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Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:40:00 GMT
It’s National Punctuation Day. Yeay! (Please use parentheses responsibly.)
We celebrated by making a patriotic, punctuation cake (ooooo . . . appropriate comma usage? Does patriotic modify punctuation or cake? Could go either way. Are you out there, X the Evil Editor?)
See all those little periods, exclamation points, hypens, and asterisks? Pillsbury makes a cake for every special occasion!
Don’t forget—hug a hyphen today! And for goodness sake, get out there and educate others on the proper use of the apostrophe!
Let’s hear it for the exclamation point!
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Sun, 23 Sep 2007 19:28:00 GMT
This is Doris, my new Buick. She’s a nice, sensible brown, but likes to think of herself as a sweet chocolat au lait.
She’s comfortable and well-apportioned on the inside.
She doesn’t need to be too flashy. She has more subtle ways of showing off her style.
And please don’t call her a mini-van. She prefers Crossover Sports Van, thank you very much! She’s still young at heart just like me. I think we’re going to get along fine.
Road Trip!
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:48:00 GMT
Yes, of course I support Purdue Pete. My spots aren’t exactly Cream and Crimson, after all.
The trouble is, frankly, I don’t really give a hairball-in-hell about college sports.
Sigh!
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:01:00 GMT
Herbie takes his peanut butter veeeeeerrrrrry seriously!
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Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:22:00 GMT
The Other Mrs. Schmenkman is feeling very red today. I’m still solidly in my green phase.
I can never seem to get enough Tazo green tea. I love the stuff. I make and drink it all the time at home, but it’s also great to have one of the nice baristas at Starbucks shake me up a venti (con tre Splendi, heh!)—especially on a particularly tough early morning walk. I know, I know . . . . how tough can it possibly be if I stop at Starbucks?
Would somebody please inform the fabric designers to get crackin’ with some more chartreuse in their new lines? Thanks. I reaaaaaallllly need it to compliment the stunning “Hep Green” on the two biggest walls in the living/dining room. Check out Sherwin Williams awesome Color Visualizer.
And if you haven’t tried this juice yet, don’t be afraid! Even though Henry will tell you that it looks like the glowing cartoon nuclear waste in The Simpsons, and the older kids refer to it as “sludge”, it’s delicious. And darned good for you, too! But drink it super cold on ice or it does get sort of icky.
I think I’m going to put together a green tea yogurt sludge juice smoothie and see how that tastes!
Green soap, green soap. For the longest time, I didn’t even realize that I had a
thing about green soap. Apparently I do. [Not present at photo shoot: assortment of green shampoos and conditioners.]
I’m pretty sure it’s not just a marketing thing. I don’t want to think it’s some sort of neurosis, though. Green just screams clean to me. And I can live with that.
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Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:06:00 GMT
I dislike wallpaper. A lot. But as I stripped it from the ceiling in the kitchen today, I kept a positive attitude. I had the narrator’s voice from Amelie in my head as I attempted to remove it in one long piece:
“Madame K. aimes . . . arracher des grands morceaux
de papier peint.” [flips hair out of eyes triumphantly.]
Sometimes I was successful.
Sometimes not so much. But it looks better in shreds on the floor than it did on the ceiling!
Kira says, “Look! I’m a princess!”
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Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:17:00 GMT
In spite of my late start in gardening this year, I have some wonderful color in front of the house. Every day a couple of mothers walk their children to school past our house pushing toddlers in strollers. I have given them permission to pick the red globe amaranthus as they go by. Their little ones never seem to let them forget to stop and pick one along the way and it makes me smile. I’m happy to share.
I have begun to dig out the main gardens in front where the two mini van-sized bushes used to be. I’ll soon be doing some fall planting so that we start next Spring out with a blast of brilliance.
I finally found some time to play with fabric today. Ironically, this grouping is mostly from a new line called “Play” by Windham and Baum (Thanks, Mrs. Schmenkman!)
Gratuitous Handsome Herbie picture alert!
Comments are back.
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Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:40:00 GMT
Emma’s not usually one to blend in, but today she’s dressed to disappear in the dining room!
She and Henry are gearing up for our big “Sushi in the Park” picnic lunch this afternoon.
And, BTW, we’ve had to disable the comments on the blog for a time.
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Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:27:00 GMT
When I was five or six years old, my parents traded in our piano for a small organ. I’m not sure what prompted that trade. I really liked listening to my brother Mark play piano.
We younger kids were immediately signed up to take organ lessons. The guy we took them from played at Komet hockey games and at the pizza place that had the giant pipe organ. That gave him minor celebrity status in Fort Wayne in the early 70’s.
I really hated organ lessons. I just wanted to play the piano! I quit for a time, and then when I was 10 or 11, my mom made me start taking lessons again from a woman who worked at the piano/organ store in the mall. I hated the way her fake nails clicked constantly on the keys when she played. I thought it was completely ridiculous when she made me play “Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue” to a very fast samba rhythm. I guess when you’ve got “Samba” as an option, you just can’t let it go to waste!
My instructor freaked out when she realized that I couldn’t read music very well. I had been playing everything by ear. I finally convinced my mother to let me quit playing the Wurlitzer of my nightmares.
But, hey! I can play “Don’t it Make My Brown Eyes Blue” by ear to a fast samba beat! How’s that for musical talent?
I think that I’ll just leave the organ-playing to the sea.
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Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:30:00 GMT
It’s been a whirlwind of Sherwin Williams paint chip cards around here as John has solicited the Krutulis Color Crew’s decorating advice on how to paint a new house.
Of course, if he were just a bit more color blind, I might be able to convince him that chartreuse is the way to go. “Um, yeah, John! It totally matches the brick color—and the sofa, too!!”
It’s all good. Red wine and chocolate match both of our color schemes.
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