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Archive for September, 2008

here come the coke bottles

The last post about the portrait studio left out a few small details.  Like the fact that it was pretty dirty.  Grungy background curtains, and the toy props just looked…icky.  And the fact that I almost LOST IT when the photographer touched Emily Kate’s face in a futile attempt to wake her up. And that [...]

smiling and saying “aaarrgghh”

Dear District Manager of the Portrait Studio We Visited Today (which I shan’t name here but rhymes with a certain train wreck of a pop star who inexplicably won a lot of awards on the VMAs a few weeks ago): Lately, I’ve had an urge to get a family portrait taken.  Seeing as how Alex [...]

tell me i’m not alone

I’ve come to the startling conclusion that I hate to cook.  I want to like cooking, the same way I want to like skiing and camping and amusement park rides.  But I just don’t. I hate to bake, I don’t know the difference between saute and fry, in short…any type of culinary creativeness just makes me [...]

plays well with others

Yesterday afternoon, Alex and I took a trip to the bookstore.  We go there because there is a whole section devoted to kid’s books and toys, and it was too dang hot to play outside. After a whirlwind tour through the kid’s books, in which Alex picked up books and handed them to me then raced ahead [...]