keep passing the open windows

This morning I got to experience the joys of incompetent tech support.
The employee at one of our satellite offices was attempting to install DSL and couldn’t get past the username/password screen.
I called AT & T and, after an interminable time answering questions from an automated voice:
“Have you been able to connect at all?”
“NO”
“Sorry, but […]

Life around Chez Wood has been a barrel of laughs lately, thanks to a certain twelve year old demon (oopps, I mean girl child). Saturday Reagan and I watched my lovely three year old niece Ashley. Exiting the most expensive ice cream place on Earth, Reagan announces “If you love Ashley […]

Watching TV with my 12 year old daughter and a commercial for the DVD of “Knocked Up” plays:
Guy: “A girl can’t get pregnant if she’s on top.”
Other Guy: “Yeah, it’s against the laws of gravity.”
Oh boy.
Me: “Reagan, yes, you can get pregnant if you have sex in any position.”
Reagan: […]

Poor, poor Demi Moore. She was quoted earlier this week in the newspaper as saying:
“There aren’t that many good roles for women over 40. A lot of them don’t have much substance, other than being someone’s mother or wife.”
Wow. So her role in “Striptease” was substantive?
Or her acting in “The Scarlet […]

While some of us are content and have good content…. I’m just mehhhhhhhhh….
So far this week I have received a bill from the IRS for $2374. For an unknown 1099-miscellaneous form that apparently didn’t get forwarded from California. From 2005. Ugh. The amount on the 1099 was pretty minuscule, but it […]

Several times over the last week my daughter, Reagan, has asked me to quiz her for a social studies test, to check her math, to read her essay. I have been very impressed with her responsibility, her forethought, her maturity. Last night I told her so; her response:
“Oh, I just want to do […]

Friday night I met friends (Katrina, MarySue, and Laura) at Eamon Patricks. After MarySue and Katrina commiserated with Laura on the loss of her dear Grandma I told the following story:
“Today I bought a soda at Phils (local grocery store) and it was flat. I took it back to the store to exchange […]

Tay: “Mom, I downloaded some new songs: Saosin, ????, and Lazy Eye.
Me: “Oh, does ‘Lazy Eye’ make you think of me? I have a lazy eye, you know, only it only strays when I am really tired.”
Tay: “No, it doesn’t make me think of you… now, if it was […]

My kids are opposites. A boy and a girl, one year apart in age. One likes pop, the other alternative. One only likes meat and carbs, the other loves fruits and veggies. One is very active in extra curricular activities and the other would sit in his room playing video games 24/7, […]

“1985″
Woohoohoo
Woohoohoo
Debbie just hit the wall
She never had it all
One Prozac a day
Husband’s a CPA
Her dreams went out the door
When she turned twenty four
Only been with one man
What happen to her plan?
She was gonna be an actress
She was gonna be a star
She was gonna shake her ass
On the hood of white snake’s car
Her yellow SUV is […]