Hugging a Porcupine

Posted by on Sep 30, 2009 in dish | 4 comments DH brought a book home from the library about being the parents of an adolescent the other day. It had a perfect title: How to Hug a Porcupine. And since, more often than not, I’m getting a faceful of quills when trying to deal with Frick these days, it’s proven to be sound advice, more often than not.I always thought I’d be a better parent of a teenager than a young child...
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Bringin’ the Heat

Posted by on Sep 26, 2009 in dish | 0 comments ‘Scuse the baseball analogy, but I’m fixin’ to make it do double duty in a sec. Today was opening day of fall ball for both Frick and Frack, since Frack’s softball opener was rained out Thursday night. So it’s been a loooooooooooong day at the ballpark. BallparkS, that is. Up early to take Frack to her away game, then 1-1/2 hours in the growing heat. By 10:30...
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Dumbass, Party of One

Posted by on Aug 14, 2009 in dish | 5 comments Ever have one of those days? Today was mine. I’m ferrying Frick and Frack and a friend to a skating party on an end of town I try never to explore, if I can help it. Then, while trying to get turned back around in the second most badly-designed parking lot in the world, I get distracted and WHAM! I hit a curb, Inga lurches unbecomingly, scrape, curse, I manage to cut a hole in the sidewall...
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IB Pissed

Posted by on Jun 20, 2009 in dish | 0 comments I don’t know about you, but sometimes professional conferences are a pain in my considerable behind. Today’s is no exception. I’m at a gorgeous beach resort–no complaints there–with nice food and a room that’s about a hundred feet from the Gulf of Mexico. Fine. Dandy.What’s not fine, or even approaching dandy, is the veritable avalanche of paper I got...
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If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Another

Posted by on Jun 17, 2009 in dish | 1 comment Adding to the insult of no money coming in all summer (two teacher household, remember?), today I hear this weird griiiiinnnddd-CLUNK sound from one of my back windows. Yep, now it’s stuck down. All the way down. And this is Florida, where we have a thunderstorm every day at 4:00 p.m.Great. Lacking the several hundred bucks it will take to fix the window (stupid VW window regulators are...
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