Comments on: Strolling down Melancholy Lane

By: momzen

momzen — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:14:45 +0000

Even when you’re home, it get’s a little wierd. I finally got through all the holiday stuff, and my (former) best friend just sent ANOTHER batch of cookies. And white-chocolate-dipped pretzels. Oh the pain.

By: susie

susie — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:58:24 +0000

I too am on “vacation” visiting family in New England and can’t wait to go home. Except here the four cups of high fructose syrup juice is coming from Grandma rather than Dad. Happy New Year!

By: Trish/Astrogirl426

Trish/Astrogirl426 — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:16:09 +0000

Maybe this will cheer you up:

8 hours and 2008 will officially be OVER.

And Obama will be president in 20 days.

And you are so very, very pretty. And your shoes! Oh! To die for!

Happy New Year, Mir and Otto clan! We love you all here at the bunker!

By: Neil

Neil — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:40:50 +0000

Wishing you a healthy New Year. Stay out of hospitals. The food is usually pretty bad. And they make you were those shirt/dress things that open in the back, showing you off to everyone.

By: Katie in MA

Katie in MA — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 19:30:53 +0000

I’m sure part of it is just feeling out of control. (I have huge control issues, I’ve just learned. You’d think I’d have noticed before, but noooooo.) Maybe the next time Chickie pulls that, you should tell her it’s okay when you’re on vacation, but 4 cups of sugar certainly makes her tease and be mean to her mama, and that’s not nice at all. It’s what I call my Berenstein Bears tactic, because, boy, did Mama Bear sure know how to pull a good guilt trip.

By: frogmama

frogmama — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:34:39 +0000

Hang in there! There’s always hope, and getting home usually puts things back in order. Usually! Happy New Year.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:57:54 +0000

But it was real lemonade, right? Made with lemons and sugar and not from a tin with powdered stuff? Because real lemonade would at least have fresh fruit juice and vitamin C while the powdered stuff… Perhaps you and Chickie could have a happy hour or two reading the ingredients list and trying to draw the molecules of the various bits and bobbles that go in. Educational fun! Ooh! And you could both work out just how many spoonfuls of sugar were in each glass and then make a visual display of her day’s consumption! On second thought, I just looked those facts up so my second suggestion is that you inform Chickie you trust her ability to make wise choices about her diet since she’s such a mature, responsible creature and then cultivate a saint-like calm by chanting over and over, “she will survive and so will I, she will survive and so will I…”

By: ChristieNY

ChristieNY — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:06:37 +0000

Oh Mir. You are so shiny and pretty and need a vacation from your vacation. And a day full of yummy food, after the Christmas cracker diet.

Glad you’re feeling better in body. Hope your spirit is feeling better soon too. I think a Chickie, a Monkey, an Otto, your Dad, and eventually your very own pillow will make you feel a hundred times better.

Hang in there and Happy 2009! <3

By: Flea

Flea — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:42:22 +0000

Holidays begone! There. All better now.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:41:03 +0000

I’ve read, loved, and flat out enjoyed your blog for some time now. I live in the boonies, and would like to think that if we lived in the same town, we might find the same things to complain about.

I, too, am the stricter parent in my family of “Fairly Strict Parents.” I also teach middle school, and deal with a share of divorced parents. So, I do know about some things. Some.

What you are complaining about—OMG. LET IT GO. Double Blech. Cheesy eggs and lemonade. I do think that you Ex sucks lemons and eggs, and clearly, he can’t do better!!

You should offer to make this dish upon her return home whilst the rest of you eat actual tasty food.

If she brings up the “off limits” things, you should laugh and say, “I think you already had fun with that.” Lather, rinse, repeat.

Hope I didn’t make you mad by saying you are a control freak, but a well-meaning one…

-Shrewish