I would like to dedicate this blog post to As the Worlds Turns, a soap opera that broadcasts its final episode later this year, after decades of my apparently meaningless devotion.
How can they do this to me?!
[Also, did I mention my mother is coming for a visit?]
We now join our story already in [...]
We had another conversation here at chez Let the dog in! illustrating the differences between the Hubs and yours truly’s marriage and others’ wedded bliss. It all came up after I went shoe shopping with a friend.
She bought some super cute (waterproof! yay!) boots but wanted to know the store’s returns policy.
In [...]
The hubs has a project, as usual. A painting-the-whole-house project.
Which naturally means I now have a hole in my bedroom wall. You follow that logic?
He stopped painting and claims our house must be two colors until he gets all the new windows in. Which might make sense if I knew [...]
From the Bainbridge Island police blotter for December 25th:
Assault: A Bainbridge woman was arrested for striking her boyfriend’s head with a hot cup of cocoa at a Pleasant Beach Drive home shortly after 11:15 p.m. Police found the victim cleaning the peppermint schnapps-flavored hot chocolate off of a vehicle parked in a garage. He told [...]
It had to happen sometime (says this child of divorce). The parents of one of Kid’s friends are divorcing, and the mom moved into a condo.
Which Kid keeps calling a canoe.
Condo, canoe. What’s the diff? Except long-term debt versus freedom, I guess.
It’s not the first couple we know divorcing around [...]
[We interrupt this family blog for the following information:]
I just stumbled across this product review and it amazed me (can you say “sheltered life?”). And all in time for Christmas!
“It’s about time someone started applying machine intelligence to good things rather than the seemingly evil: the new JeJoue SaSi “personal massager” comes with built-in [...]
Instead, the hubs watches James Bond movies late at night, and unlike the rest of us, he watches the commercials. Including the one from the ASPCA.
Which apparently offers an annual subscription to support a dog or cat every month. And did the hubs come right out and tell me about his sudden burst [...]
