family
What you Believe is What You Receive
Time for a little positive energy around here.
Kids are in school and learning a whole bunch of life defining skills- including school bus survival. I kiss and hug them and tell them every morning to go out there and knock ‘em dead. To hold their head up high and believe in themselves. My husband tells them every night how proud he is of them, how much he expects of them, how worthy they are. They are learning life lessons- that you don’t get what you don’t earn- and no one hears the whining.…
Our Family Annual Report 2008/ The Cheap Christmas Card
OUR YEAR OF 2008 AS COMPARED TO THE XXIX OLYMPIAD
This year was a series of trials, sort of like the Olympics, but with less Chinese food and more Southern accents.
We had our technical challenges, beginning with Linda choosing to defect from Samsung to the BlackBerry team. There was a moment when she was wooed by a competitor, but even with its snazzy looking stylus she still couldn’t cope with the Microsoftness of it. She battled the internet to create a website for her new venture, scratch and maintain her own site.
More techical hi-jinx took center ring …
Video Game as Poetry
download here:
–Passage_v3_Windows.exe
–Passage_v3_MacOSX.dmg
control notes:
- Press any button (or key) to start the game.
- Use left analog stick (or arrow keys) to move character (up, down, left, right).
- F (on keyboard) to toggle fullscreen mode.
- B (on keyboard) to adjust screen blow-up factor.
- Q or ESC (on keyboard) to quit.
Spend 5 minutes in this game and you will probably cry. You may begin to understand the pull a video game can have on a child, on a lonely adult, on a teenager in college.
Or you may just think it is a silly waste of time, …
Sandal of silver strings and knots
Happy Thanksgiving.
Yes, even today I have to stick to my 30 days of shoes blog promise. This sandal, a complicated silver strap, tie, knot, twist and wrap espadrille is another shoe that was practically stolen at an 80% off sale. So when I only break her out once a year, I don’t feel guilty.
Symbolically, it’s a good shoe for today when families and friends come together, each bringing their own knots and ties, a complicated mess that when wrapped up correctly binds forever, or even when …
When you don't know what to give for Christmas.
Give a dick to a dick.
Give something raunchy to a prude.
Give something unexpectedly funny to someone who needs a laugh.
First there was this. and then, there was THIS
Last year, I made this. which led to this year’s duo: this
and still to be revealed: black santa before and after
Sure, I have a few more ornament ideas up my sleeve, don’t worry.
Every year the ladies ask me where do you get all those tiny penises, and when are you going to start up your own p-ornament making business?
Because they all know at least one …
Ho. Ho. Hammacher Schlemmer. Ho.
You can’t say it without smiling, and you can’t say it properly after a few Friday afternoon cocktails. (I know, but it’s Friday afternoon somewhere, and besides it sounded much better than Thursday morning tequila shots.)
Scanning through this classic Christmas catalog that claims:
Offering the Best, the Only and the Unexpected for 160 years
I found lots of potential gifts for my friends and family from a fish finding watch, a hands free video camera, a voice controlled ipod controller and a perfect martini maker to this bug vacuum.
If we still had little ones to buy for I …
15 minute blog
I don’t believe in New Year’s Resolutions. I Have NEW DAY resolutions. Like thinking I should be able to write a blog entry in 15 minutes or less. AND continue on the 1000 word a day novel writing. Deadline January 31.
So, my house is quiet again. Company gone, sick kid back in school, dogs asleep. Except for the sound from the laundry room, and the ticking clock on my desk, things are back to normal.
it was a good two weeks of stress. I am broke but happy and have some more memories and good stories. This is my …
