tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66959822009-05-09T13:13:32.539-07:00the personal website of svetlana petrovna dubenkosvetlananoreply@blogger.comBlogger375125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-77355540488971493902007-09-25T00:50:00.000-07:002007-09-25T01:03:34.648-07:00

(right-click and open in new window to listen along as you read)I don't know youBut I want youAll the more for thatWords fall through meAnd always fool meAnd I can't reactAnd games that never amountTo more than they're meantWill play themselves outTake this sinking boat and point it homeWe've still got timeRaise your hopeful voice you have a choiceYou've made it nowFalling slowly, eyes that know

svetlananoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-87107456163947656702007-09-06T10:39:00.000-07:002007-09-06T19:05:19.052-07:00

online outdoor activity groups: lame or not lame?meetup.com hosts a variety of sports-themed online clubs that plan events and then arrange to meet up and do them.i recently signed up for the sacramento hiking meetup group. i figured there was nothing in flat, fat stockton and i needed to venture north to get the fun i was looking for. unfortunately, i don't know my way around all the good places

svetlananoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-80514980214970985202007-09-03T22:19:00.000-07:002007-09-03T22:28:04.647-07:00

i went shopping for a replacement phone tonight, hoping to come across a labour day deal. the guy at the sprint kiosk at the mall assured me he could get me a cheap phone... he's gonna check some stuff out with his friends in a day or two and call me on my home number. it feels like a drug deal. it makes me chuckle.the life of a mysterious mobile phone dealer is probably more exciting than we

svetlananoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-49422637580168225542007-09-03T14:33:00.000-07:002007-09-03T22:16:05.952-07:00

i want to play outside.i didn't have the brainpower to plan ahead this labor day weekend... so now it's monday afternoon... i've got my bike in the boot, cooler packed with ice and the car's got petrol... and i can't decide where to go.andrew the nephew said he'd join me, if i 'really needed a buddy'.... but at 8 years old, he'd rather stay home and play with his cool K'NEX. they're like high

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-73256866684519641692007-09-01T07:29:00.000-07:002007-09-01T10:01:47.901-07:00

my brain is still struggling to function- i've got a date in an hour... and it's 7am now. do i shave my legs? do i brush my hair? the answer is no. and i won't even put on clean socks. i might, however, have my breakfast.being up early on a saturday after a late friday night will be worth having a few hours to hang out with my man. currently living on opposite sides of the planet and separated in

svetlananoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-46888353754569162472007-08-31T12:15:00.000-07:002007-08-31T12:28:25.275-07:00

ever have such a hard time keeping your cool that you get the shakes?we're supposed to 'kill 'em with kindness'. we're supposed to smile, hope they one day will understand the grief you're experiencing (perhaps even make amends) and we're supposed to have the patience to let that one day come in its own timing.i crawled outside that jesus-attitude box once today and wished i stayed in it. silence

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-51287816131359768292007-08-29T21:56:00.000-07:002007-08-29T22:14:52.577-07:00

did you ever have a clear sign something was going to bomb from day one?my phone died. my razr v3m 'all the rave' phone. it pooped.i guess i sweated a bit too much on a run last week... brought it home, set it on the counter and it died. granted it was probably high 90's at the time- i was pretty grimy.anyhow it's dead and sprint isn't going to replace it. i had no insurance on it and i don't

svetlananoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-996712307912873682007-08-26T22:23:00.001-07:002007-08-26T22:58:58.346-07:00

myspace got creepy. and just as well- facebook is the better community to have. i'm still new in town, but the place is growing on me and i like it.i once thought i valued my privacy. now, i display my life online. my personal security is on a downward spiral and i can't seem to want to stop it. what is it about having an online presence that appeals so darn much?this video scares me, but not

svetlananoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-25266893903417795962007-08-21T22:50:00.000-07:002007-08-26T21:55:25.249-07:00

the bug is gone.being ill and unable to move much, i got to watching the telly a bit... and caught the national championships for gymnastics last night. reminded me how i still "one of these days..." want to take gymnastics. yeah. grown-up me in a class with a bunch of 4 year olds learning to tumble. can you see it?if i could change one thing about being little, i'd have had my hand at the

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-18380615019705712782007-08-19T08:38:00.001-07:002007-08-19T09:02:06.556-07:00

aloha!it takes a 24 hour puking bug to get me back on the blog... with a new determination (i have a feeling i've said this before) to contribute more frequently.i don't like puking.each time it's different- isn't that funny? you think if you puke, you puke. end of story. but some episodes are remembered to be more violent than others. some leave more exclamation points behind the eyelids. some

svetlananoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-17242266889221181132007-05-18T23:30:00.000-07:002007-05-19T00:14:18.309-07:00

whatever will i do this weekend?this was the weekend i set aside for the shooting star mini adventure race. it bonked- flat disappeared out of race schedules nationwide, so no race. lodi is having a half marathon at a winery and is offering some cool perks to entering... but i held out to do bay to breakers with my dad... who decided to go to carlsbad with his brother instead... bummer.although

svetlananoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-51992876448360792282007-05-13T22:20:00.000-07:002007-05-13T22:33:53.651-07:00

it's pathetic to think of how many posts i have sitting in draft form... there's so much i want to tell you- so many great details seem to fall in the cracks in the blog floorboards... i regret that.vomiting oodles of information for the sake of catching up will not benefit you nor me- you'd explode from info overload and i would hate writing something that felt more report-like than a

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-15043264720317672802007-04-28T23:29:00.000-07:002007-05-13T22:32:41.849-07:00

i'm surprised dubenko.com is still getting hits. all of my regular readers (simply put, you and the person peeking through your windows) know there isn't much adventure on the dubenko train these days.new visitors are coming in via the link on 2000 bloggers. did i mentioned it before? i didn't submit my blog but there i am. just around the corner from jamie oliver.

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-11482918890210340592007-04-27T20:45:00.000-07:002007-04-28T23:16:23.256-07:00

The portable fans came out of storage tonight and the AC kicked on for the first time this year. What's it going to be like when summer gets here?Note that it's HOT at 8:30PM. 32C tomorrow. So much for April showers. time to stock up on flip flops, ice cubes and not much else.

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-32713629929642258422007-04-27T18:16:00.000-07:002007-04-27T19:00:54.628-07:00

perhaps 2 weeks between posts is much too long and i should have said this earlier:here's what we did last sunday- watch the video.

svetlananoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-2771575387894289052007-04-13T23:04:00.000-07:002007-04-13T23:09:21.136-07:00

david letterman just announced tomorrow is scottish day.

svetlananoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-8279763892973977132007-04-13T21:50:00.000-07:002007-04-14T07:03:39.353-07:00

today was filled with really satisfying, normal stuff.after a couple of days of not getting outdoors, i had a 6-mile adventure with rusty after work. i burned a hole in the wallet and bought a sweet skirt for 5 bucks. i've got a nice glass of cold lemonade. (i'm soda-free today. gonna try to wean myself again.) life is good. i have a job. it's near the water. i get to spend my sunny lunch hour

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-50783576320152481132007-04-04T22:20:00.000-07:002007-04-05T09:07:11.534-07:00

the ace of all accomplishments it will be. the top dog of all triumphs rusty will be. the vixen of all victories (and more!) will i be, when i finish drawing circles around the green spaces on my map of stockton.it was rusty's idea. he said woof, and i said how high?okay, to be fair, he actually said howl, growl. get your bum out of bed, get over your jetlag and take me to all the parks in this

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-85429781478474889152007-04-01T23:16:00.000-07:002007-04-01T23:29:44.046-07:00

if there is ever a day to fake out your readers and stage a blog's resurection, April 1st is it.So much to say. I've been to Costa Rica in February and went back to Scotland for a visit in March. I spent some time in Wales and even hit Alton Towers in Northern England. However, Stockton is still home and it is where I kick off my shoes at the end of these sunny spring days.I've been slowly

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-11794747297890875382007-02-03T22:25:00.001-08:002007-02-03T23:06:37.090-08:00

i managed to get the archive links half working... if you click on the month you want to read from in the drop down archive window, the relevant blogs will come up now.however, from that reading page, the next month you click on will not take you anywhere. you'll have to click back on the home link in the left margin (get yourself back to the original page) and then manouver your way to a

svetlananoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-52430944244719600862007-01-15T07:24:00.000-08:002007-02-03T23:35:47.149-08:00

sunday morning i ran past miles of fields. roosters crowed at me. a lot. i almost kicked a cattle skull that was lying in my path. there were volunteers wearing cowboy hats and blasting country music at us.i reminded myself, 'we are no longer in the city, self. we have officially arrived in boonie, california.'aside from the hillbilly country culture shock from scheduling a running race in the

svetlananoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-89563839004098099792007-01-14T18:38:00.000-08:002007-01-14T20:15:41.291-08:00

went with the fam to the local private university to watch a basketball game. uber cool. had more fun experiencing the american cheese than i have in a LONG time. from swingband pep musak to brilliant scoreboard displays, i was whooping along with the rest of them, wearing the school colors proudly. yes, i wore orange and black on purpose. why not. it's what americans do, no?we showed up early. i

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-61555406937169212262007-01-13T22:39:00.000-08:002007-01-13T22:48:41.294-08:00

i need a haircut. i've been surfing for ideas. here's what one website advises:HEART shape! has wide cheekbones and broad forehead tapering down into a small sometimes pointed chin. Hair styles needs to balance a narrow chin and wide brow by increasing width around the chin. Avoid any style with a middle parting or a very short fringe.ahem... ignore middle parting in photo directly left. and this

svetlananoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-48439687126394690622007-01-10T09:29:00.000-08:002007-01-10T09:34:07.696-08:00

words i have to correct the spelling for on my C.V.i mean, my resume.programmesutilisespecialiseanalyseorganisefoofooshmise

svetlananoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6695982.post-37238553640768086382007-01-10T08:27:00.000-08:002007-01-14T18:29:54.531-08:00

i discovered lulu.com this morning.i had a nervous excitement- the kind set aside for a big project or something of great importance. it's been a while since i've been in the habit of writing, but i've tossed some ideas around, lately. (to myself, that is.) i found some old short stories in the storage. i'd like to do something with them. i'm thinking children's books.i'm also thinking these are

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