by Mir | Mar 20, 2012 | Health is overrated, My name is Grumplestiltskin, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I was feeling pretty good yesterday, which was surely my first mistake. Sure, the pollen count is SO HIGH (how high is it?) that no one can breathe, but whatever. Details. Yesterday evening Chickadee commenced falling into giant chunks of woe and sickness, and the...
by Mir | Mar 19, 2012 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, Health is overrated
In the continuing saga of My Oh My What Exactly IS Wrong With This Chickadee Kid, Anyway… a while back one of her doctors sent us to another doctor who sent us to a third doctor. And she told two friends, and they told two friends, and so on, and so on,...
by Mir | Mar 17, 2012 | Ottomatic For the People, Retail Therapy
You may perhaps remember that during the last few months of last year—having no idea how much 2012 was going to suck, and how much less I’d be working—we decided to give all of our spare moneys to our favorite contractor so that he and his guys could...
by Mir | Mar 15, 2012 | Haven't been hit by lightning yet!, It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
This week is Operation Rejoin The Human Race. Oh, I know, you weren’t aware that I left. But I did! Every now and then my natural tendencies towards hermit-tude intersect with massive life suckage and then I go underground (metaphorically—the clay in...
by Mir | Mar 13, 2012 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
… I bet you think my post over at Off Our Chests today is about me. Oh, wait. It is. Heh. The thing is, I feel I’ve reached something of a crossroads right now. I’m standing firmly at the intersection of “what I’ve always done” and...
