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Stephen King says adverbs are bad. Actually, he says "The road to hell is paved with adverbs"*Headdesk* I've said it before and I'll say it again, but YOU CANNOT FUCKING WRITE WITHOUT FUCKING ADVERBS. No, you shouldn't use an adverb in every fucking sentence, but to leave them out entirely is A) impossible and B) just damned silly ( Read more... )

So today I spent about... 8 straight hours with an almost-three-year-old. We went and picked up her sister from grandma's, so for about 2.5 of those hours, it was both of them ( Read more... )

God, I am SO OVER whiny little bitches falling apart just because I tell them that NO, they cannot put their grubby little paws all over something of mine ( Read more... )

Yeah, I can see where they're coming from ( Read more... )

Look, I know we're all ugly Americans over here, and particularly in my neck of the woods. However, that DOES NOT CHANGE the way the word "provocateur" is pronounced. That EU? Isn't elided to just plain ol' short e ( Read more... )

That I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for whichever Kardashian woman is on the cover of People, whining about being single at thirty.

Yeah. Wake me when she has something legitimate to bitch about. (Also, where did the Kardashians COME from? I woke up one day and they're EVERYWHERE, like ivy or kudzu.)

The girlcat will NOT be happy until she has pushed, pulled, knocked, dragged, or otherwise removed EVERYTHING from my nightstand.

Also, she will not shut up.

It's a good thing I'm not trying to sleep, but I was kind of hoping I would, eventually. (Yeah, I'll throw her out and close my door, but the peace only lasts until she decides she wants ( Read more... )

Dear Neighbor With The German Shepherd(s):

Hi. Look, I know that 9 AM is, technically, not that early. I know that most people are at least awake, if not actually at work by 9 ( Read more... )

( To spare the uninterested. Besides, it's minor and whiny and who wants to read that? )