To cap off a fairly odd week, I dropped off the 5-yr-old Reigning Queen of Pinkness, Duchess of Fluff, and High Protector of Barbies at her pre-K class this morning. Needless to say, the hordes of moms, milfs, and nannys did not spare second glances for the BigUglyManDoll – after all, that’s why I’m the […]
Njjules is after me to post something funny, but all my writers are on strike. I’m working with the union, but they said they’d kneecap my muse if she crossed the picket line. Come on, folks – don’t they know when we shut down the funny, the terrorists win!
Ya know, suicide is painless, or so the song says, but njjules pointed out a headline today mentioning that someone was “a suicide victim.” I don’t want to make light of a tragic situation, since suicide is only painless for the person in question – pretty much sucks for the cleanup crew, you know? But, […]
The newly minted 9-yr-old is not in training to be a teenager. She’s in training to be 21. She insisted that she would take her bath without fuss, if only I would please put several ice cubes into the warm water of the tub when it was full. “Deal,” says I. In with the water, […]
… To my eldest, who was a good and dutiful child even in utero. We learned early in 1998 that she was there, and that she’d be due in mid-November. The first thing I said was, oh, a Halloween baby! The midwife induced on Oct 30, around 7 am, because it doesn’t really matter what […]