by Mir | Jan 8, 2008 | Health is overrated
How can you top bringing the Mythbusters home? Why, with a fruitless day of searching for a simple item, of course! Once upon a time, I had vision insurance. Vision Service Plan, or VSP for short. VSP and I were good friends. Oh, hell… VSP and I may have been...
by Mir | Jan 7, 2008 | I'm dating the television, Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Woohoo!
So yesterday I told you all about the last round of presents with the kids—the rest of their Christmas presents, and Monkey’s birthday presents, which should be enough presentage (totally a word) to hold us for many months. That, combined with having the...
by Mir | Jan 6, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Monkey and Chickadee are safely home again. They arrived yesterday evening, tired and cranky and all hopped up on a long day of travel (because LORD KNOWS there are no direct flights between Boston and Atlanta, nooooooo! I’m certain that flying Boston to...
by Mir | Jan 4, 2008 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Attention Young Master Monkeypants: Today is your birthday. You are eight whole years old! That is—as your sister solemnly informed you a month or so back—the beginning of being a tween. From there you’ll become a teenager, and from there it’s...
by Mir | Jan 2, 2008 | The Year of Living Changerously
After 15 hours in the car today (totally uneventful, really, other than the MIND NUMBING BORINGNESS and the fact that I got all loopy on diet coke and started misreading signs all over the place, including INSISTING that there had been a billboard advertising SEXY...
