keep passing the open windows

Last night my son asked me, “What do you have to do to ride a motorcycle?”
Shit!
“Umm.. take safety classes, pass a test, wear a helmet. Wait for your mother to die. And even then my moldy rotting corpse will haunt you.”

I’m in a good mood.
Despite the .30 in my checking account yesterday (that turned into a -$7.53 over night!).
And the fact that I ran out of gas today after dropping Taylor off at football. At a four way stop. In the center of town.
Not one of the four people I waved [...]

I am reading “The Road” and I love it and hate it. I love the writing, very mental picture-inducing, but it’s heartbreaking. Extremely bleak. Nevertheless, I can’t seem to put it down.
I would definitely recommend reading “The Road” but would also suggest NOT reading it before bedtime.
My next read is [...]

Everyone in my family seems on edge. I don’t know if it’s just that time of year-end of summer vacation-or all the changes that are happening.
Chris started a new job (Yay!) with long hours (Boo!).
Taylor started high school today. (Yay! Sob!)
Reagan has her first “boyfriend.” (Okay, they talk on the phone [...]

I love the show “Weeds.” And this season, the fourth, I have developed a crush on a character, one I previously didn’t find attractive.
Silas, the son of the main character, Nancy, is totally not “my type” but somehow this season, he’s just so appealing; maybe it’s the haircut and his burgeoning sense [...]

I’m eating one of thirty Lean Cuisine Meals I bought this weekend. (Sale at Krogers + natural hoarding tendencies!)
Pizza Margherita.
I sprinkled on some red pepper flakes. Well, what I thought was red pepper flakes, until I glanced down at the jar. Salsa en polvo. WTF?
It [...]

Over the weekend I took my fourteen-year-old son, Taylor, shopping for school clothes. Walking in to Old Navy he says, “I only want black t-shirts this year. It’ll make getting ready in the morning easier.”
What?
The kid wears the same thing everyday, come winter, spring, summer or fall, a pair of jeans, tennis shoes [...]

My little office has three employees. My boss, my co-worker Mari (who really works for another program and shares space with us) and me. My title involves our database but should really be “head lackey.”
We are grant-funded and have an uncertain future, funds-wise, thus we were recently discussing our resumes and how we [...]

Yesterday morning my husband, Chris, came by my work. “Taylor is taller than me! Taylor is taller than me! I was standing outside his room this morning and we were both barefoot and he’s taller than me!”
Wow, just last summer Tay was 1/2 an inch shorter than me, 5′6′; being [...]