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Meet me in St. Louis
We had our first summer 2011 get-away weekend recently. We went to the deep south. And as anyone who is from the general Chicagoland area knows, everything south of I-80 is the deep south. So we headed to the land … Continue reading
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Creepy crawlies
The following is an actual conversation from this morning: Me, spotting a little black spider lowering itself by the stairs: “Oh. Icky. A spider.” Him: “Just swipe it away.” Me: “Eeewwwweeeeeee…. Get me a tissue.” Him, handing me TWO squares … Continue reading
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Science lesson
Real conversation with an 8-year-old boy: Hank: “Mom, I think I know why we have wieners and butts. ‘Cause when you drink, the drink takes bad chemicals and it makes it go out (makes pee gesture). And when you eat, … Continue reading
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Things that make me go eeeeewwwweee…
As I may or may not have mentioned before, I am a total fatty. Big fat fatty. Okay, maybe it’s possible that while I am not anywhere close to slim, I’m also not anywhere close to the ginormous beast that … Continue reading
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Quit your swining….
Today’s story is brought to you by Tamiflu. Tamiflu: breaking the wallets of sick people since 1999. So George was all sick and barfy and not right over the weekend. And I was thinking, eh, he seems a little worse than … Continue reading
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Things that don’t wash off
December is here, and despite my curled lip and huffy anger at all that is winter, even I like Christmas. So, it’s time to start that decorating. Recently, my mother has been able to slowly but surely unload a few … Continue reading
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A whole new level of bad ass
Holy crap, people. Holy crap. For those of you who have children, you know that there is “the story.” For my mother, there are five of them. With Carrie she was so drugged up she couldn’t point her out in … Continue reading
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Embrace the awesome
When you drive into downtown Joliet, there is a sign. It reads, “If it’s fun, it’s in downtown Joliet!” For real. Now, not to speak poorly of Joliet. It is, after all, home to the Rialto Square Theatre, where Jim … Continue reading
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The Beck stops here
I’m not a fan of GleN Beck. It’s not just because I am a tree hugging, Dixie Chicks album owning, blue state living, Barack Obama picture hanging on my fridge lefty. It’s because he is bat shit crazy. I have some … Continue reading
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Dads, daughters and dookie
It all happened several summers ago. There we were, enjoying the Happy Place. For those of you unfamiliar with the Happy Place, it looks like this: This is what children look like in the Happy Place: Oh my God how … Continue reading
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