I am reporting live from Key West, where I’m on a Thanksgiving vacation. You know, the traditional all-American island, tropical, step-over-the-drunks-in-the-street, Key West vacation. This is a nice vacation for a middle-aged woman, her husband, daughter and mother-in-law. As it turns out, you don’t have to drink yourself blind when you’re in Key West. […]
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Made in China, But Don’t Even Think About Sending It Back
You know my oldest son lives in China now. Well, I am all but freaking out over the fact that he’s going to be spending his first Christmas away from us, in a country that doesn’t celebrate the birth of Christ with any tinsel, paid days off work, or as much as a fa […]
Yard Sale Suckiness
Every Saturday I take my daughter to a music lesson, which takes me into a neighborhood that has a chronic yard sale condition. I can’t understand this neighborhood and their need to sell their crap in their front yards, driveways and garages every single Saturday. And for all I know, they’re doing it the […]
Driving Miss Crazy
I start my day by driving my daughter into the high school. Why doesn’t she take the bus, you ask? Because I made the grave mistake last year of driving my kids to school once and in the Language of Teenagers, that translated to: I never have to ride the bus again. This morning […]
Knock Knock. Who’s There? Not Funny Traffic School
I’m not a super cynic, but I often can spot a scam when I see one. I don’t believe that I’ll get a free computer if I send 20 emails to my friends, I don’t think the world will end in 2012 (but thank you, Jack van Impe and Roxella, thank you very much […]
Ho Ho Ho! Merry Early November!
I really hate to be the old crabby lady that I appear to be to my kids, but I’m going to have to mention the fact that Santa is at our mall already. I realize that complaining about how early Christmas starts is part of the maturing process that turns a borderline-hip 50-something into […]