Month: July 2012

It has been my experience that we women can be a pretty cut-throat bunch.  We judge everything all the time, and, for better or worse, there is little that escapes our scrutiny.  Maybe it is inherent in our DNA, causing us to be suspicious in nature and punishing in practice. In the report on Penn … Read more

I’m here to tell you that you can score 50% on an interview math quiz and still be considered for employment.  Not only considered, but dated.  A few days after my interview, I got asked to come into the office to see if we were marriage material. It might have been one-sided as they were … Read more

With time off for wedding planning, I am back to my job search.  I have decided that working in a doctor’s office would be a good fit for me.  The pay and hours are better than retail and you can sit.  Winning! Specifically, I thought an eye doctor’s office would suit me because I love … Read more

After some freedom in her schedule and consistent nagging of her parents, Mallie Bee is finally enrolled in a driving school.  If you’ve done this before………..twice but who’s counting………..you know that it costs an arm and a leg to get somebody else to agree to teach your kid what the pioneers did long ago with … Read more

Sometimes when The Big Daddy and I are sitting on the porch with our adult beverages, we discuss what we’d do if we won the lotto.  That we never play until the odds are ridiculously stacked against us.  Without exception, we first decide who we would help out.  That’s not because we’re stellar citizens, but … Read more

For at least ten years, I spent nearly every summer afternoon at the community pool with the kids.  It was the cheapest entertainment in town with an annual pass for the entire family a whopping $120.00.  The kids loved to go and while they played shark and Marco Polo, I’d have some desperately needed adult … Read more

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While Maggie and Nate went on their honeymoon, we were the guardians of Butters…….the Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disordered dog. Butters has an affinity for underwear, garbage, toilet paper, cat food, and sleeping on my white sofa.  She barked at everything that walked by the front of the house and phantom sounds at 1:00 in the … Read more

Soooooo…………….Tom Cruise got kicked to the curb by Katie Holmes. Wow.  Never saw that one coming.  Said no one ever. When he yanked that young one off the street and decided she was his fresh, new “love interest”, all I could think of were her parents……..normal, low-key, average people who sent all their kids to … Read more