You just don't value clean hair enough until you break a limb and aren't allowed to shower for a week.  (Almost) one down, seven more to go.

Also, Saran Wrap is the best thing EVER.

I think I need a bad fic intervention. I know there's a list somewhere along the lines of "I will stop reading when...." but I seem to have lost sight of it.  Also, there's a LOT of really bad Once Upon A Time Fic out there.  Not to mention the sheer number of shipping wars in that fandom ( Read more... )

I built a sandbox. All by myself (okay, Home Depot cut the lumber for me.) The lid converts into benches for the kids.

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Motherhood is slowly, creepingly turning me into a cut-rate Martha Stewart (lots of good intentions, not so many skills.) So far this year, Chili Pepper mini-pinatas for Cinco De Mayo, paper mache goodie bags for the twins birthday sleepover (which they wore as hats after they were done tearing out the goodies,) paper mache pull-string pinata for ( Read more... )

We're on a long weekend in Mammoth and a bear just went wandering through (and around a couple times) the parking lot, checking out the cars and the dumpsters.  I now have four excited kids running screaming from window to window around the condo (okay, and maybe I went outside and tried to get a better picture of it than I did from the window.)

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Somewhere it is written, "the messier Gayle is when she leaves the house for a quick errand, the more likely it is she'll run into someone she knows ( Read more... )

The picture of my house is updated, not only is there a Porta-Potty in the front yard, but the window is boarded up, the lawn is dead and there's a big pile of trash in the driveway.

And people think I don't own my Collier hertiage!

I don't know, I think it's a toss-up between Matthew Broderick (War Games! Ferris Bueller!) and John Cusack (Better Off Dead!)

...and yet it was still a little bit of a shock to log into Facebook Saturday morning and find a message from Kelly.  "Hi Sister...blah blah yadda ( Read more... )

*hanging head in shame* I joined Twitter. Which is a little sad, in and of itself, but I joined for the sole purpose of becoming one of Misha's Minions and following him slavishly.