Digital Calendar + Paper Calandar = Overkill or Necessity?
Pretty much since mid-September I’ve had THREE Things I’ve been worrying about. Hosting a wedding party for a dear friend, a half-marathon, and a trip to Baltimore. As of right now? They’re all over. Now, I’m fully expecting to use today as a DETOX day. See, everything I’ve needed to tackle recently in my life has been put either on an ASAP list or an AFTER list. Meaning, it needs to be done IMMEDIATELY or it can wait until the big three have passed.... Read More
Where TV Is My Therapy
Donnie and I were discussing a Linux class we took in college recently. It reminded me of the time that I was sitting in that night class, waiting for it to start, when I remembered, “SHIT. I forgot to set the VCR to record Temptation Island!” We all gathered at my house after that night class to watch it so I ran home and set it up and came back to class late. (I lived basically on campus.) I often wondered what those Computer Science guys in that Linux class thought... Read More
Learning To Set The Table 20 Years Before Their Mother Did
I decided it was HIGH TIME to teach my kids something I didn’t learn until I was in my 30s. HOW TO SET A TABLE. You can read about it here. Several years ago I offered to help my mother-in-law with dinner and she said, “Why don’t you set the table?” I found myself very glad I had been married to her son for several years because she was about to be very disappointed in me as the wife of her son. “Um, where does the fork go? And the spoon? And the... Read More
A Short Entry About Something SUPER Important
Did you see Parenthood last night? I’m not going to spoil anything if you didn’t, I promise. But the parenting plots with Sore Loser Sydney and D in Math Drew WERE SO PERFECT IN EVERY WAY. I have felt those exact moments as a parent to a small child and a parent to a teen, in such an exact was as they were portrayed last night, that I was kinda blown away. When Julia poured that glass of wine in the hallway I thought, Make that a bottle of beer and I would have sworn... Read More
asdfghjkl; zzzzzzz… *cough* asdfghjkl; zzzzzz… COUGH!
I’m having a rough morning. I’ve had this cough for about a week now, but I’ve been trying to ignore it as that’s my method. The Cough interferes with The Sleep and even with The Medicine I’m still feeling like I’ve been run over by The Bus. Whenever I’m tired, the rest of my life feels like it falls apart. I don’t eat well and that make me feel sicker. (Two days of binging makes my tummy hurt!) Then I lose all patience with the... Read More
