Category: Navel Gazing

  • What a year, huh? For us, obviously, 2005 has been a wild ride. From moving into the 5-bedroom ESTATE in Mountlake Terrace (just a stone’s throw from I-5) to living like gypsies from house-to-house in Mill Creek, Snohomish, and Edmonds, Washington and then FINALLY uprooting ourselves to a new continent entirely. We sweated in Singapore.…

  • Since the eldest child usually dominates the media coverage around here, I had to include this post for Sarah: Look Who’s Walking, Too Around the time of this post was coincidentally the same time all of our real problems began. Just kidding. But we definitely found ourselves much busier locking down everything in our apartment.…

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  • I had to include this one as my one of my favorites:  Road Trip Highlights I used to call Anna "the Activist". That is explained in one of the earliest yetispeak posts. The name doesn’t really fit her anymore, but at the time it was appropriate. After having Sarah, calling Anna an Activist seems laughable.…

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  • This post may have a little more significance for "my generation" but some of you older / younger reader’s are hipper than I give you credit for: Corruption Starts At Home This still works with Anna.  I use it when I need a lift or laugh in my day.

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  • Well, the well’s a’running a little dry, but here’s another one of my favorite past posts: Mr T says, "No dove, foo!" Is it possible your view of the HS is a bit too birdish?  Mine, was once.  But that’s all over now!

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  • I dare any of you to read this!  I triple-dog dare you!  It’s long, it’s unfriendly, it’s poetry…consume:  Changed My Mind I never said I was at the height of my mental health after two years…

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  • Wow, I’ve found at least three posts that I considered worthy of the title "best of" (but my standards are pretty low). Here’s the third one: Snow Day I did a whole series of "memoirs" to mourn the end of my youth (i.e. my 30th birthday). I liked most of them, but I consider myself…

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  • Here’s the second installment of the "best of":  The Tower of Babel Can you believe Anna was this small and chunky at one time? I can’t. But I also can’t believe I used to sleep on a Coleman airmattress in my living room or that I am a current resident of Xining, Qinghai, PRC. There’s…

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  • Here’s the first of my "best of Yetispeak posts" from March of 2004: March..time for resolutions I’d like to re-title it Retroactive New Year’s Resolutions. I laughed when I re-read it because I sometimes think I am such a big nerd for doing stuff like this…but it’s still funny to me. Most of the time…

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  • Happy 2nd Birthday, Yetispeak! It’s official: the yetispeak is entering its terrible two’s today. (I can’t believe I’ve been rambling for that long…and people have had the patience to endure it…) You thought the posts were bad before.  You can’t imagine the temper tantrums and illogical defiance this year has in store for us… At…

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