Entries from April 2008

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Learn-A-Word Wednesday: perfervid \puhr-FUR-vid\

adjective:
Ardent; impassioned; marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion.
Or under the button-down exterior of a familiar Westchester suburbanite was there a giant cockroach eager to mud-wrestle a man in black? Or was this merely a quirk of Miss Polk’s perfervid imagination?
— Mel Gussow, “Novelist Fires Off Opening of [...]

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

everyone be a love and go vote for me….pullllleeeeeaze?

Click here and please vote for Wendy’s caption in Diesel’s weekly caption contest.
I’ll wax your car for you.
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

solar-powered garbage

According to this article, for a mere $3000 or so, you can buy yourself a solar powered garbage can. My city did.
Did I mention my city is located in the Pacific Northwest? I hope this thing doesn’t need much in the way of SOLAR for its power.
See, it’s really a trash compactor powered [...]

Monday, April 7th, 2008

I’d like a shorter dog, please

I love my dog, really, but all recent hair-pulling has been caused by her.
I thought baking for the preschool snack would be good, bonding time for me and Kid.
I baked the muffins, with stirring and licking assistance from Kid.
I set them out to cool. 24 minis (kids), 2 regular size [...]

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

flip, flip, twit. repeat.

In addition to the flippin’, I am also twittin’. You twit, too?
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Friday, April 4th, 2008

a REAL page-turner

For the weekend, a little mindless fun for YOU, dear reader, this site.
If only I had some merri-ja-wah-na……
[Thanks, Velveteen Mind for the link!]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

Bainbridge Island — cleanest trails in the county!

Our little island has a rep. Not necessarily a good one, I learned the hard way when I started blogging for the Seattle P-I website.
Turns out the old-timers hate the new-timers and “off-islanders” hate the islanders, regardless of when they arrived on the island.
The main bad rep is rich, snotty people who think they’re [...]

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