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 HAPPY is that?? You can see why we call it the Happy Place, eh? Check [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Men I Love’
June 10, 2010
Kane and able
There’s some exciting happenings here in the greater Chicagoland area this fine June day. And all thanks to a bunch of guys collectively known as the Chicago Blackhawks. Let’s start with the obvious: I am not a hockey expert. Not even close. When I lived down in Baton Rouge, where hockey was surprisingly popular, Kayla, Nancy and I, [...]
May 3, 2010
Dude… for real
Actual conversation this evening between myself and Mr. Wonderful: Marney, at sink, washing dishes: “I’m having issues with you, dude.” Jim: “What?” Marney, holding up turkey baster, when there has been no turkey or other assorted meat in need of basting cooked in this house in months: “This. What the hell did you do with [...]
May 2, 2010
boys. boys. boys.
I’ve been quite busy lately. In all honesty, I am exhausted. And it’s all about the boys. They are taking a lot of energy out of me these days! Let’s take a look at some examples, shall we? There’s Hank’s new-found love of soccer: I won’t lie. I’m not really a fan of soccer. Call [...]
April 17, 2010
Drinking problem
My husband and I have issues. Over the past few months, we have been working super hard to drop our bear blubber. Because 1) we are simply too fat and 2) we are not actually bears who need to stockpile on a few layers of fat to make it through hibernation season. Hell, the fact [...]
April 8, 2010
Thumbs up
We all know it. We’ve all done it. It’s the international sign of “hey, it’s all cool.” It brings us closer to the Fonz. It’s “thumbs up.” Back at St. James, when we were occasionally good-natured children (which wasn’t necessarily common for the Class of ’88 but it did sometimes happen), we would be rewarded with a game. [...]
March 27, 2010
Style is in the eye of the beholder…
Last summer I thought long and hard about starting a blog. I really wanted to. But I have a major confession I must make. The whole concept did not start as an effort to type out my daily rants and ravings over the awesomeness that is my children or the ridiculousness that is GleN Beck. [...]
February 24, 2010
What happens at the end?
I try to be an upbeat person most of the time (at least, upbeat in the sense that I am grouchy and sarcastic, but I’m trying to be WITTY about it). I think I have a pretty good life and I really have no complaints. But I realized in the past few days that I [...]
January 27, 2010
Redeeming qualities? Who needs ‘em!
I have been known from time to time to acknowledge my love for all things completely and utterly useless. I get excited each week when my “Star” magazine comes in the mail. I watch trashy TV shows. My husband and I have a drinking game revolving around when David Caruso takes off his sunglasses. We cannot [...]
December 31, 2009
5 awesome things about this decade
Now that we are officially just hours from 2010, I thought I’d take a moment to recall the five most awesome things about the past 10 years. These are not necessarily the top 5 things just for me (because that would be so boring — a picture of Kayla and Nancy, a picture of my [...]
