One hundred pushup challenge
When Carmen wrote about the 100 pushup challenge, I was intrigued. And then casually mentioned to her that I was thinking of doing it. Which then committed me to doing it. Real pushups, not girl pushups. On a good day …
Cool stuff review: Redbridge Beer
When I was a wee tot, my grandparents owned a tavern. Whenever we visited them, we went to the tavern. It was the center of my grandparents’ lives. Family and friends and strangers who weren’t friends yet met them there. …
That’s (not) hot
I only recognize how miserably hot it is because our hvac system sucks donkey danglies. Furnace dudes claim our air conditioning unit is actually large for our size house, but you’d never know it sitting in here. Tom’s office (on …
My sons are conspiring to drive me insane
It’s funny I caught this article this morning. Does having kids make you happy? Before reading it, I was actually thinking to myself, “I wanted to have kids why again?” I do have my moments (um, lots of them actually) …
Done
Thankfully, d.o.n.e. Only took me two weeks, but I have finished burning my CDs to my computer. Today shot me from 180 days of music to 476.7 days of music. What did it? I burned in the recordings of the …
The good, the bad, and the uuuugly
The good: A is done with OT. This came out of left field this week. His OT called and said she thought he had progressed to the point that he didn’t need to continue coming this summer. We’ll have a …
Bernstein and Copland and Bach, OH MY!
Oh my hell I have a lot of CDs. I’ve been burning my CD collection into iTunes this week almost non-stop and I’m nowhere close to being finished. If I’m really lucky, they’ll be done tomorrow, but it’s probably going …
Book review: The Ride of our Lives
Jen. Jen! Enough with the book reviews! Are your children going hungry? Have they bathed since school got out? Have you? Seriously, what’s with the reading? Beats me, I’m on a roll. Today’s selection (and this means I have to …
Book Review: House Lust
Oh my GOD, Jen! Another book review? What’s going on? Are you ill? Are you on bedrest? Is that how you’re reading all these books? What’s going on? Har dee har har. Giving up gluten has blown the brain fog …
What goes around, comes around…
When I taught flute lessons I had good parents, great parents, and “Oh-for-the-love-of GOD!” parents. The “O-f-t-l-o-G!” parents drove me batshit crazy when they couldn’t keep their schedules straight. These were the kids who were late, got the dates mixed …