Blog archives for August, 2009

The following conversation may have taken place yesterday while meeting Aiden’s new teacher.
“Does Aiden have any unusual responses when angered”?
“He growls”
“He Growls”?
“Yes, he growls”.
“I’ll put no”.

Tomorrow is a huge day around here! For the first time in almost five years I will only have one child at home with me. All summer I have been incredibly flippant about Aiden and Madeleine heading off to school. I have commented that I couldn’t wait until they were occupied all day. Let me [...]

I will not answer it. It was the dogs.  Not actually them, but a nice woman returning them. Which is curious because last we knew they were in the backyard. I thought the escaping would end with Tucker being gone, but no. They decided they don’t have it good enough here so they thought that [...]

I haven’t written much lately. I have been much too busy trying to get my house/act together. The totally count for my purging has been 10 bags of books, 2 bags of VHS tapes, and an uncounted amount of clothing. The books and the VHS tapes are gone. This morning I dropped the last of [...]

Your luggage that is. Sometimes a “carry on” is not enough space for the planned activities. The following conversation may or may not have taken place this morning. It may or may not be about what type of luggage my mom would need for a short visit with us.
mom of me: I’ll just use a [...]

What is it about this time of year that reminds me of my maternal grandpa? I am sitting at a bookstore finishing up a tutoring session, next to me is a gentleman that looks like him. Except for the shoes. This man is wearing trendy sandals that I would bet his wife bought for him. [...]

I call Keith The Man. It’s my nickname for him and he’s listen in my phone this way. As a matter of fact a huge majority of people in my phone have alternate names. Why just looking at my contact list you would think I knew the most amazing people. I spend my time with [...]

Saturday night I started on the “Front Room” or “The Home Office”, or the “Fish Tank Room”, Or the “Coat Room”. Whatever you make call it, I tore it apart. At 11:30 on a Saturday night. If you were thinking I was a swanky partier, you would have been wrong. Instead I was pulling everything [...]

We had Aiden’s birthday party today. Yeah, that would be the third party for him in the matter of a week. Aiden has had more parties than most rock stars. It was about as low key as you could get, pizza on the beach. Except, this guy on my street hosted his yearly friend party. [...]