Cheesy McCheesington

So, what are your plans for the weekend?

This is Shannon and my last weekend in Boston -- we are here this weekend, all next week, then fly off for a birthday down in Florida next weekend, and then move down to Washington, DC in the middle of the following week. That means that this weekend is a busy one; lots of going through closets and drawers to throw junk away, packing stuff into bins, backing up computers, and that sort of stuff. It's the good kind of busy, though, since we're moving to our first new house in just under two weeks!

What's the best television commerical that you've seen in recent years? Did it make you want to buy the product?

"I Pinch", FLV version

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That's obvious -- it's the "I Pinch" commercial that I uploaded not too long ago. And honestly, it *did* change my view of Honda Elements; I have always thought they were the worst, and now I've softened a bit. I'm nowhere near the car market, though, so there's no chance of me swinging so far as to buy one... :)

I gotta tell you -- I *hated* yogurt for my entire childhood, and now eat it every single morning without fail. (Well, the mornings that Michael Buffington doesn't steal it from me.) It's weird -- I wonder if someone slipped me fake yogurt when I was a kid, or maybe it was spoiled, or perhaps I was just insane... but now, I crave it as soon as I wake up!

On Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA.

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My mom's been on quite the genealogy kick for the past few years, and has come up with a bunch of information about both her own and my father's families. Nothing terribly amazing -- no famous people -- but I'm amazed by the process of it all. My mom spends probably two or three days a month buried in customs offices looking at passenger ship logs from the mid-1800s, figuring out where some ancestor from eight generations ago hailed from; she corresponds with people across oceans who provide information about a small offshoot of our family that never left their homeland. I'm excited that she's compiling everything, and can't wait to see it all put together!

(OK, one interesting story. My mother's mother has never been what you would call accepting of people different from them, and specifically were never terribly pleased with the fact that my mother married a Jewish man. So it's pretty predictable that it turns out my mother's mother comes from... Spanish Jews, who if I remember the story right, converted out of the faith in order to avoid persecution. Ah, irony.)

Almost all of the Jack Reacher series of suspense/murder mystery books, written by Lee Child. I'm totally addicted, and doling them out slowly so I don't read them all too fast and get left wanting!

This one's tough -- but only because I can't remember if I threw away my copy of Ace of Base's The Sign. If I didn't, then that's clearly it; if I did, then it's probably The Corrs, In Blue.

The world couldn't have felt smaller than yesterday, when Anil mentioned to me that one of my sister's good friends from high school (in San Antonio, TX) is now gainfully employed by Six Apart.  She and I then chatted via AIM, and I caught up with her life via her (what felt like one million) weblogs, and enjoyed every minute of it!