Tuesday, May 29, 2007
SO Not a Country Girl
cheezwerks: so give me a new design/masthead idea for cheezwerks!
cheezwerks: I'm getting too many creepy butt-related search strings
lusiphur: *giggling*
lusiphur: whats the latest dealings on in cheezwerks land?
cheezwerks: the copperhead lounging up against the house this evening
cheezwerks: geeeyuck
cheezwerks: I had Sean dispatch the f*cker
cheezwerks: with a machete
cheezwerks: sorry but no mercy for venomous snakes that are less than 10 feet from my front door
lusiphur: oooo machete!!!
cheezwerks: that's what I need, an open snake mouth
lusiphur: there ya go!
lusiphur: swallowing cheezwerks?
lusiphur: can we add the machete in anyways?
cheezwerks: *hold please, must shudder*
cheezwerks: okay, better now
lusiphur: why shuddering?
cheezwerks: oh, I didn't tell you!
cheezwerks: I was IN the flower bed like two feet from it when I saw it
cheezwerks: probably not even two feet, actually
lusiphur: :-O
lusiphur: eeeek
cheezwerks: considering that I hate snakes, it was very uncool that my first wild adult-snake encounter was with a copperhead
lusiphur: *shiver*
cheezwerks: I came across a baby snake of some sort IN MY GARAGE last summer
cheezwerks: and a few skins
cheezwerks: I'm so ready for a 12th floor condo
lusiphur: i was on the 18th floor in one in Atlanta
cheezwerks: how was it? nice, eh? not a damn snake in sight, I bet
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Monday, May 28, 2007
If Nobody Said These Things To You, Then You Had a Better Weekend Than I Did
1. "I think we took a wrong turn...um...about half an hour ago."
2. "Almost all of the vomit came out of the carpet."
3. "Does he have something hanging out of his butt?"
4. "Mom? I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm afraid that...we might die...from the dinner you made."
Weeell, truthfully it was an okay weekend overall. We managed to get to the beach on Saturday, an event which in my mind marks the official opening of summer. I had forgotten how much sand a kid's bathing suit can hold! Most of it is now on the floor of my car.
Sunday was all about fits and starts. There was the thought to paint the shed built last fall...only to discover that there are still a few pieces of wood trim that need to added. Late in the day a leisurely neighborhood stroll turned into a sprint back home when a sudden thunderstorm rolled in fast. Two nice things from the day: (1) I clipped a Memorial Day rose from the garden, and (2) I made Walnut Caramel Triangles*.
* A year or two ago, I thought about turning this into a food blog. However? If I can't get around to posting general life stuff with any form of regularity, with my increasingly infrequent cooking habits I sure as hell wouldn't be able to provide pipin' fresh recipe content on a regular basis.
In other news, The Shins' latest release from Wincing the Night Away, "Australia", sounds very remniscent of the Smiths. If "Phantom Limb" didn't do the trick, this pretty much automatically makes me a fan.
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Sunday, May 13, 2007
Happy Mother's Day!
It was a really lovely day here at Cheezwerks HQ, thanks in no small way to my darling monkey-child. We spent a good chunk of the afternoon just snuggling together on the sofa and taking pictures (see below). Gotta say, Sophie is getting pretty handy with a camera, and BOY has she mastered the art of the pose!
Hope all of you had a wonderful, wonderful Mother's Day!
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Saturday, May 12, 2007
So hey! Guess where we've been this past week! That's right, Disney World again.
Well, technically I was in Orlando, FL attending a conference. Sean and Sophie piggybacked on the employer-paid resort accommodations* and spent some quality father-daughter time at Disney World. I joined them at the Magic Kingdom after the conference ended on Wednesday.
* ROCK. ON. Not so much about the resort--which was nice and all--but about the employer-paid part. (Yeah, clearly I'm still detoxing from the Company Y Experience.)
Now, y'all know that I can never just get on a plane, go somewhere, and arrive back home on a plane without some sort of drama happening, right? For example, the Minnesota trip where the guy was hauled off the plane by marshalls. And the Ohio trip where the pilot pulled the plane over mid-taxi to go bitch out an uppity passenger. This trip did not disappoint in the drama department.
Picture it: a full Boeing 737 high above the East Coast approximately thirty-ish minutes into a flight. We were sitting about three-quarters of the way toward the rear of the plane. A flight attendant holding a tray of beverages was hovering at our row, about to deliver a couple of Cokes, when another flight attendant came running down the aisle yelling, "GO! GO! GO!" They both ran to the rear of the plane, but not before we heard the second flight attendant say, "There's a passenger who's got a--!"
Go ahead, fill in the blank. Needless to say, that's what everybody on the plane was doing at that moment.
We looked to the back of the plane. Both flight attendants had picked up the phones.
We looked to the front of the plane. Another flight attendant was on the intercom to the cockpit.
We looked at the passengers around us. That blank we had all filled in? Very obviously there was a pretty narrow range of guesses. The woman across the aisle from us started to hyperventilate.
After some of the longest, most panicked minutes certainly of my life, one of the flight attendants got on the cabin intercom to ask for any and all medical professionals to come forward. Evidently a passenger in the front of the plane was having some problems. Insert 200 [guilty] sighs of relief from the rest of the passengers here. As far as in-flight emergencies go, a passenger with a heart problem is definitely not a great situation but infinitely better than a passenger with, say, an incendiary device.
Despite some minor medical work going on in the front of the plane, the rest of the flight was uneventful. Upon landing the sick passenger received some attention from paramedics. She was apparently in satisfactory enough condition to be released to go fetch her luggage since we saw her standing at the baggage carousel a few minutes later.
By the way, the conference was great! I'm going to another conference in a few months, this time in California. For those of you keeping track, that's at least five nonstop hours of potential in-flight weirdness and drama EACH WAY. Neat.
# posted by Amanda at 9:19 PM |
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Thursday, May 03, 2007
Somewhere along the line - Tuesday? Monday, even? - I seem to have picked up some sort of nasty sinus/nasal situation that may or may not be seasonal pollen-related. My adult experience with allergies has been fairly limited so I'm not entirely sure. What I know is that I'm sniffly, sneezy, suddenly sounding a lot like Kathleen Turner and achey all over.
I don't just want a cup of hot tea, I want to be IN a cup of hot tea.
# posted by Amanda at 11:24 AM |
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