Weird, strange, bizarre, unexpected...all words that describe my day. Tuesday. It should have been just an ordinary day. But, it is MY life we're talking about ( Read more... )

The state of affairs in this life of mine has left me pondering the idea of LOVE quite extensively. I realize this is no new idea but for the first time in my mature (ha!) adult life I have really been giving this one some thought. "Love" is everywhere...I love my kids, I love my cat, I love my new sweater, I love chocolate ice cream. The word ( Read more... )

Ok, so I've done this routine twice before. The Boy was potty trained by the age of 2 and it was fairly simple. Daughter potty trained herself at the age of 20 months or so. I don't know what I did right exactly, it just came quite easily. My friends used to tell THEIR friends to call me for potty training advice. When BabyGirl came along I ( Read more... )

My co-workers have officially given me the un-official award of "worst two weeks a person from our office has ever had". I wholeheartedly agree ( Read more... )

There is not one sliver of doubt in my neurotic mind that I am experiencing a second wave of adolescence. My suspicions have been confirmed by two recent occurrences: one, I have acne; two, I am subconsciously dotting my I's with little hearts. Should I be concerned about this???

...but fruitcake would best serve humanity as fish food. Or poison. I'm pretty sure the fruit was plastic. And the cake was just gross. I'm gonna go brush my teeth now.

I had a dream last night in which I was a teenager in a deserted theme park which transformed into a training center for superheroes if you were one of the "chosen". And THAT dream seemed more real to me that my own life does right now. I mean, what little girl looks dreamily into her future and hopes she sees things like "restraining order" and ( Read more... )

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For all the jokes that I've made regarding fruitcake, I have to be honest. I've never had REAL fruitcake. I've had fruitcake muffins from Safeway with tiny gems of hard fruit swirled in and sprinkled atop the frosting. I vaguely remember fruitcake-bread-toast one (and ONLY one) Christmas morning as a kid. So it was with mixed emotions that I ( Read more... )

Lots of friends are writing about Thanksgiving on their blogs. Seeing as how I had to deliver my children into the hands of the bug at 7am for the entire 4 day weekend...well, thus the title of today's twisted musings ( Read more... )