Yes, those are my two punks up there. They look dangerous, don’t they. Aside from their mutually-nihilistic tendencies, they’re good kids. And I wouldn’t trade them for a bag of gold. THREE bags of gold, maybe. I kid, of course. Hey, how about some garden talk?!?! Stop it, I know you’re excited. If you live [...]
I used to do this thing on the old Blogatelle blog, Conversations With… It was one of my audience’s favorite schticks, apparently, and it was just fun, since the kids/Husband are such cards…as evidenced fifteen minutes ago when I walked out of the shower. Me: This is the best farmer tan I’ve ever had! Him: [...]
The kiddos were fevered, stuffy and cough-y most of the weekend (which allowed for an unprecedented amount of yardwork getting done, srsly), but the Boychild was damned if he was going to miss Iron Man, so off we went this afternoon to view it. Tony Stark, as played by Robert Downey Jr (who despite his [...]
Does anyone else find it insanely hard to thin out seedlings? Drives me nuts. You have to plant more than you need because you don’t know if all the seeds are viable…then when all the little bastards DO sprout, you have to yank out 3/4 of them so the rest can live. I hate it. [...]
As you may recall, we took the Boychild out of the bastard teacher’s class a couple of months ago, and he was assigned to a different teacher. There were some procedural things he had to get used to in her class for the first few weeks, and I did have one “sorting things out” phone [...]
Ye gods I hate peeling. The itching is even less fun. This weekend starts the Great Outdoor Project. I kid, it doesn’t have an official name. We have sorely neglected the roses and they need to be beaten into submission before they start stealing local children. One already had a go at the Girlchild, I [...]
Over the weekend we bought the Girlchild a book called, “The Daring Book for Girls.” Today I pick her up from school to discover she’s founded a covert intelligence operation and has recruited a number of her classmates to the cause, assigning them specific tasks like “Scout,” “Social Engineer,” and “Wheel Artist,” with the stated [...]
I was dreaming this morning that someone who used to be a friend wrote a nasty anonymous blog entry about me, and I had to rush to write a rebuttal blog entry. Dreaming about blogging, how frigging lame is that, I ask you. Quite the epic dustup with the Boychild’s teacher yesterday. The upshot is [...]
Crime in Italy, a frigging Great White off Indian Rocks Beach?? I had always thought the Gulf was too warm for the bastards, but apparently not. There hasn’t been a Zoe Presents update lately, sorry about that, I know you are all out there waiting with bated breath. This morning Husband found one of the [...]
Because I was a Very Good Girl this year, I got this. And because we’re going to Busch Gardens tomorrow, courtesy of a last minute decision while standing in a steak house parking lot with the family, I got to open my present tonight. WOO! So, be warned: many, many super-wide angle images shall ensue. [...]
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