I’m really aggravated. I ordered Chinese takeout for dinner, okay? I called the place and asked for a large order of Roast Pork LoMein, a large order of General Tso’s Chicken, and a large order of the Chef’s Special: Crispy Beef. I ordered the beef because it was the Chef’s Special, so:
a. it had to [...]
My husband and I are both Geographers. By schooling and by hobby. We both have undergraduate and graduate degrees in Geography. We like maps, especially old maps, and we have framed maps hanging on many of the walls in our home. We have more than one globe, and issues of National Geographic abound. We have [...]
So here’s a little slice of hell. Our air conditioner is broken down and it’s 98’ out with a heat index of 105’. Minus the visible flames licking at my heels, I’m sure this is the full on heat of hell and I vow here on out to live a better life if only to [...]
“Really? A whole week at Disney World? Are you sure? I mean, what will we DO there for a whole entire week?” I asked.
But my husband was sure this was a good idea. Our first official family vacation, just the three of us, where we would go someplace where we weren’t simply visiting family, should be [...]
I don’t know how many people realize this, but my little blog here, like nearly all blogs, I suspect, has something called a “dashboard.” It’s a behind-the-scenes tool through which I manage this place. It’s through the dashboard that I access my page and write my posts and respond to comments.
And like the dashboard in [...]
My husband is coming back. Any day now he’ll ask if he can return to our bed and I suppose I’ll sigh and have to relent. You know, since we’re married. Hopefully I’ll have mentally prepared myself for this and will allow him back with only the slightest bit of irritation on my part. And [...]
My son, Snags, has been watching a lot of Star Wars lately. He’s totally enthralled by it. So much so, that he’s been sucked in, and he’s changed his own identity. He calls himself Luke Skywalker now. And if I want to get his attention, I have to call him that too.
This is not the [...]
If you can believe Wikipedia, the term “Hell on Wheels” was “…used to describe the itinerant collection of flimsily assembled gambling houses, dance halls, saloons, and brothels that sprung up as Union Pacific railroad workers… constructed the American transcontinental railroad back in the 1860s.” I am not sure I believe this. I think the term [...]
How is YOUR eyesight? Do you see with perfect 20/20 clarity? Is that corrected or uncorrected? Do you wear contacts or glasses?
Me? I wear contacts, sometimes glasses. But if you’ve read this then you already know that. Without glasses my vision is something like 20/bringthatahellofalotcloserifyouexpectmetoseeit. With contacts, I’ve got 20/20 vision.
That’s what my eye doctor’s [...]
There was a time, as recently as 2 months ago, when summer fun here meant shooting each other with water guns, and for my son Snags the water guns were simply a toy, a cool way to get each other wet. He was never one of those children to bite his toast into the shape [...]
