I’ll just have a diet coke, thanks.

One evening back in August while up in Seattle for Quinn’s triathlon, the subject of Clamato came up. Quinn and I both started expressing our disgust over the existence of this atrocity of a beverage, but Lindsey didn’t know what it was. Quinn starts explaining: “Clamato is a drink made from clams and tomatoes. You know, kind of like how Orangina is made from oranges and vaginas.”

Still funny.

Getting ready for Halloween 2009

“She’ll be like, ‘Oh bitches please, I just got back from Cancun. Time to wear my slutty baby costume’”

-Alana, on Holland’s second Halloween.

Cravings…

So sad:

Dear Ms. Rudolph,
Thank you for your email requesting information on where to find cheese curds.  
Tillamook County Creamery Association is dedicated to bringing
you the freshest, and highest quality dairy products available.
 Because of the short shelf life and to maintain the freshness and quality of
Tillamook Cheese Curds, they are exclusively sold at the Visitors
Center and Tillamook Farm Store in Tillamook.
We hope you understand our decision, thank you again for contacting us.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Cobos
Customer Service
Tillamook County Creamery Association

Until she gets her own blog.

My mother’s medical drama. Taken from an email she sent out recently explaining her week-long absence.

• Friday: Went in to have two benign lesions removed (vanity)
• Sunday: became feeling very ill.
• Monday: went back in to same dermatologist’s office for scheduled psoriasis treatment and asked that someone look at the site on my leg which is now an angry, red, oozing 6 inch circle of dead and dying skin.
• RN looks at and dresses it and sends me on my way dismissing my flu symptoms as…well…the flu
• Monday, continued: go home and proceed to settle into raging fever, chills, can’t sit up, can’t walk without help from wall type of “flu”
• Tuesday: don’t remember anything but fingertips turning white.
• Wednesday: am able to fix soup. I find this very encouraging. Go back to bed. Joe wakes up and finds house filled with smoke…I hadn’t turned the stove off and caught dish towel on fire. (McCoy will not be on the next episode of Amazing Animal Alerts Mistress of House on Fire) Will be installing smoke alarms still in boxes in garage this weekend. Becoming worried about this “flu” and pain in leg.
• Thursday: Go to PCP who looks concerned, asks lots of questions and who then calls dermatologists to see me next morning and prescribes antibiotic.
• Today: see dermatologist who also looks concerned, takes culture, prescribes “speicial” ointments to be mixed and applied twice daily, then wrap with gauze NO TAPE ON THAT SKIN…Tylenol 3 is called into pharmacy and a standing weekly appointment from now until Thanksgiving (?)…I am advised that this will take a “very long time to heal” and I am to call if anything looks or feels wrong. Dermotologist comes back in exam room to tell me to be sure and CALL HIM IF ANYTHING LOOKS OR FEELS WRONG. I am getting the picture.
• So I have a staph infection. I am feeling better. Thank you. I will write more later.

She is funny, folks…

imagine what is going through her little mind? she wants more pancakes? she likes the new Death Cab CD? why is it so boring in here after 8PM?

–email from my mom