by Mir | Sep 17, 2013 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
1) Feeling like you’re failing your kids. 2) Feeling like you’re failing yourself. 3) Feeling crappy. 4) HAVING MANY FEEEEEEEELS, period. 5) Sometimes not wanting to talk about those things because there will always be someone ready to tell you that...
by Mir | Sep 16, 2013 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
“You have to blog so I have something to read on the way home,” my father said to me this morning. “No pressure!” I answered, and we laughed. Then I told him I’d try to come up with something. When my folks come to visit for less than a...
by Mir | Sep 11, 2013 | Job? Huh?, Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Yep, I know what today is. Nope, not gonna talk about it. There are plenty of places you can go to get that, today. What I’m offering, instead, is two different distractions if you need ’em. Because YAY, shiny and less-depressing things! First: My latest...
by Mir | Sep 9, 2013 | Retail Therapy
I post a lot of Amazon grocery deals over at Want Not, largely because we have never belonged to a warehouse club and this has always been the cheapest way for me to, say, buy enough Cheez-Its to last my children more than a week without having to take out a home...
by Mir | Sep 6, 2013 | Health is overrated, My name is Grumplestiltskin
Hey, remember that time I broke my hand on an apple and turned into a cyborg? Good times, man. That was almost a year ago, now. It was year ago next month, in fact, though I wasn’t thinking about that at all this week. After the surgery I did months of physical...