Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!'
(~Dr. Seuss~)
Thursday, June 25, 2009
My next tattoo...
'Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!'
(~Dr. Seuss~)
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!'
(~Dr. Seuss~)
Friday, June 19, 2009
Best to Do List Ever
To Avoid. To Delay. To Pawn Off. To Sabotage.
Pier One Imports. $5.95
Just in Time for Father's Day.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Random Thots from My Deck Chair...
Well, I've been off from work this week for the first time in a bit. Funny when you get the thing you think you really want, (you know, time off, a hummer, haha, a man!) you wonder what you thought was soooo good about it in the first place and why it's not all you've cracked it up to be... This week has been a vivid reminder of my schitzoid, jobless, at home years enjoying mega doses of prozac. It's had me swinging like a freakin yoyo.
Anyways, I'm telling you this because, being reminded of those mind bending mommy days, I wanted to share the only 'mommy' blog on the planet worth reading. She calls herself Dooce and man, I wish she lived around the corner from me. We'd likely be seeing the same psychiatrist.
She writes about the ordinary stuff of motherhood, like at 10 months pregnant, passing her mucous plug, retrieving it and accidentally leaving it on the bathroom counter. Only later to have it discovered by her 5 year old daughter who thinks it's a slug. She posts photos of moles she suspects may be malignant, (very pertinent to me as just this week, I've surgically removed 2 suspicious sightings with my fingernail) relates tales of regretful drunken episodes (yup, that too...) and brags about the 'kick ass' name she's bestowed upon her new born daughter. O and did I mention she's a recovering Mormon? I'm not a Mormon, but I think we may have something similar going on there too.
Meanwhile, to avoid any more eating myself alive with this glorious freedom, I'm about to pour myself a pineapply coconutty something and head back to the deck to work on my skin cancer...
Cheers!
Anyways, I'm telling you this because, being reminded of those mind bending mommy days, I wanted to share the only 'mommy' blog on the planet worth reading. She calls herself Dooce and man, I wish she lived around the corner from me. We'd likely be seeing the same psychiatrist.
She writes about the ordinary stuff of motherhood, like at 10 months pregnant, passing her mucous plug, retrieving it and accidentally leaving it on the bathroom counter. Only later to have it discovered by her 5 year old daughter who thinks it's a slug. She posts photos of moles she suspects may be malignant, (very pertinent to me as just this week, I've surgically removed 2 suspicious sightings with my fingernail) relates tales of regretful drunken episodes (yup, that too...) and brags about the 'kick ass' name she's bestowed upon her new born daughter. O and did I mention she's a recovering Mormon? I'm not a Mormon, but I think we may have something similar going on there too.
Meanwhile, to avoid any more eating myself alive with this glorious freedom, I'm about to pour myself a pineapply coconutty something and head back to the deck to work on my skin cancer...
Cheers!
Friday, June 5, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
In Case You Ever Need to Know...
How to fell a tree using a chainsaw...
When we bought our house in 1990, like most new builds at the time, it was completely unlandscaped. Over the years we've discovered our gardening skills, our budget and our focus have precluded the lushly landscaped yard of our dreams. However, every year at Christmas, we've bought one potted evergreen and very unstrategically planted it.
This year, the tree that has been growing in the corner of our back yard has died. It's grown taller than the house, housed many families of raccoons that have driven our dog to distraction, dumped endless needles and bugs into the swimming pool and honestly, I'm not too upset about the prospect of it coming down. How it's going to come down though, is matter of extreme contention in our house today.
The diameter of the base of the tree is about 20 inches, the height is at least double that in feet. I can't imagine what it's weight might be, but I can easily imagine 40 feet of gigantic, 18 year old dead christmas tree crashing into one of the four corners of our neighbors yards or houses...
I simply don't understand why some men, when they know absolutely nothing about something, still dogmatically insist they will conquer the project even with disaster and insurance claims looming. I know enough about tree felling from googling it this morning to know if you don't know what you're doing, it's dangerous.
I may be overreacting but I'm not too keen on a hole in my kitchen (or anyone else's) caused by a uninformed do it your self novice logger. I'm going to call a professional right now while he's out.
T-I-M-B-EEEEEEEER!!!!!
When we bought our house in 1990, like most new builds at the time, it was completely unlandscaped. Over the years we've discovered our gardening skills, our budget and our focus have precluded the lushly landscaped yard of our dreams. However, every year at Christmas, we've bought one potted evergreen and very unstrategically planted it.
This year, the tree that has been growing in the corner of our back yard has died. It's grown taller than the house, housed many families of raccoons that have driven our dog to distraction, dumped endless needles and bugs into the swimming pool and honestly, I'm not too upset about the prospect of it coming down. How it's going to come down though, is matter of extreme contention in our house today.
The diameter of the base of the tree is about 20 inches, the height is at least double that in feet. I can't imagine what it's weight might be, but I can easily imagine 40 feet of gigantic, 18 year old dead christmas tree crashing into one of the four corners of our neighbors yards or houses...
I simply don't understand why some men, when they know absolutely nothing about something, still dogmatically insist they will conquer the project even with disaster and insurance claims looming. I know enough about tree felling from googling it this morning to know if you don't know what you're doing, it's dangerous.
I may be overreacting but I'm not too keen on a hole in my kitchen (or anyone else's) caused by a uninformed do it your self novice logger. I'm going to call a professional right now while he's out.
T-I-M-B-EEEEEEEER!!!!!
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Thot of the Day
'At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.'
(Aldous Huxley)
Amen.
(Aldous Huxley)
Amen.
Friday, May 15, 2009
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