tea and gossip

Feb
11

The prince and princess came to tea today. (Charles and Camilla?) Hard to tell. They were invisible. (If it WAS Charles and Camilla, invisible would be a Good Thing.) But they must have been special because my daughter got all dressed up in high heels and perfume and laid out her tea set for them.

Conversation (one-sided) went like this:

“He did WHAT?”
“I can’t believe he’s such a jerk.”
“How could he do that to her?”

At nine my daughter has already absorbed a basic tenet of womanhood. Men are always wrong. Even if you have to make it up.





February 11, 2005 - woo woo

So I leave later than usual yesterday to pick up my kids from school. I pick up my daughter at School #1. We’re on the way to School #2 to pick up my oldest son (younger son is home puking in the kitchen sink). I look at the clock in the car. I left ten...
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February 10, 2005 - is that a hornpipe in your pocket or are you happy to see me?

I’m reading a cool shipwreck research book called Sunken Treasure: How to Find it, by Robert Marx for PAX 3 . Suddenly I have the urge to throw my entire life away rush off to the Keys, pour my savings into a junky boat, and dive for pieces of eight. Is finding a lode of...
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February 9, 2005 - you could set your clock by it

Why does it never fail that I ponder a story problem for hours–such as how the ancients knew the world was round and where the hidden weaknesses were in the earth’s tectonic plates–and then figure it out EXACTLY when it’s time to rush off and pick up the kids from school? By the time I...
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February 9, 2005 - man, I hope he doesn’t have to pee!

I play the same CD in my car over and over and OVER until my kids’ heads EXPLODE and they’re begging me to change it out. The current one playing is the soundtrack from “A Knight’s Tale” only they’re not begging me to switch that one. They LOVE the song We Will Rock You. They...
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