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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 [...]

Rix (Girl Bleeder) tagged me with a Meme asking me to list six random thngs about me. I tried to think of some “PostSecret” worthy items but backed out; I do have some boundaries.
Tag Rules:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on the blog.
3. Write six random things [...]

SS and I went to scenic Belle, Missouri last weekend to visit our dear friend Chad. We frequently take our children on small trips so we are accustomed to getting lost travelling together and we always have a good time. Even when things go disastrously wrong. (Like the time two guys [...]

At lunchtime today I just happened to stop by the neighbor lady’s house where Taylor was doing his football-auction induced labor, ostenibly to bring him a drink, really to check up on him.
“X.” had already sent him home for the day, after a few hours of weeding. He’s going back tomorrow to trim [...]

I’m the only “white person” at my office. It’s not a distinction I make, but one my co-workers do, mainly by calling me “the white girl.”
Growing up in the ‘burbs, well, everyone (except the pastor’s adopted kids and one hispanic young man) was “white,” so I never really thought much about race. In my [...]

Yesterday Taylor won a stereo from the library’s summer reading program. In the five weeks of the program he had read 38 books. He should be thanking me for the technological grounding he’s had this summer, without which, he would doubtless have played many games of HALO and read few books.
On our [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, my daughter attends two local church-based youth groups.
And she’s an atheist.
Today one of the youth groups is going to see “Get Smart.” I encouraged Taylor to go, too, but the weirdo boy isn’t willing to put up with a little extraneous religion to go to a [...]