Archive for August, 2008

Um, this is going to be hard to explain…
August 25th, 2008

Leah over at A Girl and A Boy is gorgeously pregnant, and has been writing some highly entertaining posts about her sprogged-upedness. A recent one included some photos of her potential baby, courtesy of MakeMeBabies.com, where you plug in some photos of you and your beloved (or you and someone else’s beloved if you could […]

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Fresh Pict
August 24th, 2008

Saturday was one of those summer days that makes you glad not to live in a sleepy little beach community or in a mountain village in Spain or even in Paris. San Francisco was perfect. Everywhere, people were lolling in the grass making eyes at each other, and picnicking with their adorable toddlers or airing […]

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Enchanted August
August 21st, 2008

Did anyone else do a little dance of joy when July finally turned up its toes and died? I did, right after I had the homeless crackhead who spit on me arrested and hauled off to prison. To be fair, he did brandish a broom handle at me after he spit on me, although I […]

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Olympic Observations
August 20th, 2008

The swimmers are very distracting. My favorite moment so far is when Michael Phelps is stretching out on the block and taking his sweats off, and the line judge behind him is TOTALLY checking out his ass. And when he bends over, she goes all cross eyed and smirks. Can’t say I blame her…Jesus! Simons […]

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Peaches and Pizza…better together.
August 16th, 2008

While my friend Prescott is out of town, Simons continued his bro-mance with her husband, Jason, inviting him over for dinner and a little Olympic trampolining. Every time a trampoliner would come out, Jason would say that her little brother should come sneaking up and double jump her. Heh.

For the Whip It Up Recipe Challenge, […]

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Tasty! Cheese! Magic!
August 16th, 2008

We could call this the frugal cheese scone recipe, or to delve deeper into my socioeconomic condition, you could say this is the my-client-went-on-vacation-for-two-weeks-and-forgot-to-pay-me-first recipe. Or we could root into my psyche and say it’s a Jemima’s-too-lazy-to-grocery-shop recipe, but at least the house is clean (Hello, Procrastination! If they redid an ad for a 50s […]

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