And one more thing, if she screws me again this Christmas and reneges on her promise of gifting no more than three x-mas presents one. more. time, I'm not talking to her for the month of January and all her gifts are living at her house, not mine. And I mean it. Really, there is such a thing as TOO MANY TOYS!

Kaleb is 6 today! I've got no time to tell you how mushy I am and how I can't believe it because I need to shower my stank-ass body and get to work and then come home and clean this sty of a house because the folks are coming over for pizza and my mom and I are already at odds with each other because I told her that this "birthday week" - the one ( Read more... )

We traveled over 500 miles this past holiday weekend. Spread over 4 days. Back and forth to the city for turkey, weddings, birthday parties, and Marshall sleep overs. His folks couldn't be happier. They make runny eggs (yuck) and awesome french toast. His dad likes to stir the coffee before he serves it ( Read more... )

Our carbon monoxide detector loudly started chirping Saturday morning. Mind you, not the one fixed to wall, but the one still packed away in a box from my old apartment. And yes, I was feeling crappy and yucky all morning, but I attributed that to perhaps too many drinks the night before. Jim and I were the moronic duo, running about trying to ( Read more... )

I'm burning the candle at all ends trying to bring some extra income into this house. Jim WILL NOT get a second job to make ends meet. NO NO NO. The other night he was talking about picking up some seasonal night work at UPS and the thought made my stomach turn. I'm still finishing the real estate class and I hope that starts yielding some ( Read more... )

If ya gots the knows, talk to me about slippery elm, marshmallow root, fenugreek. Kaleb's sick again. This time with a mid-range fever, a very painful sore throat, and a ton of bronchial congestion that he can't clear from his lungs because it causes his throat to pain. I know that slippery elm has intense healing qualities, especially for the ( Read more... )

Doctor says the skin eruptions are hives that are an external manifestation of Kaleb's internal belly stress. I'm not so sure I believe it, but I went on poop patrol & collected a stool sample for the lab. The results aren't due until tomorrow, but today he's back in school for the first time since Thursday and ready, at that, to go back. We had a ( Read more... )

Kaleb lost his first tooth last week (it's soooo teeeeny!). The tooth fairy left him three bucks, which he promptly spent on crap. When I suggested that spending 2.45 on crap might not be worth it, he said, "Don't worry, mom, I have other teeth ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday leakyandsnort! You are one amazing woman!


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My tooth has fallen out of my head. It's a big mess and it dates back to 1995 when I cracked my tooth on a piece of hard candy while smoking the bong with Brian and Ari. Which turned into a big infection that eventually segued to me on my back, uncomfortably sandwiched below an incompetent dentist who paid more attention to his assistant with the ( Read more... )