My friend Jodi is on tour with the Lazy Town live show. Apparently Nick Jr. is running a promotional contest so you can get the show in your town. Naturally, Jodi wants to come to Portland. To enter, one must have children between the ages of one and eight. Strangely, Rob and I don’t qualify. […]
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I’ve just been working the last couple of days. Nothing really exciting to report. Tomorrow, Rob and I are going on the Providence Bridge Pedal. Wish us luck.
Rob and I went to Laurelhurst Park for an open air screening of Casablanca. We packed a picnic dinner and listened to our friend Mick Doherty and his group the Cascadia String Quartet, as they played before the movie. Lovely evening.
Sorry, the last couple of days I worked on the boat, read and wrote. Rob came home from IPNC, which is wonderful, but due to our schedules, we still didn’t see much of each other yesterday. Tonight we went out to dinner. A date night is always a good thing.
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The show went off successfully. Everyone “loved it,” which is proof-positive that you can’t trust an audience member to tell you if something is good. This was not. I’m not talking about professional-quality, which I wasn’t expecting by any stretch, I’m just talking about in the realm of summer camp shows. The script sucked and
Marlene and Peter sent us the nesting glass bowls that I coveted! Their excuse is that it’s a wedding present, despite the fact that Rob and I got married over three years ago. Such kindness, and I really needed a pick-me-up after the battle with Mr. Uh-uh today. That and the increasing awareness that there’s
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The other problem child is your standard, run of the mill, I-don’t-wanna but he’s making me crazy. Little Miss Snippy was much better today, which gave me more time to focus on Mr. Uh-uh. He doesn’t want to do anything, which would be fine if he would actually sit and do nothing. What he really
According to Sue, owner of Lessons Learned, the folks she was pitching to really liked the concept. Which means my popups and cards were successful. She has to go out of town this week, so we won’t start working on it until Monday and the pilot workshop is a week from Friday. Yoicks. I went
I spent today working on maintanence again. Apparently my sanding and varnishing skills, honed from puppet-making and home-repair, are highly valued at the Spirit because they’ve asked me to come back tomorrow to do some additional detailing. La. In the evening, Rob and I biked down to Sam and Cindy’s (Hi Sam) for the Willamette
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I forgot to mention that we got the modeling shots back. As a tease, I’ll let our parents know that we’ve sent a photo off to Hawaii and Tennessee, but I won’t post a copy of it. Cruel, I know. Here’s a couple to tide you over.
I worked for the first time in about a year for the Portland Spirit. I wasn’t on the Spirit itself, but on the Willamette Star, which is one of the small boats in the fleet. I was a waitress for an Eastern Orthodox wedding reception. It was a long, exhausting day in no small part
Let’s see. Yesterday I had a job interview that went well, although the employer’s life just imploded so she’s not sure when the job would start. If she hires me I’ll fill you in on the details. Today Rob and I started to go to the farmer’s market but my bike was making a funny
I finally have WRW back up fully. I’ll still need to put some of the modifications back on the board, but since those only affect me as administrator, I’m counting my work as “done enough.” This evening we had Don and Wayne over for wine and a light meal. For Rob’s birthday, Don had given
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On Saturday Rob and I went to the farmer’s market. Amoung the other delightful organic produce, we picked up two globe artichokes. I’m enjoying one of them for a snack right now. I’ve got a mandarin orange olive oil that I’m dipping the leaves in, leftover from Iron Chef: Citrus Battle. Life is good.
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As a change, I thought I’d share a letter from my dad about my folks recent trip to London to visit my brother, Steve. London May-June 2005 highlights. Dear Mary,       We arrived on Saturday morning and Steve was visiting with Josh out at the airport so we just hung out at Steve’s place and
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