Queen of Rambles

It’s going to be a long night around these parts. Erik begged to go to bed at 6:45 pm last night, so we did a little happy jig and had him asleep by 7. We didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, though we knew the teeth were cracked and rotten. At midnight I [...]

I’m in the kitchen, mixing chocolate syrup into my fat free milk. Mike walks in. He’s incredulous. “Wow. I’ve never seen that mixture before.” I suppose I should have just put some cheddar cheese on my blueberry waffle and called it good.

When I lived in Astoria, a small coastal town in Oregon, it rained all the time. I was led to believe that it was the rainiest town in the state of Oregon. If you know anything about Oregon, you know the jokes about webbed feet and rain. Imagine a state that is known for the [...]

When you know you need to pack a picnic lunch for tomorrow and you know you are having chicken salad for dinner and you know you have nothing else to eat in the entire house thanks to this new thing called thriftiness and you know you aren’t going to be making chicken salad at 8 [...]

To make popcorn dance you need about 10 kernels of corn per child. If you buy a bottle of real kernels you will use exactly 1/40th of the container and be left with a shitload of popcorn. Then you will see fancy popcorn butter and your stomach will growl and you will buy it. Then [...]

The last time I looked at the clock last night it was 12:53. And that was with a sleeping pill. The first time I looked at the clock this morning was 5:32. I could have gone back to sleep, but noooooooooo. I was thinking of stupid M. Night Shyamalan and his stupid twist movies and [...]

Oh man. I hate it when I procrastinate. I’ve known for weeks that tomorrow is my day to teach golf and triangles at preschool. I came up with my science lesson (which has nothing to do with golf or triangles) and stopped thinking about it. That’s why I’m still up and about at 10:30, crafting [...]

It’s been forever and a day since I updated my Blogroll. I’m using Google Reader, so never click those links any more. If you are a regluar (or irregular reader), I want to add you. If you link to me, I want to add you. If you are already on there, but your link has [...]

I give up! Thank you, faeriekissed for mentioning Garden Spells to me. I’ve read four different raving reviews in the past day, so I just went to the library website and put a hold on it. It was tricky because the main book is a seven day loan with no holds allowed, but the large [...]

Don’t you hate it when you get a song stuck in your head? Especially when it’s the Dora the Explorer theme song? I thought I hated Dora and her big head, but it’s actually quite a good show for little brains. Erik totally gets into it and starts spazzing out when Swiper shows up. You [...]