by Mir | May 22, 2013 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony
Phil departed the premises last night. It was time. (It was long PAST time, but I’m working pretty hard on this whole “saying yes” thing.) No tears were shed. Any residual sadness has been smoothed over with frozen dairy confection, and our house is...
by Mir | May 21, 2013 | Offspring: ecstasy and agony, Oh look! Something furry!!
Summer vacation, man. Things are crazy already, and it’s only the second day. I think tomorrow I’ll be able to direct you to a post about my summer philosophy (spoiler: Now with fewer Give A Craps!), but for today all I can tell you is that we ate all the...
by Mir | May 20, 2013 | My name is Grumplestiltskin
We knew, not even very far into it, that fixing the pool was yet another Curse Of Casa Mir project, doomed from the start. What could go wrong, would go wrong. Obviously. Much went wrong. So much went wrong, they had to redo the liner entirely, which meant the first...
by Mir | May 17, 2013 | What do I do all day?
Some days I have a ton of work to do, deadlines coming out of my ears, and also there is laundry to be done and the kitchen is a mess and the dog needs a bath and my children are needy in various ways, and because I am a professional and also a master of life balance...
by Mir | May 16, 2013 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience"
3:01 AM: Huh. I appear to be awake. 3:03 AM: I’m still awake. Do I have to pee? Maybe I have to pee. I think I have to pee. But if I get up, then I’ll never fall asleep again. 3:05 AM: I probably don’t really have to pee. If I just lie here quietly...
