When the phone rang this morning a little before 8, I was pretty sure it must be BD calling from school. I couldn’t be sure, because I was in the basement, and the phone there doesn’t have caller ID.
Just to be on the safe side, I turned off the volume on the TV so she [...]
This morning as I was driving down the two lane country highway that leads to anywhere I ever need to go, I got stuck behind Nervous Nellie. She drove five to ten miles below the posted speed limit, and hit the brakes whenever a car came in the other direction or a vehicle was waiting [...]
While I think that we need to thank our veterans and active servicemen and servicewomen every day, today is set aside to remember those who sacrificed their very lives defending our country. Please say a prayer for them and for those they left behind.
3:00 PM (Eastern time) has been set aside for a moment [...]
You might not want to try to turn on your microwave’s night light in the dark, or you may inadvertently press the wrong buttons and turn on the oven’s child lock, then have to find the manual to learn how to turn it the lock off again so you can use the microwave.
HS has the minivan for a couple of weeks, having used it to move closer to (no, not "in with") his girlfriend for the summer. So Mr. B has his little Mazda Protege back temporarily and I’ve been having fun driving the Honda Fit . I stopped to gas it up the other [...]
Apparently, that was my state of mind when I so glibly announced that I don’t have “carpool tunnel syndrome.”
The doctor I saw that day referred me to a more senior doctor in the group. As in someone who can always get the senior coffee at McDonald’s. The guy graduated from college two [...]
My buddy Liz from This Full House has such a wonderful giveaway over at This Full House Reviews that I almost hate to tell you about it. However, since doing so gives me two extra chances to win and is highly unlikely to triple the number of entrants, the odds are in my favor.
What [...]
Mr. B and BD just left to pick up two of her friends to spend the night.
The phone rang. Caller ID showed it is another of her friends.
Not wanting to get caught in the middle of teenage girl trauma, I did not pick up.
If you potty trained your youngest child in 1997 and are checking out at Target and the last item of the shopper in front of you is a large box of Pampers, you might want to make sure the cashier doesn’t scan them into your order or you may have a nasty case of sticker [...]
The good news is that I don’t have carpal tunnel syndrome (or as BD calls it, “carpool tunnel syndrome”) after all.
Instead, it’s something a bit more exotic. I have what’s called a cervical rib (found only in somewhere between 0.5 and 10 percent of people, depending who you believe). In my case, the little [...]
