My son is sleeping not far from where I sit typing. I can hear him stir occasionally. I can see the covers rise and fall with his slow steady breathing, but I can't hear it over the whir of my laptop. The cat is lying drowsily at his feet. My daughter is in her bed, [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2007’
I Hate Flying
I will be flying twice in the next few months: once to my 20th (I feel old!) high school reunion and once to a friend's wedding. As I make the plans, reserve rental cars and hotel rooms, and schedule time with old friends, I keep thinking: I'm making plans as if I'm going to make [...]
I Rock!
I have won "a major award!" I feel like I am starring as the Old Man in A Christmas Story (a movie based on the writing of one of my heroes, the incomparable Jean Shepherd). Yes, a major award, just like that leg lamp, only it's much cooler, totally goes with my decor and won't [...]
Laughter
"You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."~Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie My daughter has the most magical laugh. It does make me think that her glee could be giving birth [...]
Bittersweet Moments
Mark took the kids to the park this weekend while I got some things done at home. Each child wanted to play a different game with Mark and did not want to play with each other, so Mark took turns playing with them. While he was playing with our daughter, our son said mournfully, "But [...]
Mark’s Favorite Joke in the Whole World
One of the reasons I love my husband so much, and that I feel we've been able to weather so much together, is that we both love to laugh. We laugh together so hard we can't breathe. When we're out at the movies, people think we're high (which, believe it or not, neither of us [...]
Holy Crap! Dieting is Bigger than Porn!
I mentioned in my 8 Things About Me meme post that I have lost 25 pounds on the Shangri-La diet in the last 4 months. (I don't generally diet, because I don't think it's healthy or effective long term, but Shangri-La has rocked my world.) When I checked my SiteMeter stats this evening, I had [...]
My Favorite Joke in the Whole World
Mark told me this joke for the first time over fifteen years ago, and I still think it is the absolute funniest joke I've ever heard. I think it's one of the reasons I married him.It's hard to tell it in writing, because a lot of it depends on the delivery and hinges on the [...]
Cleaning House
When I first started blogging, I started a blog roll just to help me remember what blogs I'd been visiting and which I liked. Then, when I started popping everything into Google Reader, the blog roll became this weird combination of things I started out reading and bloggers I have started to build actual relationships [...]
8 Things About Me
Well, I got so excited about being tagged in a meme, that The Junky's Wife decided to tag me again immediately. (I love hyperlinks!) So, here we go (again):1. Each player must post these rules first.2. Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.3. People who are tagged need to write their own blog [...]
