Tag: can’t complain
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Stepparenting for dummies
So tonight The Lovely Rhonda is off being awesome at some work thing, and that makes me the lonely hausfrau. The smallest child sustained an exacerbation to a minor knee injury and there were floods of tears, such that after I sat by her bed reading to her there was a damp spot on my…
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Miller Time
So our friend had the baby. C-section, went well, baby lovely, mom recovering. Daddy Man arrived a couple of hours ago and I’m sure that baby has him wrapped around her perfect tiny little finger already. Barbie’s entire wardrobe exploded into our living room earlier today, and there was much resentment among the small fry…
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The traditional Autumn post
So I recall that around this time last year I posted about how it was raining and the cat was laying across my arms on the table and it was fall and stuff. This is my favorite time of year for a lot of reasons, the turning leaves and the crisp air and the new…
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Removeling
So we knocked down a wall recently. And there was all this extra space. And we moved every item of furniture in the living room and dining room. I call it “removeling.” It’s like remodeling? But not. I was thinking about where we were three years ago. We lived in The World’s Shittiest Apartment, which…
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When you care enough to scrawl the very best
So the last Mother’s Day that The Lovely Rhonda spent with the Ex-Mr. Rhonda didn’t go so well. Rhonda recalls that she was working that day, she worked in those days as a CNA a couple of shifts a week, and was in nursing school full time. She also had two small children (ages 1…
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Birthday Hijinx
So I had a birthday last week. It was rather low-key, in that instead of having some massive shindig we spent the day shopping and running errands and then went to see “Bridesmaids” which was so funny I nearly peed my granny panties right there in the theater auditorium. This is what we elderly folk…
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It’s A Wrap
So we went to see the last Potter film at midnight last night. Actually, the local MegaMovieTheaterCorpInc had an 8pm showing of Part The First for five bucks, so we figured what the hell, we’ve got seven hours of our meager, insignificant lives to devote to this cultural phenomenon. We’re just pathetic that way. It…
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One Fewer Monkey On My Back
So for some time now I’ve been struggling with having crappy eating habits and all the delightful effects that that has on a person. A major hurdle: my abiding love of that delicious carbonated heaven in a bottle, Coca Cola. Did you hear the angels chorus as I typed that? So I asked The Lovely…
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Concert-goings
So Saturday night the wife and I went out on the town and saw us a show. It was Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt, unplugged, at a fancy downtown venue. This same venue used to be a down-on-its-luck concert hall, back in the day, a bedraggled shadow of its original glory. It opened in the…
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