SF Day 1: Glad We Packed the Jackets!

Posted by on Jul 23, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Doesn’t it always happen? We get everyone out of the bed at the crack of dawn to make our 9 am flight, drive across town to the off-site parking, and once we get into a spot, the sky opens up and Noah’s flood commences. Poor DH got soaked loading all the suitcases onto the shuttle bus. He’d mostly dried off by the end of the flight to Atlanta. We grabbed some grub in the...
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Goin’ Back to Cali

Posted by on Jul 22, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Technically, I really am “going back to Cali,” to quote my dog LL Cool J, since I had to cross into California to work my way down to Lake Tahoe a couple of years back. But I’ve never spent any quality time there. This year, the denizens of Chez mimi will have a real life summer vacation in the Golden State. We fly to San Francisco tomorrow–first time Frick and Frack have...
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Musings: Mamma Mia!

Posted by on Jul 21, 2008 in dish | 1 comment You could feel the estrogen in the room when Frack and I went with our friend Melanie (Melanie’s lovely daughter was at the beach) to see Mamma Mia! this weekend. I think I’m one of the few North American women who has not seen this show live, so everything was new to me.Surprisingly, the ABBA songs adapt themselves very well to the plot. The short version: Donna (Meryl Streep) has a...
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Ten Memorable Vacation Moments

Posted by on Jul 15, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Crunch time coming. A week from tomorrow, we fly out to San Francisco for the family vacay before the RWA Conference. Cleaning and shopping abound. Until then, some pre-holiday reminiscing.Calling seats in our 1976 Chevy Caprice Classic Estate station wagon. Just like this one, except ours was red and had a CB antenna on top. Baby Bro usually got the “way back” seat while sis and I...
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Creepy Crawly

Posted by on Jul 13, 2008 in dish | 0 comments Last night, DH and I heard two of the most dreaded words in parenthood: head lice. Seems a good friend of Frack’s who spent the night the other night got a call from another friend about creepy crawlies. Good friend has them, and lo and behold, so did Frack.Let’s just say that a full hour and a half of wash, sit, rinse, comb, comb, comb ain’t too fun either for Frack or her...
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