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A Prayer for 2008

Dear God,
I know that all things happen for a reason. I know that you never give us more than we can handle. I know you will never leave us comfortless.
But Big Guy? We’re all going to need Suckit 2008 t-shirts before this year wraps up.
My Dad died, his trashy girlfriend took everything, my aunt died, [...]

Kaiser Alex addresses his public on his 16th month birthday

Oh my adoring public. I’ve missed you. No really. I’ve missed you. But to jump right in, 3 events have kept me from you these long, long months. 1. Mommy’s email “crapped out”, 2. Mommy’s camera “crapped out”. 3. My Grandpa died in March. Mommy has been too busy designing tshirts that say “SUCK IT [...]

The Butterfly Lover and the Man Who Loved Her

When I was in grad school, one of my responsibilities was seeing clients in our clinic for speech therapy. We had to have so many adult and so many pediatric hours. I was dead set on getting a peds internship, so I begged and begged for adult hours in the clinic.
I knew of the [...]

Vote for Most Disturbing Item

Mind you, each of the photos you are about to see are of items found in my Dad’s storage units. There’s a lesson to be learned here - that lesson is don’t put shit in storage you don’t want your kids sifting through and posting photos of on the internet.
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Little Things Mean a Lot

I’ve been absent from the blogosphere - and I miss it. I came home from BlogHer all fired up and full of ideas and then ran head first into the shit-mire that is my Dad’s estate and the never ending banging my head against the glass walls of statues and idiocy and why the fuck [...]

Rick Rolled Redux

Man, I wish I would have had this last week when I posted for Loralee. A billion thanks to CityMama for tweeting this.

164.5 Redux

I hate this number.
During the 15 year awkward period I had (ages 8-22), I didn’t pick up on the transition from getting larger clothes because I was growing taller to getting larger clothes because I was growing fatter.
When I was 20, I hit my top weight of 164. I don’t remember how I felt specifically. [...]

How to get your baby to sleep

(Brilliance from my friend Red, who is now Mrs. Tater. ‘Bout damn time.)
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I have a friend who is a lawyer. She is not married (BUT SHE’D LIKE TO BE. HINT HINT - oh…. excuse me Tater…. my bad). We were talking (IM) about baby sleep because of a conversation I’d had in yoga yesterday (more [...]

Signin’ off

I’m off to live la vida dial up for the next several days - fun times. Cleaning out the largest collection of Playboys in the midwest - also fun times.
So, miss me, love me, and I leave you with this link to a deep thought.
Click here if you love me.
(Loralee, this one’s for you.)