Month: December 2006

Dear Doug,

You get “ideas”, not “i-dears”. If you pronounce it stupidly again, I may get an idea about you. Love, Cathy

too tired to think

All I want to do today is crawl back in bed and sleep without velcro toddler. I need to get out and work on Christmas preparations. I am going to take the day one goal at a time. My first goal is soap and shampoo. I think I can do it. First I have to […]

if it’s not broken, don’t fix it

If you are feeling numb or traumatized after tonight’s new version of “The Year Without a Santa Claus”, you can listen to the original hot and cold tunes and try to go to your happy place. A place in time when bad Rankin-Bass animation was good and Christmas cartoons were eagerly anticipated every year. A […]

I heart Target

Target’s pharmacy just auto-called to tell me that Tommy has a script ready for pickup. I haven’t even opened his bottle to learn that it’s empty, called for a refill or carried the bottle around for three days to remind myself to go pick it up yet.

new movies

All of the children (well, not Evan) are looking forward to a movie that is being released between now and Christmas, but they all want different movies. They will all get sent to the movies so that I can compare, count, wrap and practice stuffing before the big day, but which movie should it be? […]

bonus Sunday music

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Saturday music

[audio:http://domesticpsychology.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/the-monkees-riu-chiu-from-the-tv-series-the-monkees.mp3]

and then my wallet blew up

Staring at late night television last night, I saw a commercial for “Acme Dating”. Would you really want a date from the company that supplied Wile E. Coyote with all those malfunctioning and poorly planned Road Runner traps?

owie

Doug hops out of bed looking good. He can wear paint stained jeans and a threadbare shirt and he still looks handsome. When he dresses up, he is so yummy I just want to stare at him. I wake up with sheet wrinkles and drool marks. I wear jeans and sweaters every day. I wore […]