You Know You Are Loved When...

...a seventh grade boy draws this for you.



I am just grateful he didn't put any cleavage bursting forth from the calculator corset.

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I Am a Dweeb.

Just ran across these photos that I never posted.


Back in October, the hubbster and I went to visit our friend Irene in California. On a trip to Lake Tahoe I was fascinated by the gigantic pinecones.



Here I am trying to look regal - like the queen of the forest.

Erin's one comment to me "Juliana - you are getting fat".

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Moving on...

(Click on the picure to bigify it)

Dias de Los Muertos Cookies! My friend Kelsey, art teacher at current place of employment, wanted to do some art work honoring Dias de Los Muertos. So we went to this cool gallery in Ballard (Seattle Neighborhood) and I found these skull cookie cutters. One of the cookies looks like it got into the sprinkles. Heh.


Me trying to look like Anthony Bourdain - a discriminating chef.




The only time you will ever see me cordial with George Bush the first - a statue of him at the George Bush International Airport. I was trying to get my jacket to permenentely blow in the breeze. Then hubbser tried it - it was pretty fun.

Then the cops showed up. We moved along to our gate.



My precious...a gift from my dad for Christmas. WOO HOO!

So far I have only made Pascha cheese on it... Ok - small rant: I took a GIANT Pascha cheese to school with some kulich. The kulich got a few nibbles, but NO ONE TOUCHED the CHEESE!!! Seriously - these peeps need to get out in the world more.

...but I plan to do a lot more with it when I have the time. I still do not have a timeline on when I will have more time.



Doesn't mean I don't still loves the precious. I just saw Barefoot Contessa and Ina Garten made scones - perhaps I will feel inspired this week...

Seriously.

It is 80 degrees and there is a heat advisory.

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As a girl who grew up in the southwest this is all very funny.

Read below:


Heat Advisory
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
222 PM PDT WED JUN 3 2009


...HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM PDT THURSDAY...


VERY WARM CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST IN THE SEATTLE-TACOMA-EVERETT
AREA THROUGH THURSDAY. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL TOP OUT AROUND 90
DEGREES AROUND SEATTLE. THE WARM SPELL WILL END AS MARINE AIR
PUSHES INTO THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAT ILLNESSES ARE POSSIBLE IN HOT WEATHER. DRINK PLENTY OF
FLUIDS. CHECK UP ON INFIRM RELATIVES AND NEIGHBORS. REMEMBER
THAT AREA LAKES AND RIVERS ARE STILL COLD. ESCAPING THE HEAT BY
JUMPING INTO A COLD LAKE OR RIVER CAN LEAD TO DEATH BY HYPOTHERMIA
OR DROWNING.


So, I guess the reason people in the NW freak out is because:

1. There is no air conditioning unless it is a commercial building more than two stories tall. And even then, it is usually a swamp cooler on the roof.

2. There are so many computers here, peeps get hot from using them 24-7 to check facebook.

3. The water 'round here is all glacier run off, so in desperation, people leap in and freeze. I have witnessed this happen on a mountain trail - a 24 year old man died. Quite sad.

Sigh. I am off to turn on my fan.