Our snowfall was rather overdone last night. We are now dealing with a lot of snow. Like 11" of snow that nobody wanted and nobody wants to deal with. Including, of course, our plow guy. That jerk has outdone himself. He came at around 4:30 this morning and did the driveway, but it was still snowing...

I'm being interviewed for NPR tonight. They're coming over and are gonna watch me make a big pot of chicken soup and some bisquits for dinner. Isn't that weird? They're doing a story about people who have changed their shopping and cooking habits since the recession really took hold. That would be m...

Procrastination is genetic in our family. My father had it, I have it, and The Boy has it in spades. I don't think I've ever seen such a perfect example of procrastination in action as the Boy exhibits on a daily basis. Let's look at the last 24 hours in the Boy's attempt to never get anything done....

Today was one of those days where you sit down around 9:00 pm and say to yourself "What the hell did I DO today?" Unfortunately at our house, the answer is often "nothing." Today, for example, started out with a whimper when I was up all night coughing up the most decorative red fizzy phlegm. My lif...

Saturday night, despite no dining room table, we had our house warming party and it was great!! Thank you so much to those who came! Drew was in charge of food and I was the bartender for the evening. The drink of the evening (I think it's fun to have a drink of the evening) was "my" c...

Damn it is so cold outside, and of course that means it's so cold inside. It is really barbaric, and we haven't even gotten to the coldest part of this cold snap. I hate to say this but Canada, could you keep your freaking weather on your side of the border? I mean really, what were you thinking sha...

Happy New Year, and a special welcome to the new readers- literally tens of you- who have come on board since we brought 2008 to a grandstand close by picking up a prestigious nationwide award.  Of course if the Post of the Week people had deigned to tell me four years ago that all I nee...

It seems to be the thing to go over this past year with a fine tooth comb and reexamine all the events of the year. I can do that in three words. 2008 sucked balls. See, succinct and to the point. 2008 was not a great year for us. It was a year filled with fighting for my daughter's right to a free ...

Tonight we are entertaining teenagers. Lots of teenagers. They tend to take over our house and there is no place for me to hide. The house is small, the teenagers are big and loud. But they are having fun and are seemingly enjoying the evening, so all is well. Of course, I have the headache from hel...

First night...sucked. Second night...sucked less, but still was not great. Third night....continues the suckage but has escalated due to not one match in the house that I can find, negating lighting the candles, no kids as both are out for the night, no food, and no joy whatsoever. I think I'm prett...