It’s official. I now have a green thumb. Or at least a green pinky. I have at least four tomatoes growing in my garden now! I, who have never grown more than a cactus in my lifetime, have now brought vegetables to life. I can’t wait to make a salad with my new tomatoes. These [...]

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You may have heard a piercing, high-pitched wail coming from San Diego yesterday; it was just me, turning 39 years old. 39 Sigh. Yes, 39. But I don’t feel a day over 37. Just kidding. Actually, I really do feel younger than my 39 years. I feel somewhere close to 32 or 33. I still [...]

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After taking care of my 8 month old neice yesterday (yes! I fed the baby! mashed sweet potatoes!) I decided I needed to go see The Ruins. (how’s that for a segue/non sequitur?). If you haven’t seen the commercials, The Ruins is the new horror film about the group of young, attractive people who find [...]

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Not really, I actually lost my cellphone at the college where I teach, but that didn’t have the same ring to it (no pun intended, really). Maybe I should have called this post, I Bought a Crappy Temporary Cell Phone in San Francisco, (because I did). Anyway, it took the person who found the phone [...]

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I love to cook. Truth be told, though, I think Ted is probably better at cooking than me. And actually, I think I enjoy the process/prep of cooking more than the actual result. When I cook I often turn it into this production– as if I have my own cooking show. I like to chop [...]

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I got a good few days of writing (on the novel) done this week, in between a bit of shopping and cooking (made Mexican Wedding Cookies yesterday–the little balls rolled in powdered sugar). I was fairly productive in the writing– really hit my stride later in the evening (after being at the coffee shop for [...]

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Hi. I’m done with my semester(s)! Well, I have to give a final exam on Wednesday but i’m pretty much done with my semester. And, i’m just about done with grading. I haven’t been this far ahead in grading since, I don’t know when. I hope y’all don’t mind if I rant for just a [...]

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Ted’s at a conference in Washington, DC, this weekend, so I took this time to reflect on my life and my accomplishments… Just kidding! I watched a really bad/good movie called “The Alligator People” starring screen siren(!) Beverly Garland (remember, of “My Three Sons” and “Scarecrow and Mrs. King” fame?). Oh, and Beverly Garland has [...]

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Oh, do we have leftovers. But first let me show and tell you about our Thanksgiving. As I mentioned in the last post, we had my family over. My sister and her husband and their baby, my dad and stepmother, my half brother (who now lives here in San Diego), and my 16 year-old half [...]

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Forgot to post this picture– it’s from the other night when I made Tex-Mex and Pumpkin Muffins. Ted made us martinis, and I took a photo of mine because it looked so good (I like ‘em dirty). It wasn’t until later that I noticed the jar of cat treats from Pounce in the background. Such [...]

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