A bored housewife jousts at windmills, pokes fun at everything from leg wax to Miss Manners.
Charlotte got her own phone as one of her Christmas presents. They are installing her line in a couple of days. It will have three-way calling. It will have call-waiting. It may just save my sanity. It just hit me how relieved I’m gonna be when they get the new line put in. I’m not …
I’ve been spending some time with old friends – namely George Bailey, Kris Kringle, and a little kid named Ralphie. I’ve also been visiting with some real-life friends and relatives, and as a result I experienced the jolliest of holidays. Hope you did the same. I don’t have any good stories for you at the …
The rest of the snow arrived. It wasn’t quite the 12 inches the weather folks predicted, but it was enough to shut down Charlotte’s daycare and keep me home and enough to keep Michael from attempting to get out of the driveway. Woo hoo! So, after bundling up for a full 45 minutes, we drug …
We’re getting some winter weather here. I’m loathe to admit it, but I panicked a bit. At about 11 this morning, I left work to pick up my daughter from daycare. The roads were really bad at the time, and I thought the longer I waited to pick her up, the worse the situation would …
I volunteered to make a bean salad for the company Christmas party. I’m having second thoughts about my choice. It actually took me half an hour to make, but it looks too easy. My fear is that people will be directing sarcastic thoughts at me all day. “The file clerk girl opened some cans. Whoa. …
I’m so gosh darn tired that I’m using the phrase “gosh darn tired” which sounds gosh darn stupid but I don’t gosh darn care. Darn. And. Gosh. Mix and match them. It’s fun. Anyway, I’m way too tired to even think about posting anything thoughtful or useful, which, in truth, isn’t much different from usual, …