Category: life

  • Crafting Conditions

    Crafting Conditions

    There’s a lot of singing at Girl Scout camp. Too much singing for some, apparently.

  • Singin’ In The Rain

    Singin’ In The Rain

    She had been geared up in a rain hat and her coat earlier when it hadn’t been raining as heavily. So she definitely had her rain coat and chose not to wear it for the downpour.

  • Big Nose

    Big Nose

    Just another case of kids speaking without a filter. Thank goodness no other children heard this.

  • Go Suck A Lemon

    Go Suck A Lemon

    Turns out (to no one’s surprise) that it is Very Unpleasant to suck on raw lemon wedges. So at least this colloquial phrase makes sense.

  • I Have A Disease

    I Have A Disease

    Their dentist must have really hit hard with the facts on that visit.

  • Ketchup Interpretation

    Ketchup Interpretation

    Clearly I meant: use the ketchup you already have for both sides, not: add more ketchup so that both sides have too much ketchup.

  • Punchline

    Punchline

    And now I have to think about the calculus of if hitting an innocent bystander on accident is worse than hitting your brother on purpose.

  • Not A Compliment

    Not A Compliment

    Hope everyone had a Happy Mother’s Day! Teenagers are great!

  • May Be A Jerk

    May Be A Jerk

    There’s a full cast of engaging jerks, including the other droid: “my attitude needs no translation”-D2, and friends like “yes, a straight answer would kill me” Kenobi and “nothing that’s going wrong is my fault!” Solo.

  • Just Introverted

    Just Introverted

    It hit me that I might be more introverted than average when other moms would commiserate about how much they missed being able to get out of the house and see other people after giving birth to their kids, but… wasn’t that part of the charm of maternity leave?