Me, calling into a local dive restaurant: Hello there! I have a Buy One, Get One Free Entrée coupon, and I was wondering if a salad counts as an entrée. Guy of Local Dive (GOLD): A salad is not an entrée, Ma’am. Me (feeling sort of ridiculous): Is a sandwich an entrée? GOLD: I don’t [...]

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This morning I remembered that I’ve been meaning to check in on Fluid Pudding. So, hello there! The past week has been insanely hectic, but I can’t really name more than five things that we’ve done. (Such is the life of the sporadic freelancer/perky homemaker I suppose. Jeff returns from work in the evening, and [...]

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Today was the last day of this particular school year. As I’ve mentioned in the past, every morning I drive Meredith to school, and every morning the coach gets her out of the car with a smile and a “Good morning, Meredith!” (This is the coach involved in the Great Hat Drama of January 2010. [...]

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Meredith’s elementary school is hosting their annual field day on Monday. If I understand the process correctly, during the field day each child chooses a few events in which to participate. Events include activities like baton relay races, distance jumping, potato sack scrambles, bean bag tosses, et cetera. (Jeff has taken a half day of [...]

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So, I’ve got this happening on my front porch. And I’ve got this happening twice each week. I started my summer project. (It will eventually look like this.) And yesterday I made a blackberry cobbler. (It didn’t last long enough for photographs.) Seven more days of school. Only seven more days of school. ———————- The [...]

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For exactly one year, I am not unlike zirconium. (Please know that short term exposure will cause minor irritation.)

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Last night Jeff presented me with a birthday gift. For the first time ever, we now have Caller ID and Call Waiting. I’m a terrible (TERRIBLE) phone person, which is odd when you consider that two of my very first jobs involved lots of telephone action. (While in college I was one of those people [...]

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When I see a flock of birds in the sky When I hear my cat meow when she’s happy When I taste cinnamon buns with lots of icing on top When I am able to make my mom smile When I am with my stuffed dog Madison When I go to the doughnut shop and [...]

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I’m happy to announce that Meredith celebrated her birthday with TWO friends at Build-a-Bear yesterday. (The dramatic set-up is here.) Long story shortened: After I gave up on Mom #2, I left a message for Mom #3. Less than 20 minutes later, Mom #2 called and we set up a plan. Shortly after we hung [...]

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A few months after Meredith was born, our computer crashed and we lost all of her baby photos. I was absolutely devastated. The End. The only photos we were able to recover were the tiny files I had put up on Fluid Pudding, Volume One. (That was the version done in Microsoft Publisher. When I [...]

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