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Weekly Schmooze #6

Clairity — Sat, 19 May 2012 13:42:00 +0000

1. Ask me a question, any question. How about – what day is today? For me, this would be bad hair day. I took one look in the mirror this morning and screamed in fright. On a more positive note, this new shorter haircut is much more practical for my workout routine.

2. The plus side of ramping up your workout is that you feel 10 times more energized. And I have no sore muscles to report today.

3. They should draw squares on the floor next to the escalators with a sign that says “Decision Box. Stand inside this box until you’re done deciding if you’re going up or down.”

4. Doncha just hate it when a song you hate gets stuck in your head. Like that Zombie song by The Cranberries. Duh!

5. I love it when I try to tell someone they’ve undercharged me and they insist they are right. I would teach them to count to 3 but I have more important things to do aka shopping!

Weekly Schmooze #5 and Happy Mother’s Day

Clairity — Sun, 13 May 2012 03:30:42 +0000

1. Quick tip: If you tend to procrastinate on running a certain errand, it actually helps to sandwich it between those that are a little less of a drag.

2. I don’t know what the big deal is about Zuckerberg wearing his hoodie to a meeting with prospective investors. At least it’s not indecent. Just look at the skirts our young women wear to work which barely cover their another-word-for-donkeys.

3. In “The Avengers” movie, the Black Widow says Loki has killed n number of people in n days and Thor replies, “He’s adopted” and people are upset and take it to mean it’s being directed at those who are adopted? I don’t get it. (1) It’s just a movie, it’s not real. (2) He’s referring to Loki. Are all adopted people named Loki? (3) Stop taking everything personally. Where’s your sense of humor? ’nuff said.

4. I love and value your comments, y’all know that. But if you’re going to use a name like “Grizzly Bear Holidays” instead of your name (or your grizzly bear’s if he insists, personally I wouldn’t argue with a bear), then your comment just won’t get approved.

5. Oh, that’s right, it’s Mother’s Day. How will I be celebrating? Good question, I’m not sure if I will be. I liked it when it was a little less commercialized. I’m not sure, we’ll see. Anyhoo, here’s wishing Happy Mother’s Day to moms, MILs, grandmothers, aunts and let’s not forget, any woman who’s ever played the role of mother to a child who’s needed one.

6. Picture of the week: Kiehl’s has a guy handing out free candyfloss and Skye got handed one. We each took a teeny bit of it and the rest went into the trash bin. We feel really guilty about throwing away food but sorry, Candyfloss, you’re just too sweet!

Weekly Schmooze #4

Clairity — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:00:30 +0000

1. Either someone’s playing tricks with my eyelids or the weather is truly, madly, incredibly hot because in the afternoon, my eyelids just seem to go flooop.

2. Discovered a new Vietnamese restaurant and we’ve been there twice this past week. Vietnamese food reminds me of lazy college weekends in Cali. That’s where I first discovered beef ball noodle soup could taste so good.

3. Someone please remind me to avoid the mall on weekends. Weekends are rudeness magnified at the mall. Somehow one thing or another would make me head out there and then I end up kicking myself!

4. After a 2 weekend break from the kitchen, our bakery was back into action. We made 2 pound cakes for Skye’s recess. Just for fun, I decided to funky this one up with some strawberry puree. Actually it’s not half bad, just a little more cracked than usual but still very moist.

Weekly Schmooze #3

Clairity — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:36:06 +0000

1. I swear Raine has sixth sense. Over the past few days, she’s been thinking it’d be cool to sign up for Instagram since it’s now available on the Android. Toying with the idea but procrastinating. In a good way, I guess. Because we woke up one morning and bam, FB has bought over Instagram. Oh well, now I can forget about signing up, she announces. So glad my kids can think for themselves.

2. I swear I’ve never heard any of Gavin DeGraw’s songs. But my lovelies insist I have. When? What song? They wouldn’t tell me but they say it was playing in the car one time on our way to their guitar class and “you didn’t punch the radio”. I didn’t?!! Wow, my kids know me so well . Yup, I have this habit of stabbing the poor radio if the singer doesn’t agree with me.

3. That’s twice I started a sentence with I swear. Am I swearing too much or what?

4. I’m sitting here trying to plan next week’s menu. As if I could ever do that. You know I’m a cook-on-the-fly kind of person. The funny thing is that the week shwooshes by so fast that you can’t even recall what you ate last week. Can you remember what you ate last week because I sure as heck can’t? All I remember is that I made these oven-fried potato chips (so no need for phenterex) and they tasted amazing with my homemade guacamole.

Weekly Schmooze #2

Clairity — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:39:45 +0000

1. Some dreams have no rhyme or reason. They leave you wondering, what the heck was that all about?

2. 9 hours of sleep and still yawning .

3. 80′s rock revival on weeknights. Good times! Awesome listening to people who can actually sing. Strange new appreciation for songs and singers I didn’t quite like before.

4. To reduce stress, I say carry fewer mobile devices and you won’t have to spend half your time looking for them, wondering if someone stole them and crying when you find out it’s really gone and you’ll never get it back. No brainer, right? Not everyone is as lucky as Steev.

5. Pit stop at Coffee Bean after our grocery run. Me and Raine’s peach tea. Stealing a few sips.

Weekly Schmooze #1

Clairity — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:34:16 +0000

This was supposed to be week 4 of Saturday Snippets but I didn’t quite get around to posting this on Saturday. So here comes Weekly Schmooze which will make its appearance either on Friday, Saturday or Monday hence giving me more time to procrastinate .

1. One day last week, a stranger rang our doorbell twice within a few hours. Unfortunately he didn’t look anything like Paul Walker or I might’ve opened the door.

2. Not sure how those 2 cars landed up on the road divider. Windscreen of the bigger car had a big old spider’s web on it. Don’t these things have airbags?

3. Almost got a ticket for double parking. Had to run into the store for 30 seconds to grab my baking supplies. The lady officer was so nice she beeped her horn to give all the double parkers fair warning. Saved by the bell. Bless you, ~~woman~~ ma’am!

4. I had no reason to think coffee wasn’t vegetarian until I read the news last week that crushed-up bugs is an ingredient in a very popular coffee. Starbugs, anyone?

5. Had this at Friday’s and am craving it again. The pasta, not the sodium. Think I’m going to cook this for lunch this week .