Last weekend we had two of our daughter’s friends sleep over at our place. Usually I wouldn’t do that, have to kids over at once, mainly because I hate sleepovers which force you to deal with the random whims of other people’s kids. But it just so happened that two of our friends were inContinue reading “Disturbing Kiddie Trends and Why I don’t like Sleepovers”
Monthly Archives: May 2008
A few astute political commentaries from my seven year old
Last saturday, I had an unintentional hypocrite day. In the morning, I finally made it out the Anarchist Book Fair, which I have been meaning to check out ever since I moved to this city. I went with my seven year old (who had one of those days where she seemed ducktaped to my hip)Continue reading “A few astute political commentaries from my seven year old”
To my newly returned husband
Points of interest: 1) Notice that both children are still alive with no visible scarring. 2) Please remark on the relative cleanliness of the house. As you can see, when forced, I am still able to do the dishes. 3) Did I mention that the children are still alive? 4) There is a new garbageContinue reading “To my newly returned husband”
This made me laugh
A few observations
Titanic and the art of learning stuffMy oldest daughter did her presentation on the Titanic yesterday. She researched it herself, put it in Powerpoint format, asked me to correct it (actually asked me!) and even made tickets with her father that resembled the actual boarding ticket to distribute to her classmates. She did all thisContinue reading “A few observations”
4 minute post
I just spent the time I have to write (the whole fifteen minutes because I slept in for about twenty minutes) surfing the internet. Damn my RSS feeds. Damn them to hell. What do I have to say? Several things. First of all, never get your taxes done by the big green giant. It willContinue reading “4 minute post”
Seven minutes to post
And it better be amazing. Genius. If I could just unleash my potential inner blogging potential, this could be the BEST POST EVER. Yeah right. For those of you who are worried that the commuting anxiety alas came true, or that I actually pissed off the psycho biker enough to come find me and myContinue reading “Seven minutes to post”
Lina Branter 