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  • Why does mention of bizarre British food leave me feeling wistful? Salad Cream, fishpaste, unappetizing "puddings," marmite, digestive biscuits. For some reason I feel like it would be comforting to live in a land wher…

  • Jon went out drinking with his friends and I woke up at 2:30 and realized he wasn't in bed yet. (Bars close at 1:00a.m. here.) Well. I found him passed out in front of the TV with the following note on him: "Dear Eil…

  • Of all the silly and embarrassing predicaments. Today I pulled the washer and dryer away from the wall to clean behind them and to clean out the dryer vent. In the process of duct-taping the vent back together, I got d…

  • I'm afraid I was a bit shrewish with Jon today. He mumbled something about wanting to go to the mall. My ears perked up: "Mall? Why do you need to go there?" He thought he might just buy a new pair of pants. Pants? Com…

  • Is there any activity that makes a 30-something woman feel more like an old crone than that of taking her adolescent son shopping for pants? While mother-daughter shopping trips have a fun girlfriend element, there is …

  • Just call me the Church Lady. Yesterday I spent the entire morning volunteering at church, cooking lunch for the second-graders and their parents who had a pre-first communion event. As a third grade parent, it was my …

  • Poor Mad Scientist had to go to school in his orchestra clothes today: white shirt, black bow-tie, black pants, black dress shoes. There appears to be two kinds of twelve-year old boys: the kind that look like they're …

  • Now that my free trial of premium is up, I don't seem to have the ability to use italics or underline things. I've tried writing entries in my word processing program and pasting them here, but the italics don't seem…

  • Nearly halfway through Clarissa. The naughty Lovelace drank ipecac and, using the blood of a dead fowl, made it appear that he was vomiting blood. Poor Clarissa totally fell for it and is all sympathy. Lovelace also ha…

  • Made it through the day despite my mostly sleepless night. We went grocery shopping and managed to avoid Crazy Check-Out Lady. I know this makes me sound like a twit, but I'm a sucker for new cleaning products. Today …