Vanilla Pie

I’ve heard someone describe boring people as “vanilla pie”.  I am afraid I’ve become boring people.  Things I’m obsessed with at the moment: real estate websites, HGTV design star, and catching a nap whenever possible.  I’m laying low with the kids.  We have about a month until school starts up again and I’m dreading it.  [...]

Yep, I’m immature

On NPR I heard this:
“I had no idea there was a difference between a male hoe and a female hoe…”
And I totally had a giggling fit. (She was talking about the gardening tool of course.)
The word makes me laugh. 10 years ago in college we’d drive around with all our friends in our [...]

A cure for what ails you

I (reluctantly) went to see Momma Mia this evening with a friend. I guess I’m a fan of girly movies, but I was pretty sure this one was going to be in the wait-for-the-DVD catagory of girly-flick. It was so much better than I was expecting. It cheered me deep down in [...]

Minimal side-effects

I should be counting my blessings.  I have four of the cutest, sweetest children in the universe, a roof over my head, food to eat–and for the time being I’m cancer free.  My post-therapy scan was clean, huge blessing.  Even more of a blessing was that I had almost no side-effects from my RAI.  Nothin.  [...]

Food for thought

In my book this is a must read post over at Cara Ellison.
“Imagine being from a country where 2,230,000 people are buried in the ground upon which you walk every day, a place such as Belarus. Rotting layers of soldiers, twelve deep, for miles and miles, nourishing the roots of your grandmother’s apple tree.”
One [...]

creeping things

So its going on a year since we installed our floors and we still don’t have baseboards up. This summer I have noticed some particularly creepy creatures inside our house. I would feel like a failure of a housekeeper if I hadn’t heard from a couple friends that they’ve seen an influx of [...]

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things I did today

1.  Slept in
2.  Woke up, started baking a sheet cake.
3.  Striped down my bed to start the decontamination process.
4.  Folded laundry
5. Cleaned kitchen, wiped down every surface I had touched and moped the floor
6.  Cycled comforter, mattress pad, sheets, towels through the wash
7.  Mopped floor everywhere I could have walked
8.  Scoured bathroom, in process found [...]

Far Far

Please don’t ever hold my hair

I am not the kind of girl who needs someone to hold my hand.  Maybe because I’m really independent.  Maybe because I am impatient.  I don’t know.  But I just don’t need anyone to go with me for appointments or sit with me when I’m sick.  I don’t need a lot.  So if you ask [...]