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Archive | February, 2010

I love this sort of thing!

Does that make me self-centered?  I totally love answering memes and quizzes and basically getting the opportunity to talk about myself.  Oh well.  I’m always looking for a quick and fun post idea, so many thanks to my friend Allison for posting this over on her blog!  (And I’m late to the party, OF COURSE.  […]

To raise a man

We’ve reached the point with AE where parenting is far less of a physical challenge, but more of a mental one.  And unfortunately, I think this is also the part where you can scar your kid for life.  Twenty years from now, Miss T isn’t likely to recall that I let her cry in her […]

Hard sell

I suppose that some people are easily swayed by TV commercials, promotional gimmicks, magazine ads, pushy salespeople and the like.  Unfortunately for the marketing world at large, I am not one of these people. Scene:  At home, around 9:15 p.m. on a weeknight.  My cell phone rings, from a number I don’t recognize.  I answer anyway. […]

Wine review/PSA

I got a gift certificate to Spec’s for Christmas, which was of course all kinds of exciting.  Even more exciting, when I went to use it I discovered that a Nautico wine I’d been wanting to try was on sale.  Score! This one is a 2006 blend of semillon  (93%) and sauvignon blanc (7%).  Now, […]

A weekend of food and running

Hello!  I’m back!  And rather than bore you with where I’ve been (hint: not Bali), I will just say that I have been exceedingly busy (as usual).  But anyway, blah-dee-blah, I survived.  And in the meantime, N and I managed to get away for Valentine’s Day.  Sort of.