Archive for March, 2008

here, fishy-fishy

 
Ok, so technically it’s not Monday.  Bite me.  Trying to pack for a vacation is hard enough, but trying to pack for a vacation for five people it like trying to be Martha Stewart on the verge of a nervous breakdown because your entire crew of handlers and assistants and sunshine-blowers are watching Dora the Explorer […]

peeping on someone else’s blog

This post on anne nahm had me laughing out loud tonight.  Just in time for Easter!
Top Seven Reasons Why Peeps Are Evil 

Eureka!

After having the courage to come forward and talk about Taxidermy Cat earlier this week, I decided to go for it and actually try to FIND Taxidermy Cat so that I could take its picture and have its fur sent away for DNA testing. Because I practiced some google-fu on my limited taxidermy […]

Meow.

Every once in a while, a relative of yours will give your child a gift that either shocks or dismays you. Or both. In our household, the toy of choice recently has been Taxidermy Cat. She made her appearance under the Christmas tree this year - a “stuffed” cat so lifelike, I […]

family

 
Or lack thereof, actually.   The kids were both off with their friends this weekend - between swimming, basketball, sleepovers, and lighting tire fires with Molotov cocktails, I barely saw them at all.   It was kind of weird, but not totally awful.  Besides, I’m sure we’ll get our fill of each other in 13 days, when […]

bombshells

Tonight I took my 12-year old son to Old Navy to buy clothes to maintain our complete and total assimilation with average middle-class culture, when he decided that he wanted to tell me something. But, the catch was, I had to promise not to freak out.
Let’s pause and think about what flashes through most […]

laundry

I detest doing laundry, but I love the smell of it.  I’m addicted to these reed diffusers from Partylite - a friend gave me one as a birthday gift in their “clean cotton” scent back in October, and it’s still going strong.  (I bought an el-cheapo from Linens and Things a few weeks later for another […]