This has been a very destructive and expensive bit of time. The navigator in my SUV goes all wonky sometimes and decides to run off of battery power instead of its adapter. When it does that, it goes big time dead. The kind of dead where you have to take it out of the SUV… Continue reading When Just About Everything In Our House Fell Apart
Category: Life
I Broke the Toilet
So this happened last night: Take a look at the bottom of the tank. See that crack? The water in the tank really appreciated that crack since that crack made it possible for the water to attack my bathroom and me. We are now a one toilet house. This sucks.
The Parent-Teacher Conference
Today has been an enlightening day. After my post about Cara’s anxiety over school, I was ready to get her school stuff sorted out and get on with life. Tucker was home today so we had plenty of time to discuss what we wanted to talk about with Cara’s teacher. Looking back on my post,… Continue reading The Parent-Teacher Conference
I Feel Like I Failed My Baby
“I have something to confess: my clip hasn’t moved up to the top every day.” That was Friday pickup. The way class discipline goes is Cara has a clothes pin that starts out on “Ready To Learn.” Her clip can move up two spaces and down two spaces. There’s nothing wrong–in our eyes–with her clip staying at… Continue reading I Feel Like I Failed My Baby
Sophie the Pit Bull Ate a Box of Chicken Juice
All of Cara’s permission slips are due for her field trip[link] tomorrow so today was Errand Day. The way things work when we get ready to leave the house is I make sure Ollie’s gone to the bathroom, I make sure he’s put his pants back on, I grab my phone, I make sure our bathroom… Continue reading Sophie the Pit Bull Ate a Box of Chicken Juice
Notarized Field Trip Slip?
Cara brought home her “Wednesday Folder” today–it’s always packed full of forms and requests for money–and along with her work from the past week, there was a stapled group of permissions slips for me to sign and get notorized. Notorized. NOTORIZED. I’m not quite sure why this bugs me so much. First off, I have… Continue reading Notarized Field Trip Slip?
There’s Gonna Be A Whole Lotta Changes
Expect the site to be broken occasionally. That’s not to say you should stop coming by; I didn’t say that at all. And you should be able to actually GET here…I just don’t know what it’ll look like once you’re here. You might notice I’ve moved and added and deleted some stuff. More stuff is… Continue reading There’s Gonna Be A Whole Lotta Changes
Soul Discussions and Dust: An Elysian Tail
A while back I downloaded the demo for Dust: An Elysian Tail. I had heard nothing but good things from Sm1tty about the game and I didn’t have any cash on me and wanted something solid to play around with while I waited for my next check. You know a demo’s doing it right… Continue reading Soul Discussions and Dust: An Elysian Tail
The Dog Didn’t Eat Cara’s Homework But She Might As Well Have
Part of the “required gear” for kindergarten kids is a sign on their backpacks with their name, who is picking them up, make and color of car and the adult’s phone number. I worked one up in Photoshop and had Tucker print off multiple versions we could change out if she was walking or if… Continue reading The Dog Didn’t Eat Cara’s Homework But She Might As Well Have
Diary Entry 8.31.12
Paperwork from Cara’s School and the Missing Blue Thing I’m assuming the beginning of every school year includes a ridiculous amount of paperwork and forms and “give us money for this” and “give us money for that” and “Please donate because if you don’t everyone will know you hate your children and secretly want to… Continue reading Diary Entry 8.31.12
Condoleezza Rice’s RNC Speech Video In Case You Didn’t Get To See It All Either
I was watching Condoleezza Rice’s speech and PBS cut her off to go to a “commercial” right after a very emotional part of the speech and I was SO ANGRY! AMY SMASH! Since I can’t be the only person who missed the whole speech last night, I’m putting it up here. You’re welcome. Read the… Continue reading Condoleezza Rice’s RNC Speech Video In Case You Didn’t Get To See It All Either
Kindergarten: One Week Gone
We have officially made it through our first week of kindergarten and we’re all in one piece. Life has gone on. None of us have been stumbling around like zombies in search of juicy brains. I’m just as surprised as you. Yesterday was the first day Cara was excited about school when I picked her… Continue reading Kindergarten: One Week Gone