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96 ropes of Laffy Taffy from Sam’s Club minus 76 regular (one serving) trick-or-treaters minus 4 (double serving) trick-or-treaters minus Lloyd and Lauren each eating one equals 10 left over. Yet I only have nine. Hmmmm…… Halloween is over and done. I was exhausted by 8:30 and was ready for bed by 9. Best moment […]

Thanks, Brad, for giving me the courage to show my messes. It’s too late tonight to do the thousand photos of the many, many messes around here, but I can share with you some pictures that I’ve taken every so often of the counter by my computer. Unless Lloyd cleans it, there is always stuff […]

I should buy stock in Target. I believe over two-thirds of my shirts are from there. I like that they sell them on kiosks in folded stacks of predictable styles. None of this ‘trying on’ or ‘thinking’ nonsense. If I need to buy a shirt, I go to that kiosk in that area of that […]

The scene: Monday night. We are tired. Lloyd is working in front of his giant monitor. Lloyd: “Come read my new rubric for web design class.” (That’s right, we use words like ‘rubric’ around here. We’re Smarty-Smartersons.) Me: “Mm-hmmm. Yes… looks good….” (Counting in my head to seventy-five while staring at the screen and pretending […]

I was looking back through the archives yesterweek, when I ran across the loneliest post on the site. It was three years ago today, and something like the 10th post on the site (if you don’t count those ‘meta’ posts where I was trying to keep track of the changes I was making to the […]

Saturday was spent baking bread and doing tons of laundry. It was time to refill the laundry soap in my little jar, and thought, “It’s about time to find a better container for this stuff”. (I buy detergent by the ton, if you’ll remember.) Well, it seemed like a great time to re-use a cereal […]