Last night I made Barbecue Cups. Brown ground chuck and mix with barbecue sauce and brown sugar. Flatten biscuits into muffin tins, spoon in some of the meat mixture and top with grated cheese. Cook according to biscuit directions. Supposed to be a lazy way to make dinner. I managed to overfill the muffin pans […]
How to eat an animal cookie: First, don’t call call them crackers. They may be mostly flavorless but they are certainly not salty. Second, eat off the extremities while announcing your progress. “Eat arms!” “Eat legs!” “Eat head!” “Eat tail!” Third, declare remaining part inedible. “Eww, gross!” Fourth, force parent to eat inedible, slobbery cookie […]
Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog! This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to […]
Anyone want to help write The Shrub’s blog?
Bush must quit blogging. Wouldn’t it be great if more politicians and celebrities had blogs? They might actually turn out to be real human beings with insecurities and feelings instead of the Barbie dolls and GI Joe’s that they appear to be. A very thoughtful reader who I only know by a pseudoname has very […]
I’m failing miserably at potty training both Amy AND the puppy. Today I took Tommy to his therapist and the meeting started with me getting called back to find out what I’m doing to fix the situation about Tommy and school. Nothing. The school is going to keep him in the dumping ground classroom and […]
I went to my favorite used book store to today and although they didn’t take most of the books I had brought to trade, they did take some and I found a “Carl” board book for Amy. That was a happy moment. She is now sitting on the couch studying her wordless book about a […]
I’m trying to identify something that makes me happy today. Really, I am.
The Zero Boss is holding round two of his popular “Blogging for Books” contest. This round’s topic is ‘Servitude’ and entrants are to write a blog entry about the worst experience they’ve ever had working for someone else. This is your warning that my entry is r-rated. Most of my adolescence I worked at a […]
Big Orange Michael is going to spend the month of August posting about things that make him happy. I am wallowing in a big self-pity funk but it seems like a good idea so here goes. Yesterday I felt happy watching Amy walk on her hands in the baby pool. Her smile was wonderfully contagious. […]