Always listen to kadnkadnk, for she is always right.

That is all.

The Official First Head Cold of the Season has hit us all over here at Casa Contagion. The thrills! The chills! The headache! The used tissues all over the floor because apparently it only takes one weekend away at Daddy's to forget the location of all the household trash buckets!

Eating soup, drinking tea, trying not to think.

The boys and I are heading down to CT to spend the last few days of summer with the grandparents (and, more importantly, their sandboxes). Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend and a restful Labor Day!

I'm exhausted. I'm just ... exhausted. Stick a fork in me, I'm done. I should be doing a hundred more important things right now, but all I have the mental energy for is sitting here, eating mint chocolate chip ice cream and playing Text Twist. Pathetic ( Read more... )

In the context of a conversation stemming from the song "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper:

Masa: "I apologize for the youth I mis-spent learning science and math."
Me: "Yeah. Why weren't you playing Super Mario Brothers and touching yourself like the rest of us?"

So I recently had an experience. Forty-eight hours without internet access. On Wednesday, our region experienced some severe storms - high winds, downed power lines, downed power *poles*, thunderstorms and tornadoes and rain, oh my! Things got so bad that at one point while Ethan was at school, they made all the kids go to the tornado shelter, and ( Read more... )

Today's featured Mom Almighty confession:

I've become addicted to Gossip Girl. Yes, I know: I'm a 32-year-old mother of two. I'm *eversoslightly* outside the program's target demographic. And yet ( Read more... )

I want to wish a Happy Mother's Day to all the mommas. Y'all are incredible and brilliant and creative and inspiring always, and I am truly blessed to know you. Have a wonderful day!

1. A QOTD, while Ethan was explaining Life, The Universe, And Everything during a program about black holes: "Nothing's faster than light speed. Warp speed is faster, but that's just a pretend speed."

2. FreeRice. Polish up your vocabulary, donate rice to hungry people, all for free. Play it a lot.

So I have to ask a question:

There is currently a Lamborghini parked on the side of the road outside my apartment complex. It is silver and open-top - my research seems to indicate it is a Murciélago roadster, circa 2005 or later. Now, I had occasion to walk past this car while walking Ethan to school, and again when returning home with Gabe, and ( Read more... )