::turning little monkeys into men::
Posted in Donny O. on Oct 28th, 2007
“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend
All losses are restor’d, and sorrows end.”
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Thanks for teaching us Beowulf, for The Canterbury Tales in Middle English, for Bible as Literature, for telling me that you once loved Ayn […]
I think I could count the minutes I spent thinking about my “diet” in high school on one hand. I was a dancer, I ran track, and though coffee, cigarettes and leisurely evenings at The Zone or Mad Hatter solving the world’s problems were part of my after-school entertainments so were rollerblading, street hockey and […]
Posted in Interesting, in-laws, kidlets on Oct 22nd, 2007
Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Church People.
Inauspicious circumstances at church have led to the cancellation of the previously scheduled blow-out Dol/baptism/”Meet the Church People” extravaganza.
Church People have been shuffling off this mortal coil at an alarming rate and my mother-in-law doesn’t feel the timing is right for the Party […]
Posted in foodie, hilarity, kidlets, parenting, wtf? on Oct 16th, 2007
My husband, the kids and I (sans Mitten, who was at school) were grocery shopping. Toot was riding in the yellow plastic car affixed to the front of what can only be described as “the most unwieldy shopping cart of all time”. Daddy was pushing her. I was holding The Boy. When we got in […]
Remember how, not that long ago really, your Saturday night began around 11:30pm?
How you’d prepare, so carefully, to meet your friends at the Club for drinks and dancing - hair just so, eyeliner perfect, boots to the knee. How you’d have a whole brothel of French Whores? Dance and gossip and leave exhausted at 4am […]
There is nothing like waking up to a block to block manhunt to really set the tone for the day. I can confidently say that caffeine becomes quite unnecessary after a receiving an email from your child’s school informing you that because an armed robbery has taken place around the block from your house, said […]
Last Friday, in a flurry of last minute baby shower activity, I took Toot and The Boy to Cost Plus World Mart to look for a hallway mirror. Our mission successful, we were on our way to the register when we walked past a middle-aged Asian woman. We noted each other politely, the way all […]
We met the Mouses and their 2 boys for brunch Sunday morning.
The oldest, a mature 5, got this adorably poleaxed look on his face when he came into the restaurant and noticed Mitten. He spent the rest of the meal simultaneously trying to remember her name and impress her.
Mr. Mouse to Junior Mouse: “You need […]
Posted in about, illness, midcentmodlust on Oct 3rd, 2007
I’m either depressed or coming down with the flu or mastitis. I spent most of yesterday gnawing my liver with jealousy after seeing to what extent the cool people at Dooce and Sweet Juniper are living my mid-century modern fantasy life and going through Design*Sponge till I got that overwhelmed and queasy feeling that comes […]
I feel like the pledge-master of a frat house this morning.
I haven’t showered since Sunday. I’ve got one person smoking a cigarette on the porch in pajamas, another eating a piece of cold pizza for breakfast sans pants and a third, shirtless, lying on the floor and crying.
Can I bong my espresso? I’m pretty […]
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