Last Tuesday I took the morning off so that DH could be at a meeting at 8 am. Tuesday is his day to drop off the kids. He knows, because I have repeatedly told him, that if I drop off the kids on Tuesday, I can’t get to work until noon. I have my CBT [...]

The Joann’s of New Zealand Beautiful quilt shop Eina likes to make things too, so we visited a couple of stores that feed her habits. Spotlight is more like Hancock’s or Hobby Lobby than like Joann’s, but since Joann’s is the ubiquitous, crappy hobby store by me, Joann’s gets the comparison. However, just like I [...]

I have long admired the furniture in the Blue Tomatoes store. It’s of the style “early cute”. There used to be a store in Alameda, but I had no idea that the headquarters was in Livermore. Well, yesterday, as I was speeding back to work, I saw a truck parked off Vasco with a big [...]

From Liza 1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (Mother and Father’s middle name): Elaine Benjamin 2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad): Carl Juan 3. STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name): Duine 4. DETECTIVE NAME: (favourite colour, favourite animal): Pink Dolphin [...]

You hear my and Jack’s voices. What a thrill!

FUCK!!! It’s hot. It’s 102F/40C in my backyard. That’s in the shade. I don’t want to know what the surface temperature is. Pulguito and I went to Bright Beginnings this morning for an evaluation. I am so relieved to say that Pulguito has an almost zero chance of having autism. He does have sensory integration [...]

So I put the pants aside for a bit. I have so much fabric. I swear that I have stopped buying fabric. … Well, mostly. I did buy some at Happy Stop at the last BABES, but that is the last. I swear to stick a needle in my eye, or is it that I [...]