Month: July 2008
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Congratulations to Miss Fee for her awesome finish in the Bay Run yesterday! Well done. My team got somebody else to run in my spot, but to my dismay, she finished slower than I predicted I would. Oh well.
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SNOW?! You’re freaking kidding me. And I missed it.
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Visiting the babiesLast night I caught a flight from Los Angeles to Oakland to visit the Carbos for the weekend. The kids were all asleep by the time I got here… but this morning we’re all getting to know each other. My sister had the excellent suggestion to bribe Penn with some new toys and…
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Compatto Yarn SalonLast night I left work and walked a few blocks over to Compatto Yarn Salon. That’s the knitting shop I found on my first day, and I knew they were having a sock knitting night. I’d brought my long-neglected Rhiannons along. There were five ladies sitting on the sofas in the back, happily…
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Knitters’ Partner InterviewSo I saw this cute little interview with the Sock Victim on Miss Fee’s site. (She got the idea from here and here.) The idea is that the knitter asks their non-knitting partner some questions about their hobby. I sent the list to the Snook last night with a request for his answers.…
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Ooh, something I forgot to add about my Grocery Store Experience the other night: They had special free sanitizing wipes at the front door for you to wipe down the handle of your shopping cart so you didn’t pick up germs from other people. Is this an LA thing, or is this now de rigeur…
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Kitchen Block with Bowl. Neat! Filing this one away for future kitchen renovation reference…
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Lunch at the Water GardenThere’s an amazing office complex between the apartment and work called The Water Garden. I’ve walked and ridden past it on the bus a few times now so today I decided to explore. It was so pretty! There are several interconnected fountains and plazas with meandering pathways between them. The sun…
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Mmmm, Decadent American Grocery StoresSo I’ve moved out of the swanky hotel downtown and into the staff apartment a few blocks from work. It’s pretty nice! Somehow it just feels a lot more relaxing to come back to a place with a kitchen and a couch. There’s a grocery store nearby so I headed over…
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Coolness! My little brother Joey went to the Elkhart County Fair this week with his Day Camp group and they ended up on the evening news! My Mom put it up on Youtube. He’s the one in the blue Cubs hat waving and pulling faces behind the camp leader.