To all the dads, stepdads, granddads, dads-to-be, and father figures out there...a heart-felt Happy Father's Day.  You guys are amazing, and you are more important than you know to the lives of the children (and grown children!) that you touch.

For those of you that didn't receive this email from me, it was funny enough that I thought I would post it on my blog.  (Also, if you didn't get this email from me, check with me and make sure I HAVE your email...I've had lots bounce lately.)  Happy Mother's Day!

"So, we had this great 10 year old cat named Jack who just recently
died. Jack was a ( Read more... )

May I just say this?  Jail is SUPPOSED to suck!

I'm not really sure when our country got all backwards and decided that convicted criminals should live better than the folks they victimize.  But it seems the mentality now is one of misguided 'compassion'.  People are more concerned with "criminal rights" than with making sure the people whose lives ( Read more... )

Oh, the day I've been waiting for for what seems like forever!  I have been trying to pay off my credit cards for YEARS, and have never gotten it down to more than half-way there.  But thanks to my tax return (and NOT having to spend it for emergencies/keeping things afloat for a change), I was FINALLY able to pay ALL of them off!  WOOHOO!!  Yeah, ( Read more... )

In case anyone was wondering if I'd disappeared off the face of the planet, I've been around, just been really busy and pretty boring, so the few times I've had time to write, I've had nothing really to report.  However, as parents and people familiar with small children know, you never know when your kid is going to up and make you laugh.  ( Read more... )

I'm sure that most people have heard it said that "It's the little things that make life worth living."  Well, it's true, but it's so much more than that.  I know that I for one have seen multiple emails that tell us of all the things for which we should be grateful, but most of those emails only list the terrible things in the world that don't ( Read more... )

So I had this conversation with my ex many years ago.  Actually, we had this conversation several times over several years, but it always ended with the same word ( Read more... )

LOL What IS it about drunk people that make them assume that you want to hear from them ( Read more... )

So this past weekend, I had one of those, "OMG, I'll NEVER do that again!" experiences. I've said as much to several people. Usually what I get in reply is either, "Yeah, until next time!" or "Yeah, I've heard/said THAT before!" But no, really...I won't! Puking my guts out for 15-16 hours aside, I really don't care for the feeling that comes ( Read more... )

It occurred to me today that I make an awful lot of effort in my life. It also occurred to me that an awful lot of said effort, if not an outright waste, is definitely not yielding much in the way of gratification on my part, at least not any more...if it ever did. I realized that this frustration on my part is causing me to take it out on the ( Read more... )