Author: strejde
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A Martian dinner
Last night, we dined with Chad and Lindsay at Mars, a gorgeous restaurant with red walls and dim, funky lighting. I actually took my camera with me, so that you all could see the many wonders of Mars, but the lighting was so dim that I would have had to use the flash, and I…
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My new obsession
Move over, Harry Potter…my newest literary find is the His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman. Chad lent me his copy of the first book in the series, The Golden Compass, and I devoured it within a few days. I quickly went to Book People and bought all three books (aren’t they pretty? I love…
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Some enchanted evening
Last night we joined our friends Rob and Shara for dinner and ballet. In all my twenty-seven years on this earth, I had not seen the Nutcracker. Isn’t that sad? We started with dinner at East Side Cafe, one of my favorite nice-but-not-too-pretentious-with-entrees-under-$20 restaurants. The restaurant has a garden in the back that supplies many…
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Crushin’
It’s 1:00 a.m. I have to be at work in about 6 hours. And yet I’m sitting here, blogging, listening to my brand new CD, and swimming in the smooth voice of my new crush, Slaid Cleaves. Oh, the poignancy of his lyrics! The unbelievable crispness of his voice! The easy, approachable attitude he carries!…
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Re-use!
I’m a paper junkie. When I go to a craft store, I linger in the scrapbook paper aisle. I don’t do scrapbooks. I just like the paper. It’s very hard for me to throw away magazines, and I have 9 or 10 separate journals (some lined, some not lined, some tiny, some huge, some spiral…