Monday afternoon my second grade son got off of the bus waving around what appeared to be a piece of paper. “Mom! Jacob W. just gave me fifty bucks!” It really looked like a fifty dollar bill, but that was impossible, right? Jacob W. is in first grade. He handed it to me and there [...]
February 13, 2012 3 Comments
It is a lightsaber and you are all perverts.
February 4, 2012 10 Comments
This is my neighbor’s pinewood derby car.
They’re Unstoppable
February 1, 2012 2 Comments
My love for the Super Bowl has been well documented. I’ve even gone on the record talking about my favorite Super Bowl commercials. Of course you remember the Mean Joe Green commercial, right? Well then, you are going to love this. Go ahead, click it, it is a sneak preview commercial.
I Think it is Really All About the Pick Axe
January 27, 2012 5 Comments
Him: I think I want to be a miner when I grown up. Me: A miner? Him: Yes. A miner.
The Things that Come Out of My Mouth
January 19, 2012 10 Comments
When I told somebody that my notary was in Aruba I thought it was probably the most ridiculous sentence that had ever come out of my mouth. It was true (if by my notary you mean my friend who I just found out was a notary, but he lives really close to me and he [...]
Nesting
January 17, 2012 6 Comments
I’m nesting. I’m not pregnant. I am not adopting. I’m not even getting a puppy, but I am nesting.
What Sucks: Part 1
January 15, 2012 4 Comments
You know what sucks? Realizing that your iPod is on repeat instead of shuffle after you get in the shower.
Five Things
January 13, 2012 16 Comments
1) I was pretty disappointed with the novel “The Marriage Plot” by Jeffrey Euginides. I loved his first two novels “The Virgin Suicides” and “Middlesex” and this one was just okay. I am still convinced that the first half of the book was an exercise to see how many authors names he could fit into [...]
A Fair Punishment For Cannibalism
January 12, 2012 2 Comments
I volunteer at the elementary school on a regular basis and this week I was reading about ants with a first grader. The deal is that I have the child read me a few pages and then I ask him or her about what he or she has just read. In this case a little [...]
Do I Think Like a Guy?
January 9, 2012 11 Comments
I have spent the last four days asking my male friends if I think like a guy. I actually have a valid reason for asking. Without forcing my readers to take a survey (yet) I am trying to figure out why my audience here is almost half menfolk. Maybe it is because this is the [...]
Looking Forward
January 3, 2012 8 Comments
I know that I haven’t been writing much here. It isn’t that I’m not trying. I have 14 half-written posts in drafts, I just can’t seem to finish anything. If I do happen to finish something it seems to boring to publish, or more likely it ends up on one of the six other sites [...]
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