I saw this when I logged into my email account today.

Bernie Mac makes off-color joke at Obama event
Comedian Bernie Mac endured some heckling and a campaign rebuke during a surprise appearance Friday night at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in ( Read more... )

I nearly lost it, walking Little Miss Chatterbox to school this morning.  (Little Miss Naughty is staying home with me today, she's not feeling well; and Little Miss Helpful walks herself to school, since she needs to be there 10 minutes earlier than the other two.)  I saw this woman on the other side of the road - I see her every day, but I don't ( Read more... )

One thing you have to understand: head lice is RAMPANT in British schools.  I mean to ridiculous proportions.  Why?  Because of some bullshit PC law that was passed that says that schools aren't allowed to exclude children from school for something like head lice.  Most schools have a policy forbidding teachers to even say anything to the parents ( Read more... )

I have recently discovered that The Hubster absolutely loves me in shrugs.  I have 2, and every time I wear one, he can't seem to keep his hands off of me.

When I first realized it, it came as somewhat a shock.  I'm not exactly the most confident person (ha!), so to think that there's anything in particular that he really likes me in surprises me.  ( Read more... )

I was just outside hanging some laundry out on the line when my best friend came into her back garden (our gardens are separated by a wall that's short enough to see each other's houses over).  She proceeded to tell me that she was speaking with that family yesterday.  The family that has been making our lives a living hell for the last two weeks.

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