Monthly Archives: August 2009

Day One, and Shoe Shopping

By Erin | Published: August 20, 2009

So, I started my experiment today, but I didn’t get up at 6:00. We had tennis shopping to do last night and didn’t get to bed early enough for that, so I started the day today at 7:00, which felt plenty early anyway. I figure I will work my way up to 6:00. I managed [...]

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This Could Be a Disaster

By Erin | Published: August 19, 2009

I’m not a morning person. I know—there are plenty of not-morning-people. But I really don’t like mornings. If I have to wake up early, for a meeting or a doctor’s appointment or something, I tell Jesse to ignore everything I say or do until I’ve been up at least fifteen minutes. I get kind of [...]

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The Dao of St. Paul and Other Songs

By Erin | Published: August 17, 2009

This morning, Jesse went to work early and I ended up sleeping late, Oliver and Gracie curled up on Jesse’s side of the bed, the sky outside overcast. I dreamed I had some sort of terminal disease—cancer, or some other time bomb inside. And I was living at a hospital, and Jesse would come visit [...]

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Sunday Night

By Erin | Published: August 16, 2009

It’s Sunday night, and one of those good ones. We had a full weekend, complete with laziness (what weekend is really full without it?). Well, Jesse wasn’t very lazy—he mowed the yard, sustaining a dramatic cheek injury when a rock flung itself at his face as he was edging! Poor thing. Well, it’s just a [...]

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Lions Are Pretty Cool, Too

By Erin | Published: August 13, 2009

This stupid video always makes me want to cry. And get a pet lion. And release it into the wild, and then go visit it. If you haven’t seen it lately, you should. And you should turn the sound way up so you get the full effect of Whitney Houston.

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