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January 25, 2008
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1) “What to Eat” by Marion Nestle. Fascinating.
2) Yes.
3) Hungry? Bored? Tortured by kids?
4) French Onion.
5) Sorry, can’t help you there.
1. Castle in the Forest by Norman Mailer
2. yes
3. We spoiled him w/all that attention while visiting – So he’s calling for us?
4. Hard one – Split pea or French onion….NO! NO! – It’s the Cream of Crab soup from Legal Seafood. OHMIGAWD – DIVINE.
5. I never would have thought about this.
1. This post
2. Yes
3. Take away his phone – that’ll teach him
4. Chicken Noodle
5. Um, what is a convertible, Alex?
1. You
2. [poke] Ouch. Quit it. [poke] Ouch. Quit it. [poke] Ouch. Quit it.
3. He wants in on all that sweet suppository action.
4. Tomato. With a grilled cheese sandwich. Better if the grilled cheese has bacon on it.
5. [exempt]
1. Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by…I forget who it’s by. It’s very good. It’s not about physics.
2. Yes.
3. I don’t know, but if you figure it out, let me know because mine won’t shut up either.
4. Italian Wedding.
5. I don’t have twins, but my one is left handed and my husband and I are both righties. Two righties=a wrong?
1. Choke by Chuck Palahnuik
2. Yessir, do you have one there?
3. He’s related to Murphy apparently.
4. I’m not a huge fan of soup in general. I had a really good turnip soup at a French place once. I know it sounds awful but it was actually really good. And Erin makes a really good potato soup. Huh, apparently I do like soup.
1. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal
2. I got one on my nipple once so I suppose anything is possible..
3. Is it in heat..?
4. Italian wedding soup
5. One uses his right hand for EVERYTHING. The other goes back and forth but seems to use his left more often.
1. Death Du Jour by Kathy Reichs
2. Yes and if you do I am sorry
3. OMG your cat and mine as well as Murphy are long lost litter mates! Not only that but she won’t shut to hell up while riping EVERY GOD FORSAKEN PEICE OF PAPER SHE CAN GET HER MOUTH ON!
3. Cream of Broc…. MMMMMMMMM
4. My son’s friend’s alex and Mike are like as well as their older “twin siblings” yes the poor, poor women had 5 kids 3 pregnancies…. OUCH!
1. “Blind Into Baghdad: America’s War in Iraq” by James Fallows
2. Yes
3. It wants to be heard…
4. Cream of Potato
5. Yes, BUT, since The PB broke her left arm last year, she’s been able to use both..
1. I just finished The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl by Shauna Reid, and it was excellent. Having Tudor withdrawal; trying to decide whether to pick up Allison Weir’s latest novel (her non-fiction is a bit dry, so wavering), re-read one of my non-fic Tudor books, or find something new in this area. Or I could read American Creation, which is next on my nightstand.
2. Yes. Ouch.
3. Heat is my only guess. I haven’t had a cat since Annie.
4. That’s a tough one; I love all kinds of vegetable- and seafood-based soups. Anything with chicken stock, no.
5. I am twinless. And I am thankful for it right about now.
1. Lisey’s Story by Stephen King
2. Not sure. Never had one.
3. Because she’s a bitch.
4. French onion. No, mexican tortilla. No, wait, minestrone
5. Don’t know yet. The boys are only 19 months and throw food with both hands equally.
1. The Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella
2. Probably, but i’ve never had on there
3. it likes to hear itself talk
4. Tomato
5. Nope both the girls are righties….
1. Your blog. And Rock On (An Office Power Ballad) by Dan Kennedy.
2. Yep.
3. Just has lots to say.
4. I’m a vegetable barley guy myself.
5. No twins, no answer.
1. The Android’s Dream, John Scalzi.
2. You can get zits anywhere you’ve got pores, so yes.
3. Because she’s a cat.
4. Homemade cream of tomato.
5. I don’t have twins, but the mirror-image handedness thing appears to be fairly common: http://multiples.about.com/cs/funfacts/a/aatwinhand.htm
1. Foye’s Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, 6th edition (what I’m supposed to be reading) Blogs (what I’m actually reading)
2. Does the crack between head and ear count? Oh, and absolutely.
3. Because cats are spawned from evil – don’t they steal baby breath? (I love cats and all things evil.)
4. Mushroom Bisque that Panera made about 2 years ago – the new one is crap!
5. Sadly, no twins.
1. I am reading lenthy contract, distracted by your blog “Thanks”
2. Yes, I am convinced you can get a zit ANYWHERE, especially if its A) easy to see or B) hard to reach
3. Must be something in the air b/c my cat has been a maniac all week…full moon fever I guess.
4. LOVE Organic Lentil soup- HATE the after effects on my pregnant body
5. No Twins (yes, I am sure even though I am curretnly pregnant)
LOVE TIM GUNN….. best line he ever said was “some of my worst decisions were made a 3:00 a.m.” do you think he was talking fashion or Studio 54
1. Into the Wild and Omnivore’s Dilemma.
2. I prefer scratching at the one on my nose.
3. Because he’s got to SING!
4. Tomato – but I can’t eat it right now because the heartburn. Oy. so I’ll say Panera’s Broccoli Cheddar soup.
1) Life of Pi
2) Umm, yeah.
3) Zit on the back of her ear?
4) My MIL’s fish soup. I can actually make a fairly decent rendition of it.
5) I don’t know what-handed mine are yet, but they’re complete opposites in every other respect, so it wouldn’t surprise me.
1) My biochemistry text book. It’s every bit at boring as it sounds.
2) Yes
3) I don’t know, but if you figure it out, let me know – my cat has been making way too much noise lately too.
4) I like vegetable soup and taco soup.
5) No twins here, but I do know several sets that are one each right handed and left handed.
1. I Shouldn’t Even be Doing This and Other Things that Strike me as Funny by Bob Newheart (it’s an autobiography).
2. I’m sure you can (I seem to have one in my ear canal).
3. I have no clue.
4. Um… I’m not sure. Vegetable Beef, I guess.
5. I’m exempt (I don’t even have kids yet).
1. to many blogs, not enough books.
2. yes and they are always so painful!
3. because your not paying enough attention to it. that’s my cat’s prob. (she’s sort of a whore)
4. miso and creamy potato. and chicken dumpling. yummy..
5. *exempt*
1) Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs
2) If you have a zit, but you can’t see it, is it really a zit?
3) Because she is from The Valley (if she is a he, then my answer is He’s a Politician)
4) Me Stew, like Shel Silverstein’s poem. Nah, I like Cream of MUSHROOM! MUSHROOM!
5) My twins have bitten their hands off in the process of teething, so I’m not sure, unfortunately.
1) “Master and Commander”…right up your alley
2) the more relevant question is “can you pop it?”
3) Because it JUST WON’T FUCKING LISTEN
4) Split Pea w/ Ham….yuuuuuuummmmmmmmy
5) We keep the left-handed twin in a cage in the basement
1. Your blog (der).
2. EEW.
3. I like to think during the yowl-y times that they are possessed by Satan and should be left alone while you tend to the baby they woke up. Later, when they are sleeping peacefully sneak up and dump a glass of ice water on them. Totally worth the clean-up.
4. Any kind I don’t have to make, or Tomato Chipotle Bisque.
1. Blogs of course
2. Yup. Been there.
3. Cause it isn’t getting any attention
4. French onion au gratin
5. Well sort of. My boy is seriously right-handed and my girl is very much ambidextrous.
I’ve got nothing on 1-4, but Apple may be right-handed while Orange is a lefty. They’re only 16 months old, so it’s kind of useless information at this point, though.
The Jellyman is left-handed, and I’m right. Raisin, at age 3.5, definitely prefers her left. And since the twins still switch all the time, some days I think I’ll end up with three left-handed kids.
Genetics is weird.
1) Harry Potter, whatever the most recent one is called. I just finished Saving Fish from Drowing.
2) Why Not?
3) He’s been puked on? Maybe you accidently gave him a suppository last night.
4) Broccoli cheese
5) I don’t have twins (as you well know), but in the past 3 years I have taught 4 sets of twins. In each set one was right handed & the other left handed. I’ve actually starting asking people about it myself. I’m surprised I hadn’t asked you yet…
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude. On the shelf: the new Norman Mailer
2. Yes – I had one on the little ear-cartilage thingy before. Ow.
3. May be moon related. May need more attention – I could go on forever as I work with kitties.
4. autumn vegetable and coriander. Mmmmm.
5. I’ve heard this is common, but have no twins in my family.
1) Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
2) Yes
3) I don’t know. Mine is old, grief-stricken and possibly ill. That’s her excuse.
4) Black bean and corn. Painted Desert style.
1 The Arabian Nights
2 yes
3 don’t know, but my parents cats do that all the time
4 butternut squash soup
5 my neighbor has twins, but since they are not yet a month old, we don’t know.
1) What are you reading right now?
Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs the TV show BONES is based off these books.
You’re wearing THAT?! A guide to understanding conversations between mother and daughter.
You’re blog
2) Can you get a zit on the back of your ear?
Yes! I had one last week.
3) Why won
My son is both handed, switches off when each hand gets tired showing no preference at all, and my daughter is only right handed. Does that count?
Oh wait, I think I was supposed to answer all of them..sorry!
1. Eat, Pray, Love
2. I think you can get a zit anywhere, and I am sorry if you have one there.
3. I am allergic to cats, so I have no idea
4. Black bean from panera
1) A draft of a crisis management plan I’m unfortunately responsible for writing.
2) I’m not a doctor.
3) Ask her/him.
4) Chicken noodle.
5) Although I’m not a parent of twins, I am a twin so I think I’m qualified to answer. I am left-handed and my brother is right-handed. So, I think it is common.
1) Clarence Thomas’s biography (My Grandfather’s Son)
2) Yes, and I have
3) Eff if I know
4) French onion or potato
5) Baylee is absolutely right-handed and Brayden uses both, but shows a preference for his left.
1> “Be The Pack Leader” by Cesar Millan
2> Yes. Just when you think you’ve gotten it, it will reappear later that day or the next morning. Sometimes this goes on for a couple days. Eww.
3> Jonesin’ for a catnip fix.
4> Tomato
5> Not applicable to me, but will pay better attention to twin cousins & twins of friends next time I see them.
1. nothing? what is this reading you speak of?
2. yes, let me at it. i can get a zit anywhere.
3. I’ve met your cats and I think it’s just an evil nature that they get from too much exposue to death metal. They’d have killed you by now, except they have no thumbs with which to work the gun.
4. Bean with bacon.
5. Yes. The evil twin is left handed, always. It’s the mark of evil obviously.
1) “Me talk pretty one day” by David Sedaris, which some lovely person left in the break room book rack. Re-reading.
2) Oh man, I had the nastiest one IN my ear a coupla weeks ago.
3) This is the nature of the beast.
4) EASY!! Every day I eat Trader Joe’s Roasted Red Pepper and Tomato soup. Well, 6 days out of 7.
1. Holy Fools. Meh. I’m not loving it.
2. Yes, absolutely.
3. He’s hungry. Or he’s part Siamese. Take your pick.
4. Garden Tomato. Or French Onion. Take your pick.
5. I won’t answer, since I’m not, but Wow. How interesting!
1. Just finished The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, about to start a really bad teen novel by the Gossip Girl writer. I love teen dramz, hope to write one someday.
2. Sure, I have one behind my ear right now … oops, TMI
3. ummm…???
4. French Onion
5. Two righties, but my boy is more left-handed when it comes to sports (kicking/throwing/pinching his sister)!
1. Just finished Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer and am about to start Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
2. As everyone else has said; yes. I get them frequently. Another side effect of my over-productive sebaceous glands (ie – I get oily hair. A lot).
3. He’s feeling the call of the wild?
4. Cream of Mushroom, but it has to be freshly made. Also adore butternut and carrot & fennel.
5. I like ckirby’s answer, lol.
1) Rise and Shine, by Anna Quinlin, which I’m loving.
2) Yes, I have had them there before and it seriously hurts.
3) Maybe you should trade it in for a fish.
4) French Onion
5) I have two sets of twins in my family. One boy/girl set who are 5 and are both lefties. The others are identical girls and are 12 and one is left and one is right. But the one who is right handed, plays left handed sports.
1) A trashy mystery that isn’t very good, yet I still keep reading it: Dead Man Docking. Prior to that I was reading a good trashy mystery, it was called Crime Scene.
2) I don’t know, but I hate the ones that occur in the ear.
3) Because it is a cat, and dogs are way better.
4) Chicken Noodle – It’s comforting.
5) I am not yet a parent of twins…mine are due in April. My daughter is ambidextrous (sp?)- she switches her fork from hand to hand during a meal when one hand tires from shoveling the food in. I am curious to find out what my twins handedness will be, but I will not know for quite awhile.
1. “Pillars of the Earth” and it’s slow going.
2. oh yeah!
3. He’s trying to tell you something… ohhhh!
4. creamy tomato
5. n/a
I’m too tired to answer these. But my cat is screaming in the other room anyway and it’s so loud I can’t think.
1. your blog
2. yep
3. Siamese cat? Because they are just mouthy.
4. Tomato with a grilled cheese sandwich on the side
5. Don’t have twins, but isn’t there something called “mirror image twins” among identical twins? (Does that even apply to you? I don’t know.) http://www.twinsrealm.com/twinsfaq.htm
1. One of the Diane Mott Davidson Goldy Bear Catering Mystery Series -they have a few good recipes mixed in with the story.
2. Yes, but I think it happens more to men. My husband sometimes gets them when he’s out working in the heat too much and wearing a hat.
3. If she’s like my dear departed kitty, because she’s a pain in the ***
4. It used to be broccoli cheese, but pregnancy taste buds have ruined that for me. Lately I bizarrely crave Campbell’s Vegetable Alphabet Soup.
5. I can’t tell you ’til they pop out. And I think even there they’ll have to be toddler sized before you can tell for sure.
1) A Painted House – Slow but pretty, good for falling asleep.
2) Yes, and in your unmentionable places.
3) She’s in the mood for love?
4) Homemade Hot & Sour Soup (from martha stewart dot com)
1. Find Me by Rosie O
2. I have one right now. Crappy cheap earring caused it
3. Is your cat Siamese? they are the politicians of the cat world and talk for the sake of talking. Otherwise she’s probably trying to tell you she threw up somewhere you can’t find
4. I really hate soup but will have a mug of tomatoe soup as long as it comes with a grilled cheese sandwich
5. I used to babysit twins a million years ago. Can’t remember if they were rightie/leftie/both but I do vividly recall that they seemed to have 10 hands.
1. The new Ready Made magazine.
2. Yes, it’s possible.
3. Clean out the litter box? There’s a mouse in the house?
4. I love soup, period. Wonton soup from my favorite Chinese place, Italian wedding soup, homemade vegetable soup. It’s the perfect food.
5. No twins in my house.