Posted in Potpourri on Jul 13th, 2009
Hi, my name is Monique, and I have an addiction. But it’s not what you think. Really, it’s relatively harmless, as vices go. I’m addicted to Smartfood, and the only casualty is my waistline.
Want to know how deep my obsession runs? Last week on my way home from work, the gas light blinked on in [...]
Posted in Potpourri on Oct 16th, 2008
I don’t know which one of us is weirdly abnormal, me or Kent. Because either I desperately need hearing aids, or he has the most supersonic hearing ever granted to a human being.
One morning earlier this week, when I turned on the TV in our bedroom to get my daily dose of bad news, the [...]
Posted in Potpourri on Mar 6th, 2008
This past weekend I traveled to Minneapolis on a business trip, and as I was waiting for my suitcase at baggage claim in zombie-like inertia, I saw something making its way around the carousel that tickled me. A suitcase that was clearly not mine.
How do I know this otherwise interchangeable black specimen of luggage did [...]
Posted in Potpourri on Feb 27th, 2008
The two readers I have left may recall this post from several months ago about admissions at my alma mater. It made an impact on the right people, and now a shorter version appears as a Letter to the Editor in our alumni magazine. Complete with a response from the dean of undergraduate admissions! It’s [...]
Posted in Potpourri on Feb 14th, 2008
It’s not often that you find yourself discussing the tea drinking habits of royalty, especially during a romantic Valentine’s Day lunch with your sweetie.
Then again, it’s not many sweeties who think to set their watch to the Queen’s tea time.
But every day at precisely 12:20 PM, the alarm on Kent’s new watch goes off. And [...]
A few weeks ago, my sister told me that she doesn’t read my blog anymore because new entries are so few and far between. She’s right, so I thought I would take this opportunity to list all the things going on in my life that are preventing me from being a more proactive blogger at [...]
Posted in Potpourri on Dec 13th, 2007
A note I found on our bed, just now, carefully positioned to make sure we would spot it immediately. These are the sweet, sweet moments that make life worth living.
_______________________
Dear Mommy and Daddy,
Thank you for everything you do.
LOVE,
Maia and Noah
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On second thought, maybe it’s just because they’re trying to secure a spot on Santa’s “nice” [...]
Posted in Potpourri on Nov 21st, 2007
Recently, my mom mentioned that she might need some help from the family, when everyone is down over Thanksgiving, to move some furniture out of the way and straighten a certain upstairs rug that has become a scrunched up tripping hazard.
After the experience two years ago with the rug in question, a classic testament to [...]
I am the oldest of three sisters. Yet somehow, at my wedding 13+ years ago, guests from my husband’s side who had never met my sisters assumed, on seeing the three of us together, that I was the youngest. Considering that my baby sister was only 13 at the time, I didn’t exactly see this [...]
Posted in Potpourri on Sep 7th, 2007
Kids are so funny when it comes to anything medical. I had a little minor surgery yesterday, and in talking with Maia about it beforehand, I learned that she “outsmarted” the doctors and nurses the last time she had tubes in her ears. The anesthesiologist had apparently told her that he was giving her laughing [...]
