an early mother's day present

this one's for all my "mom" friends and family...

harry potter trailer

just found this today... (guess i should see part 1 again since i fell asleep in the theater when it started.)

this one's for you, putch...


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DC, too

DC, part I

honey badger don't give a shit

thank you, scuzzin, for sharing...

happy passover

:דַּיֵּנוּ

happy (belated) birthday, elisa

her real birthday was the 11th. her party was the 15th, but i didn't see these photos of me and carl celebrating w/ elisa till now. (thank you, elisa's friend bryan on facebook.)

weekend sleepover at gramma's

claire and gigi "helping out" gramma get ready for monday's seder.

i am my own science experiment

totally forgot that the second main ingredient in rugelach is finely-chopped walnuts until after a trip to max & mina's on main street for a scoop of their rugelach ice cream, which was really dang good.

it's been about 30 minutes since and, so far, my tongue is tingling. may that be the extent of it.

oh, and my genius move to start eating those honey & sesame seed candies b/c i can't have chocolate... yeah, well, it turns out, sesame seeds are on my "no" list, too.

yeesh.

[update: following morning and my tongue still feels a bit tingly, but nothing worse. i can deal w/ that.]

goodbye to my stories

oh, the memories. watching "all my children" and "one life to live" for the first time w/ my gramma and sister in florida. cutting high school and hanging outside of the AMC studio and getting autographs. and so on.

sure, i haven't watched in years, decades perhaps, but hearing they got cancelled broke my heart a little bit.

jack johnson -- sitting, waiting, wishing

nothing new, but here's a groovy video for a groovy song...

मोरे क्रेजी अमेरिकेन गर्ल प्लेस फूं

thank you for the photos, elisa.

there's a sucker born every minute

...and all the female ones were at american girl cult, er i mean, place, including myself, this morning. the gluttonous purchases of overpriced toys that'll be grown out of soon enough just stunned me. what a glorious racket they've got going on. still w/ this knowledge, i allowed them to assault my wallet and personal beliefs, just to see the smiles on claire and her cousin gigi's faces.

now, i can't take the credit for photos. bonni took them. and thanks to my sister-in-law elisa who stayed awhile longer after brunch to hang out and shop. i had a real fun time w/ both of them and the girls... but once again, let it be known that "american girl place" is EVIL.

outside my old stomping grounds

comic strip, 81st & 2nd. spent many a nights here during high school, college and a bit after.

one more saturday night

in between two of my favorite people: eppy and bonni. gotta love it.