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Summer's here, I'm for that 2008-05-26 10:04:59 Happy opening day of Towel Consumption Season!
I hope everyone is enjoying the weekend as the U.S. celebrates Memorial Day.
With a teen out of school and free for the summer, my days are mostly spent waiting to see where I can take her next and how much money I can give her.
Thank goodness for work, it's free and I get to stay in one place.
I may have told you before that we enrolled her in Read more:Summer
Supportive or wimpy? Depends on your perspective 2008-05-28 00:50:48 One of my children plays a sport for a somewhat controversial coach.
We like the coach a lot, and have had no problems.
However, some other parents disagree and have treated the coach pretty badly, and I am embarrassed because I'm associated with them, but, I do not share their opinion.
After assuring the coach that we would remain on the team this upcoming season, we looked at our schedule and Read more:Depends
Spam of the Day 2008-05-28 10:49:26 Spam subject line: "what a stupid face you have, busymom"
My privacy has been invaded by the Internets.
This blogging thing really is putting me at risk.
What if someone photographed me?
What if they know where I live?
Oh, noes!
Filed under: Poetic Justice 2008-05-31 16:39:37 So, guess who it turns out:
a. has a kid in the same grade as Busy D. at our school (there are 3 classes of each grade, I had no idea they were there)
b. lives right around the corner from us.
(see also: bites, karma)
Read more:Poetic
, Justice
Nice Marmot 2008-05-31 13:35:28 This morning:
How much wood could a woodchuck chuck...
Driving Miss Busy Girl 2008-06-02 11:23:44 I took Busy Girl to practice driving yesterday.
Yes, yes, I know she's only 13, I was there when she was born.
I may have gotten on my driving soapbox here before, I don't remember, so excuse me if I'm repeating myself.
I firmly believe that a new driver should have as many hours behind the wheel as possible, and those hours need to start long before a permit is issued.
My mother didn't dri Read more:Driving
He's fun when the car breaks down, too! 2008-06-03 10:49:24 Last night, I was minding my own business in Sears, looking for a lawn mower blade.
Because, God forbid, all the parts on the damn mower should work at the same time.
As I was bemoaning the fact that the Super Duper Diamond Encrusted Extra Special Lawn Tractor Blades were the only kind they had in the size I needed, I looked up and noticed an acquaintance I hadn't seen in years, and we began to Read more:breaks
, breaks down
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"Update your penis".
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Not sure if you can move up from Penis Beta, though, without paying a fee.
Lost weekend 2008-06-09 01:27:45 I'd love to tell you what I did over the weekend, but I can't really explain it, myself.
I have no idea where the time went.
On Saturday, I went to a luncheon with my dad and had my life flash before me, and later in the day, I came down with the Club Penguin Sleeping Sickness.
I sat down on the guest room floor to (yet again) watch Busy play Club Penguin, and the next thing I knew Busy Dad
In which summer sneaks up on me 2008-06-10 15:34:48 Note to self: you're going to BlogHer next month.
As in, in just a few weeks.
It seems you've forgotten to either lose 100 lbs. or grow 2 feet taller.
It wouldn't kill you to get a pedicure and do something about your hair, either.
We won't even discuss the flip flops, but it'd be OK if you got some real summer shoes.
And, by the way...about that money that you so blithely said, "Meh, I' Read more:sneaks
Tim Russert's death 2008-06-13 22:51:20 I am all kinds of broken up watching the coverage of (American journalist) Tim Russert
's death
, I'm not even sure why.
One reason, is that I simply cannot imagine what it's like for these NBC people to have to immediately begin national television coverage of your friend's death right after it happened in front of you.
From what I read, NBC let themselves get scooped by other networks in order Read more:Tim Russert
And Leon is getting laaaaarrrrrger 2008-06-14 11:24:19 I was watching The Weather Channel (MTV for old people. Yes, I'll be eating dinner at 4pm before you know it.) and a young, very animated anchor was gesturing wildly about the possibility of a hurricane somewhere in the Atlantic.
She was sitting at the anchor desk and the background behind her was open, showing the hustle and bustle of the busy news room.
She was getting ready to go to break an
Wrapped up like a deuce 2008-06-17 00:15:13 Hidee ho from Chicagoland.
No, no, I'm not calling you a "ho".
However? You over there?
If the shoe fits...
Apologies to any Heidi out there who's offended by the making of this post.
I'm sure you are a very nice girl, it's just a saying.
Anyway...
I'm here in Naperville and I'll tell you more about why later, but, for the moment let it suffice to say that I just enjoyed a delicious di Read more:Wrapped
What's the vector, Victor? 2008-06-18 12:32:37 I love flying, even though I don't get to do it too often.
But, really, do you ever wonder why we put up with the stuff we do in the name of air travel?
Herded about like cattle, walking around barefoot with our shoes clutched in our hands, looking for a place to get dressed again, the huddled masses crowding each gate waiting to be told that they're not really leaving at 7:13 after all?
I did Read more:Victor
Vacation? 2008-06-21 22:28:07 Vacation.
Our family, my dad AND my MIL.
Started out with a flat tire on the Interstate.
Beach house sort of not as expected.
Send help alcohol.
Read more:Vacation
Need your help 2008-06-20 18:26:18 Hey, I need your help.
I have to write a description of what my blog is about, and it dawned on me that I have no idea.
How would you describe it?
A little something for your trouble:
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Not a digital camera abuser, really. 2008-07-01 11:55:28 Knock on whatever, but our appliances have resisted their annual summer failures.
There's every possibility that it's due to the fact we've had to replace darn nearly everything, but we'll take what we can get.
However, the latest twist on busted stuff is that we've killed 3 digital cameras since last week.
Seriously.
No real explanation for any of them other than digital camera rapture.
It
Scene from a long car ride 2008-06-30 16:21:18 Busy Boy: (Insert some injustice of life here, I don't remember what the problem was.)
Busy D.: "Busy Boy, stop whining. You sound like me."
Home again, home again 2008-06-29 21:27:14 Home from the beach.
Yay.
Despite a few missteps, a good time was had by all.
One of the secrets of grown ups is that a vacation really isn't one when you're the parent, and double that when you're the Sandwich Generation poster child.
The fun doesn't end, though, as the house is crawling with non-native children.
Summer is exhausting for those of us who aren't teachers or students.
Back
Busy Extortionist 2008-07-11 11:17:59 Overheard upstairs at home last night:
Busy Boy (age 11, until tomorrow) to Busy D. (age 6): "NO! I will not give you money to leave me alone!!"
BlogHer Bingo 2008-07-10 14:40:30 It's that time of year.
Many blogs are abuzz with one thing - BlogHer.
Some may find it interesting, others may not,
That's not the point here.
With more and more blogs talking about BlogHer, I've noticed a trend.
There are common themes, words, phrases and ideas and I thought, "Hey, why don't we involve everyone?"
Let's play BlogHer Bingo
!*
Print your Official BlogHer Bingo Card and cover
Ending an e-mail 2008-07-08 22:09:37 I had to send an e-mail last week, and I stewed for the longest time about how to close it.
It was a personal e-mail that needed more than a "See ya" or a, "Thanks" and a little less than "Love" but, not having a closing wasn't right either as I needed to convey the right balance of intimacy and casualness.
Took me forever to decide.
What do you use to close e-mails?
I think "Best" or "Best Read more:Ending
My weenie has a first name, it's B-U-S-Y-M-O-M 2008-07-07 19:24:37 July 7th, really?
Seems that the globe-hopping lifestyle I lead cuts down on time to write at this here collection of pixels.
Returned home from back to back trips, first to the beach and then to St. Louis for the Fourth of July.
Oh, and I had a lovely dinner with the (lovely) Linsdsay and my new friend, Tori in between trips.
We made plans to paint San Francisco chartreuse during BlogHer nex
Summer. Please report back to my office. 2008-08-06 01:27:45 Since droning on endlessly about being sick and, ZOMG the steroid crazies, isn't exactly curing me, I suppose I'll stop talking about it.
Or, not.
I really don't know because, see above: steroid. crazy.
The voices are telling me to keep blogging about it, though.
OK, OK, I'm better, but not all there, yet.
Working on it, though. Likely a viral infection I just can't shake.
My own doctor h Read more:Summer
, Please
, report
, office
The White Trash Mom Handbook 2008-08-05 12:28:50 Today's a big day for WhiteTrash
Mom and Tacky Princess!
The White Trash Mom Handbook
is in stores TODAY!
Seriously, you can get yours today!
You have to hurry, though, it's almost time to go back to school, so you'll need to know how to navigate the muffia, how to fake it for the bake sale and what the "rest of us" wear to PTA meetings.
Find out what all the famous people are saying about t
Not what you want to hear after doing camp laundry 2008-08-04 01:04:47 "Here's some colon pants."
- my MIL handing me a pair of pants after she had finished washing 3 weeks of Busy Boy's camp stuff.
After my initial surprise and horror, I realized she meant they belonged to his friend, "Collin" and she had taken them out of the stack so I could return them.
But, now "eeew". I can hardly look at them.
Read more:doing
It goes on and on my friends 2008-07-31 22:07:06 OK, so where did we leave off In the Tale of Busy Mom's respiratory failure?
Oh, yes, I was in Cincinnati, home of some delicious Graeter's Ice Cream.
I tell you about that (I also still have to tell you about the rest BlogHer, but the statute of limitations in talking about that may have already run out) as soon as I can get my thoughts together, but overall, I was feeling pretty good, save a c
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