Month: July 2007

The Good, Bad, and Annoying

The good: I found a preschool that has openings for the fall.\ The bad: Brian has to be potty-trained first.\ The annoying: It’s a church school that has bi-monthly story time with the minister and bible verses as part of the curriculum.\ The good: Our air conditioner is working! And the repairman didn’t charge us.\ […]

All you people in the know totally lose!

A Happy Post About Rock n’ Roll

I listen to music almost all day every day during work. If I’m at my desk, I’ve got my headphones on, and I’m listening to something. My pared down library (I backed up a bunch of stuff I never listen to) in iTunes is over twenty-five gigabytes.\ I’m no music critic, but I know what […]

Not Working? Let’s Change the Name!

The White House is going to retool the Iraq mission. If you read the article carefully, they’re not actually going to change anything except they’re going to rebrand it.\ Yes, people, this is what we’ve come to. June was the bloodiest month in Iraq since the beginning of the war, the Iraqi government and military […]

It could get up to 100 today

Out of the mouths of mommies.

If train A leaves the bedroom at 5 am…

Kevin is totally awesome. He cleaned up the kitchen this morning and then took the boys to the pool while I caught up on sleep. Brian has been waking me up at the crack of dawn and it isn’t cute anymore. (Although it is further proof he is an angel, like from the City of […]

Happy Weekend!

Our weekend is going to be fabulous and I hope yours is too!\ Friday night started off with a bang when Kevin had an impromptu Happy Hour to go to after work. He decided to take Max with him because he is Max’s ride home from camp. Since this was obviously a low-key thing, Brian […]

The 4th of July for a Slave

I read this yesterday and it’s one of the most eloquent and damning speeches I’ve ever read. I can only imagine what it would have been like to hear Frederick Douglass give it in person. You should read the whole thing, but here’s my favorite paragraph:\ bq. What, to the American slave, is your Fourth […]

Happy Independence Day!