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10/30/2007

• Red Sox Win! Red Sox Win! Don’t think that I haven’t made note of the fact that in the year that she was born, the Lovely Tess simultaneously witnessed the Sox wining their second World Series in four years and the complete unraveling of the Yankees. Kids are impressionable, you know.
• We bought a dehydrator. Be afraid. Be very afraid. We all know what happened with the last “appliance that we will use once and then never use again.” That would be the ice cream maker. You know, the one the we’ve used every week for the past three years? I realize that this is going to turn into us walking around the produce section saying to ourselves “Hmmm, what else can we dehydrate?”
• For those of you who love Guitar Hero but don’t have a gaming console, there is Frets on Fire, an open source version of the game. You can even load in the songs from GH and use your keyboard as a guitar. This could be very, very dangerous. As the Lovely Suse said when I showed it to her, “Oh great. Now I’m going to find you out here playing this at 2 in the morning.”
• It absolutely kills me that our house isn’t insulated, not only from a “it’s fricking-freezing” in here perspective, but also from an energy efficiency standpoint. And no, we can’t blow in insulation into the walls of our circa 1920 house because we also have circa 1920 knob and tube wiring in the majority of the house, which can’t have insulation around it, and we’re not planning on shelling out the many thousands of dollars required to rewire the entire place. In the meantime, we’re trying to keep the place warm in other ways. Rugs on the floors and thermal drapes. Maybe we’ll light a bonfire in the middle of the dining room. Let’s hope they do some good.
• The first annual Howl-o-ween party at Go Play. George was robbed in the costume contest, but he failed miserably at the bobbing-for-hot-dogs contest. Granted, he could barely reach the bowl, so we’ll have to work on it for next year.
• Not that we really had a lot of junk food in the house, but we’ve managed to get rid of pretty much all food with high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, artificial ingredients, etc. The last things to be replaced were the breakfast cereals and cranberry juice, and it came as a bit of a shock to us how much better the real stuff tasted. I guess you get so used to the flavor of chemicals that you forget what they should really taste like. As we’re strolling through Whole Foods picking up bags of veggie chips and natural cereals and organic this and that, I just kept saying “Poor Tess.” Her friends are going to make fun of her weird hippie parents who grow and make their own food and don’t let her eat Fruity Pebbles or drink Coke.
• “George, leave Melissa Texture Doll alone!” I think we’ve already come to grips with the fact that George and the Lovely Tess will be sharing toys. All of her toys look and sound like his, so we can’t blame him for playing them them, and it won’t come as a shock to us to find her chewing on his chew toys.

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