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Notes, Errata, End of 2008 Roundup and Other Stuff - Notes, Errata, End of 2008 Roundup and Other Stuff: Happy New Year Edhatians! Before this column devolves into a marginal wrap up of the year's events, here is a picture of Melanie, our big holiday cookie winner.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 25, 2008 |
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Christmas Card Picture - Christmas Card Picture: It took awhile to get Nicole's Christmas card picture just right. There were dragons, skulls, t-shirts, and embarrassed children.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 17, 2008 |
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Pretend Villages and Free Cookies - Pretend Villages and Free Cookies: This little village, while being incredibly cute, is not something I ever thought I would own. I used to think it fell squarely into kitschy land until I had one of my own.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 10, 2008 |
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Going With Cookies - Going With Cookies: Nicole was told that when times are tough, everyone still needs cookies and bread. Especially cookies.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Dec 03, 2008 |
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Ode To Breakfast - Ode To Breakfast: If I had to rank meals in order of how excited they make me, breakfast would be number one. I don’t really know how to rank lunch and dinner, because, eh, they're not breakfast.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 26, 2008 |
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Knitting In Anger - Knitting In Anger: Nicole is very angry. You might not want to read this column.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 19, 2008 |
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Glitter - Glitter: Last year Nicole's daughter wanted to eat lots of meat. This year she wanted a slumber party, a starry night sleepover.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Nov 12, 2008 |
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The Last Of The Malasadas - The Last Of The Malasadas: Nicole says, I have finally eaten the last of the malasadas. It's been almost 8 days and I've had to eat at least four or five every day to make my quota.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 29, 2008 |
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You're Scaring Me - You're Scaring Me: Nothing too scary or creepy because I hate Halloween. That sounds almost anti-American, doesn't it? I think that spending $30 on candy at Walgreens is pretty patriotic though.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 22, 2008 |
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Can Of Great Joy - Can Of Great Joy: Every house, every office, and your grandmother has a variation on this green can. At Chez Freire we call it the "Happy Can".
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 15, 2008 |
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Claire And The Giant Rockslide - Claire And The Giant Rockslide : I present to you a first person account by my daughter Claire. She, along with her classmates, survived the gigantic rockslide in Yosemite last week.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 08, 2008 |
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Let Me Help You Out With That - Let Me Help You Out With That: I have been rethinking my usual - I am so broke - strategy,. which is to wish fervently that I will win the lottery. My new strategy is to come up with big money making ideas and pitch them to you.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Oct 01, 2008 |
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Shiny Field Trip - Shiny Field Trip: By the end of the night we were all exhausted. I went to bed feeling poor and tired of politics. I needed distractions! Something shiny! Pretty! Air conditioned! So naturally, we spent the next day at the Ronald Reagan Museum.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 24, 2008 |
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Obsolescence - Obsolescence: All the electronic machines in my house are all falling apart simultaneously. We're just this side of being without anything that plugs into the wall and provides pretty pictures and music.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 17, 2008 |
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Death Of An Author - Death Of An Author: There are many articles online and in print about the untimely death of David Foster Wallace, all written much more eloquently than this column will be.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 10, 2008 |
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Raggedy At The Edges - Raggedy At The Edges : Some weeks I come by your house and when you open the door I'm clutching a cup of hot chocolate that I paid too much for at Starbucks and I look a little peaked and so you invite me in and I sort of sag onto your couch and moan gently while I turn on your television so I can watch "Law and Order: Criminal Intent".
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Sep 03, 2008 |
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Born To Be Disappointed - Born To Be Disappointed: Before Nicole's father retired as the City Librarian for the City of Santa Maria he drove up to Sacramento, and delivered a four-inch stack of paperwork and grants for a new public library.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 27, 2008 |
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Your Side of The Bed - Your Side of The Bed: It's Nicole's firm belief that if you really want to know somebody, really delve into their psyche, you have to see their side of the bed.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 20, 2008 |
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Rite Of Passage - Rite Of Passage: On Saturday my husband went to get his hair cut and took our eldest daughter along for company. They had been gone about 45 minutes when he called me ... She wants to get her hair cut too, something she saw in a picture.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 13, 2008 |
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Hanging Out With Old People - Hanging Out With Old People: Last Thursday my husband and I got a babysitter for our daughters and went with my parents to the Santa Barbara Bowl to see Joe Cocker and the Steve Miller Band.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Aug 06, 2008 |
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Beer Failure - Beer Failure: This column originally was going to be about one of my neighbors, who is an alcoholic. Instead I'm going to talk about beer. More specifically, my beer lameness.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 30, 2008 |
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Washcloths on Tobacco Road - Washcloths on Tobacco Road: One day I had to go through my closet and purge it. It was easy enough to get rid of things that I never liked anyway or didn't fit anymore and soon my destined for the thrift store bag was filling up rapidly.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 23, 2008 |
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OMG Granola! - OMG Granola!: Hey Internet, hey Edhat readers. Guess how I've been spending my weekends? Besides the sleeping in and the 9 loads of laundry, I've been making my own granola.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 16, 2008 |
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Cookie Jarvis Where Are You? - Cookie Jarvis Where Are You?: When I was 12, I made a three-year foray into the wilds of public school after many impressionable years at a Catholic school. I was terrified. On my first day at my new school I spied a girl wearing a t-shirt with a picture of Cookie Jarvis on it. I was enthralled.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 09, 2008 |
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From High To Low - From High To Low: I'm here to talk about your feet, not mine. My photograph is merely an example, the "Do" portion of the article. I'm not including any photograph that shows the "Don't" portion.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jul 02, 2008 |
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My Hardest Class - My Hardest Class: When I was 12 years old, I had one all-consuming passion. I loved ballet. Especially toe shoes. I wanted to be on-pointe so badly. I took ballet classes but was never very good and my instructor would always say, "Well, your ankles just aren't strong enough for pointe shoes."
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 25, 2008 |
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Too Much Going On - Too Much Going On: I have too much going on in my tiny brain this week. I'm on a little hamster wheel of activity and stuff and hey, let's look at my new shoes. What do you think? Do you like them? Are they cute in a carrying a baguette through the streets of Paris way? Or are you looking at them and thinking to yourself, those look like clown shoes?
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 18, 2008 |
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Are Those Things Real? - Are Those Things Real?: I was tired, it was after 7pm, the kids were starving, and somehow we ended up at a place I like to call "Orange Chicken All The Time". You know what I'm talking about. Don't pretend you haven't eaten there either; it's a big guilty pleasure. Also? Nothing about it is vegetarian. Not even the vegetables.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 11, 2008 |
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Wishing For Expensive Cheese - Wishing For Expensive Cheese: I'm still recuperating -- yes, it is taking forever - but now I'm mixing Western medicine (hello antibiotics and Percocet!) and Chinese medicine (hello weird seeds and aloe juice!) in a last ditch attempt to heal this darn throat before my extended stay at home ends.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jun 04, 2008 |
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Jello With A Side Of Jello - Jello With A Side Of Jello: Hey, I'm back! I bet you thought I'd been abducted by angry West Virginians, didn't you? No, I did something much much worse than being abducted by angry racists. I had my tonsils taken out.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 21, 2008 |
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State Of Shame - State Of Shame: I'm about to insult some people right now I think. Actually, I'm about to insult an entire state, specifically, the state of West Virginia. Because West Virginia? You suck. You were pretty embarrassing last week, and I'm still mad at you for it.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 14, 2008 |
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Hiding It From The Kids - Hiding It From The Kids: I know that my daughter isn't my clone. She is her own person and will have her own experience of this disease. She will be helped through this with love and lots of inappropriately timed jokes. She will be fine in the end. I was. But right now I feel like I've been kicked in the stomach and I'd really like to kick someone back.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on May 07, 2008 |
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Hooked On Froot - Hooked On Froot: My weakness is Froot Loops. And craving Froot Loops on a daily basis isn't a weakness confession that will get me any sympathy beyond some arched eyebrows and a suspicious, "Really? Froot Loops? Don't you think that's a little weird?"
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 30, 2008 |
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I Do Not Have Small Children - I Do Not Have Small Children: I do not have children from birth to age 5. They are older, much older and I am only now realizing that I
have been utterly winging it for the last few years. I have no book for these years and I'm starting to panic
just a little.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 23, 2008 |
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Photos Photos Photos - Photos Photos Photos: Nicole discovered a few things while browsing for photographs in her iphoto folder.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 16, 2008 |
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100 Things That Annoy Me - 100 Things That Annoy Me: I read quite a few blogs in my precious spare time. The new fad is lists of 100 things to do before I die.
And I find it unbearably annoying.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 09, 2008 |
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Of Dirt and Dustbunnies - Of Dirt and Dustbunnies: Wouldn't you want your house clean if a book club was meeting at your house? I had my house cleaned.
And not just cleaned. It was detailed from top to bottom. And I have a very healthy amount of guilt mixed
up in this.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Apr 02, 2008 |
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May I Smell Your Car? - May I Smell Your Car?: My first car was a 1967 Volkswagen Squareback. I'm a tad obsessed. I want to sit in a old Volkswagen and
sniff deeply and remember what it was like to have one of my very own.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 26, 2008 |
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Notes and Errata - Notes and Errata: A few questions have come my way and since I'm all hopped up on sugar, why not address them now?
Besides, I still have strep throat and not even my mom wants to hear about it anymore.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 19, 2008 |
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Monkey on My Back - Monkey on My Back: Coffee! Elixir of the Gods! Why half and half was invented. I did not plan on stopping the coffee express, it
just happened. I was so so so sick that coffee never crossed my mind.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 12, 2008 |
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Heavy Topic to Lighter Fare - Heavy Topic to Lighter Fare: Dermatologists love me because of my freckled Irish skin, the kind that requires measuring freckles and looking at them under magnifying glasses and jotting notes and prescriptions for sunscreens.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Mar 05, 2008 |
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All In My Head - All In My Head: I have spent my life seemingly lurching from one health crisis to another. Braces on the feet. Braces on the
teeth. Enough x-rays of my spine throughout childhood that I'm pretty sure that I glow under a black
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 27, 2008 |
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Tale of Bad Shoes - Tale of Bad Shoes: I tend to exhibit some extremes when it comes to my wardrobe choices. Sometimes I like to blame
Catholic school for this, as years of wearing uniforms can dull one's dressing skills.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 20, 2008 |
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Calling Out Sophia - Calling Out Sophia: My blood pressure has been high lately. So high, in fact, that yesterday I googled "high blood pressure".
Could it be a stroke? A brain bleed? How about someone named Sophia trying to charge $844 at Target
WITH MY DEBIT CARD?
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 13, 2008 |
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Defending the Valentine - Defending the Valentine: Jettison the notion that Valentine's Day is reserved only for your sweetheart and that if you don't have one
you're not entitled to enjoy the holiday. Valentine's Day is an excuse to tell people you love them. And give
them candy if they want it.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Feb 06, 2008 |
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Secret Sauce - Secret Sauce: It has been well documented that I do not like to cook. But every once in a while, I like to really bust a
move, so to speak, in the kitchen. And because I know that sounds ridiculous, I offer you proof.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 23, 2008 |
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Sippy Cup Grown Up - Sippy Cup Grown Up: A mouse at Chez Freire leads to the Great Kitchen Clean Up of 2008. Then the question comes up of what
to do with all the colorful sippy cups now that the children are grown up?
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 16, 2008 |
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Nature Freaks Me Out - Nature Freaks Me Out: Some things give Nicole the creeps. What really makes her skin crawl and gives her an icky feeling in her
stomach is, of all things, acorns peeking out of holes in an oak tree.
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| Articles from Daily Newsletter on Jan 09, 2008 |
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Lament of the Dishwasher - Lament of the Dishwasher: My love for my little kitchen is utterly conditional and extremely specific. I love my kitchen because it has
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