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Is there a Blogger’s Anonymous (BA)?

I think I am developing a habit. I am not sure if it is a bad habit yet, but I think I know what I would be doing if I didn’t have kids and my time was my own. You will ask my what I did in the ten days my kids were gone. IContinue reading “Is there a Blogger’s Anonymous (BA)?”

Without my kids I’m…

Functional? No. That is not what I meant to say. No, really. I am officially halfway through their vacation away from us and I am am finding it surprisingly (if not a bit disturbingly) easy to get along without them. It is easy, of course, because I know they are with my sister and myContinue reading “Without my kids I’m…”

Know thyself…and then run to the bathroom

They say that the three most stressful things in our cushy middle class existence is marriage, moving and buying a house. (Who’s “they”, I hear certain friends asking? I don’t know, they! the faceless, cliché spouting masses, okay?) Well, I would like to add to that the deadly threesome, the diabolic trinity of moving twoContinue reading “Know thyself…and then run to the bathroom”

Quotes of the day (2)

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. – Augusten BurroughsI am like an haute couture dress- the flaws are the revealing gaps and the obvious stitching is the good intentions… Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give aContinue reading “Quotes of the day (2)”

Consumer misdaventures

In some perverse twist of eastern philosophy, shopping only works when you are not actively seeking the object . We all know that if, for some horrible reason like someone crept into your place at night and stole all your jeans and it just happened to be casual friday at work the next day andContinue reading “Consumer misdaventures”

Pigeonholing! Huh! What is it good for? Huh! Absolutely nothing.

I am not sure if I have mentioned this in previous posts, but I am the oldest of three sisters. When we were growing up, it became clear to us how our mother and the rest of the world perceived us. I was the shy one, the bookish one, the uncoordinated, awkward one. My middleContinue reading “Pigeonholing! Huh! What is it good for? Huh! Absolutely nothing.”

Quotes of the day

Confession. Okay, who am I kidding- this whole blog is about confessing. I am addicted to my google homepage. One of the handy features of the wonderful google home page is that I have a few quotes of the day everyday. The ones I really like I copy and paste into my sticky notes feature-Continue reading “Quotes of the day”

This week brought to you by Sucky Suckerton

So here is the question: When things are going well do you chalk it up to hard work, or do you believe that some cosmic force has been aligned just for you and that one single false move will smack it righ back out of alignment? ‘Cause I gotta tell you people, even if IContinue reading “This week brought to you by Sucky Suckerton”

Pot Belly Etiquette

Consider this a public service announcement. Never, I mean never, unless the woman has a t-shirt with an arrow pointing downward and the word GESTATING emblazoned boldly on the front, never ask a woman if she is pregnant if you are not one hundred percent sure that she is. This is just a point ofContinue reading “Pot Belly Etiquette”

The wisdom of age

My mother recently made the momentous (and in her case split second) decision to retire, move across the country to live in the city we are living in, and buy a building that is big enough for all of us. Yep. ‘Cause that is just the way she does things. There’s no humming or hawing,Continue reading “The wisdom of age”