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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:04:15 -0700

The story and the context
I was sitting at the computer tearing my hair out, trying to figure out just why a test web form wasn’t posting. (I...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:14:02 -0700

"I don’t like little Chinese girls."
Someone told OmegaDotter this today at school. I don’t think I can talk about this right now. Give me time to...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:06:46 -0700

Mommy, dotter, and OmegaMom
When GrannyJ was visiting, OmegaDotter and I would snuggle for half an hour to forty-five minutes before trekking downstairs to...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:09:48 -0700

Letters
Dear Very-Distant-Coworker: When I sent you the email asking you a whole list of questions about how many copies of a...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:28:24 -0700

Blue jeans and yellow leaves
Score so far: Gap curvy jeans, size 14: too big. Way too big. Off to return them and ask for a smaller...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:40:36 -0700

Cowgirl
A box arrived today from Grandma Jeannie, and in it were: New cowgirl boots, pink and brown New Levi’s jeans New cowgirl...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:34:23 -0700

Link-dump
Zooillogix today featured Martin Amm’s fabulous macro photos of bugs in nature, specifically the “wet bugs”...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:29:55 -0700

Well, that was quick!
The dotter is not on the team anymore. No biggie; we really had doubts about the whole thing, given her maturity...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:43:34 -0700

A big foot in it
Last week, the news headlines were filled with Georgia. “Russia invades Georgia!” “Russia moves in as Georgia...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:56:11 -0700

Firsts
Ah, the first day of first grade: Much to my dismay, the picture is blurry, goodness only knows why. Here’s the...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:50:36 -0700

Once upon a time
When the dotter was two, three, four years old, I would tell her stories at bedtime. That’s when bedtime was...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:37:43 -0700

Forever in blue jeans
So, let’s see: Mamasan and Anne suggested Gloria Vanderbilt. Mamasan also suggested low- or mid-rise jeans, which...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:00:17 -0700

Now, for something totally different…
I need reader feedback on this one, puh-leeze! I have a Victorian figure, relatively slender on top, a well-defined waist, a...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:34:35 -0700

Over the mountains and through the woods
Another long day spent out and about. The OmegaFamily had done the first part of the drive before, up Margaret Pass to...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:52:57 -0700

Now we are three
OmegaMom (the blog) is now three years old. (I figure most of you will read this on the sixth of August.) Toss me...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:31:09 -0700

Interlude with glaciers
More sunny days…we think GrannyJ brought them with her, which, of course, means she will take them away when she...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:51:54 -0700

Needs versus wants
So Marley did a meme, and I remember seeing this meme somewhere else, and I’m looking for something to pop into the...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:31:49 -0700

The magic touch
Tap, tap, tap… Pffffttt…Pfffftttt… “Hello?” Tap, tap. “Hello? Anyone...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:30:55 -0700

No coherent message here
Sort of a this-n-that thing. OmegaGranny is coming to visit, arriving in Big City at about midnight tomorrow night. As a...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:11:31 -0700

Beet it
When I was growing up, one of the things that I learned to look forwards to during the summer was when OmegaGranny would buy a...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:36:54 -0700

Wither weather?
Yes! It’s yet another “gripe about the weather” post! Woohoo! Let’s see: Today’s...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:32:17 -0700

To speak of many different things…
Shoes, ships, ceiling wax, cabbages, kings. Etc. Thanks for the nice comments about my mushroom pics! I like them,...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:04:37 -0700

More ’shrooms
So sue me. I’m fascinated by the mushrooms, by the wild variety, by how pretty they are, by where they grow, by how...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:07:49 -0700

Another moosacre…
(Thanks to Jeb for the word!) This is how I feel about moose right now: Yes, the moose returned, as Jean said it would. ...
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OmegaMom posted a blog entry

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:56:37 -0700

Argh! Frickin’-frackin’ damned MOOSE!
Yesterday evening, we thinned out the spinach and pak choi and hong tsin choi and Swiss chard and beets, and had a whole mess...
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