Bye bye Lucy.

So Lucy had to go last night.
On Sunday, she busted through the screen door to get at a dog walking by, one of two aged pointers this older woman walks regularly.  I went out and separated Lucy from them.  Put Lucy in the house so I could speak to the owner.  While I was speaking [...]

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The Night before the First Day of the First Grade

Djuna’s first day of school was Wednesday.  On Sunday, we went to an ice cream social hosted by a parent to welcome kindergartners and new students.  Djuna was the only first grader, but she didn’t mind too much.  Here are some pictures.

Djuna and Poppy went to the table on the porch and found pages of [...]

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Three things that I learned today.

1.  When someone lights your cigarette, as the lighter comes closer, it requires a lot more self-discipline than you would think to look in their eyes rather than at their aim as the flame approaches your face.  You have to defy instinct.
2. “Wanna come over and watch a DVD?” is often a booty call.  Apparently, [...]

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Poop Incident at Trader Joe’s

At Trader Joe’s this afternoon, around 5 pm when the store is calamatously congested, Poppy put her hand in the back of her pants and pulled out two fingertips smeared with poo, then smiled devilishly before wiping them on her shirt. Djuna, observing this, announced in her sing-song tattletale voice, “Mama!  Poppy just touched [...]

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See you later, I hope.

Dear Readers,
This blog has helped me get through a lot.  Thank you for participating. 
I feel very strongly that it’s time to move on.
So this blog is taking a rest. 
After a good rest, maybe it’ll restart, or maybe it will pass away peacefully in its sleep and be reincarnated as something different.  
until then,
with gratitude,
Leilani

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Sweet Santa Dreams

Every year, we leave milk and cookies out for Santa Claus to snack on.  Which he always does.  This year Djuna wanted to add to the offerings a note for Santa, which she dictated to me, and which we then put out for Santa with the cookies.  Here it is.
Dear Santa,
Thanks for putting up those [...]

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Gingerbread Pleasures

So for Djuna’s birthday today, we baked a gingerbread house from scratch. No kit. Neightbor Jared brought over his daughter Maia to partake in the fun, took one look at my elaborate concoction–decked out in peppermint-bark shingles with little tiny white-icing icicles dripping off of the eaves–and said, “Leilani, you know you’re a [...]

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A pretty neat website

At work I’m helping to prepare a presentation on social network sites.  While browsing around for visuals I came across this link:
http://www.lococitato.com/myspacefriends/myspacefriends.html
You enter a public MySpace profile address, and before your eyes will blossom an undulating visual representation, like a breathing web kind of thing, of your MySpace connectedness.

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Bluetooth – Blech!

September 16, 2008
A friend called this morning before I went to pick up my girls.
“Whatcha doing?” I asked him.  ”Where are you?”
“Somewhere in Michigan,” he said,  ”Driving.”
“How are you talking on the phone?” I wanted to know.  Then it occurred to me . . . .and in horror I quickly asked him, “You’re not on [...]

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David Foster Wallace is Dead

I never did read Infinite Jest.  In fact, the only book of Wallace’s that I read was “Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.”  I read that book, I studied that book, I taught short stories from that book to my undergraduates at UCLA.  I think about that book a lot, especially the title story; I think [...]

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