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Ordering the vegetarian meal doesn't always work. We're actually vegetarian and the majority of the time we get no meal because they say the food service usually forgets to add the veggie dinners in. I haven't had a meal for my last 4 or 5 flights. Next time, I'm taking snacks.

I like the freezer idea! We stop storing food scraps in the summer because of the influx of fruit flies here in Seattle. I'm going to try this instead. Thanks, Francesca!

What a gorgeous set. I love it all!

A book contest! Count us in, please!

My son isn't scared of much, but automatic toilets freak him out. He tries to figure out a way to pee with his hands over his ears every time.

Why not have incentives to renovate and restore greenly? Why just new structures?

Sorry, Portland. That sounds like something that would happen here (Seattle). Our mayor got national coverage last year for promising to add a lot more bike lanes to make Seattle more green. A year later most of the plans have been scrapped and here and there they've created "bike areas" by painting stick people on bikes within the car lanes.

We recently completed our daughter's adoption. The process took two years, and it left me plenty of time to fuss and plan. I was continuously looking for a great crib quilt. Nothing too cutesy, too plain, too frilly... I could never find something I could actually picture her wrapped in. I started looking at designer sets, and I thought, "If I'm going to splurge- I'm going to get exactly what I want."

So, in lieu of a crib set I bought a sewing machine and a few yards of cotton. I took all of my nervous energy and turned the fabric into strips, and then patterns, until I had a beautiful log cabin design. An old pattern with modern fabrics and a personal twist. I'd never quilted before, but I learned as I went.

I finished the quilt before our adoption was complete. I could envision our daughter on top of the quilt on the grass in the summer, under the quilt snug through the winter. The adoption took on a new reality and I knew that it would happen and our daughter would come home. It did and she has.

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