Within one week I have been to a cooking demo and wine tasting with a gaggle of girls, to hanging out with furry police dogs, to sitting in a funeral service. Thursday got me into a fun evening sponsored by Fresh&Easy. Always love it when you put girls together in a room and let the wine flow. 🙂 Sunday got me into the Orange County Police Canine Association show at the Orange County Fair. If you remember, I go to one of these every year in the fall to support our friend Steve and his canine Lycos. This year, they’ve...
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I was putting the laundry in the washer yesterday, an automatic motion I usually don’t think about much any more. Coins in. Water runs for a few seconds. Add soap. Let water run some more. Add laundry. A thought popped into my head. “When was that first time you used the washing machine?” I grew up in Thailand in a household full of service staff. In the 3-attached home complex, 3 families, each with its own maid, shared a cook, a groundskeeper, a laundry lady, and a driver. Pretty much everything has always been done for me. The cooking. The...
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“My friend is having a green wedding,” an acquaintance said. Everyone present chimed in. How cool! How exciting! Of course, being me, I piped, “Ah! Green wedding. Also known as just another wedding that cost twice as much.” “Well, they’re using all these recycled materials and stuff. You know, being really green about the whole process.” I chuckled. The acquaintance, at this point, was getting annoyed with me. “Well, she’s a very environmentally conscious person. They want their wedding to be good for the environment.” “The bride and groom and two witnesses carpooled to the courthouse and get married by...
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It’s proven. Brandon and I can definitely survive in the wild…with proper gears, that is. We have figured out that a cure for my wonderlust and his breaking out of the gaming rut is camping. So we have been buying up gears from REI so we need to test them–and our skills–out somewhere safe. Somewhere we can pack up and run home to if anything goes wrong. So I snagged us one last spot of car camping at San Onofre San Mateo campground for Friday and Friday night. Friday morning, we woke up on our own sweet time, stopped to...
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Will tell you all about our experimental camping trip later. But for now, have a great ID4, y’all! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qMRVwAvufA]...
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The conversation when I ordered the cake for Brandon’s birthday party on Saturday went a little bit like this. Me: Hi, I’d like to order a cake for 15 people, please. Great Dane Baking Company: That’ll be a nine-inch cake. Now what would you like on it? Me: Transformers. GD: Which one? Me: Optimus Prime. GD: The red and blue one? Me: Yep. GD: Okay, what’s the name [to go on the cake]? Me: Brandon. GD: How old is he? Me: Thirty seven… GD: Did you say seven? Me: No. Thirty. Seven. GD: Oh. Hm. Well, I guess we won’t...
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