Posted in Better Half, Deep Thoughts, apocalypse, bipolar, friends, good things, lawyer, links, meta, writing on Aug 17th, 2009
This is a movie review– of sorts. It’s also somewhat surreal– Magritte’s Treachery of Images, except instead of this not being a blog post or a movie review, ceci n’est pas ma vie, my life. At least it’s not the life that I want.
I’ve got about five drafts of this post started, all puttering out. Much […]
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Posted in Better Half, nerd on Jun 15th, 2009
When Wii Boxing with your spouse, it will be less disturbing if you use the Mii icons that DON’T look like you. Because I just got KO’d, and I’m more annoyed than I should be.
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The Internet, besides being the source of all knowledge, porn and fanfiction (and, erm, we’ll get to that shameful new addiction of mine some other time, mmkay?) is also a source of new words, abbreviations and phrases, although sometimes it’s just responsible for making those words from music/tv/press go “viral.” (See, that’s a very Intarwebz […]
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Posted in Better Half, just plain silly on Jun 3rd, 2009
Dear Self:
Yes, your husband is ex-Army. Yes, your husband is a computer Geek. Yes, your husband is an avid reader of blogs about fonts and design. (Yes, fonts. Like Optima.*) And yes, if you ever, ever reference a phrase from any Broadway show written or performed before 1990, it will set off the singing of […]
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Posted in Better Half, flickr, food, links, photos on May 27th, 2009
There are a variety of things we’d stopped doing as a couple, one of which was Road Trips. Not every weekend, but many, the BH and I used to just go for a drive and see where we landed. It’s not great for the planet, sure, but it was good for us. We listened to […]
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Posted in Better Half, crank, nerd on May 26th, 2009
Sunday night the Better Half and I went to the movies and realized that we are now those people we used to mock as we sat making out with our high school dates, snarfling popcorn and candy like calories were irrelevant and otherwise living adolescent, ego-centric lives. Not so now.
We got off the subway and came […]
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Posted in Better Half, just plain silly on May 24th, 2009
To completely bastardize the famous verse in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam about books, wine, bread and thou, I had a lovely Saturday night with my friend L. We picked up some Pad Kee Mao (chicken, nicely spicy, loaded with Thai Basil) and Mango Fried Rice, drank a bottle of a flinty Macon-Villages, and feasted […]
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It’s a weather site. It tells you the temperature and forecast for your location, based on your ISP address. There’s a blog and a comment form and the design is very, very simple. But there’s just enough editorial comment of the NSFW type to make it all so very worthwhile. In the vein of the […]
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Posted in Better Half, bipolar, meds on Feb 14th, 2009
I’ve been feeling up and down again– not the deep crashes and stomach lurching heights of truly bad mood swings, but repetitive little lurches that have me feeling cranky or sad or lethargic or anxious– and feeling very, very sorry for myself. A la “I want a magic pill,” and “I don’t want to do […]
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Posted in Better Half, nerd on Jan 30th, 2009
The Better Half does many things at work, some in his job description, and many, many more not. One of the thing’s that’s actually in his job description is marketing, and he’s more than a bit of a nerd about it. And more than a bit of a nerd, generally– he’ll read me something about […]
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