February 25, 2008
The boys have just arrived after spending the weekend at Norm's. They're here all this week -
all day, every day - because it's spring break. AAPS didn't used to have this week off, they just did an Easter break, but somewhere along the line, the School Board decided that in a college town where the U has this week off, the schools need to be off, too. I'll note that the U doesn't have a long Easter break, but the AAPS didn't cancel theirs, so that kind of shoots the 'we need to match their schedule' argument, no? So now the kids get two weeks off school, spaced about 3 weeks apart. Can you feel my enthusiasm?
Luckily, Keith ...
January 11, 2008
As of yesterday, I've been married to Keith for 4 years. We celebrated last night with big martinis at the bar at Cafe Felix (him Picasso, me Martini Felix) and then over to Miki for sushi. We told the cute little server that it was our anniversary and told her the amount we wanted to spend and just had the chefs make up something for us. It was wonderful - she brought out this
huge boat (it really was shaped like a boat!) full of sashimi and an auxiliary tray of nigiri. It was out of this ...
August 12, 2007
Would someone please explain to me why they combine an expectorant, designed to make your coughs more 'productive' and get all that goo out of there, with a cough suppressant, designed to make you not cough? Seems dumb to me.
Still not doing great. In fact, marginal at best. Keith made me get up and out of the house yesterday, and I think that helped some. I also suspect I threw my electrolytes out of balance - I have been drinking copious amounts of water (see above expectorant issue) but I haven't been eating much at all. The nice, yummy salty
movie popcorn saved me, getting some sodium back into me. At least that's what I'm choosing to believe at ...
August 6, 2007
Well, this has been an odd day.
My throat has been irritated and hurting for the past couple days, and this morning, I woke up and really couldn't manage speaking. Laryngitis, potentially of viral, not bacterial, origin. (No fever, no general cold symptoms.) It probably didn't help that we had a rowdy, goofy, raised-voices kind of weekend with the boys, either.
So driving the boys to camp: I can't talk and everyone in the car is silent. I make some hand signals to Keith and he tries to make hand signals back. No no no - I can't talk, but you can, goofball!
Most of the day was pretty quiet, lots of emails, Keith made some calls in my stead, and pantomimes to ...
June 27, 2007
INT. DINING ROOM TABLE - EVENING
JACK is doing some goofy hand-motions and burbling nonsense.
KEITH (to JACK)
And what, exactly, does that mean?
LAURA (to KEITH)
That the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
KEITH
Or that the apple doesn't fall far from the neighbor's tree.
LAURA falls off the chair laughing.
Team FJM (Special Ops) needs 11 electrical outlets to maintain full-powered functionality. (4 phones, 2 PSPs, 2 Nintendo DSs, 2 cameras, 1 computer) Our current bivouac only has 10 available.
Adverse conditions today dictate covert operations. We will be infiltrating several buildings, including one designed personally by the chief architect of the enemy forces, Gehry. His monstrous eyesores have struck fear and loathing into the hearts of thousands, and for an unlucky few, even caused blindness with their egregious ugliness. Pray that we return safely. 
