September 2011
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Talking about Jesus and rock and roll
Yesterday my niece was christened. This was interesting because my sister isn’t particularly religious, but her boyfriend’s family is Catholic, and she didn’t mind if Lyela was christened (is that correct? Baptised?) into the faith. I think it’s pretty cool. Even though I’m not especially religious myself (although MAN do I have a post brewing about how I’m...
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Month Thirty
Dear Jasper, I realized midway through today that thirty months means you’re officially two and a half, so I can stop telling people you’re almost two and a half and just keep it real and tell them that’s the case. A lot has happened in the last month (or two) since I’ve written a letter to you. Let’s break it down, and then take it case by case. You...
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This is my friend. The rain.
My bike has had a flat tire for something like three months. This has been ok because it’s also pretty consistently been over 96 degrees every single day for around three months, so I wasn’t exactly hopping around begging to ride my bike. The weather has recently taken a turn for the MUCH more delightful, and so I started longingly staring at my bicycle on the porch and/or asking Sean...
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HOLY MOLY OK SO
I keep wanting to talk about Stuff That’s Happening, but what it all comes down to is that right now we’re having awesome times together as a family. In between all of our busy-ness (Sean’s school and work, my work, Jasper’s ballet and lack of school), we’re spending a lot of family time together… which has been so incredibly nice. Nice, nice, nice. Nice to sit...
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A fair-y good day
I love everything about all of this: We’re taking it day by day, folks. Good days so far, good days on the horizon. I’m happy that autumn is approaching; autumn is the season we began in, and it’s always our strongest. I’m not sure how many other people feel ups and downs in their relationship when seasons change, but autumn is a fantastic time for Sean and...
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All about my adventure in the ER and this sling...
It’s really not as dramatic as that might sound. The other night I had a hankering for biscuits (I used the word “hankering” here 100% for the benefit of my fellow Offbeat Empirettes, because they seem to quite AMUSED by my SOUTHERN-NESS). I asked Jasper if he wanted biscuits and he said no, but I was all, “CHILD OF MINE! We! Are! Eating! Biscuits!” So at the same...
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Today I'll be nice and ramble about music because...
I have so many things to say lately I’m not even sure where to start. They range from the crazy/borderline unbelievable (like, you know, someone sending an ex-boyfriend, one who hasn’t spoken to her in years because she’s kind of crazy and who he broke up with over half a decade ago, a friend request on Facebook the week she found out he and his wife are having marital problems...
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Thrifted: Cutie McCuter Cuterstein
So, Jasper and I went a-thrifting the other day. While my finds were minimal (I did find an amazing pink button-up shirt that trips me out, because I didn’t realize I could be so into shirts that button up), Jasper absolutely racked up. I realize that most clothing for boys either has stripes, robots, dinosaurs, or some combination thereof, but these stripes… these stripes were just...
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This is the last post about Panama (you know,...
We came back from the island and Kim and I went out by ourselves, hopping from bar to bar in Casco Viejo (ok, it was like three.. but when your tolerance is next to nothing, three is a LOT). We began our night with Ricky, a fantastic bartender. His favorite song is “We Are the World” and it came on while we were there and he sang it to us: At another place, Kim hopped behind the bar...