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Being pushed into the fiery pit of a stranger's bottled-up anger. Fun times!
Have you ever unwittingly triggered someone’s pent-up righteous indignation? You know, you’re happily going along and cross paths with someone who suddenly loses their shit? I have. One time I was trying to make it to the gas station on fumes. I saw the light ahead of me was green and from there I would…
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Go Read It Today, Thursday, May 3, 2007
Recalls / warnings: Momsquawk does a great job covering the amazing number of products recalled today for being too leadful. Also, the Payless version of kid Crocs, antidepressant use by young adults, Colchicine, Baby Einstein activity center toy. Go write a post about how you’re a good parent, and then go tell GGC. (Who, by…
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Insert witty comment about my freakishly square head -here-
I finally got around to replacing the lenses in my glasses, and hey… the world is pretty sharp now. But I ran into some real pieces of work at Lenscrafters. The one I go to has just been totally remodelled, and instead of looking straight out of the 70s it is all very fancy. Enter…
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Go Read It Today, Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Recalls / warnings: Adderall, Ritalin, Strattera and other ADHD drugs, Ambien, Lunesta, Restoril and other sleeping pills, Actimmune, Xolair, and Salivart Oral Moisturizer. More on the full feeds / partial feeds debate. (Yesterday’s debate was in these comments.) And I just have to say… way to go Melanie!!! Whoa, can you say “self-centered“?? Not unless…
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Why do I do it? The reasons they are many, but I am only authorized to tell you the first five…
I blog for many reasons. I don’t have to apologize, appease or placate anyone. Every single bit of my blog is the way it is because I want it to be that way, and I love having one place where I am in 100% complete control. Before I had a blog I was always coming…
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Go Read It Today, Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Recalls: Queso fresco Mexican cheese. Lots of pet food. Just make Spot some of whatever you’re having tonight, K? Check this special plea for The Make a Wish Foundation, an organization that makes me cry just to think about it. Imagine how the families feel who need to use its services and then go lend…
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Bloggers remember the victims of the tragedy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Today is the day for the One Day Blog Silence project where many people are not posting on their blog or commenting on other’s blogs. They will instead be thinking about those who were killed on April 16th in that horrible tragedy. Other bloggers, however, are choosing to blog about the event today, and I…
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Go Read It Today, Monday, April 30, 2007
First of all, the idea of boarding preschool crossed my mind yesterday, and that pretty much sums up my Sunday afternoon. Go do a tap dance or something for Jennifer. Go see if Archer is feeling any better. “BUT, HER BOOBS! THEY’RE GONE! HOW CAN SHE BE BREASTFEEDING A BABY LIKE THAT?!” Assvice at its…
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It's an obsession, really. Leptospermum scoparium and me. I will be overrun.
Our weekends of late have been filled with yard work and more yard work, and we’ve made good headway so far. We’ve gotten all of the planting done that we wanted to do this spring and our yard looks like much less of a wasteland. I survey our work and one thing has become clear…
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Go Read It Today, Sunday, April 29, 2007
I’m not sure I can link to any more pet food recalls. Pretty much just assume you should be setting a place at the table for Fido until further notice… Lorelle points out some great great tips for improving your blog. This kerfuffle is happening on the same email list I mentioned in an earlier…
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Stick It In Your Queue: Starship Troopers
Today I’m starting a weekly feature called “Stick It In Your Queue” to highlight DVDs of TV shows and movies I think you’d like to watch. I use Netflix — and I’ll link there for you — but you can find these shows lots of other places. For the most part they won’t be movies…
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Go Read It Today, Saturday, April 28, 2007
Jennifer is out of the hospital and doing well! What a great story of people who were meant to be together. And today’s cry is courtesy of Andria. Amalah’s smackdown this week is unusual and very moving. Check it out. I agree — why would you assume you’d be able to bring a baby to…
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OMG, I have so much to remind you about!
Since I completely forgot to put these in today’s GRIT, you get a whole separate post just chock full o’ reminders. Today: It is the last day to enter to win a fabulicious prize pack of unknown dimensions / contents. Leave a comment here today and you’re entered — simple! Tomorrow: Whoo hoo, time to…
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Get the Slip N Slide, it's a baby shower!
Happy Baby Shower to Liz of Mom-101, Christina of A Mommy Story, and Tammie of Soul Gardening! I’ve been asked to offer both the worst Assvice and Advice I got before I had kids, so here we go. Don’t do what where?? A coworker whose child is now a teenager was adamant that I never…
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Go Read It Today, Friday, April 27, 2007
Alert: Jennifer is in the hospital and may need surgery for a kidney stone! Recalls: Snowmobiles, electric heaters. (They waited until the end of April for these??) Paige, I’m sorry to say that you’ve fallen in with some humorless folks. “This water is too hot! It’s burning my footwrists!” Are you web-talented? Looking for work?…
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The Love Ambush. He never saw it coming, so he was powerless to resist.
As promised, here’s another post about my quest to help Mike build up his self-esteem. My technique is simple to describe: I ambush him with my love. Do you remember the character “Kato” in the Pink Panther movies? He was the house boy of Inspector Clouseau. (I know, asian “house boy”… It was the 60s.)…
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Go Read It Today, Thursday, April 26, 2007
Recall: Laptop batteries. “I pee pee in the box.” Wonderful story about Marilyn Monroe that I had never heard before. “Have you seen an angry Shar Pei puppy?” Whoa, me too. I think I’m gonna cry! “It’s my biggest shame. My only secret. The thing I never tell.” And by the way… where did yesterday…
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Ways Chip believes us to be less than capable parents and, well, human beings.
Most days Chip feels that Mr. Plain and I are adequate parents. More than adequate, in fact. He loves us quite a bit. But there are a couple of areas he thinks we could improve on. For example, he loves our cat Bob, but he looks at the contents of his food bowl and concludes…
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Go Read It Today, Wednesday, April 25, 2007
The CPSC is reminding folks that Spring is a good time to make sure your home play areas and equipment are ready for another season. And check out your local park and school for good measure. Snort! Ick! Show of hands: how many of you would blame the internet and not yourselves if you did…
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Wll Mr. Short Fuse get the upper hand by learning to take deep breaths on the sidelines?
Since the day he was born Mike has had no patience for things that piss him off, and now that he’s 5 that encompasses a lot of happenings in the world. The problem is that since he is still a little kid he doesn’t have very many good ways to deal with his frustration and…
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Go Read It Today, Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Whoa, twins then sextuplets. I’m with Antique Mommy on this one. I’d say that loss of desire for blog reading is a pretty good indicator that something is up! Thordora is having a hard time. Stop by and lend an ear. I think that this post is all part of a complex plot to make…