My mom wanted one thing for Christmas--a large jade plant. I emailed Madeleine and told her to purchase said plant and we could split the cost. Madeleine failed to purchase the plant. Hillary did some sleuthing but didn't find jade plants at the local stores.

My Mom's birthday occurs conveniently on the twelfth day of Christmas , so we decided ( Read more... )

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I've seen my book and science nerd friends (well, that's all of you. Whatever.) mention it, and I posted that Golden Compass animal-character meme a while back, but I don't really know anything about the book or author. Until my mom tells me in an email,
Must read info about the Golden Compass--both the Movie and the Book. La Salle has ( Read more... )

We've been calling the white one Smudge, but we're still really open on naming them. We only got these two perfect kitties because I screwed up our Six Flag Magic Mountain trip. We'd been to several places, and they were really ghetto and lame, as all L.A. County services are, and we were getting discouraged. Then I drove all the way to Magic ( Read more... )

Mom and Madeleine arrived on Saturday. So far Jeff's reaction to my bitchiness around my mom has been "If you were like this all the time, we'd have real problems ( Read more... )

Mom, a hippe liberal: *looking at the calendar* So, we'll have the workshop the week of January 9th, hmm ( Read more... )

As a public service to the world, I will NOT be forwarding OR posting the recipe and photo I received for Kitty Litter Cake from a crazed aunt. I will reveal that it involved semi-melted tootsie rolls. I am sure you can find a picture of it if you are so inclined ( Read more... )

I just returned from the world premiere of Robert Greenwald's latest documentary, Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. How did I get to attend a premiere in Santa Monica? My hippie-liberal, insanely-bumperstickered-Ford-Escort-wagon-owning Mom was a part of movie-making history. She was one of the many who donated money to Brave to Films to make ( Read more... )

As an econ-double major who knows that sellers need to find a way to charge each customer what they are willing to pay (coupon clippers will trade their time to get a lower price, whereas affluent, busy people are willing to pay a higher price, etc.), and the founder of the coupon diaries, this article doesn't bother or surprise me in the least. ( Read more... )

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My mom sent us this INSANE link ( Read more... )