tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62668752011-04-21T21:14:28.694-07:00Maggie's blogmagsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6266875.post-1094307815550276182004-09-04T07:10:00.000-07:002004-09-04T07:29:28.690-07:00

let's see. dan's been at burning man for a week now; he should be back by mid-week next week. the cats and i have been puttering around the house, not getting much done. i had big plans to organize large areas of the house, the way i did when dan was at burning man last year, but that hasn't happened. i've started taking some new meds that leave me feeling a bit worse for wear. two of them are

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dan brought back some gifts for me from michigan, including some "Foot Fizzle" from jackie. (she also got me some very pretty soap-covered flowers. i had never seen--or smelled--soap-covered flowers before, but they are lovely.) I got some tasty jelly, and a very cool little mouse carved by uncle bert. dan was determined that i deploy the foot fizzle right away, since i tend to get sort of

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well, i had an interesting day after i dropped mr. green off at the airport saturday. i got back to seattle at about 8:40am. i had no idea stores were open to darned early! even though i'd been up all night and morning, i managed to get a few things done saturday morning and afternoon. ended up getting to sleep about 3pm saturday afternoon, getting up about 10:45pm (actually, pretty much when i

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since i've had a very bad summer, health-wise, i've been missing in action for a very long time. dan helpfully suggested that two paragraphs i sent to a friend might be blog-worthy, in terms of briefly describing how i've been feeling this summer. so here goes: "hey, there! i've been thinking about your kind offer to pick me up and transport me to the locks sunday[ed.'s note: where i was to

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i will drive my favorite bear just about... well, anywhere i would drive him to despair (we hope not) i would drive him to o'hare! i would drive him to a fair (dancing visions of veggie corndogs on sticks!) i would drive him to eau claire (love my home state!) i would drive him *even before* i part my hair i would drive him with such flair (his eyes wide w/wonder and shut w/fear) i would

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so many mundane details to tell you about, so little typing time! okay, i'll just get started. glee club was great as usual. even though we have three season-ending concerts looming in a few weeks, our fearless leader, bert, kept things moving by using his sense of humor, even though it's a stressful time (we have *a lot* of music this time!). and here's a surprise. instead of my usual trek to

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long time, no blog. lots of things to chatter about, but never enough time to sit down and type away. so here are some ballard doings, pretty much in random order: i've been very good since our big declutter weekend and have continued to not re-clutter anywhere in the house. i actually have gone through some things and gotten rid of more stuff (mainly papers, papers, papers). i've got a list of

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More mundane stuff excerpted from my mile-a-minute ballard existence. I stayed up all night the other day, so I could get a fasting blood draw at 7-8am (it had to be in that time frame, or I never would have bopped down to downtown ballard at such a seldom experienced--pour moi--time o' day). Additionally, I wore loose gray pajama pants decorated with a plethora of cats singing in rowboats. It

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hey, i've just discovered the spell-checker! this should help my blogging (especially in situations like now when i have two cats in my lap, along with my laptop). another big tuesday night--glee club and walgreens! (notice a pattern here?) i volunteered to be responsible for the glee-club phone messages we get on a designated line (goes right to voicemail). i'm also going to post notices around

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well, i'm blogging on dan's lovely little mac laptop. my laptop has been very temperamental recently. it behaved yesterday, but for the last several weeks it has been turning itself off without warning. dan took it in to a laptop repair shop, and they tried for two days to duplicate the problem (to no avail). dan takes his laptop all over seattle. it travels quite well. it is much smaller and

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well, i had a big day yesterday! off to band practice (just a tad late). before band i was thinking about how lovely rehearsal had been thursday evening. then i felt the night-time ankle brace on my leg and realized i was still in bed. oooops! i rushed to get ready and only missed rehearsing one piece of music. it's starting to feel normal to go to rehearsals again, after missing several of them,

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wednesday? what was that? i slept the whole day (and most of the evening) away, as is my wont after an evening of activity the day before. i recover from the podiatrist visit and glee club, and rest up for symphonic band on thursday. i'll sleep pretty much through friday, and then on saturday, dan and i will go see twisted flix, which are shown the last weekend of every month. a local improv

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well, i took a few days off from blogging. on sunday, we had penny (aka "a force of nature") from clutter cleaners come to our house to declutter our basement and garage. i'd seen her declutter a garage on a segment of the tv show "dateline" a few months ago, and was impressed with her energy, no-nonsense approach, and her understanding of the psyche of a clutterer (yes, that would be moi).

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this weekend, dan and i saw two classic movies on tv. friday we saw 1939's "love affair" with charles boyer and the incomparable irene dunne. it was filmed in strikingly beautiful black and white, and was full of art deco images. saturday night, we watched the original "a star is born," from 1937, starring janet gaynor and fredric march. it, too, was filled with an amazing amount of art deco

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last night was my first night back at symphonic band practice after missing several rehearsals (and two concerts). i ran out of breath a lot, but did manage to remain in an upright and locked position for the entire evening. one of the band members (named neil) had written a three-page symphonic band piece, and wanted us to play it so he could have a recording of it. almost every measure was in a

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an article i just read in vanity fair was about the popularity and prevalence of blogs (mainly political, and mainly left-wing). i was surprised at how many of the blogs i've read, either on an occasional or a regular basis. this just confirms what i already knew--i spend an awful lot of time on the computer. and, there are an awful lot of really literate and informative blogs out there.

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also in vanity fair (it's a big magazine, even with the perfumed inserts removed!): a chilling article on how easy voter fraud is on the new electronic voting machines. there's no paper trail, it's extremely easy to fix voting totals in any number of ways, and it's suspected that some elections have already been affected by people illiegally manipulating the voting machine totals. a freelance

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last night i finally did the walkthrough on our rental house. it took almost two hours! dan had made up a very detailed checklist for each room. i just hope i can read all my notes when it comes time for our new tenants to move out! we just had the hardwood floors redone with a swedish finish. they are absolutely beautiful. the house is really in good shape--much better shape than our house. but

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i was reading an article in vanity fair on disgraced financier conrad black. one of the people quoted in the interview was named "sir peregrine worsthorne." is he an englishman, or what? love that name.

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some notes on my current snuggle-partner, navvy, our one-eyed cat ("yar"), who has long, white hair and a predilection for what we call rasta knots on his soft, white underbelly. fortunately, he likes having his rasta knots trimmed occasionally. yesterday i decided that he is a man of several strong, distinct emotional categories: loving, angry, and crazy. kind of covers it for a lot of the rest

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