Ever since that study came out about Facebook making people depressed, I’ve read many a blog and Facebook post professing the need to “get real” about our lives. In the most recent article, “We Need to Quit Telling Lies on Facebook” on Kveller.com, Sarah Emily Tuttle-Singer writes about her “real” Saturday with the kids, not the cleaned-up, Instagram-filtered…
Well, after three-and-a-half-plus months, I finally did it. I got my hair cut. I was starting to think I was going to end up like Crystal Gale. Or one of those Oprah makeovers where they find the woman who’s also wearing huge glasses, circa 1970, and light blue mom jeans. I wasn’t being a complete…
I had a really crappy day yesterday. In the morning, my coffee pot freaked out. There’s nothing quite like the joy of dealing with piping hot liquid spilling onto the counter, burnt coffee smelling up the house, and wet coffee grounds sticking to every nook and cranny of a black, plastic container. I poured coffee/water/grounds…
I haven’t been around much in Internet land. Last weekend, I took the kids to Monterey (which was quite the haul in a three-day span). Then they had to do Nevada Day reports (Sarah Winnemucca and the Hoover Dam, if you’re just crazy curious). And, of course, there was Halloween. And yes, all of that stuff…
So I’ve been sick for about ten days with some killer, government-created, genetically-modified supervirus that strolled over to my microbiology beach and kicked protoplasm in the face of my flu shot. To say this is getting me down would be an understatement. Those scenes from Beaches with Barbara Hershey lying around the house, barely able…
So at the risk of bringing everyone down, I’m having a rough day. Couple of days. Actually, make that a couple of weeks. Even if you know me personally, you most likely have no idea that I’ve been having a rough time. Because that’s what I do. I just power through. I take the kids…
I don’t know if it’s because we’re coming up to the end of summer, but I’ve been reading a lot of blog posts about how quickly childhood slips away and how parents need to cherish every moment of it. And I really have to say. . . it’s kind of starting to piss me off….
I’ve had one of those weeks where you sort of feel like a really bad traveling carnival — the kids look at you and think you should be fun, but when in comes down to it, you’re actually just a bunch of thinly spread out rides that need paint, could breakdown at any moment, and…
The other day, while driving the kids to school, I noticed something odd. I was, for lack of a better word, “happy.” This probably sounds terrible to people who either 1) walk around believing they’re happy when they’re probably just content, or 2) believe you should be happy all or most of the time and…
I am cranky. There’s no good reason for this. I have a new job, and I just kicked butt at my latest assignment. I slept for 9 hours straight, which is practically unheard of. And we went to a birthday party where the kids (and Tenzin) got to bounce around and whack each other with…
So come on in. I made some Arnold Palmers. And a nice jello salad...
