On the left side of the sanity bell curve
Welp, yesterday was Tucker and my anniversary. I don’t remember what year the blessed event occurred; I use Sophie’s age (minus two one years) to keep up with the quantity of years. I figure if I remember the month and day, I’m doing pretty good. And normally I do. Except for this year. Correction on my… Continue reading Happy NINTH Anniversary, jerk.
I’m a pretty open-minded person. As long as you aren’t affecting me or mine, go on with it. I also have a tendency to play the devil’s advocate so I sometimes have a hard time nailing down exactly where I stand on some topics. This one topic? I KNOW EXACTLY HOW I FEEL! IF YOU GET… Continue reading An Unexpected Google Image Result and How I Reported Child Porn
Last year’s garden was all that awesome. The soil an idiot at Lowe’s recommended to me was essentially softwood and “wood products” mulch which caused weird deficiencies in the plants and when paired with me planting all of my seedlings too early…well… Eventually the garden got its act together and the plants started to rally;… Continue reading The 2013 Garden Update: Not As Lame As You’re Expecting
There is something extremely annoying about right now at this time. I have good ideas for things, e.g., post topics, kids’ crafts, showering, but once I get serious about doing any of those things, they just take too damn much effort; I’m just too tired. When I’ve told my therapist about this crushing–Yeah. I know.… Continue reading Love Me. Hate Me. Pretending Is Too Damn Exhausting.
The night was most agreeable save for the cacophony of wings from armored bugs which did not realize their time was almost at an end based on the month for which they are named. Taking refuge in the garage, I was greeted by the most massive black and scarlet arachnid my eyes have ever had… Continue reading Nocturnal Companion: The Devil’s Handmaiden
I’m hot. IT IS 85° IN MY HOUSE RIGHT NOW! Yes, I am sweating. Yes, Sophie the Wonder Pit Bull refuses to remove her geriatric self from the tile floor. Yes, everyone is at everyone else’s throats. It is tons of fun up in here. I’ve been so proud of us for not turning the… Continue reading Heat, Camping, Job, Kids/School, Running and Gifs
WARNING! This post contains spoilers, quotes from The Silver Linings Playbook book and I discuss the movie in detail. If you haven’t read the book and/or seen the movie and you don’t want to know what’s gonna happen, I suggest you go read other awesome things I’ve written. For instance, you might check out “My… Continue reading Seven Gripes About the Differences Between The Silver Linings Playbook Book and Movie
Tucker and I dropped the kids off with his folks yesterday. We now have six days of glorious freedom where we get to pretend we’re just 30-something married people with a dog and no kids. Until we happen to find a kid sock somewhere or one of us remembers something cute one of them did.… Continue reading Conversation with Tucker: Desert Island vs Deserted Island and Fabulous Camels [video]
I started The Fault in Our Stars last night. I stayed up until 3 am and finally drifted off to sleep on a wet pillow. Tucker and I have been longtime fans of John Green since we first discovered the YouTube channel he has with his brother Hank. Anyway, I was telling Tucker how I’m… Continue reading Are the Only Good Writers the Writers Whose Work Evolves? Let’s Discuss.
My kids consider any temperature above arctic to be perfect for playing outside and one of their favorite activities is to create epic masterpieces with sidewalk chalk on our driveway. The days have been in the 50s and 60s around here and that means it’s chalk time. The problem we run into is, even when we… Continue reading Make Homemade Sidewalk Chalk
Who feels like giving–free–legal advice for a hypothetical situation. Hypothetical because this SO didn’t happen to me today. At. All. MY FRIEND–totally not me–stopped by the gas station outside of Walmart to grab a drink. She parked in front of the kiosk thing and left her kids in the car while she ran a short… Continue reading Lawyer Readers? Free Hypothetical Wreck Advice? Not About Me. Nope.
Before Tucker left, he joked about having to spend a week fixing all the stuff the kids and I broke while he was gone. Bet he wasn’t expecting me to break a kid. OK. So I didn’t break Ollie. Ollie broke himself. Well…I guess the chair broke Ollie but Ollie caused it so it’s his fault.… Continue reading Ollie Broke Himself. Kind Of.
