Archives: 2008 January

I attended my first book club meeting last night.  Okay, so I didn’t exactly finish the book.  Out of  ”eat, pray, love”, I was really only prepared to discuss “eat”.    Given my voracious appetite lately, this seems appropriate.  However, I probably would’ve related more if the author had spent the entire first six months in an [...]

Actually, today was a pretty good day for hubby.  Although he still hasn’t mastered the trash can (or recycling bin, but that would really be pushing it):

Also, my husband apparently has yet to figure out that dirty clothes don’t walk themselves down to the laundry room.  If only we could train the clothes!  However, since I can’t [...]

So, when my husband and I argue about who’s messier, he always plays the “you never clean out the garage” card.  I will admit, I don’t do much cleaning in the garage.  In fact, I rarely venture into the garage at all—it’s creepy. 
See, we live next to an uninhabited hilly area.  Residing in uninhabited hilly areas are oodles of rats.  [...]

I admit it.  I did.  I got sucked in by all the TV hype, especially that show, “Miss America:  Reality Check”.  I was really optimistic that things would change, that maybe they really were going to modernize the pageant this year.  Although I’m not even sure what that entails.  I mean, let’s get serious—how modern can you [...]

I think I’ve mentioned this before, but I have a great husband.  Really, he’s wonderful—super supportive, quick to send me on a mom’s night out, etc, etc.  He’s also a great father.  He loves to spend time with the munchkins, and rarely complains.
But, he does come with one minor glitch.  He’s a slob.  Which in [...]

So, my husband got the urge to clean out/tidy up the food in the kitchen cabinets today.  This sounds more impressive than it actually is, given the fact that our real-life kitchen is about the size of one of those Step 2 play kitchens.  But still, I can’t complain., and I’ve learned you never, ever [...]

Sometimes, I just can’t believe that so much poop can come out of one little baby. 
Today, she had the mother of all blow-outs, in Target, no less  She must have known that I was out of good diapers and had her strapped into an inferior brand that was fairly busting at the seams anyway, since [...]

As you may or may not know, we have three dogs in our household.  On any given day, that’s three too many.
First of all, we have Peanut, the neurotic growl-machine mini-Rottweiler.  I’ve already discussed his growling issue (to growl or not to growl), but he has a few hundred other foibles that make him, well, [...]

…even I can tell the difference between these brake pads. 

This time, we got us a nice shiny new set of calipers to go along with the rotors and brake pads.  The price difference two weeks makes?   About $100.   Now, don’t get me wrong—I like a nice pair of calipers just as much as the next [...]

Apparently, this is how we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day around here.
 They had a dream, all right.