January 2010
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feline > technology
taking a four-hour cat nap with v in a sun spot on a sunday afternoon is so much better than anything on cable.
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obvi learned nothing from fairy tales
i said i wanted to spend more time at home—next time i will be more specific with my wish making!
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to have and to hold in sickness, indeed
so grateful for a husband who ordered & brought me food all day, watched bad day-time tv with me, and held me before bed whilst he googled webmd advice about my back on his iPhone.
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lesson learned
aspirin anything is NOT for me.
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tourists saved my mom's purse!
i hereby pledge to never again complain about tourists walking slowly in front of me on michigan avenue.
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nike gets it
taking five minutes to empty and reload the dishwasher is ALWAYS worth it.
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trust me
the best popcorn doesn’t come in a box or a bag, but rather is produced by heating evoo and corn kernels in a pot on the stove.
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also, thai food cures all
note to self: when tired, just stop talking, cuddle, and think about how adorable it is that sham thinks the defunct and FAUX rotary phone in the kitchen is too charming (his words) to remove for mini floating shelves.
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the sum function
w=bffs all day x=lady chatsies by a fireplace y=bike surgery: phase 1 z=clif mojo bars happiness=sum(of w x y z)
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ok maybe not ever, but omg so grood
best culinary idea ever was to use the meat from my leftover 6-inch sweet onion chicken teriyaki sub on the satay/thai pizza i made for our dinner tonight.
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an always in the never
love is being able to sit by quietly as the clock strikes ten officially signaling that your delicious dreams of thai for dinner are dead and it’s ok because your husband looks like the boda fide portrait of happiness in the guise of a climbing monkey man.
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fact
i’m not sure i’ll ever get over the extent to which hisham is generous defined.
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frozen moment
nothing like a husband-delivered strawberry/banana smoothie on a sunday afternoon.
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rested
sometimes the cure to everything is just to go to bed before 9pm on a saturday night.
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lookin' like a FOOL
sham may or may not have sang this on repeat yesterday and at one point ran over and pulled down my gym pants after i yelled at him to hurry up because we were trying to leave to go climbing.
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2010 goal: simple & scrumptious
almost dropped the box of bao on the floor of the green line car—i’m hoping that grabbing the box just before it hit the floor and a teriyaki chicken bao rolled out is symbolic of what 2010 will be like.
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morning treatsy
i could definitely get used to walking the four blocks to the green line and commuting downtown with sham everyday.
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the kinds of things that make me patriotic
in addition to getting sham signed up for a cpr certification course for the mere $12 cost of the textbook because we’re village residents (compare) and checking the amazing moosewood cookbook out of the public library, i sort of wouldn’t shut up during food inc. whenever they showed a shot of what was obvi an iowan sky.
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but seriously, we are contemplating a new daily...
just watched food inc. with sham and kind of don’t want to eat anything ever again—you know, in addition to trying to figure out how to transport v and lyra with us to pandora, after we get our dream-walker passports.
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mutual
matching gingerbread chais with soy is the perfect way to end an evening spent discussing your (second person plural) life’s (n.b. not lifes’—see title) dreams with your best friend.
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destiny schmestiny
yesterday we were all trying to run UP the down bounce house slide and i couldn’t make it up, so sham, who of course could and was at the top, grabbed my hands and would not let go even though i was useless and had decided to just let myself die/fall so that he might live like sawyer.
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maria had it all wrong
water drops clinging to the whiskers of cats is one of my favorite things.
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“V is a massage therapist cat, did you know? HEY! V! DON’T YOU STOP. GET...”
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the logic of the brasserie
Me: What the… Why are all these people on FB putting colors in their statuses?! What is going on?! Dammit, Facebook!!! Make sense!!!! Ali: Oh, I heard that women are supposed to put what bra color they are wearing to support breast cancer research. Sham, yelling from the other room: Mairead!!!! You better update mine to say black!!!!!
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movement of the world
i think it is awesome that whereas normally we naturally walk a different way through the parking lot, when there’s a snow storm we plod along the same semi-trodden path even if it is a longer route to our destination.
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bedside manner
truly grateful for a husband who to make me laugh and feel better tries (read: fails) to stick his finger up one of my snotty nostrils.
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sick and tired of being sick and tired
in his sleep last night, sham yelled at me for coughing in his face and it was kind of the funniest thing ever, except that it made me cough more.
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enforcer
a woman on my train just got her iPhone ripped out of her hands and stolen, and i didn’t see what i happened, because i was watching a tv show on my iPhone—officially reading only on the train for a while, starting with the elegance of the hedgehog.
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this week's planned recipe line-up
babganoush-hummus pasta
spinach pesto and pasta PLUS CHICKEN
chicken satay salad sammies
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last night
i slept horribly, constantly interrupted by wheezing coughs, but thankfully surrounded by both v AND lyra (!!!!!!!!!!!), as well as sham, who pretty much made my life complete when i woke up in the middle of the night to him cupping his hand over my forehead to check my temperature.
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feline fix
there really are few things as great as a saturday afternoon nap with a cat even—nay, especially—if you’re sick.
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Watchi can only dream that all of 2010 will be this amazing.
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worth it
i’m glad that sham and i have fights about whether or not i cheated on him with a bag of gummi bears.