Entries from August 2007

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

My head is a lava lamp,

Filled with blobby, drippy, glumpy goo
That slowly slides from side to side
In my head,
Ear to ear,
Each time I roll over at night.
I have a cold.
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

it takes a village….or just a lawyer?

Somehow a post about Bible camp turned into a conversation of lawsuits against school systems…. Which reminded me of this story.
A lawsuit arose in Idaho after school officials scrubbed face paint off of two kids in junior high. It seems that the school officials used rubbing alcohol, fingernail polish remover, and industrial cleaner. [...]

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

bellicose \BEL-ih-kohs\

(You’re getting another new word this week because this annoyed me.)
adjective:
pugnacious.
OH.
Bellicose=pugnacious
That’s informative. (not) I think my Word of the Day people are getting snotty (see how my vocabulary has grown). Maybe when I was studying for the PSAT, I knew one or both these words, but now, I’ll need a little more [...]

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Beware the Bib

Some Baby Bibs Said to Contain Levels of Lead
Tests this summer, financed by the Center for Environmental Health of Oakland, Calif., found lead as high as three times the level allowed in paint in several styles of the bibs purchased from both Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores in California.
Lead in baby bibs! [...]

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Does this child need a doll?

This is a bath scrubby sponge. Wrapped in a hospital baby blanket.
At least it has a head.
It also has a handy string for slinging it in a circle when you’re pretending to be Mean Mommy.
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Friday, August 17th, 2007

Me: 372, Slugs: 0

In an effort to prepare for a deluge of 4 year old crazed midgets arriving for a Certain Girl’s party, we pulled out the Bonzai blow-up slide for a cleaning. Well, we didn’t so much pull it out as just move it over in the yard. See, it wintered outside. Mistake.
As I [...]

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

nebbish \NEB-ish\

noun:
A weak-willed, timid, or ineffectual person.
You used to be a nebbish, a noodle, a fool
And now you’re Mr. Big Time with your own private pool.
– Maira Kalman, Max in Hollywood, Baby
Nebbish is from Yiddish nebekh, “poor, unfortunate,” of Slavic origin.

Time for another word of the day. Isn’t it cute? Guess who is the [...]

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