Month: July 2011

waiting list

Since it’s illegal to drive with a cracked windshield, but the spring storms have everyone waiting months for their scheduled appointment, shouldn’t: 1. repair shops give appointment cards that people can show authorities and 2. the law change to reflect this backlog of repairs?

hugs, not words

I inflicted a non-romantic broken heart upon myself this week. In the grand scheme of things, the entire episode is unimportant to anyone but me. Brooding about this one small thing became a giant Katamari of drama that should be illegal if you are not a teenager. Despite being together forever and knowing each other […]

Not ROFLing

I recognize that our language is a living, evolving thing. The advent of social media has made it abundantly clear how rapidly it is changing. I readily admit that I had to google some of the jargon coming from Bonnaroo tweets and that doesn’t bother me. Young people should have their own dialect. The line […]

Just a girl

“She gets migraines” is the new “but what if she’s on her period” and it’s equally silly.

SuperMe

No cape, but my super powers include: Camouflage Spectrum vision Identifying post-CABG patients Choosing the shopping cart that should be retired Obscure song lyric memory Embarrassing my teenagers Breaking my toes on anything and everything It’s a short list. Very short.

giggles and guffaws

You know that absolutely amazing feeling that you have the first time your baby laughs? No matter how old your children are, hearing them laugh never ceases to make you feel… wonderful.

Packing for camp

The aisles at the big, red, bullseye store might be decorated for back-to-school, but the shopping carts revealed that there was a lot of summer camp purchasing happening. Two women in the soap/body wash aisle discussed the quantity of body wash their children would need at camp. “If they shower after every swim, they’ll need […]

“Feed”

Since Jedi Camp was in Oak Ridge, I did a lot of waiting between drop-off and pick-up. One day, I used my waiting time to read “Feed” by M.T. Anderson. Feed is a young adult fiction novel that is a cautionary tale, a la Reefer Madness, about the dangers of technology, social media and the […]