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Entries from June 2004

Kissing Day and Loving Day

June 10th, 2004 · Comments Off on Kissing Day and Loving Day

Just a Gwai Lo has been writing about kissing, and linking to other writings about kisses. This piece by Joan Smith elaborates on the history and significance of kisses – a little like my own post What a kiss can say. I didn’t know that National Kissing Day is July 6 – in Britain – […]

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Tags: marriage

I’m not usually into these things…

June 10th, 2004 · Comments Off on I’m not usually into these things…

Okay, I’ll surprise everyone and say that my feminine identity is not based on makeup or malls, despite the stereotypes. Maybe once in a while I head to the mall, but I’m generally not a shopper. But I like this feed I found through Scobleizer with the acronym of RSS: Real Simple Shopping.. Stuart Wilson […]

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Tags: blog

If you give a girl a camera…

June 10th, 2004 · Comments Off on If you give a girl a camera…

somehow the other morning as I was painting the laundry room, I gave Abigail the camera (I think I wanted her to document the changes)…and she ended up taking pictures of me. In my eagerness to start – after waking up late – I had rolled out of bed, put on my paint clothes (an […]

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Tags: family

Assessing my imperfections

June 10th, 2004 · 2 Comments

Joey deVilla linked to this Clean Sweep Program Life Assessment Quiz that he found from Mark Pilgrim. My score was 79 (out of 100). Although I may not agree precisely with the way each question was worded or the two-options of answering (a range or scale would be more precise), I do feel that it […]

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Tags: journal

Misplaced priorities

June 10th, 2004 · Comments Off on Misplaced priorities

When I visited Evan and Lisa Williams, I saw a Dylan mug – the one with multicolor squares – and remembered that we too had such paraphernalia at our home. Or at least we had. I felt nostalgic. Coming home I asked my husband where our Dylan items were. We searched his closet but couldn’t […]

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Tags: geek