Jeremy and Angela are standing in the kitchen, discussing last night [which was not a fight between us]. Angela has been repressing the need to talk so that Jeremy can have some time to think, but talking is starting to come in dribbles. Jeremy gets a juice box from the fridge and starts sipping. I bring you to the middle of the conversation.
. . .
J: I think that’s part of it, but I don’t think it’s the whole thing.
::He stops::
A: I do need you to share with me.
::J offers A his juice box.::
::rolling laughter::
A: I really don’t procrastinate that often, you know.
J: No? ::eyes fall to Angela’s mouth. Short laugh that is swallowed:: I don’t think
A: ::cuts him off:: I have chocolate on my face, don’t I?
J: I was going to come back to that later, after I hadn’t laughed.
::rolling laughter::
Back-story: Some of you may be aware of my ongoing battle with Jeremy’s table manners.
Jeremy and I had haircuts in Concord today, and we went to lunch at Ruby Tuesday.
A: Did you just lick your knife?!
J: What? I can’t lick my knife?
A: No!!
J: What’s wrong with that?
A: ::thinks for a moment, then mimicks the lick:: Does that look at all off to you?
J: . . . Yeah, okay, I see.
A: ::tsk,tsk,tsk:: Raised in a barn.
J: No, raised in a ranch.
::pause::
Rolling laughter.
I’d rather start with a general direction than a time-consuming blind search!
As Jeremy has begun burning out all his tech-energy on his business, I’ve been getting more irritated with the tech-tasks that have been piling up at home. So I’m taking a few matters into my own hands: cleaning up the website and eventually recreating it, creating a site map, trying to get listed by Google (it crawls us but doesn’t list us), finding a new photo hosting platform, and last but most importantly:
Offsite storage.
Sunday, 02/22/2009 - Written by Angela at 12:23 pm - 3 Comments - In the Kitchen, Jeremyisms, Our Little World, Toys & Gadgets, WebWork - Permalink
The last few years have seen the development of diabetes-induced severely dry winter skin. I have it pretty well under control, and I even invested in a very heavy facial moisturizer this year. Despite that, my future wrinkles still show for a few months during the dry season.
A: I have wrinkles under my eyes….
J: No you don’t.
A: [I perform various contortions to point them out.] Yes, I do, but I was going to say that I think I like them. They give my face character. And they’re smile lines, so my wrinkles tell people that I’m happy.
J: Yes, they make you look wizened, and, and nice… [I burst into raucous laughter in the middle of that sentence]… what?
A: [Laughing]
J: Oh, not wizened in… oh boy… not in the sense that… Oh come on, it’s not that funny.
A: Yes, yes it was. And…. [sobering up] and you should be on your knees thanking God that I think so.
Because I mean, really, it could have been a very loooooong night…
Jeremy just wrote an email to a complete stranger today, with that as his subject line.
There are just no words….
We drove down to the Keene area today to do some pointless furniture shopping. On the way, we passed a sugar house (where they make maple syrup) that in addition to selling maple syrup also serves ice cream in the summer and de-lic-ious pancakes in the fall - accompanied by the real stuff, naturally.
J: Oh, the pancake place.
A: Yeah, I was going to point it out, but I don’t think they’re open this time of year.
J: That’s right, it’s not pancake season. [There was just something in the way he said this.]
A: …. Pancake season? Do you mean like deer season? As in, hunting pancakes?!
What would the pancake equivalent of a buck’s rack be? Maybe it’s a tower of those itty-bitty maple-syrup bottles. The taller the tower, the more prestige for the builder!
Jeremy gave me a variety pack of 6 gourmet popcorn for Christmas.
A: Hey, I can make it the twelve days of Christmas.
J: You’re only going to eat half of one each day?
A: Yes.
J: I don’t think so.
By the end of the day….
A: Well, that’s one gone. I guess I didn’t do too well today.
J: I think we’re looking at about 2 1/2 days of Christmas.
Mwa-wa-wa-waaaaa.
For the record, I haven’t eaten any since Thursday, because we left for Maine first thing Friday.
We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!
Sunday, 12/28/2008 - Written by Angela at 12:11 pm - No Comments - Jeremyisms, Our Little World - Permalink
We’re researching things-to-do in Singapore. Jeremy is looking at the Tiger Sky Tower:
J: Oh, we should go to the Sky Tower. You can see the entire city.
A: Yeah, how do you get up there though?
J: You start at the bottom and it takes you up to the top.
For the record, I was inquiring into the presence or absence of a glass elevator…
Monday, 12/15/2008 - Written by Angela at 9:00 pm - 2 Comments - Jeremyisms, Our Little World - Permalink
We’ve been working on side-by-side computers tonight, Jeremy working on TrueTech’s website and me working on homework (schoolwork that is, not house-work). I called it quits before Jeremy and started browsing TripAdvisor.
Angela: You know, we should go to the Cape for a vacation this year. It’s been long enough. I bet we could have some fun.
::pause::
Jeremy: Yeah, we could do Diver Ed again.
Angela: Um, that’s in Maine.
Jeremy: Okay… I think I totally just missed what you said.
Angela: I said we should vacation on the Cape this year.
Jeremy: OK. Here’s what’s really funny. You said Cape, which made me think of the ocean, and that’s how I got Bar Harbor out of it.
I am so totally cracking up.
Monday, 03/03/2008 - Written by Angela at 10:03 pm - No Comments - Jeremyisms, Our Little World - Permalink