Archive for March 2008

I decided today to assemble my new corner TV stand, which I recently purchased from LL Bean. The good news is that I finished it…today. The bad news is that I spent way too much time fiddling with what appear to be simple gadgets, but are actually tools designed to befuddle DIYers like me (read: [...]

I took the kids to Dick’s Sporting Goods over the weekend to pick up some soccer stuff. (Yep, more magnet ball is coming soon!) While there I noticed an attractive father with his two young daughters. I saw him looking at me a few times. Once or twice he smiled at me.
Wowie wow-wow — [...]

I started writing this post over an hour ago, slurping my coffee and wondering when in the world my kids were going to wake up so we could “get on with it.”
After staying up late to watch some hoops my alarm went off a little before 6 so I could hide the Easter eggs. In [...]

My kids have been very excited the last few days. Sure, part of it is the promise of Easter Bunny, but much of it is because of their trip to the dentist this week. Yeah, the dentist.
I have no idea why, but they love the dentist, especially Drama Girl…which is funny because she’s the biggest [...]

Am I the only parent who is really sick of seasonal decorating, especially with Easter so early this year? It’s been a constant rotation of cute in our house for what seems like forever. In fact, it practically has been forever considering it started with Halloween.
Thank god I’m only a smidgen Irish and don’t get [...]

…Let me tell you it’s always cool
And the boss don’t mind sometimes if you act the fool
At the car wash
Whoa whoa whoa whoa
Talkin’ about the car wash, girl
Come on, ya’all and sing it for me…
– Rose Royce, Car Wash
Last night I got my car washed at the place by my grocery store. It had [...]

Brown bear, brown bear what do you see?

I see clocks still an hour behind
4 inches of unshoveled snow
a car without 4-wheel drive
a cookie booth in front of Wal-Mart
and kids and mom still in their jammies.

Yep, it’s already after 1:00 2:00 and I have done nothing, or practically nothing, since I got up. And later Drama [...]

Hello, dear readers!
Do you remember a witty, charming and intelligent blogger named Susan, who largely disappeared for the month of February, outside of book reviews and confessing to celebrity crushes gone bad?
No? Well, how about just a blogger named Susan?
(If you’ve answered “No” for a second time, please skip to the end. Otherwise, read on.)
Let [...]

Hey, everyone, hope your weekend is going well and March is off to a good start. (It’s only the first day of the month; I can only hope it’s off to a good start.) My month of distracting you with celebrities, great books and freebies has come to a close, so I promise to get [...]