crucible of ennui

“when I was a little girl and I said something naughty or told a lie my momma would rub icky soap on my tongue as a punishment.”
“why?”
“because I must have told a lie or said something sassy.”
“like godamnit”
“…”
“Where did you hear that Catherine?” inside voice: “please don’t be me, please don’t be me”
“at school on [...]

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I’m not the best driver. But to my credit I only hit stationary and inanimate objects. So you’re completely in luck if you’re a person or animal. Not so lucky if you’re a parked car or mailbox.
Two weeks ago I accidently hit an air duct while backing into a parking space in an underground parking [...]

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Catherine is finally at that magical age where the most socially inappropriate things come out of her mouth. Most of the time she is very considerate of other people and refrains from calling people ugly or silly-looking (unlike her mother).
This self-censoring ceases to exist while in the presence of little people.
At the grocery store where [...]

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“Who knows. It may work out. She likes flowers and he’s a pansy.”
I love gossip.

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Mmm… holiday weekends! I love me some 3-day weekends. I took the opportunity on Sunday to really work on the house and cook. I think the best day for cooking was Sunday.
I started with French Toast. And not the wimpy kind made with sliced sandwich bread… I used that thick cut texas toast. I remembered [...]

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Most are familiar with Male Refrigerator Blindness (”MRB”) - the inability of the male to visually identify items within a refrigerator.
Unfortunately few are aware that MRB is sometimes a precursor to Selective Male Blindness (”SMB”). Scientists have discovered that MRB can progress from a general failure to locate milk, eggs, ketchup and cheese to more extreme forms of the [...]

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When I was little I would put a pair of Barbie shoes on the end of my fingers to get that far away perspective and pretend that Dorothy was being carried away by my evil monkey army. March 29th, 2003.
I’m glad to see that someone else felt the same way about Barbie shoes.  
And here. This [...]

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schadenfreude
ennui
phenomenon
kerfuffle
silhouette
booboojeebies
pudding

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Once upon a time, a proud, old king asked his daughters, “How much do you love me?”
“I love you more than gold and silver” one daughter replied.
“I love you more than diamonds and rubies and pearls,” her sister said.
“I love you more than salt,” answered the third daughter.
The king grew angry when he heard this [...]

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Okay. I admit it - I’m exhausted. The drama of this week finally caught up with me today while I was eating my salad. Cause salad is diet food, right? And the doctor said I needed to lose weight, right? So I forgo a trip to The Stand or some other burger joint and get a [...]

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