Today’s Works for Me Wednesday post:
How to remove burnt odors from a microwave.
But first some parenting advice:
When your tween child asks you how long to warm a Quaker oatmeal bar in the microwave, it would behoove you to be 100% focused on him when you answer.
(Okay, I was just looking for an excuse to say [...]

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I’m feeling rather imperfect today. You might say, EXTRA imperfect. The run-up to Christmas this year seems especially hectic, and I’m kinda overwhelmed.
To-do list in my calendar. Another on a legal pad in my room. Yet another started on a DIFFERENT legal pad in my briefcase. Overlapping and diverging just enough to make me feel [...]

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An unexamined tweet is not worth blogging.
Yeah, I know today’s the Twitter Ho-Down. And I have definitely succeeded at being a Twitter Ho this week. In fact, in the past 48 hours, I enjoyed some really fun-but-maybe-a-bit-disturbing-sometimes conversations on the Twitter. And that’s the problem with today’s post:
I’ve spent too much time playing on the [...]

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Sitting here on the couch, I’m surrounded by dogs and laundry. The dogs only cause problems when I trip over them. But the laundry….
The laundry is my nemesis. Hangers litter one sofa cushion. Baskets compete for the socks that I’m folding.
After three weeks of feeling BLEH, I am unbelievably behind on washing clothes.
This morning, like [...]

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(Mostly) Wordless for Wednesday:

A still life in Play-doh and dog hair
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Inadequate.
Not enough.
That’s how I’ve been feeling lately. I don’t have enough…
time                            brainpower
self-discipline        selflessness
courage                              confidence
I’m not organized enough. I’m not loving enough.
I’m not content enough.

Just. Not. Enough.
I’ve heard it said that if [...]

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Well, this post was a toss-up between something deep and philosophical…
…And a laundry basket post.
Hmmmm. Maybe I can do both.
Learning:
I just came to a realization about myself over the weekend.
Laundry:
This is much like the realization I came to a month or so ago about my laundry baskets.
Learning:
First point: I don’t like to be lonely, but [...]

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Why, hello. Just checking in.
What have I been up to? Oh, nothing much… Just a bit of laundry.
Five or ten or 75 loads, give or take a few. I’ve spent my last few days on a suds-powered hamster wheel: gather, sort, wash, dry, fold, hang, put away, gather, sort, etc.
Sort of a “lather, rinse, repeat” [...]

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Originally posted January 16, 2008
Last one there is a rotten egg!”
“Nu- UH! FIRST one there’s a rotten egg!”
Did you ever do that? Do your kids? I hear this exchange at least once a week. But with three kids, they usually add,
“Oh YEAH?! Well I say the MIDDLE one there is a rotten egg!”
“I’M NOT RACING!!!!”
I [...]

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