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July 8th, 2009

06:06 pm: Overheard on the bus (gelflingflys, you'll love this one)
 4-year-old boy: I want a girlfriend!

Mom: You have lots of time.  When you're older you can have a girlfriend.

4-year-old: I want a girlfriend!

Mom: When you're older.

4-year-old: I want a boyfriend!

Mom: (pause) You can have a boyfriend instead of a girlfriend when you're older, yes.  4-year-olds just have friends.

4-year-old: I want a boyfriend AND a girlfriend!

Busload of passengers: (laughs)

Mom: (bravely and a bit too heartily) Well, everyone makes different choices.  Right now you can just have lots of good friends, boys and girls, okay?

4-year-old: I want a boyfriend and a girlfriend RIGHT NOW!  I want to buy them at the grocery store.

Busload of passengers: (crack up and try not to fall out of their seats from laughing)


Current Mood: amusedamused

March 2nd, 2009

06:58 pm: This video about Prop 8 really made me tear up. I wish I'd seen more stuff like it before the vote...  I couldn't get through the whole thing without tearing up at all the happy loving gazes :)

January 19th, 2009

07:44 pm: On Sunday we discovered that Central Market in Shoreline now makes flour tortilas in-house, while you watch. We had burritos last night made with tortillas that were about two hours old. Too bad they don't have corn too! As a teenager, my mom and I used to go to a local Mexican market where you could buy handmade fresh corn tortillas. They were the best I've ever had. My mom always said that those were almost good as the ones she used to buy from the old lady who sold them from a street corner in Guatamala. Still, these were the best tortillas I've had in Seattle other than making them myself from masa harina... and unlike mine which deserve praise for taste but not quite for uniformity of shape and thickness, Central Market's don't fall apart when you try to bend them!

September 15th, 2008

08:12 pm: The best part of the day was coming home and seeing from the sidwalk near my house a giant, golden, glorious harvest moon.

Edit: Except for the part after that when lumiere came home, too, and smiled and kissed me, and thanked me for the voicemail I left him telling him to look at the moon :)

January 17th, 2008

10:29 am: Sushi at Mashiko's and a coconut-chocolate cupcake from Cupcake Royale, followed by being read to aloud before bed, made for a lovely birthday evening last night. Thank you lumiere!

09:40 am: What Do You Have To Say? - My Sixth Grade Jam
What was your favorite song in sixth grade? What does it make you think of?


My favorite song in sixth grade was Debbie Gibson's "Lost in Your Eyes." It now makes me think of what a hard year that was for me, and how the idea of not being alone appealed to me. Also the song now makes me think about how *extremely* limited my taste in music and my exposure to music was then :) I really liked sappy 80s pop ballads, and hadn't been exposed to a lot of other music by my parents. My musical taste really didn't start to expand until high school, when my friends exposed me to all sorts of things I'd never heard. palaverist and New York further expanded my musical interests in college by a whole different degree of magnitude.

But in sixth grade, it was Debbie Gibson. *squirms*

Current Mood: embarrassedembarrassed
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