Month: August 2008
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A rose by any other name would smell as sweet…
People ask us these questions (usually in this order) Do you know what you are having?Have you selected names?What are they?Why won’t you tell me the names? (and then they generally proceed to suggest their own names (sometimes, literally, their own name) After that, the next question is– will you circumcise if it’s a boy?…
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The unwanted visitor, or something stinks in the state of Yonkers
Thursday was a harrowing day for me– less so for Stephanie, so the answer is no, we did not have a wanted visitor arrive on Thursday. She is still pregnant (at least as of Saturday morning) Instead this is a story of how we had an unwanted visitor. This is a long story, so get…
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The Bacon Krispy Kreme Burger- Or a Delicious Heart Attack on a Plate
Bacon Krispy Kreme burger Originally uploaded by satanslaundromat A friend of mine posted about these– and apparently Google had them recently in their NY cafeteria. (I found this photograph on Flickr) It’s got everything that a person could want — except for the death by fat-cell asphyxiation. Still it sounds delicious…. My brother works at…
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These are the cakes we DON’T want
Found a hilarious blog about when professionally designed cakes go wrong http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/ Here are some selected images of pregnancy and baby cakes that are bad bad bad. In case you were thinking of ordering us a cake or something (which I don’t suggest you do– we both are not huge cake lovers, and when we…
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Olly Olly OxenFree!
That’s the signature call of our backyard Hide and Seek, meaning– the game is over, no more hiding, come on out. (It’s also a movie featuring Katherine Hepburn, lovingly featured on the right.) It’s also what S has been yelling out at her stomach for the last few days. Or to put it in a…
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Ummmm… Joey… I don’t think we’re in Yonkers anymore…
Yesterday there was a Tornado warning in Yonkers. That’s the same day that S’s family flies into NY for the weekend (for a show, and to hang out with their very pregnant daughter one last time before she gives birth to the kicking giraffe who has been eating up all of the real estate in…
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Elfa-sizing and the Nuclear Knitting Proliferation Treaty
We spent this week continuing on the never-ending home improvement binge, in which my wife spends thousands of dollars on (admittedly needed) home improvement, and then says “Hey, we’re nesting!” when I grumble at the (mumbledy mumbledy) expense of it all. This week it was fixing up the master bathroom closet, which has been built…
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It just got dark
So dark in fact that the streetlights went on. Which wouldn’t be a problem normally, except that it’s 11:30 am. In the summer. The satellite is having problems too. CNN is in nad out. I think we are in for a hell of a storm.