Sara and I had a good time watching The Oscars this year. We didn't have Athena with us and didn't play Oscar Bingo like we did last year, but we did make our favorite cheese dip and buy a cookie cake. I bought an old Oscar issue of People magazine (1998), and Sara bought the one for this year. A few random notes about the show:

• I cracked up so hard ( Read more... )

It was a busy weekend around here. On Saturday afternoon, Sara and I went over to our neighbor's house for her birthday party. Linda has been such a sweet neighbor to us ever since we moved to this address, and she just turned 80!!! Sara and I arrived a little later and wound up squished into a corner to sit (which was awkward), but her house was ( Read more... )

This week marks two years at this address and eight years since Sara and I moved to this city. Leaving my hometown doesn't feel like eight years ago; I can still so vividly remember packing up our old apartment and hitting the road. Living at this address, on the other hand, has been a long, slow, hard adjustment for me, and it feels a lot longer ( Read more... )

Sara and I cleaned the house on Saturday, and when I got home from the animal shelter on Sunday, Athena was here. All three of us had so much fun watching the Oscars together! For food this year, I made our favorite cheese-onion dip (we usually make this every year), and Athena made mini sausages in barbecue sauce. Sara bought a big spread of ( Read more... )

Well, here I am in 2020. Not just a new year, but a whole new decade. It’s hard to believe that ten years ago in 2010, Sara, Sable, and I were still living in “Smallpartment” just down the street from Grandma’s old house, that I’d never had anything to do with Judaism, and that I’d never even been to the city where I live now. Despite all the ( Read more... )

Our mom came for a visit last weekend to watch the Oscars with us. I hadn't been looking forward to it, and even by Mom's standards, it did not go well. The very worst part of it happened as soon as she got into town. We were going out for dinner, and almost the second she got into my car, she put her hand right down on the dried flower that I ( Read more... )

Well, I never accidentally drove back to my old work address. I have to drive right past my old Interstate exit, so I was always afraid that I'd get off there by mistake. I'm going to miss the crazy homeless guy who used to stand there every day screaming at the cars. I am so not happy about my new longer commute to work. My drive there in the ( Read more... )

The Oscars 2017 were a really fun night. Sara and I ate most of the onion-cheese dip, and Athena ate most of the rotel dip. (She has been crazy over that stuff since we were kids. She could remember which pot Mom used to serve it in at pool parties.) We had chocolate chess pie for dessert, and all tried on facial masks while we watched. After the ( Read more... )

Leap Day only comes around once every four years, and this year, it has to come on a Monday? Ugh.

Around the time they released promo photos for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Sara decided that Eddie Redmayne wasn't a person but a slinky. Or a cream puff. Ever since then, every time she sees Eddie Redmayne anywhere in anything, she goes ( Read more... )

Greetings from Antartica. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but not by much. I still can't believe how nice the weather was just two weekends ago. Saturday was as warm and sunny as summer, and I spent almost the whole day outside pounding the pavement looking for Teddy. (I also skipped both dinner and Shabbat services on Friday night and instead drove around ( Read more... )