Todd: do you have AAA?

me: nope
do you?

Todd: no

me: i feel like i should
as an adult

Todd: yeah, it probably would have saved me some money today
but
it is $68 a year i think
and i don’t pay that much in towing fees a year

me: that’s almost 6 bucks a month. Forget that!

Todd: are there other benefits?

me: yeah
free road maps
and they have a hot line you can call if you are really sad late at night
me: I don’t know if it is expressly for that purpose, but they are good listeners
(I hear)

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Date: 2009-06-25, 5:00PM PDT

I have a small pile of free antique dirt. I would estimate its age as roughly 18000 years. It is in fair to good condition. I hate to part with such a beloved part of my collection, but we all have to make sacrifices in this economy. It is enough to fill a good sized vegetable bed (2′ deep x 4′ wide x 8′). Pick up in Olympia and add to your collection.

* Location: olympia
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me:

me:

look at that little guy

he has a mustache

I’m going to name him magnum PI

me:

wise mr tamarin, please tell me, what is the meaning of life?

wouldn’t you take all your problems to this guy

me:

“if you tickle under my chin I will grant you 3 wishes”

see

you want one now

me:

that guy feels the weight of the world on his furry little shoulders

“why is man so cruel to man?”

When Grant was a baby, Michelle and I thought it would be valuable to teach him Spanish. When Spanish isn’t your first language (in my case) or you haven’t spoken it much since you were a child (Michelle’s case), you tend to switch back to English as soon as you run into any vocabulary trouble, or when you are tired, or when you are tired of sounding stupid. Because of our poor efforts, Grant really only ever learned a few phrases and quite a few individual words. Compared to Evie though, he is a polyglot. We’ve never really tried to teach her and her Grandmama is not close enough to help, so she has been reduced to yelling, Chocolate! (in Spanish) any time she hears anyone speaking a foreign language. She’s quite the citizen of the world.

We let her watch Dora, which is the most pathetic attempt to teach her Spanish ever, but I don’t think she has picked up a single word. She has picked up one helpful phrase though. Last night she was scared of the “tiny pink dinosaurs” again. I heard her crying and went in to check on her and found her yelling, “Swiper, no swiping!” over and over while waving her hand at the dark (If you don’t get that, you don’t have kids). She told me it worked though. The dinosaurs ran away. Good thing they weren’t Spanish dinosaurs though, I’m not sure “Chocolate!” would work.

Grant and I are headed to New york next week to see some of Jared’s work in a show at Black & White gallery in Chelsea. Grant has actually been to NYC twice already, once when he was 9 months and once when he was 18 months. Hopefully he doesn’t want to be carried as much this time.

Here is a list of things Grant would like to do:

• Eat the best Pizza in New York to see if it is as good as Old School Pizza in Olympia
• Go to Dylan’s Candy Bar
• Visit the Museum of Natural History
• Ride trains
• see some really big buildings
• maybe get some ice cream
• see Jared and Mike

I think he might like

• MoMA
• Dia  Beacon
• New Museum
• most of the galleries in Chelsea
• most of the galleries in Williamsburg
• and the LES
• the Brooklyn Super Hero Supply Co

So, I’m sure we will find a nice balance. Please let us know if you have any great suggestions for what to do, see and eat. We are excited to see you!

We came across this sign when we took Mike and Tabi on the ferry over to Vashon Island a couple of weeks ago. We had never been to Vashon and knew very little about it but wanted to take a ferry somewhere and that is one of the closest and quickest. We knew there was a lighthouse somewhere on the island and as we wandered around looking for it we realized we had no idea where we were.  We stopped the car and I said, “man….we are completely lost.” That is the moment I looked up and saw this sign. Pretty popular spot to get lost I guess. The box full of maps marked with a “you are here” x were very helpful.

Evie would only sleep if the guinea pig was next to her

For Grant’s 6th birthday we bought him a pet guinea pig. He named him Fredrick Cuy Penrod. Cuy is spanish for guinea pig and Fredrick made the trip up from Peru 10 days ago .

Cuy is a delicacy in parts of Ecuador and Peru and today at the Farmer’s Market we were speaking with an Ecuadorian vendor. He told us that the rain was so bad down there this year that the crops were being ruined and “pretty soon we will all just have to eat cuy for every meal!” Apparently Grant’s Ecuadorian blood is kicking in, because tonight I was explaining to Grant that Fredrick is still really skittish because he thinks we are predators and might want to eat him. Grant told me “We would never eat him …….even though he does look kind of delicious.”

-There baby dinosaurs outside my window. They teeeeeny! (sob)

-I saw a snowman

-My door say Wocka Wocka!

-The baby dinosaurs in tha house (sob) they teeny! (sob) unintelligible (sob) They brush the TEEEEEETH!!!(sob)

-The dinosaurs sing “All the single lady (sob) all the single lady!!!!!”

I’m switching over to wordpress after the old blog came crashing down around us. I will slowly be putting the old content on here.

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