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Sure signs of summer

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Last week, I took both kids with me to Target and did a little shopping. It’s that time of year again – summer is coming, and the kids need sandals. That was my main objective in going to Target, anyway. I also had a list of various other stuff that we needed, but the sandals […]



I win one against the big bad Brown

Saturday, May 20th, 2006

After three phone calls to customer service centers (one of which at least had to be in India), and being told that I live in an apartment complex all three times, someone finally was able to read a map and deliver my package from UPS! We also got an extremely apologetic phone call from a […]



Don’t mess with me, UPS

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

This I do not understand. I returned home after church last night to a message on the answering machine from UPS. “We tried to deliver a package to you from Barnes & Noble, but we don’t have your apartment number. Please contact us…” I stared blankly at the Webmaster as he stared back at me. […]



Reading my fortune cookies

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

One of my Mother’s Day gifts was a couple of bags of what my family calls “unfortunate” cookies. My Obachan gets these huge bags of discounted fortune cookies in Chinatown, and then we all get smaller bags out of the big bag. These cookies are the ones that didn’t make the cut, so they end […]