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Caution: Inventions in mirror are dumber than they may appear

A top 10 from today, if you'll indulge me.... 1) Disappearing patterns on pull-ups. The point of these little gems is to motivate your child to stay dry all night. In the commercials, a small child appearing barely old enough to walk, much less scale the potty, runs triumphantly to mommy to display that the pull-up still bears the decorative print and Mommy wow, I'm a big kid now! The kid in the commercial has been wearing that pull-up for less than 10 seconds. I can attest that putting spaceships on the Buzz Lightyear pull-ups was really stupid, because a four-year-old boy will run...

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Typical Me

Oh.my.God. This is just SO like me... What is Your Destiny? by ValcionNameColorBirthdayDestinySavior of the human race Date when you fufill your destinyJanuary 8, 2004Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen! I mean, leave it to me to flipping save all of humankind and not even notice (or get credit). Thanks, Liz. I think. (Tell ya what... I'll bring the butter for your toast and you can bring whatever goes well with the spoils of righteous--if somewhat oblivious--victory and we'll make a celebration of it.) More typical me: 1) Discovered this morning that I left the garage door open. All night....

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But I NEED that!

Panic. Complete, total, utter panic. I was sitting here... minding my own business... finishing up the Mother's Day gifts for the grandmothers (yes, thank you, I know today's date... there were technical difficulties beyond my control and... why am I explaining this??)... when the phone rings. It's Eric, or maybe it's Erik, I really don't know, and he's calling me from the 401 area code, and I have no idea where that is, but if I haven't mentioned before that I love having Caller ID, I really do, and I would like to thank the Ex for the early days of post-separation insanity wherein he felt...

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