Here’s what I did today. I appear, in this post, to switch back and forth between present and past tense. I don’t know why I do this, and I don’t care. I just don’t want you to think I’m not aware of it.
7:30 AM: Woke up after a largely sleepless night, in spite of my [...]
Ugh. Ugh.
The thing with driving carpool and being stuck in horrible traffic for over an hour when it’s over 90 degrees outside and you’re pregnant and spitting and you use up all the tissues and can’t reach the other box, is that if you had just listened to the traffic report instead of texting with [...]
You know that episode of Raymond where he took his sons and his sons’ friend to a sporting event of some kind, and he told them not to bother cleaning up their garbage because that’s what they pay the janitor for? Or something like that? So it turned out that the friend’s father was a [...]
Continue reading about Things I hate: Being taken for granted, and being insane
Anyone who is so inclined is cordially invited to buy me this, along with any or all of the coordinating items. It might possibly cheer me up, assuming it arrives in the next few hours, which it won’t, so maybe you shouldn’t bother.
What’s wrong? Nothing really, I guess. Just the letdown that follows a big [...]
Mazal tov to my amazing friend Sarah, who got a part in Fiddler on the Roof!! I totally knew she could do it, and the fact that she even tried out is but one piece of evidence that she is the coolest person in the world. BFFD is also going to be performing in a [...]
Continue reading about To sleep, perchance to freaking sleep
Though not necessarily in that order.
Yesterday I did quite a bit of work for Client #1 (the paying one). I’m doing a great job, of course, except I’m having sort of a hard time. Emotionally, I mean. This is because my job is to proofread and copyedit, and to do only very light actual editing, [...]
So I just finally read Dave Barry’s Year in Review, and while parts of it weren’t so funny, parts of it were freakin’ hilarious, and I do feel mighty uplifted after all that laughing. The North Korea threat and especially the Iran threat aren’t so funny, but he still managed to make me smile with [...]
Wow. I mean, like WOW.
So this Shabbos we had some guests. Lovely Family #1, consisting of Lovely Mother, Lovely Father, and Lovely Kids ages 3, 2, and 0 (that is, 2 months), slept downstairs in the two guest rooms, which had been scoured top to bottom in preparation for Elder Sister’s family staying there on [...]
Things that make you smile
Your child (YS), being a raving genius and all, is in this enrichment program at school. She brought home a special assignment that required making up a creature, and drawing a picture of it, and then describing it using “nonsense words” and “context.” So YS thought of a creature, named [...]
First, there are a few happy things I forgot to mention yesterday. There are probably actually more, but so far I’ve only thought of these.
In the coming-of-age category, a good friend made a bat mitzvah last Sunday. Coincidentally enough, it was the second one he’s made (for his second daughter, see) – and, the bar [...]
