keep passing the open windows

My husband has a 1-800 number for work that is very close to one of the American Idol voting numbers (number 12 to be precise).  The last two nights he has recieved at least a hundred calls during the hour or so after the show is done airing.  He has started answering his blackberry during this time with the phrase ”Vaginal wart remover” just […]

This morning my son (13 years old) had a Kool Aid mustache on his upper lip and a zit on his nose. It was the perfect visual representation of him right now… caught between the joys of childhood and some of the misery of being a teenager.
 

The dance was fun.  I served refreshments.  Tay had 2 girls ask him to dance, but he said “No!” to both of them.  Rea danced with one of Tay’s (less shy) friends.
Chris and I slow danced.  It was sweet and romantic.  We did get busted by Mrs. H. for “necking;”  luckily the kids don’t know […]

Well, the kids have finally reached the “acceptance stage” of grief-they aren’t happy with the chaperoning situation of tonight’s dance, but they are dealing with it. 
One prediction:  by 7 pm I will have talked at least one crying girl out of a locked stall in the ladies room….

Friday I received a call to chaperone a middle school dance this weekend.  I agreed and offered up the service of my spouse.  I expected some mild grousing on the subject from my middle schoolers.  Instead I was met with this response:
“You are so mean.  I hate you!”
“I hate you!  You must hate me to do this […]

It’s five below zero today and guess whose car wouldn’t start this morning?  The BMW or my 1997 Toyota RAV4?  Yep, I was driving Chris to work this morning in my shiny old Toyota.  Gotta love the car 180,000 miles and still running (knock on wood).
 

The other night my husband brought me flowers.  In the darkened hallway they looked like they might be roses…. “roses?” I inquired.  His response:  “No, I got these at the grocery store and roses were like ten bucks, these were only five.”  Ahhh……  maybe he should have stopped at “No” 
But honestly, once you are married […]

Yesterday my office was amongst the many businesses (no, they weren’t all bars despite the Journal Star article) that were broken into Sunday night. 
I arrived at work at 8 am to find the front door open.  Stupidly, I walked right in and started looking around; the front door had been jimmied (cop talk via L & O, […]

Last Friday I took the afternoon off work and Chris and I went to see the Ansel Adams exhibit at Lakeview Museum.  It was outstanding.  The scenery shots were so beautiful; the contrast between the black and white/and all the shades in between was amazing.  I also really, really loved a photograph of Georgia O’Keefe. The […]

Inspecting my son’s lackadaisical dish washing;  “Tay these are greasy.  There’s only two things that I like greasy, my men and my wine.”