From the monthly archives:

August 2007

new york new york

by Beth Dunn on 26 August 2007

So we’ve been quietly planning our upcoming vacation in New York, and finally locked in our reservations today.  Here’s how it all shook out:  My birthday present was preview tickets to Young Frankenstein on Broadway.  As a huge Mel Brooks fan, and specifically a ridiculous fan of this movie, I was thrilled.  The tickets are [...]

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results not typical

by Beth Dunn on 26 August 2007

So remember how I was doing that whole no-crappy-foods-diet thing after my horrible head cold of horribleness?   Still doing it. As I said, it mostly consists of steamed vegetables, rice and beans (any protein will do — after two weeks I’ve settled on canned navy beans as the laziest possible solution to What’s For Dinner), [...]

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ontology, epistemology & hereditary annoyingness

by Beth Dunn on 19 August 2007

The in-laws are in town this week, and they are a wacky bunch.  I love them actually, they are a major reason why I married into this family, because I wanted to be related to them.  However, they’ve never before descended on us in quite such a mutli-generational format — we’ve got Grammy, Mom, Step-Dad, [...]

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not dead yet

by Beth Dunn on 12 August 2007

Well, the bad news is that I don’t really feel any better today than I did yesterday.  In sickness, as in all things, I generally insist on linear improvement.  I prefer exponential, but will settle for the merely geometric.   Alas.  Disappointed again. The good news is that I had been planning all along to start [...]

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cure for pain

by Beth Dunn on 10 August 2007

I felt this one coming on Tuesday night after dinner, just a touch of a sore throat that made me think ice cream, I need ice cream… When what I should have been thinking was theraflu, I need theraflu… It wasn’t until I laid my head down on my pillow a few hours later that [...]

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