Month: November 2012
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Three Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
So The Lovely Rhonda and I went to rearrange one of her girls’ rooms today. She wants a desk like my kid has now, and we figured why not? Oh, so many reasons why not. First thing we find out is that one of the four drawers (two each side) of the captain’s bed is…
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Holiday update
So, Thanksgiving was yesterday. And it wasn’t bad, overall. We had a friend over with her kids, and The Lovely Rhonda’s parents came, so it was a reasonably hectic affair. I’m not sure if I would have enjoyed it as much without some chaos and mayhem. We had a smallish turkey and smallish spiral-cut ham…
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Crazy Cat Lady
So I have this extremely affectionate cat. His name is Heals, or as I call him Healsie, and he’s a black and white tuxedo cat. You’d think he’d be more dignified than he is since he’s wearing a tux all the time but he’s definitely the farthest thing from suave and debonair ever. This morning…
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Why I Cannot Clean The House Except Under Tremendous Pressure
So it’s Thanksgiving next week, and as always we are booked solid until Thursday morning. The Lovely Rhonda is working her four-day stretch, ending on Tuesday, so she’ll be relatively useless on Wednesday. I say that completely without rancor because her workdays are twelve hours long and sandwiched between forty minutes’ drive each way. We…
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Wedding prep has begun!
So now that our wicked, ungodly relationship is now considered boring enough to be sanctioned by the state we’re suddenly in a fevered pitch to get this party started. We’ve got the date, the venue, the minister, the food, the cake, the flower girl, the ring bearers, the best (handy)man, and the invitations dealt with,…
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Battleship
So this morning the children decided to play some board games in the living room. We had the tremendous foresight to locate the bookshelf full of board games directly to one side of our bedroom door, which opens conveniently right square into the living room. This is because our bedroom used to be the garage,…
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The Committee Has Spoken
So probably both of you have heard that marriage equality passed in Washington, meaning that gay folk can finally make their status semi-legal. Yes, yes, it turns out that several of us are seeking to be bound by the holy bonds of matrimony, and so far eleven states in the union have decided that if…
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The Big Clean-Up
So when I was a kid I occasionally received books from the “Weekly Reader Book Club.” I don’t have any of those books anymore but occasionally I come across a title in a bookstore and I always buy it for the kids. One such title is “The Big Clean-Up” by Harvey Weiss. I found the…
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Halloween Horror Story
So yesterday was Halloween, or if you are so inclined, “Hallowe’en,” and so we dutifully tarted the Collective Spawn up in costumes and allowed them to beg the neighbors for candy. The costumes are what makes this different from an average evening. The two older spawn decided they wanted to be rockstars, so we procured…
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