And, now, here’s what I wrote back in 2000 in an email back
to my friends and family:</div>
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Mon. November 27, 2000:</div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">…</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I was writing in my travel diary on the plane, and I wrote
the following to quote: “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Having no
problems with flights except for waiting. (knock on wood, not home yet!)</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Not 45 minutes later, my plane crash-landed!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not kidding at all – this was the
scariest experience of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
hit the runway hard and bounced all over, we stopped bouncing and shaking but
then I saw what looked like flames and smoke coming from the side of the
plane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the plane finally came
to a halt the lights went dead and a pilot came running out with a flashlight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">“Is everyone alright??” he yelled,</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">“Stay in your seats!!!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I was shaking like a leaf and frantically searching for my
passport (it had flown across the aisle during the landing).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <span style="color: #666666;">[It turns out the passport had landed in someone's lap across the aisle and he was able to pass it back to me]</span> </span>I then heard the back doors open and
the chutes inflate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">“Everybody get of the plane! Go, go, go!!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">People were panicking and pushing but not excessively so,
and when I got to the back of the plane they said, “go right!”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I turned right, looked out the door at about a 30 feet drop,
and I was scared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw the chute</span>
[which was actually dark grey, not yellow as the pictures always show, and
blended into the tarmac at night] <span style="color: #0b5394;">and realized I had no choice but to
jump,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I slid down quickly and was
caught at the bottom and then went into the field next to the runway.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span> </span>[They really mean it when they tell you
to lift up your arms and point them to the sky if you ever come down those
emergency chutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a small
backpack in my arms and did not do this and came away with some long-lasting
elbow burns.] <span style="color: #0b5394;">I looked back to see what really happened: the front landing gear
had collapsed and we had come to a halt by skidding in on the bottom of the
front of the plane and the back wheels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The smoke and flames (sparks) I had seen were a result of the plane’s
friction on the runway.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">This was the day after Thanksgiving, and let me tell you, I
am Thankful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As far as I know, no
one was inured in the landing, and as for me, I left with all my luggage
intact. (an hour and half later).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I didn’t enjoy my last flight from Bangkok to Osaka and really sweated the landing.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> [This
was the morning after the bad landing experience and I physically started to
tear up and cry when we began to descend] </span><span style="color: #0b5394;">But, I made it home safely and Maja and
George were there to meet me at the airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I only have one flight left and that’s to San Francisco on
Dec. 5 and trust me, I will be SO happy when I land there.</span></div>
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To this day my palms sweat each time I land, even though I
try to tell myself I’m not scared anymore.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also feel like since I had that one horrific flying
experience then it should never happen to me again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or at least that’s what I keep telling myself. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was from my scrapbook of the trip and the only picture I could capture while in the field.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-58255326955649014012014-04-23T11:26:00.000-07:002014-04-23T11:26:24.408-07:00So Many Teeth
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If you are in a crisis situation, I believe I’m a person you
would want with you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remain calm
and keep my head on straight – always looking for solutions, or a way out of
the problem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I believe I
speak from experience as I’ve been in a couple of life-death situations, one
with a car, and one with a faulty plane landing, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I experienced multiple crises at work related to money
movement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Let me tell you, if money
STOPS moving, people get MAD.)</div>
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If however, you have a loose tooth that wants to jiggle
free, I am not the person to seek out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This is a rather difficult problem as I’m a mother of two, one of whom
is 5 and starting to loose teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of Jingle’s top teeth is about to come out and he’s constantly
wiggling it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Look Mom!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Each and every time, I have to
control that look on my face – the one that looks as if I’ve swallowed a lemon
– and say something like “yep, almost out” [oh dear god, please let it come out
soon by itself].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Occasionally,
there’s a little blood too and then it becomes even more difficult for me not
to FREAK OUT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yesterday I
was sitting with my son in his room and I looked up to notice his offending
tooth had a little blood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
left the room but unfortunately, not before I could control the panic on my
face.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I tried to yell pacifying
things from the other room, but my poor boy got scared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I know, I KNOW, there was nothing
to be scared of and I don’t know why it grosses me out so much, but it does.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t know what the female
equivalent to “Man Up” is, but this is what I’m going to have to do for many
years to come until my children have lost all of their teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sure hope it gets easier.</div>
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And, it doesn’t stop with my own children’s teeth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was on a field trip a couple of
weeks ago and this one boy kept fiddling with his tooth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know him, and he seemed unusually
quiet, so I asked him what was going on….”My tooth is really wiggly! [and there
is blood]” UGH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Oh,
yeah, that’s exciting… but I think you should probably not wiggle it so much…
no, seriously that is a A LOT of wiggling… please stop…[and I’m saying these
things as I’m slowly backing away from him.]”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I saw the boy today and he proudly showed me the
gaping hole in his mouth from his tooth that finally fell out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then there are the parents who post those up-close
pictures of their children losing their first tooth – sometimes with a bloody
gaping hole.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you are my FB
friend, and you have done this, please imagine my lemon-sucking face as I
scroll through my feed….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m happy
for your children and I bless them with a generous tooth fairy, but I don’t
need to be a first hand witness.</div>
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My children have had some falls that involved some blood and
scrapes but nothing too major (yet..).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, it’s not like I freak out with all blood – I
think, THINK, I’d still be pretty calm in situations if they got really
hurt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But man, when it
involves teeth…yuck, yuck, yuck!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have never liked going to the dentist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and always hated it when they start sticking tools in my mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, the first time I took
my son to the dentist I immediately thought he would be scared too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But fortunately I kept my mouth
shut with my own fears, and he wasn’t scared at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, his dentist is awesome and shows movies and gives toys
so it has become a visit to look forward to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sure wish I could go to his dentist, but they only take
kids. (I asked).</div>
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Jingle is at school right now, and I hope the tooth is gone
by the time he gets home because otherwise, it is going to be a very long
afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, after school,
there will be snack time, and soccer practice, so it’s bound to come out with
one of those two activities right? RIGHT?!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-12400115409133225632014-04-18T15:44:00.001-07:002014-04-18T15:45:34.344-07:00My Candy Crush Addiction and Dragging the Hubby Down with Me<style>
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Oh no, am I really writing a blog about Video Games?!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, yes I am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t actually like video games
that much, and I’ve never gotten very addicted for too long to any game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Back in the “old” days, my parents did
not get the ever-popular Atari, they bought Intellivision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I think we had 4 games
total.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only ones I remember
playing regularly were Donkey Kong and some space game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was not uncommon for my mother to
beat me at these games regularly as she had some crazy good hand-eye
coordination that would frustrate both my dad and I.</div>
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Later, in High School, I got the popular Nintendo Game Boy,
and my game of choice then was Tetris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I loved Tetris and spent hours playing it on long bus rides for band and
drum corp trips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During my
last year of Drum Corps, my “bus seat partner” was a guy who I think asked me
to sit next to him, not for my witty personality, but for my Game Boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took it over that summer.</div>
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Since then, I dabbled in games here and there if friends had
systems, but I never had much patience or love for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, if I did get involved in a
game for awhile, I would grow bored of it after a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The same is true for all the apps
on the Smart Phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll
play games here and there, but I have never become that addicted and tend to go
for games like Sudoku and Word Scramble, but then came Candy Crush….</div>
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I began playing Candy Crush about a year ago, and when I
first started I thought to myself, “this is just like Bejeweled. Not sure what
the attraction is…” But, then I kept playing, and I kept playing some more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the last year, while still
working, I also had a lot of business trips, and let me tell you, you can play
A LOT of Candy Crush when you are alone in hotel rooms, and on airplanes…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is no doubt, I was addicted
(and still am).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As those who play
Candy Crush know – there are ups and downs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You get stuck on some levels for a while and just have to
stop playing for a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But,
then eventually you pass it, and hey! Look at that!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a new level afterwards that seems easier<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- and perhaps you whiz through a few
levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, then you get stuck
again…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You get rewarded with
stars on each game depending upon the number of points you get, and each game
gives you the chance to win High Score.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Thanks to the connection via Facebook, you can see what levels your
friends are on, and if they got previous high scores on the level you are
currently playing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the last year I have been following an entire family that I knew from High
School through the Candy Crush board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the four of them was always in the top three, and it wasn’t
uncommon to see all four of them sitting in the top 4 spots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of other girls from High
School, and old coworkers also graced the top spots as I came through behind
them.</div>
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Throughout this entire time,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and for at least a year prior, my husband has been a staunch
Angry Birds player.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He passed all
the levels, and there were additional goals to complete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would give me regular updates on his
game playing, and before I started playing my own Candy Crush, I would secretly
roll my eyes when he started getting Angry Bird geek on me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Or, maybe it wasn’t so secret).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, then when I started playing
Candy Crush, and it randomly posts on Facebook to tell people I’ve passed a
level, my husband was at the ready to make some witty (smartass) comment about
my Candy Crush exploits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What made
this worse, was that no matter how high I get on the Crush gameboard, Facebook
always seemed to post that I passed either Level 2 or Level 8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And my husband never failed to
point that out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s a gem isn’t
he?</div>
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Well… a few weeks ago, he finally beat all that he could at
Angry Birds and posted about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I couldn’t resist jumping in to see what he was moving on to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, sure enough, he has decided to
take up Candy Crush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>AND MY TIME
HAS COME FOR REVENGE.</div>
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Mr. Mingle now geeks out on Candy Crush (and he is finding
it very difficult).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Suddenly, I’m
getting nightly questions like “what’s this candy for? How do you get that
Candy? Level 23 is hard… What happens when you get 5 in a row? 4? …”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even got a mid-day text about
this (to be shared below).</div>
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While he’s just started, I think that I’m nearing the
end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no idea how many
levels there actually are, but I’m now on level 350, and I’ve noticed that
three out of four of the family that I mentioned earlier all stopped on level
350.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why? Why??<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did you collectively decide you would
give it up once you reached that magic number, or do you know something that I
don’t about what’s beyond 350…. Do you go into Candy Crush Hell after that
where the dentist comes to rip out all your cavities without Novocain?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please tell me, why did you stop??</div>
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And now, for the texts shared between a husband who gets
obsessed with games, currently Candy Crush, and a wife at home who is happy to
answer…</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For the (blog) record, I have never drawn a diagram for Candy Crush</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And bigger... for the full effect of what this guy does at work.</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-77793586050628144882014-04-17T11:32:00.000-07:002014-04-17T11:32:48.109-07:00#tbt: Easters Gone By<style>
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I remember Easter holidays from my childhood being a very
fun occasion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the only day
of the year that I recall still wearing pretty dresses even at an age when I
still can remember wearing those pretty dresses…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My grandparents, parents and aunts and uncles would
throw big parties where the focal point was an Easter Egg Hunt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least that was my cousins and my
focal point of the parties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As I got a little older, we decided to have the Easter parties at
Grandma and Grandpa’s house on Saturdays instead of on Sunday so that nobody
had to worry about going to work the next day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For a period of time, they had a house that had a
swimming pool, a pool table and a ping pong table and those were the best
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were so many fun things
to play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It didn’t matter if
Easter fell in March or April, Grandma would heat up that pool so much that it
could have been summer time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One of the favorite Easters that I can remember was when my uncle made
all my cousins and I stilts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Wooden Stilts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had
an egg hunt (where at least one egg was always hidden in the pool), went
swimming and walked on stilts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
don’t remember the year, or what age I was, but boy was that fun. (I wish I still had those stilts…).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I tried to find pictures from that Easter, but couldn’t
locate them just now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did
however find a couple of pictures from Easter in the 70s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A time when I was too young to
recall the days myself, but I sure love seeing the pictures.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #c27ba0;">Happy Easter to All!</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1978 - Wasn't my mom's outfit awesome?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1979 - My Cousin and I holding our Easter Loot</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-50073436470344366572014-04-15T12:29:00.000-07:002014-04-15T12:29:39.192-07:00My Daughter Ran Out of PantsYesterday my daughter ran out of clean pants to wear. I <i>could</i> blame the fact that she wore 3 pairs of pants and one skirt yesterday alone, but technically one of the pairs came from the daycare. And, of the 3 pairs, two of them were actually too small for her. So, I can't blame her for that.<br />
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So, she really did have a lot of pants, but they were all buried in this mountain of clean laundry. I've written about folding laundry before on this blog, and I realize it is not the most glamorous of topics, but that just shows what an ever present impact (plague?) it has on my life. This week was even more out of control because I've been out of town the last two weekends when we usually get some laundry done. So, yesterday, I washed clothes all day and dedicated my evening last night to folding. Two TV shows and two beers later - I had this:<br />
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The truly sad part about all of this is, as I folded clothes that were piled on the chair I discovered piles of already folded clothes below it. It was like an archeological dig. Beneath the rubble there were already folded pairs of pants for both children. Likely folded by my helpful mother last week when she was here.<br />
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There is such a massive sense of accomplishment when finishing folding a laundry pile this big, but the feeling immediately diminishes with the next step of having to put the clothes away. I hate putting them away. But, no excuses this time - we needed to get this done and it was so nice to see what our furniture actually looks like for a change. But, there is one final step, and one which I'm about to tackle now... the socks. Any guesses on how many miss-matches I'll have when I'm finished folding all of them? Based on past experiences, I'm guessing between 20-30 singles will be leftover.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-43908543608309650482014-04-09T12:25:00.000-07:002014-04-09T12:25:49.833-07:00A Funky Facebook PostLast night I was feeling in a 'funk'. I'm not exactly sure why since I actually had quite a good day. I had met with some recruiters in the morning and then in the afternoon the kids and I met up with a very good friend of mine visiting from England. From there Mr. Mingle met us and we had dinner. But, then we got home, fought the kids to bed, and I thought, "now what?". I didn't know what to do with myself so I blindly watched a little TV. I was upstairs and my husband was downstairs on the computer. TV was not satisfying me so I thought I'd check in on FB via my phone. I was surprised to find I had 9 notifications. What was everyone commenting on?? I clicked on the notifications and found they were all commenting on my status. What status? I hadn't posted any status recently. And then I saw it.... grand old hubby had logged in as me and posted on my behalf. Not only that, but he was then continuing to have a conversation between his FB login and my FB login. Friends who I hadn't heard from in years were commenting, others were sending private messages... I quickly posted something, but then realized he was still downstairs having this FB conversation between two IDs. And every time I thought to post something, he already had, as "me". I just started laughing almost to tears watching this unfurl in front of me. I did chime in a couple of times, but overall, he was doing a pretty good job on his own. Finally though, scared of where this might lead, I came downstairs to make him stop. He too was laughing himself to tears. It's rare when we do something to crack ourselves up to that point. From there, friends continued to comment and send messages..<br />
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I have to say, the whole thing certainly worked to get me out of my funk! Now I'm thinking of old marching instructors thanks to Derek, 8th grade Hawaii trip thanks to Kate, many virtual hugs, and an offer of a beer. Oh, and some pick-me-ups in Japanese and Spanish as well. Thanks friends! And, most of all, thanks Mr. Mingle! <br />
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Feeling in a funk, could use some love.</div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Meghan</span></u> <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793722:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793722:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793722:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Thanks guys, I'm fine. My husband got into my account and posted. I'm fine, appreciate the love. <span style="color: red;">[this is still not me posting]</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793722:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Susan</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793741:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793741:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793741:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793741:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">aishiteru <span style="color: red;">[Japanese]</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793741:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Meghan</span></u> <span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793763:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793763:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793763:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793763:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$0:0">Thanks </span><u><span style="color: blue;">Robin</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793763:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">, he's my third child! <span style="color: red;">[This was posted by Matt, who wrote back to a different Robin, then the friend from above, but yes, he's my third child]</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793763:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">[At this point is the first time I logged into my account to see what was going on. All Meghan posts above were done by Matt] </span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Derrek</span></u> <span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793810:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793810:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793810:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">At least I got to say Gino. </span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793810:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Susan</span></u> <span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793821:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793821:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793821:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793821:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">I still love you</span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793821:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Meghan</span></u> <span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793829:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793829:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793829:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793829:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Thanks guys. Good to know, whatever my husband does, I still have friends. <span class="emoticon emoticon_smile" title=":)"></span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793829:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Meghan</span></u> <span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793830:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793830:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793830:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793830:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$0:0">Omg </span><u><span style="color: blue;">Matthew</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793830:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">, log out of my account <span style="color: red;">[This was my first comment as myself]</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793830:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Matthew</span></u> <span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Right?</span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span></div>
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Meghan</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793840:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793842:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793842:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793842:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">How are we married?</span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793842:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span><div class="" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793842:0.0.$right">
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Matthew</span></u> <span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793845:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793845:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793845:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">That's a little harsh.</span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793845:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span><div class="" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793845:0.0.$right">
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Meghan</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793840:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793850:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793850:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793850:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$0:0">But hey, now I'm thinking of Gino. Thanks </span><u><span style="color: blue;">Derrek</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793850:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">! Lol <span style="color: red;">[The second comment as myself. Notice how Matt continues to converse between the "Matthew" and "Meghan" IDs.]</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793850:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span><div class="" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793850:0.0.$right">
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Meghan</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793840:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793853:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793853:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793853:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$0:0">And no, </span><u><span style="color: blue;">Matthew</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793853:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">, not at all harsh. Get off.</span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793853:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span><div class="" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793853:0.0.$right">
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Meghan</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793840:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$0:0">I don't even know how to combat this. You're using two FB accounts to argue with yourself </span><u><span style="color: blue;">Matthew</span></u><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">. Goofball. Oh wait - you already called yourself that earlier <span style="color: red;">[This was me, </span></span></span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span style="color: red;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793922:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793922:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793922:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"><span style="color: red;">but not the above few. I don't even need to be a part of the conversations. He'll just converse for me]</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span><div class="" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793886:0.0.$right">
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Matthew</span></u> <span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793833:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0"></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793935:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793935:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793935:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793935:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Gross. <span style="color: red;">[No date for you]</span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793935:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span><div class="" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793935:0.0.$right">
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<u><span style="color: blue;">Jessica</span></u> <span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793967:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:2"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793967:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793967:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793967:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Sending you a hug Meghan <span style="color: red;">[comments continue to come...]</span><span class="emoticon emoticon_smile" title=":)"></span></span></span></span><span data-reactid=".1a.1:3:1:$comment10152350082861252_270793967:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.3"></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-20795814266913027282014-04-03T13:56:00.001-07:002014-04-03T13:56:54.115-07:00#tbt: January 1999: So Much Has Changed, Or Has It?I found this journal entry from '99 and it came as a real shock to the system. 15 years ago I had the same complaints as I do today. Life has drastically changed, but it seems similar frustrations remain. This also echos the frustrations I'm having with the job hunt lately because I just don't want to keep doing the same thing I have always done. Yet, I cannot find a clear path out of the rut. <br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;">January 13, 1999</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white;">Do you ever feel like you were meant for bigger things? This is a question I want to ask others because it is definitely how I feel. ... It's not that I'm unhappy, it's that I'm unsettled, I'm bored wth my life. I get bored doing the same things at work everyday. I don't like to be told what to do. </span></span>[Uh oh...sensing a trend here...] <span style="color: #0b5394;">I can take criticism, but when I know that I'm right but people won't listen to me because I "don't have experience" that frustrates me. </span> [Hmm.... should I be learning a lesson here?] <span style="color: #0b5394;">How long will it be before I am happy in my daily routine?</span> [Sadly.. maybe never]<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I've been at my job now for 18 months with no pay increase. There's been a hiring freeze and cancelled merit increases across the whole company so it does not affect just me.</span> [oh, little Mingle, you ain't seen nothing yet.]<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Still - it is very difficult to continue doing my job and working for others when there is no movement up. And it is going to be very difficult to find another company that will hire me at a non-entry level position.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I want something <u>exciting</u> to happen! I want to travel around the world, I want to fall in love, I want to make more money so I can buy myself things and not regret it. I want a nice apartment in the City, I want a new job! I want a new car!</span> [Holy smokes little Mingle, slow down there!] <span style="color: #0b5394;">Grandma Pearl always said "Want in one hand and wee in the other and see which one gets filled the fastest." But how long do I have to wait?!</span><br />
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[Many more words I care not to publish]<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">I just made a realization about myself. Here I am, I feel like I could write endlessly but I stop everytime I get distracted. For example I just stopped the last 2 hours because of TV! </span>[Some things really don't change, except now I get distracted by kids AND TV.]<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">If I say: I want to start swimming on Monday. Will I actually do it?! I want to practice the trumpet tomorrow. Do it! Maybe if I can conquer the little stuff than I can move forward with bigger things.</span><br />
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Maybe I should take advice from myself 15 years ago and "conquer the
little stuff than I can move forward with bigger things..." It was
less than 2 months after this entry that I applied to teach English in
Japan, and a few months after that was living in Osaka, Japan. I
certainly took some action then!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17739090.post-10531435111400710152014-03-30T21:18:00.000-07:002014-03-30T21:18:48.390-07:00Favorites: Mrs. Mingle Recommends a Couple of Chicken RecipesSince I've been home I've been cooking more these days and thought I'd take a moment to share a couple of our easy favorite recipes for those who might be looking for a little inspiration to their normal menu. I'm always going out to the internet to seek out ideas and there have been hits and misses. These are a couple of hits.<br />
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I did not make up these recipes from scratch - Iso to give credit where credit is due, I pulled both of these off of <a href="http://www.mealplanning101.com/" target="_blank">mealplanning101.com. </a>I found this site over a year ago and thought I found a gold mine because the author would provide a whole week's worth of meals, as well as the shopping list. We were pleased with most of the recipes we tried. But, alas, shortly after I found it, the author seemed to stop maintaining it. I keep going back for my favorites, but it's not constantly being updated with more.<br />
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<b>Recipe #1: Chicken Oreganato (Kid-friendly)</b><br />
<a href="http://www.mealplanning101.com/search?q=chicken+oreganato" target="_blank">Link to Chicken Oreganato Recipe</a><br />
The hardest part about this recipe is remembering how to spell "Oreganato" so that it comes up in my search efforts. Yeah, yeah... I could print it out, or I could bookmark it for future use, but that would take all the fun out of my hunt and peck efforts everytime I want to make this. At least now I can come back to my blog for it. This is kid-friendly, and simple. It works with boneless, skinless chicken too, but bone-in, skin-on chicken really is the most flavorful (and cheapest). We often pick up a pack of rice pilaf or cous cous to accompany it, and make a simple veggie on the side too. It's one of the few meals that BOTH my kids will eat, as they seem to like the opposite types of foods.<br />
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<b><i>The recipe:</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">8 bone-in chicken thighs<br />
2 teaspoons dried oregano<br />
salt and pepper to taste<br />
1/4 cup olive oil<br />
1/2 lemon, juiced<br />
Zest of lemon</span></span>
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Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Rinse the chicken thighs and then pat
dry. Season both sides of the chicken with salt and pepper and place
skin side down in a greased 9x13 baking dish. In a resealable glass jar
or container <i><span style="color: #444444;">[or just mix real well in a small bowl]</span></i>, add the olive oil, lemon zest and lemon juice, close
tightly and shake well. Pour half the lemon oil over the chicken.
Sprinkle the chicken thighs with 1 tsp of oregano and place in the oven.</span></span>
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Once they have baked for 15 minutes, flip the chicken over, drizzle with
the remaining lemon oil and sprinkle on the remaining tsp of oregano.
Place back in the oven for 15-20 minutes. To get a nice golden color on
the skin, broil for a couple minutes (if it needs it) at the end of the
baking time <span style="color: #444444;">[I've never had to do this - the skin is always golden color by the time it's finished]</span>.</span></span>
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Serve with wedges of lemon to squeeze more delicious lemony goodness on them at the table.</span></span></div>
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<b>Recipe #2: Chicken Tikka Masala (Spicy)</b><br />
A year or so ago, for a special occasion, I wanted to make Mr. Mingle homemade Chicken Tikka Masala, which is one of our favorite dishes when we go out to eat Indian Food. I found a recipe that looked tasty online, again with mealplanning101.com, and marinated the meat the night before as suggested. The next day, I was beginning to realize that I did not have the time nor stamina to make my own tikka masala sauce from scratch so I called up a friend and asked how she usually made it. She turned me onto "Sukhi's Gourmet Indian Foods" pre-made "Tikka Masala Curry Sauce" which can be found at Whole Foods or Molly Stones near us. This curry sauce combined with the marinade I got from the website was the perfect EASY combo. If you are craving Indian, here's a simple recipe. The kids don't like it as they don't like spicy or Indian curry, but sometimes it's worth the effort of making this for the grown-ups and something else (simple) for the kids so we get our spicy fix. We often pair it with eggplant cooked really simply, and rice. The best store-bought naan (per Mingle opinion) is the frozen naan that you can get at Trader Joe's. Also, some plain greek yogurt on the side is a perfect match to cool this down a little.<br />
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<b><i>The recipe:</i></b><br />
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<i>Marinade</i> (per <a href="http://www.mealplanning101.com/search?q=tikka+masala" target="_blank">MealPlanning101 Chicken Tikka Recipe</a>):<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">1 cup plain yogurt<br />
1 tbsp lemon juice<br />
2 tsp cumin<br />
1/4-1 tsp cayenne (depending on how spicy you like it)<br />
1 tsp cinnamon<br />
1 tsp pepper<br />
1 tsp salt<br />
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6-8 chicken thighs (skin on, bone-in)<br />
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Stir all ingredients except chicken into the bottom of a large plastic
container. Add the chicken and coat the chicken completely with the
marinade, cover and place in the fridge for at least an hour or
overnight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">Then, when you are ready to make dinner, follow the recipe on the Sukhi packet to make the rest of the curry. </span> </span><br />
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<a href="http://sukhis.com/images/products/homechef/tikka-masala.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="right" height="200" src="http://sukhis.com/images/products/homechef/tikka-masala.png" width="151" /></a><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>RECIPE INGREDIENTS:</strong><br />
<em><strong>Makes 5 Servings </strong></em><br />
1 packet Sukhi’s Tikka Masala Curry Sauce<br />
1¼ lbs. skinless chicken, meat or seafood<br />
¼ cup whipping cream<br />
1 cup water</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">
</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong></strong>To make a vegetarian curry, substitute chicken with 1¼
lbs. of boiled and cubed red potatoes, sliced bell peppers,
green beans, and firm tofu or
Paneer (Indian cheese).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>METHOD:</strong><br />
In a saucepan, add chicken,
Sukhi’s Tikka Masala Curry
Sauce, and water. Mix ingredients together well, and
simmer on medium high heat. When chicken is cooked, stir
in cream. Bring to boil. Serve with Sukhi’s Naan or over
rice with Sukhi’s Chutney.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;">I don't usually put in all of the leftover marinade when I cook the chicken, but I will keep whatever is stuck to the chicken, meaning I don't rinse the yogurt mixture off when I toss it in the pan.</span></span><br />
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<i>Eggplant Side-Dish (per Mingle easy steps):</i><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Mince up 1 or 2 garlic cloves (optional)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Slice up the eggplant and lay out the slices on a plate. Sprinkle generously with salt and set aside (the longer the better, but I am a poor planner in the kitchen, so it's usually a half hour at the most).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Using a generous amount of olive oil saute the garlic until it begins to smell wonderful</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Add all of the eggplant into the frying pan, stirring occasionally until it is all soft. Usually takes about 20 minutes.</span></span><br />
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Don't forget the rice, naan and yogurt!<br />
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I hope that you find one or both of these recipes enjoyable! <br />
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