a pissing contest
Sorry, it’s Saturday and cce is moving very sssslowlllyyyy after last night’s Cake Walk event. I have a residual “Who Let the Dogs Out” headache. This was my second time running the annual fund raising event for O and G’s elementary school and last night was an uber-success in terms of dollars earned.
Discounting the pain [...]
the former belle of east st. louis
A University of Maryland study issued a few weeks back, finds that today’s mothers are doing a better job parenting than the mothers of years’ past, including the mothers of the June Cleaver era. So stick that up your cookie baking arse, Barbara Billingsley. And wrap that perfect string of pearls around your “former belle [...]
thoughts on faith, mine and Anne Lamott’s
I am a huge Anne Lamott fan. And you can only imagine my thrill when, as I was driving the kids home from tennis lessons on Friday, I caught a bit of an Anne Lamott interview on NPR. I immediately hushed the car. “Listen kids, this is Anne Lamott and she’s really [...]
spring is a time for discovery
Spring is a time for new beginnings, rebirth, unbridled enthusiasms and discovery.
I will share a few things I have discovered this second week of Spring.
1. Vacuuming the dog is a superior way to remove unwanted hair and accumulations of dirt and road salt. She enjoys this and My Better Half finally has the proof that [...]
surly, smart-assed rejection
I am really starting to wonder when Adsense is going to forget about that lice post awhile back. Oh Shit, I’ve typed the word again ensuring a lifetime of LiceKiller ads on my blog. Enough already. If I write about regret and bitterness and abysmal sadness can we at least run some Prozac [...]
i’m not leaving this chair all day
a year without toilet paper and wafflehouse
Just when I was getting ready to admit that I’m having a really hard time making the conversion to CFL light bulbs (global warming or no global warming, the CFL bulb creates an ambiance startlingly like the interior of a Wafflehouse), the NYT publishes an article about the Beavan family and their commitment to a [...]
two things I’m thankful for today
A Blogher post on gratitude has me thinking that it’s time I confess to being thankful for something. Anything. I wouldn’t want my audience to worry that I may be planning to jump off a cliff or drive myself and my children into the bottom of a lake with the windows rolled up.
So [...]
ode to a sump pump
There’s still snow here, lots of it. But I’ve heard the meteorologists calling for rain and a thawing warmth. And I should be happy to get rid of Winter seeing as Spring officially began last night, March 20th at around 7 pm. But I am afraid…. There’s one small problem with spring snow. Spring snow [...]
a silly putty injunction
So we know that O’s been passed over as the valedictorian of 2nd grade, that’s the bad news. But the good news is, he is not yet riding the short bus. In fact, he knows a ridiculous amount about the normally sized, quite new bus that he does ride…manufacturer, gas mileage, average speed that Carl [...]
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