My ode to winter
Chicago has finally blown a kiss to the unseasonably warm temperatures of late and we are currently in a bit of a deep freeze. Not nearly like the hellish Polar Vortex of 2014, but still cold enough to piss me …
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My mad NaNoWriMo procrastination skillz
So we’re well into NaNo now, and while I am making my daily word goals, there will inevitably come a time when ye olde words refuse to come out and play. I don’t have the time these days to sit …
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Today is the day, a day I’ve been looking forward to for years. The day when I’ll learn the meaning to Life, the Universe, and Everything. I know where my towel is and I am ready. Today I am 42. Never …
Fourteen years later
How fortunate I am today, that my biggest fear is that I’m wasting my life, that I have a chronic case of just standard existential confusion. How fortunate I am that the child who wouldn’t sleep for love or money 14 …
Attack of the MAN COLD
It’s the End of the World as he knows it. “I’m going to end up drowning in my own snot.” One of my sons has a MAN COLD. In order to protect his privacy in this age of everything on the …
And miles to go before I sleep
Damn, I’m tired. Tired of being tired. Tired of complaining about being tired of being tired. There’s a lot of tired here, is what I’m saying. Can’t even yawn properly, to maybe fend off some of the tired, because a …
I am my own bling
I found a self-adhesive plastic rhinestone stuck to my hip this morning as I was toweling off after my shower. I have no idea how it could have gotten there, or even what it’s from. In a home with two tween/teen …
‘Tis the week of Thanksgiving and all through the house
…all sorts of things are stirring and not a single one of them are on the stove. We managed to take a crazy time of year and Plus It with business travel and holiday travel and behind the scenes chaos …
BLOCK THE POWER!
Two years ago I wrote very forcefully why I was not going to allow Minecraft in my home. One year ago I caved. Shut up. There were reasons. Yesterday Andy learned, while at our homeschool co-op with his geek friends, natch, …
{Friday Flashback} Mommmm, I’m boooored!
Some years I’m on top of it, some years it sneaks up on me. Summer activities for the boys. This year summer tiptoed up behind me, threw a sack over my head, and proceeded to beat me senseless with a …