The Teen did not want to watch Tootsie with me.  Instead, she left very early on in the movie and spent her time online.  So I watched for a bit and got bummed out.  The next day we took the movie to my folks.  My mom loves that movie; hopefully it will give her a couple of pleasant hours.

I had to make a decision this week on money--to put it ( Read more... )

The use of the word vagina when one means vulva drives me right up a fucking tree.  It isn't just me being pedantic (I got a whole 'nother room for that), it's me being pedantic in the service of sexual fricking knowledge.  Know the terms, please.  Not bothering to educate yourself, not bothering to use that education serves to show others that no ( Read more... )

Oh, carbs/fiber; I see what you did there....

Weighed myself this morning.  No change.

I will take consolation in the fact that I weighed myself on December 31, and this is only January 9th, and there was a menstrual period in between there.

Bah. The toilet is backing up into the tub. This means I have to clean the basement.

So, let's see--I spilled my 24 oz of fresh, heavily adulterated coffee all over the inside of the "new" van. That was enough to bring me to tears for a second. Thinking of the money down the toilet, thinking of Zaubermaus's papers being ruined, thinking of the smell that would make my husband queasy--great.

(Oh, and she's no longer Freakshow. I know ( Read more... )

Well, after discovering that apparently one of my daughters ate the bag of goldfish crackers that was intended to last the week, I've decided to overhaul the damn lunch situation ( Read more... )

Stupid laser weaponry technology.

I need a boyfriend who's a professor in physics.

I have a headache (one that seems to have hung on since Lilies from a spear thrust). I am bruisingly tired. I'm dieting. I seem to have misplaced half of my garb. I'm autocrating a Kingdom level event. I'm recovering from having one of my teen's friends over to spend the night. I have put on 6 pounds that don't seem to want to leave. I can't ( Read more... )

Bitch, bitch, bitch ( Read more... )