If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Did you ever have one of those days when you can’t stop yawning? But your jaw aches for some reason and a big yawn makes it feel like it’s dislocating? Then you think about how much yawning hurts, which makes [...]

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Hello from Crankytown. Where the sky spit flurries, the children complained bitterly, and the school district helpfully allowed parents to travel icy roads this morning to schools that were still OPEN.
I don’t know why I was so grumpy about the lack of real snow here. Even more puzzling: I was irritated with the county for [...]

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Christmas is 13 days away?!
GAAA.
Fall is usually a busy time for me, but after years of dealing with multiple birthdays PLUS regular holidays, I’ve achieved a kind of rhythm that sees me through until January. Here it is, starting September 29:

9/29 Birthday, birthday (mine & family friend’s)
10/2 Birthday (nephew)
10/25 Birthday (son)
10/26 Birthday (daughter)
10/31 Halloween
11/15 Birthday [...]

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I had the most amazing pumpkin-apple soup in New York last week. It was the first course of our fancy dinner before we went to see the Broadway musical, “Billy Elliott.” Which we viewed from the fourth row.
The waiter brought the soup out PIPING hot, and after he ladled some into my bowl, he produced [...]

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Hello and welcome to my late-arriving Friday post. Let’s just pretend I’m on the West Coast, shall we? Then I can be three hours less late than I really am.
Okay.
Welcome to the Twitter Ho-Down, as hosted by The Fellowship of the Traveling Smarty Pants. Below, the best of ME from this week. I was oddly [...]

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My to-do list today:

Laundry
Groceries
Empty Dishwasher
Tidy house
Feed kids lunch
Feed self lunch
Write

Has been thwarted by this:

Which is a prettier picture of this:

My shin after an unfortunate incident involving the bricks that edge the front porch.
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This change of plans seems good in concept. After all, the only thing I am now capable of is #7, which is the [...]

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Hey,
Thank you to all who’ve commented or Tweeted your condolences to our family this week on the passing of Charlie’s dad. Charlie has been really busy with funeral arrangements and dealing with the estate. Here in Georgia, life kinda goes on.
So in that vein, yesterday the kids and I went to see “UP.”
The verdict: WONDERFUL [...]

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Bet MY Monday is worse than YOURS.
Oink.

Yup. We’re going to visit a doctor or two today. To find out once and for all if the illness all FOUR of us are experiencing is  … you know …
The Illness That Must Not Be Named.
This promises to be at least as fun as the weekend we spent [...]

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