Archive for January, 2007

Someone I know used that phrase a month ago and I can’t quit thinking about it and laughing out loud.  I love the word boob in that context for some reason. My old roommate used to hate the word Nipple–I feel like I’ve told you that before.  I can blame such mental weakness on age [...]

Someone pulls into the coffee shop parking lot and parks across the spaces.  And no one says boo. Someone, in a daze, sits at a stop sign for a full twenty seconds while others wait and NO ONE beeps or does anything other than wait for the offender to move her ass.  (yes that was me…the offender, [...]

I just got back from the dentist.  I think I’m one of the few people in the world who likes going to the dentist.  I love the way it feels to have clean teeth, know there’s nothing wrong and you’re free and clear for a while.  That’s how I used to feel after sitting through [...]

And I had the best time. I’ve always known how lucky I am to have a wide variety of friends.  But getting back together with this group is especially special. We all went to grad school together–16 years ago–then moved to Maryland and lived together as well as taught in the same schools.  It was [...]

Well, girls “thirty hours,” actually.  But I’m not complaining.  If it’s longer than that I get major anxiety about leaving.  But this is perfect. I’m going to deep creek with the five women I went to grad school with and then taught with in MD and lived with there. It’s been about 6 years since [...]

BEING BEHIND THE TIMES PUT ME IN THE FOREFRONT… Well.  Due to my inability to use my cell phone for anything other than dialing and picking up phonecalls, I’m actually, apparently, one of the few people left on the planet who has phone numbers memorized. Okay, I’ll stop patting myself on the back over something [...]

Beware of powder foundation.  I knew it was too good to be true.  Whatever it is I bought had sunscreen and promised to go on fast and fresh.  Well, I walked around like the masked woman of Oakmont today.  I whisked the powder over my face and half stuck in my hair line giving me [...]

A lot of waiting for stuff, in lines, on the phone, for people who are incredibly sssllllooooowwww. I got a new computer because mine crashed itself into complete uselessness.  But they forgot to include some CD that I need to get the whole thing going.  This infuriated me beyond words. Well, I suppose I wasn’t [...]

Santa brought Bethy a Chou Chou Baby doll.  This princess cries and slurps on a bottle and pacifier.  But when she cries, boy it’s exactly like a two month year old’s cry. Exactly. To the point that when the thing starts weeping and Beth has tossed her aside for her Polly Pockets, I can’t leave [...]

Yes, the first contestant on one of the greatest shows on earth (American Idol) broke my heart.  First I felt sorry for her.  My goodness she laid it out there and it dropped like a sack of dead mice. But then, secondly, American Idol always strikes at the heart of my greatest fear:  That I’m [...]