One of the strangest things about having had a child with disabilities first, and then a typically developing one, is this concept of 'normal'.  When your eldest has the challenges, you quickly learn to adapt your expectations and routines, and that becomes your 'normal'.   My sister-in-law, whose eldest has spina bifida (and is a freshman in ( Read more... )

via The Smoking Gun: Backstage Riders.  I won't be super mean and label which one said what, but let me just note two of my favorite ... typos.

Verve Clique

H'or Dourves

My day, and my snobbery, is intact.

Check out these massively fugly, and cloven-hoofed boots.  They make my toes curl up in agony just looking at them.  Also, I think I smell brimstone:

Boots of Hell, and trayfey-ness

And yet, so hilarious.  It may be that I do not quite 'get' football that I find this so funny, but observe and draw your own conclusions:

www.seriouseats.com/2009/01/best--snack-food-stadium-for-your-super-bowl-party.html 

People would shut up about why there was no soaring rhetoric/sound biteable/Kennedy-esque line in President Obama's speech (in passing, it's still surreal to say that without the "elect" part.  Kind of like writing the new year on your checks, I guess).  He gave a somber and pragmatic speech that still referenced plenty of psychological and ( Read more... )

That all firefighters, regardless of age, are hot?  And it's not just that 'rescue thing'.  No, seriously, they are physically HOT ( Read more... )

Many of them, and colleges, and some of them quite well respected in fact.  But the below exchange just made me cackle, not least because I have numerous (well educated, I might add) relatives who probably *wish* the USPS would let you write THE GREAT STATE OF TEXAS.

Land That I Love

In passing, I just have to always bring up the fact that when my ( Read more... )

Of being able to read what I want, knit every evening after the kids are in bed, if I want, and cook semi-elaborate dinners that can be actually focused on.  To wit, tonight we're having braised short ribs with leftover red cabbage from Xmas (vinegary and gorgeous and pretty much my favorite vegetable ever) and perhaps egg noodles.  I don't make my ( Read more... )

In reading those Twilight books, but I do cringe and snicker with embarrassment at the twelve year old me who would have devoured them (yes yes, pun intended.  It's pre-coffee, y'all), this from Cracked was hilarious, and way, way too accurate:

If 'Twilight' Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Times More Honest

Man, I hate shit like this.  And yet, of ( Read more... )

As the first glass of wine after turning in large chunks of academic drivel.

Release the elves.