Archive for July, 2008

Mommy Meme from BiV

Published on July 27, 2008 in Miscellany and The Fam. 5 Comments

Answers to questions about Me! From the Birthday Boy, age 9 today. Happy birthday!

1. What is something mom always says to you? Clean your room.
2. What makes mom happy? Seeing her kids get good grades.
3. What makes mom sad? Pain.
4. How does your mom make you laugh? Tells funny jokes.
5. What was your mom like as a child? She wanted to be famous.
6. How old is your mom? Forty-eight.
7. How tall is your mom? She says she’s five foot six inches.
8. What is her favorite thing to do? Go on the computer.
9. What does your mom do when you’re not around? How would I know?
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? Singing. (Ha! In my dreams!)
11. What is your mom really good at? Singing (what a kid. Big raise in allowance is on the way…)
12. What is your mom not very good at? Video games.
13. What does your mom do for her job? She works from home.
14. What is your mom’s favorite food? Chocolate brownies. (OK, I had to prompt him a little on this. Noodles? As if…)
15. What makes you proud of your mom? She’s a good cook.
16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? Spongebob Squarepants.
17. What do you and your mom do together? Go to the pool.
18. How are you and your mom the same? We both chatter.
19. How are you and your mom different? I’m more into Bionicles than she is.
20. How do you know your mom loves you? Every payday she takes us to Sicily’s (pizza buffet).

Tagging: Angie, Amy, Hope

Ewww. Ouch.

Published on July 21, 2008 in Life in Louisiana. 4 Comments

Yesterday morning, I got stung on the foot, probably by a fire ant. Icky picture past the jump. You have been warned.
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Everyone: Go Watch This

Published on July 18, 2008 in Miscellany. 2 Comments

Edited to add an answer to Deb’s question.

It’s funny and dark and has great music. Neil Patrick Harris is amazing in it (as is Felicia Day). It’s a comic book set to music. It’s by Josh Whedon, the guy who did Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Acts I-III are available for free until tomorrow, then they’re supposed to go away. I bought them on iTunes, I liked them so much.

Click to the jump for one not-exactly-a-spoiler.
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Published on July 15, 2008 in MetaBlogging. 9 Comments

I think I’m going to stop commenting on blogs. It’s all getting to be too intense. I misunderstand what people mean or I take things out of context or even when I do understand, I write something that pisses people off.

I will probably still say hello occasionally on my people blogs, but the MoBlogs? I think I’m done.

Green Spaghetti Recipe

Published on July 12, 2008 in Miscellany. 1 Comment

Years ago (literally), I posted about the Green Spaghetti recipe I got from “Just Tell Me What to Cook.” Ms. K. (see My Feed, #4) asked for the recipe and I NEVER POSTED IT. What kind of friend am I?

So, here it is.

1 lb. spaghetti

2 cups spinach
1 cup warm vegetable or chicken broth
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese

Cook spaghetti. While it’s cooking, steam the spinach just until wilted (I usually do this in the microwave.) Put in the blender. Add milk, broth and cheese. Blend until smooth.

When the spaghetti is done, toss with 1/2 stick of butter. Add sauce and toss until mixed well. Serve immediately with extra cheese and salt and pepper to taste.

My Feed, #5

Published on July 11, 2008 in My Peeps and MetaBlogging. 0 Comments

Ah, number five. One of my favorite people blogs (vs. blogs about ideas or Mormon stuff). Joe in and Around Las Vegas, aka VegasJoe, writes a really cool blog that’s a stream of consciousness blend of text and photos of Vegas life as lived by real people, interspersed with links to fun YouTube videos, travel, and his beautiful granddaughter, E.

I found Joe when he found me. He either linked to my blog or found it at random and I saw he’d been there by his IP address. We swapped e-mails a couple of times (remember my unemployed days, Joe?) and found that we are/were both actually FoxPro developers - a very, very small niche. He liked my blog and some of my friends’ blogs and after almost five years we’re still together :)

What I like best about Joe’s blog is that it’s always surprising. He works for a company that has a huge convention center right on site. He posts photos of setup and teardown and sometimes of the shows themselves. His blog gives me a sense of being “on the scene.” His video blogs are also, to hammer the adjective into the ground, surprising. I’m always entertained and amused and often delighted by what he chooses to link. And anybody who can look at the unruly mop of hair on his beautiful, cheeky little granddaughter E and not be entranced has no soul.

Joe’s blog and his generous link policies have made him friends all over the globe. If you go to Vegas, look him up! But warn him you’re coming - I was there last fall, and didn’t give him enough notice, so we’ve never yet met in real life.

My Feed, #4

Published on July 9, 2008 in My Peeps. 2 Comments

Feed Number 4 shall go unlinked, but not undescribed. Ms. K. (who calls me Ms. Banana) is an old, old friend from my early disaffected Mormon days. She is good people, a devoted mother, and a hard worker. She is a private person (a private person with a blog) which is why I’m not linking her. She writes hardly at all, but she stays in my feed so when she does write, I can catch up.

A Wry Meme

Published on July 7, 2008 in Miscellany. 8 Comments

Simple meme of 50 questions and answers. Here we go.
1. What do you add to your coffee? On the rare occasions when I drink coffee, it’s usually frozen with all kinds of stuff in it - soft serve ice cream, whipped cream, caramel, chocolate.
2. What are you reading now? Dance of the Dissident Daughter; Wicked; Stumbling on Happiness
3. Do you own a gun? No
4. Are you registered to vote? Yes
5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? No
6. What do you think of hot dogs? Kind of gross in concept, but quick and cheap and they taste OK, so I’ll cook and eat them.
7. Favorite Christmas Song? I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? Diet Mountain Dew
9. Can you do push ups? No
10. What was the name of your first boyfriend/girlfriend? Michael
11. What’s your favorite piece of jewelery? I don’t have much jewelry; my wedding ring.
12. Favorite hobby? reading the internet
13. Do you work with people who idolize you? No.
14. Do you have ADD? No.
15. What’s one trait that you hate about yourself? I don’t do hard things.
16. What’s your Middle name? Marie
17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment. I want to go back to bed. I hate Mondays. Please stop talking.
18. Name 3 things you bought yesterday. Shrimp, cream cheese, blueberries.
19. Name 3 beverages you regularly drink. Diet Mountain Dew, water, Diet Coke.
20. Current worry right now? Money.
21. What side do you dress to? I don’t understand this question.
22. Favorite place to be? in bed
23. How did you bring in the New Year? I slept.
24. Where would you like to go? Australia
25. Name three people who will complete this. Not a clue.
26. Whose answers do you want to read the most? VegasJoe
27. What color shirt are you wearing? I’m still in my pajamas; they are green and blue print.
28. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? No.
29. Can you whistle? Some.
30. Favorite colors(s)? Green, purple, blue.
31. Could you be a pirate? No.
32. What songs do you sing in the shower? Whatever is stuck in my head.
33. Favorite girls name? Lillian
34. Favorite boy’s name? Peter
35. What’s in your pocket right now? Empty (see #27)
36. Last thing that made you laugh? I don’t remember.
37. Best bed sheets as a child? Yes.
38. Worst injury you’ve ever had? Car accident, scar above right eye.
39. Do you love where you live? No.
40. How many TVs do you have in your house? Two.
41. Who is your loudest friend? Me.
42. How many dogs do you have? None.
43. Does anyone have a crush on you? Um, no.
44. What are the most fun things you ever did? Sex and Bruce Springsteen concerts.
45. What are your favorite books? To Kill a Mockingbird.
46. What is your favorite candy? Chocolate!
47. Favorite Team? Meh.
48. What songs do you want played at your funeral? Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Funeral for a Friend intro.
49. What were you doing at 12 AM? Talking with my husband in bed before going to sleep.
50. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Ugh. Also, why do I keep dreaming about Jack McCoy from Law & Order? In this particular dream, he was about to be eaten by a bear.

My Feed, #3

Published on July 6, 2008 in My Peeps and MetaBlogging. 0 Comments

I’ve met a lot of people online through ex-Mormon and New Order Mormon discussion boards. One of these, “The Folk of the Fringe,” is where people whose level of belief ranges from “recently released devout Stake President” to “hasn’t darkened a chapel door except for funerals in almost twenty years” have vibrant and respectful conversations. From the Lily Pad is Froggie’s blog. I first ran into Froggie over on The Fringe, and we still keep in touch very rarely by e-mail and over on another ex-Mormon board, The Foyer.

(Full disclosure: I am not an ex-Mormon.)

When I read blogs about people I know primarily from a fairly one-dimensional space (i.e., ex-Mormons), I learn a lot about them as whole people. We are all multi-dimensional; nobody is only “ex-Mormon” or “straight.” Froggie’s blog does a great job of showing all her dimensions. For example, she loves the outdoors, takes wonderful photos, and is a killer cook. If you visit the link, check out “Froggie’s Recipe Box.” Yum!

My Feed, #2

Published on July 5, 2008 in My Peeps and MetaBlogging. 1 Comment

This is number two in a series of posts about the blogs that are in my feed, and why I read them. I will write about the blogs in the order they show up on Google Reader and no preference or ranking should be inferred from the order they show up here in posts.

MikeandJohn.com is the blog of my friends Mike Karpowicz and John Hamer. John is a cultural Mormon; a writer, editor, historian and mapmaker. Mike is his partner, a software developer and business owner. Mike has never been a Mormon, but John’s interest has rubbed off on him. They are co-Executive Director’s of the John Whitmer Historical Association.

They are both great guys, smart and fun. And handsome! They are both just delightful to look at, albeit a little young (maybe that’s why they’re so beautiful). They both have great hair and neither exhibits any signs of encroaching male pattern baldness. I’ve met Hamer (why do I call him Hamer? He’s never John; always Hamer) twice; at the annual Sunstone Symposium last August in Salt Lake City, and for dinner in Ft. Wayne, Indiana on one of my occasional midwestern Mormon meetups. I met Mike for the first time at the Ft. Wayne dinner and I had a lot of fun talking with him about computer stuff.

John and Mike write separate and very different posts. John’s most recent post was a video that VegasJoe would get a kick out of - A YouTube video that’s an image montage of the “Nixon Now” reelection song. Mike’s is a photograph of SBBRPC 85 Pork Coating. John writes a lot about politics, while Mike writes about adventures - scroll down from the Pork Coating post to get a taste.

I read their blog to keep up with their interesting lives; which are very different from mine. They travel, they write, they have adventures. I, on the other hand, rarely leave my house. They don’t update their blog as often as I would like, but that’s not surprising, considering how much time they spend actually living their lives (vs. living vicariously through others).

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