I have spent the holiday eating, laying around, hiding from relatives, eating again, reading, playing Angry Birds, watching hockey & well eating. I think that holiday strategy gets an A+ for effort and execution. I hope your holidays have been similarly tasty & enjoyable ( Read more... )

No one tells you about nodding, but really, it is the most helpful of parenting skills. It gets you through long involved conversations about the minutia of swim practice, or the ongoing debate about chairs and flute I or flute II. It gets you through conversations with other parents where they go on & on about their kids doing something with kids ( Read more... )

At this moment, my dog (a german shepard mix) is asleep & snoring at the foot of my bed. I'm betting a good chunk of my FL will understand my amusement at this. Poor Lucky ( Read more... )

Maggie is working on the first draft of her research paper. Her process? Write 2 paragraphs - stop to whine about citations, write another 2 paragraphs - whine about whether she should single space or double space after a period, write another 2 paragraphs - get up to walk around since she's been working "REALLY HARD". (And Wow, that's remarkably ( Read more... )

On the work front, our office made budget today by a razor thin $229! We knew we would reach that goal before the end of the year, but we really really wanted it to happen NOW! (So far only 8 offices have made budget, and we're the only one in our region expected to reach that milestone.) We spent the afternoon celebrating with awful booze. We ( Read more... )

I'm on my third latte of the morning if that tells you anything. Here's some notes on the week ( Read more... )

Thank god for Vividcon. What a fun weekend that was ( Read more... )

Simply because this is too funny not to share.


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As any parent will tell you, car rides are informational gold mines. I can learn more about what's going on with my girls in a 5 minute car ride than I can in an hour long face to face chat ( Read more... )

Reports of my demise may have been greatly exaggerated. Work still sucks. My crazy brain still sucks.The ongoing HOMEWORK WARS v2.o with Rose still suck. I may shove this stupid mousetrap car project Maggie had to do for science class up her teacher's nose. But other than that ( Read more... )