Once your kids start leaving for college, you do go broke, but there are pluses as well. Namely an extra bedroom yearning to become a craft room slash sewing room slash art studio (depending on my mood). The recently-vacated bedroom in my house is located right next to the kitchen (an awful place for a […]
Short for Big Fat Liar. Why? Because at the crack of dawn (before that actually) Mister was leaving for work and said to me, “can you hang up my clothes that are in the dryer? Don’t forget!” Because the children are out of school today (three day vacation, heaven only knows why), I was fast […]
So, Austin is hot. And hot places have one thing in common: there are lots of critters. It only makes sense since it rarely gets cold enough to kill all the bugs and snakes. Yes, there are scorpions here. If you live in a house less than a year or two old, there will still […]
Dear Teacher, I couldn’t help but notice that heaping bounty of gifts on your desk today. Especially when you decided to open them all with the children seated around you like a second-grade baby shower. Here is what I will be giving you this Christmas season: UPDATE: OK, you guys, I’m joking. I always give […]
This is almost too incredible to be believed, but it is true: Porn industry seeks federal bailout The best part of the article? Larry Flynt’s quote that “People are too depressed to be sexually active. This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without […]
You might not believe this since I’m the mother of six, but it’s is my first year being a soccer mom. I’ve avoided the stigma of soccer mom-dom for many years, for the same reasons that many mothers refuse to drive minivans: you feel like you have lost every bit of cool-ness and are now […]
NaBloPoMo* is over! It was hard writing every day. Especially while in a turkey-induced coma that lasted nearly three days. For all you food storage followers: we will be taking off the entire month of December. So no canned goods or other sundries until January. Hopefully you won’t be stone broke by then! Remember that […]
I was pulling into the convenience store this morning to get myself a Coke Zero (it has just been one of those mornings. The kind where I feel like a giant exhausted slug) when I noticed a big Doritos truck. I remember as a kid passing trucks full of potato chips and wishing that they […]
If you’ve got a houseful of bored people or just wish you lived someplace snowy, this is the perfect craft. You can’t very well go skiing on paper snowflakes but they add a nice wintery touch your house long after the Christmas decorations have been put away. They are also very addictive to make. Our […]
Short for Big Fat Liar. Why? Because at the crack of dawn (before that actually) Mister was leaving for work and said to me, “can you hang up my clothes that are in the dryer? Don’t forget!” Because the children are out of school today (three day vacation, heaven only knows why), I was fast […]
For a few weeks there has been a foul, foul stench in my pantry. It smells like rotting something. Maybe a tiny animal corpse, maybe an onion, I don’t know. All I know is that when I open my pantry, the smell hits me, and try as I might, I can’t find it. After a […]
A couple of weeks ago I was waiting in line at the grocery store. A friend of mine called my cell phone and we had a nice little conversation. As I got toward the front of the line I could tell the lady behind me was very put out. She was sighing loudly and loading […]
Dear Teacher, I couldn’t help but notice that heaping bounty of gifts on your desk today. Especially when you decided to open them all with the children seated around you like a second-grade baby shower. Here is what I will be giving you this Christmas season: UPDATE: OK, you guys, I’m joking. I always give […]
This is almost too incredible to be believed, but it is true: Porn industry seeks federal bailout The best part of the article? Larry Flynt’s quote that “People are too depressed to be sexually active. This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such but they cannot do without […]