Archive for June, 2008
Puppy Blogging
This is what your boyfriend’s purse dog, Meko, looks like after a day of wearily eyeing cats who are pointedly eying her.
Posted by Melissa on June 30th, 2008 under Boyfriendlies, Kittens | 3 Comments »People…
I’ve been enduring training for the possibility of teaching some online classes. Really as supplemental income to my regular teaching…and I’m curious about it. The training is three weeks, all online, and the assignments are simple, more of a way to teach you the software and the university’s expectations for instructors and students.
Okay, […]
Full Custody
My children are home! My children are home! For now!
Because they are going to Nana’s tonight. And tomorrow. And Mike’s the next day.
And they just spent the last week, and a total of 17 days this month with their father.
Yes, folks, this is how a full custody single mother lives when […]
Up and Died
So, over this past week a huge thing happened in my household. My laptop, she died.
I mean, it flashed IMMINENT HARD DRIVE FAILURE and then failed. It never was able to boot up properly again. NB is going to look at it, but gah.
Gone.
Everything on it […]
Ass and Cock
Shuttlecock, that is!
Grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (Rodin’s The Thinker and Oldenburg and van Bruggen’s Shuttlecocks):
Tits and Barbecue
Thanks to a super spontaneous trip, as suggested by the boyfriend right when we were walking in for dinner Friday night.
Posted by Melissa on June 22nd, 2008 under Boyfriendlies | 3 Comments »Sixth Grade Band Rocks House, Details to Follow
My younger son started playing the trombone this year.
His school does this awesome thing where they set up all the different instruments in the common area during an informational meeting close to the beginning of the school year. Kids walk around blowing their germs into various mouthpieces, then decide if they really […]
Seriously
I don’t care what line of bullshit is being fed to us, THIS tells me something.
When the only ones making money around here are the gas companies, I can’t help getting madder and madder at the gas pump.
Posted by Melissa on June 11th, 2008 under Observations | 6 Comments »Some Days are Badu Days
This is quite possibly the greatest song ever made with the greatest first and last lines. Ever. We all need a little jolt of woman power sometimes and Erykah Badu always, ALWAYS fits the bill.
Posted by Melissa on June 6th, 2008 under Observations | 7 Comments »Morning Emails
I just opened my inbox to find I’d received several emails from a couple I know getting married in the fall.
Emails that all said, “HEY! We’re registered here. And here. And here! And HERE! Here’s how to buy us these gifts and if you have questions about our gift preferences […]
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