September « 2007 « Butterscotch Sundae

The Butterscotch League

  • MrPlayfair (Tom)
  • The Crimson Cats (Rockford)
  • Dillon Lions (Nichole)
  • Howling Wolf (Mark)
  • GoDawgs! (Chris)
  • Blue Moo (Genia)
  • Hippowdon (Sam, I think)
  • Honolulu Blue (Perry Mason)

I'm updating the fantasy college football rankings by hand every week. You know what would be awesome, Yahoo? A widget that would do this automatically.

In brief

This Day Last Year

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Papa’s favorite ribs

A Vexing Season

Photo by Mark Lyons/Getty Images.
Alfonso Soriano celebrates the Cubs’ win against the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ballpark Sept. 28, 2007, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

What an odd season.

Several milestones were passed or set, among them several sluggers surpassing the 500 HR mark and one closer passing the 500 save mark. Other “big” things happened, too,

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Decor dilemma

The kitchen cabinets in our new apartment seem to want me to do some decorating. There’s a big, empty space above them. And it just looks so … empty. I’m not so inclined toward interior decorating, so I’m not sure what to do with the space. Ivy and baskets seem to be popular

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In the smoking section

I made our first “real” meal in the new apartment tonight. And naturally, I set off the smoke detectors in doing so. What I mean to say is, I wanted to test the smoke detectors. Since I was already making dinner, I decided to take the two birds, one stone approach. Yes. I totally meant

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Quick update

All moved in. Surrounded by boxes.

Team Move I was fabulous; Team Move II was canceled. Backup Team Move (Rockford and our friend Brent) were fabulous, but now they are tired.

Parting Shots

This is a photo of me and my labmates taken last July. Betcha’ can’t find me …

Top quotes from my labmates from the previous week prior to my departure:
“Hey, get us some free stuff!”

Said in all seriousness. This was from one of our post-docs upon hearing I will be working for a biotech distribution company.

“Most

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Showing her two-ness

Poppy and I just had one of those outings. The kind where the other moms look at you with pity and the less-sympathetic scornfully avoid looking at you at all.

To Poppy’s credit, our outings are rarely traumatic. Today, though, all was not well in Mudville.

Our first stop was the grocery store. For nothing more than

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It's almost November

Not radiant
Originally uploaded by nichole_e.

Amy and Rachel have been asking for Pregnant Me pictures. I finally asked Rockford to take some pictures this evening, and this was the only one that was even halfway decent. (That may have been because I was doing the chicken dance at the time.)

The

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Freedom in a bag

One of my father-in-law’s favorite bits of advice is, “Prunes will set you free.” The people at Sunsweet would, I’m certain, agree with him. Click here to set yourself free, for free!

(They’re offering raisins and apricots, too, if you’re not ready to embrace the prune.)