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Laboring over Labor Day Weekend

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:41:45 +0000

Well, we certainly labored this weekend, and my poor aching back is the proof. In the spirit of getting daughter ready for her big entrance into seventh grade, we finally convinced her (note that WE had to convince HER) that a wallpaper pattern of chubby hippos and cartoon birds was simply not appropriate for [...]

Dog tired

M.K. Hobson — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:49:46 +0000

Well, we’re back from the beach and we’re all sunburned and windburned and exhausted. The dog especially. The minute we got home she flopped down on her bed and hasn’t left it since. She does groan occasionally, and look over at me balefully. Poor pup. She was on fast-forward the whole weekend, swimming in [...]

Gone fishin’

M.K. Hobson — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:30:02 +0000

Happy Friday the 13th, everybody. I’m outta here for the weekend—me and the family are taking a merry excursion to the seashore. See you all Monday, and don’t walk under any ladders or nothing.

Playing with WordPress

M.K. Hobson — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:20:51 +0000

So I’m sitting upstairs in the manga section of Forbidden Planet, bored out of my mind while daughter shops. But lo, I have installed a WordPress client on my Blackberry, and now I can blog from my phone! Tra la! How delightful!

Posting on the fly

M.K. Hobson — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:50:45 +0000

Jeez, today I went both hither and yon, “hither” being Hoboken, NJ and “yon” being Park Slope in Brooklyn. While I was in NJ on a business lunch, the rest of the fam went to the Brooklyn Museum, then we met up in Park Slope. My sister and daughter had deep-fried candy bars at [...]

NYC is awesome

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:01:15 +0000

So I’m sitting here in Union Square Park, taking advantage the free wifi that the Syfy channel is generously sponsoring. I’m laboring under the illusion that someone sitting in a park typing on a laptop is far less pretentious than someone sitting in a coffee shop typing on a laptop. And also, I don’t [...]

Summer’s here!

M.K. Hobson — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:28:54 +0000

Yes, when she’s not parading hungry friends through the house, coming in to my office with up-to-the-minute alerts on the life-and-death urgency attendant upon me enrolling her in breakdancing lessons (“EVERYONE knows how to breakdance, mom! EVERYONE BUT ME!”), or coming up with meticulously hand-drawn, color-coded, shockingly usurious price-tables meant to be applied to [...]

How to Train Your Dragon

M.K. Hobson — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:58:10 +0000

Daughter and I had a rather slow, low-energy day today. We finally got to see “How to Train Your Dragon.” Liked it well enough, but I had issues.

1) The movie’s theme was that dragons are people too, and that all humans have to do to live in harmony with these sweet, kitten-like critters, [...]

My boyfriend needs a new home

M.K. Hobson — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 18:27:11 +0000

Here’s the deal. It’s time to find my boyfriend “Felix” a new forever home. As you recall, I found Felix in a box near the Clackamas River—scratched up, three-quarters starved and massively flea-ridden. I took him to the vet, got him de-flea-ed, and have been feeding him copiously for the past few months. Now [...]

Oregon City Farmer’s Market

M.K. Hobson — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:56:34 +0000

So yesterday daughter and I hiked down the hill to the opening of the Wednesday Farmer’s Market in downtown Oregon City. The Saturday Farmer’s Market has been going for quite some time now, but I’ve only made it out there once or twice because it’s not really on my route and driving to a [...]