Sunday, February 28th, 2010
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Yesterday, we celebrated Haley’s fifth birthday and Riley’s first. Their birthdays are on the 27th and 26th, respectively, so I suspect they will always have joint birthday parties.
Haley told me a while back that what she wanted most was to paint her fingernails. So, Arnon and I gave her a Hello Kitty purse with three bottles of children’s nailpolish inside. She loved it!
Unfortunately, she wasn’t satisfied with having her nails done; she had to paint all of ours, including Josh’s toenails. 
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
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Last weekend, Anthony and Elina hosted a wine tasting competition where we would sample five different wines and rank them according to price, ranging from $2 to $40. No one guessed the correct ranking, but Anthony was closest. As for me, my ranking was off by $76 so I came in second to last. Obviously, I should never buy expensive wine since I can’t seem to tell it apart from two-buck Chuck.
Photo credit: Arnon, Elina and Dmitriy
Friday, February 26th, 2010
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Yesterday, something happened to me that I thought could never ever happen in a quiet, wide-open residential neighborhood like the one I live in … I got a parking ticket, parked in front of my own house. How rude!
The timestamp on the ticket was 6:50 am. What the hell was a cop doing driving through my street at that hour? Did he really have nothing better to do?
In case you’re curious, my car was parked close to the curb with the driver’s side next to the sidewalk. I would never do this in the city or a non-residential area, but I figured I could do as I pleased on my own street. Besides, it’s common to see cars in my neighborhood parked that way.
Anyway, the fine is $40. I’ve been parking this way for two years now so I figure I’m paying $1.67 per month for the convenience of not having to u-turn.
Moving on, when I got home from work last night, I noticed that a patch of tanbark by the front porch was piled up into a small mound. Thinking that squirrels had been there (common occurrence), I went over and used my foot to smooth out the tan bark. That’s when I discovered that a cat had taken a fat, stinky, yellow, wet dump there and had piled the tanbark on top of it. Ewwww! And that yellow poo was all over my shoe!
So yesterday was not a very good day for me. I wish I could fling yellow poo at the cop who left me the parking ticket. I also wish I could use the cop’s baton to beat the cat who took a dump in my yard.
