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Archive for January, 2006

Kitty of the Mountain and the Desert

Posted: Monday, January 30th, 2006 @ 3:56 pm in General | Comments Off

Saturday we rotated our mattress. A mattress on its edge is something that our cat just cannot resist–she didn’t waste any time climbing up it, and she had to be dragged off.
Yesterday, we took a sauna, and guess who was in it the longest? Our cat loves the sauna. Apparently […]

Bah.

Posted: Friday, January 27th, 2006 @ 10:21 am in General | Comments Off

It’s 41 degrees outside (this is Minnesota), and it feels like time to start on the spring cleaning. God, please hit the Reset button on winter.

ROFL

Posted: Wednesday, January 25th, 2006 @ 10:03 am in Feminism, General | Comments Off

Feministing.org explains the rules of feminism:
Feminism is about choice, and the first “choice” is what you want “equality” to mean.
An example:
1. Feminism requires you to talk about “equality” for both sexes but some sexes are more equal than others.

Projects

Posted: Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 @ 10:12 am in Projects, General | Comments Off

I keep a list of projects around the house that I want to do. For some reason, Saturday and yesterday (which I took off work) were the perfect days to polish off a large number of them off–I can’t believe how much I got done.
One thing I did was to assess how my craft […]

Grand Theft Auto: Washington Ave.

Posted: Friday, January 20th, 2006 @ 10:56 pm in Foofy, General | Comments Off

Washington Avenue, by the University of Minnesota, is just about my least favorite street in the cities to drive. Guess where I went this evening for a meeting? High vehicle traffic, high pedestrian traffic, and no left turn arrows on the lights, so it’s usually practically impossible to make a left turn on […]

Of all the things….

Posted: Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 @ 9:27 am in Foofy, General | Comments Off

….on MacGyver, I never expected to see my toaster oven! Much newer-looking, but the exact same model. He used it to melt ice cubes that supported a huge pile of pans, creating a diversion.
It makes me wonder where all my other second-hand things (practically everything I own) have been, before they came to […]

Kong

Posted: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006 @ 9:34 am in Foofy, General | Comments Off

Well, I am tearing my hair out trying to get a proposal written, but I did finally get out to see King Kong last weekend. As I told MFH afterward, “You know how Duluth is like the civil engineers’ playground, with overpasses everywhere? [To the extent of having a four-way stop up in […]

MacGyver

Posted: Thursday, January 5th, 2006 @ 2:13 pm in Foofy, General | Comments Off

I blew my Target gift card from MFH on Season 1 of MacGyver. This show, more than any other, taught me a very important lesson: anything that is beeping is about to explode. I still dive for cover every time my parents’ microwave gives its three beeps to say that it is […]

Unhappy Holidays

Posted: Monday, January 2nd, 2006 @ 10:46 am in General | Comments Off

Well, we’re back. There was an unexpected and tragic death in MFH’s family, just before Christmas, so we were away longer than we had planned. Both of us are at work today, trying to get caught up.