From Pearls Before Swine
I’m in the midst of making lists and running errands, and my brother just sent me a text-message:
Keep the twenty dollars, I’m taking your sunglasses. :) muahaha!
He’s referring to the orange-brown aviator sunglasses that the Lovely L Lady convinced to buy (for eight dollars, for the record) from an accessories stand on […]

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Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz
This is just a public service announcement/placeholder post to let you know I’m here! and alive! And I have bajillions of stories to share with you all, but not nearly enough time to type them out. So, give me a few days. Also, I’m sorry for being such a bastid about never […]

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Pencils so pretty, it makes you want to eat them, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
My (3 or more) Beautiful Things posts always contain snippets from a single given day of the week, but, in this case, I haven’t written in a while, so the following is a compilation of things from the past couple of weeks:
one. […]

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Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
Cross-posted from flickr, because I CAN. And also because I doubt the Blogistanis check out my flickr photos, except for those I post right here on the weblog. Lazy kids.
The following email came straight to my inbox this afternoon:
Everett High SchoolMessage sent - 1/18/2007Attendance Message
Hello, this is EVERETT HIGH SCHOOL calling […]

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Chukairiyaan, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
1. Waking up at 8am, realizing it’s a Saturday, and burrowing back under the warm covers to sleep in until 10:30. Washing my face, and then promptly sitting down at the computer. I check emails and weblogs while my mother pulls up a chair beside me and flips through catalogues and […]

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In case we didn’t already think Z is a cool dude, I am indebted to him for reminding me about what a wonderful weekend I had recently. When he asked me the other day, “What was the last fun thing you did?” my immediate response was, “Saturday, sitting outdoors for most of the day with […]

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I watched Walk the Line with the parents a couple of evenings ago, and now my dad thinks it’s the most amusing thing in the world to wander around the house and repeatedly mutter in a deep, distinctive voice, “HELLO, I’M JOHNNY CASH.”
Worse yet, he’s been blessed with a daughter (that would be I) who […]

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Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz. [Photo on the left taken by my friend A, cropped by me.]
The other day, I slipped on my green jacket (the one my father always glances at sidelong before asking rather scornfully, “What sport are you playing?”) and throughout the day I kept sniffing at my wrist. The perfume still […]

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Coffeecup calculations Originally uploaded byyaznotjaz.
A few weekends ago, I hit a milestone: Doing my taxes (almost) all on my own, for the very first time! How exciting, seriously. No, it was, I promise! But that’s only because I’m such a nerd, and I kinda like numbers […]

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The daddy-o and I just sat side-by-side - each of us reading our respective The New Yorker magazines [the Feb. 27, 2006 issue has a fascinating article entitled “Pursuing Happiness: Two scholars explore the fragility of contentment”] - and finished off a huge bowl of ice cream together.
Earlier, soon after we had finished dinner, the […]

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A few evenings ago:
I have to go to the mechanic’s shop to drop off one of our cars. This means that we have to drive over in two cars, drop off one of them, and return home in the other. It’s about 10 p.m. already, and the mechanic’s shop is fifteen minutes away. Also, intriguing […]

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Originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[Because even if no one sees your hair, there will still always be conversations nonetheless.]
* Last December, at home:
I walk into my room with my hair all tousled and standing up in weird waves and curls all over my head because I just took it out of the […]

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When they said ‘palm trees,’ they really weren’t kidding, originally uploaded by yaznotjaz.
[The “Change views, not channels” post title is inspired by those smug little San Diego-advertising billboards that I used to pass on my way to Sacramento everyday.]
Like everything else I’ve ever written, this is long overdue, so I figured I might as […]

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The week before last, my mother and I spent two separate days visiting various relatives and family friends, which is a lot of time considering the fact that, since we kids have grown up, we’ve fallen out of our weekly visiting-the-relatives habit. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but I do start missing all […]

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I love swings. I think we’ve pretty much established this by now. And if I had to choose one single reason why I love my mother, it would be because when I said the other day, “Ummy, I want to go to the park and play on the swings. Do you want to come […]

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