by Mir | Jun 20, 2005 | Job? Huh?, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
1) Even the world’s most selfish child will offer three of her six chicken nuggets to her sobbing brother who insists that he most certainly did NOT ask for that cheeseburger. 2) Do not bother trying to clarify to a small pacifist that it is technically...
by Mir | Jun 19, 2005 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
I called my father today to wish him a happy Father’s Day, on account of I would get a great big F in “Sandwich Generation;” I can either focus on my children or my parents, but not both. As I’ve been rather busy with the kids of late (read:...
by Mir | Jun 17, 2005 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Enough with the ponderous. Blah blah blah, losing my mind, blah blah blah blah. Boooooooring. Let’s take a vacation, shall we? I skipped the Friday Flashbacks last week. Time to return, and time to inject a little levity into things, I think. So! Today!...
by Mir | Jun 17, 2005 | My name is Grumplestiltskin
So, on the one hand, I am feeling a vague shell of my former self. Which–under the circumstances–is a GOOD thing. As recently as a few days ago I still pretty much felt like a troglodyte. Even approximately feeling human is progress. Huzzah! On the other...
by Mir | Jun 16, 2005 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
Actually, I am just a little tired, and a little sick of being sick or whatever it is that I am, but any time I start a sentence with “I’m a little…” I have the overwhelming urge to finish it off with “TEAPOT!” So you’re all...
