I Love You, Costco

Dear Costco,
I’m writing to inform you of my new found devotion to you. Where have you been all my life? I mean, I know that you’ve been around, I’ve seen you around town, but why has it taken this long for you to introduce yourself to me?
From the moment I entered your presence I knew [...]

Open Letter To The Meat Lockers

I hate being cold. I’d much rather be hot than cold. It has been hot as an oven down here and I haven’t minded a bit. In fact the heat is what is saving my life. This is what is prompting my:
OPEN LETTER TO THE MEAT LOCKERS
(OTHERWISE KNOWN AS STORES AND RESTAURANTS)
Dear managers of any [...]

Day 1 of Homeschooling: Learning To Cuss

It’s inevitable. There comes a time in every child’s life when they must be ripped from the safety and security of their loving mother’s bosom and tossed to the hungry, vicious wolves known as 8 year olds. Kids late in their childhood years are fascinated by things that they think they’re getting away with. They’re [...]

She Said - He Said: Displaying Stuff

Men and women are different, there’s no doubt about that. Although we are equal in God’s eyes we are definitely not created equally. There’s something that happens early in the womb–testosterone floods the male brain–and that changes him forever. From then on we think differently, act differently…and collect things differently.*
Vicki: We have too many mugs. [...]

I’m In The New JibJab Satire!

I jumped at the chance when the guys at JibJab offered me a head shot in their latest political satire. You can tell how excited I am by the grin on my face. Click the pic to view!
Time For Some Campaignin’

Hard To Believe

Y’all won’t believe this…
I’m so into MySpace. You didn’t know that about me did you? It seems like my profile hasn’t been updated since Christmas…but you didn’t know about my alter-ego profile did you? If I’m not blogging then I’m twittering. And if I’m not twittering then I’m on MySpace. Many times I’m on all [...]

That’s My Story And I’m Stickin’ To It

Welcome to another edition of Story Time: Interactive Style. I think I need to explain the directions a little more clearly (I must have slow readers).

I post a picture
You look at the picture
You think of funny/endearing/special/but mostly funny storyline to go with the picture
You leave a comment with that story. Don’t know how to do [...]

Coke Spray

My day was a little stressful. I take that back, my morning was a little stressful. The cable guy called at 7:30 in the morning to tell me he was on his way to hook up the internet. I was still in a coma after staying up until 1am borrowing the neighbor’s internet. I really [...]

Story Time - Interactive Style

I’m going to try something and see how it works. We’ll call it:
STORY TIME
I give you a photo and you give me the story. Play along people. It’s no fun when I’m left playing by myself. I’ll give you the lowdown in a day or two. In the meantime, put your thinking caps on and [...]

Giraffe Kisses (with tongue) and Elephant Poo

Wow, that will get me a lot of weird Google search responses! I’m working on a post about what kind of searches lead people to my blog. Can’t really post about that when we’ve got vacation to talk about, right? Especially when it comes to kissing giraffes…
 
As you might have guessed we did make it to the [...]

So We’re In Colorado

We left for our trip after lunch and made the 10+ hour drive in, oh, about 10+ hours. I didn’t know, and nobody warned me, that if you have more kids you make more stops. I don’t like stops. It’s against my nature. When Du was on a business trip once, I made the trip from [...]

Fasting

They say that fasting is healthy for you. It forces you to focus on what’s really important and re-prioritize things. What do they know?
 
I did it. I fasted from the computer for a whole day. A WHOLE DAY. Well, 14 hours, which is a whole day in my book. It wasn’t fun, but it wasn’t [...]

Explaining Myself

Do you ever have those times when you feel like you have to explain yourself? And the more you explain the weirder you sound? Oh, yes you do. I had two such experiences today.
 
Experience #1:
Today is grocery day.  I normally fill our cart with healthy foods. I know you wouldn’t believe it from what you [...]

Open Letter to The Junk Mail Senders

I’m beginning to realize I love open letters. They let me get a lot off my chest. But they don’t seem to be positive do they? I’ll have to work on that.
 
NV of This D*mn House posted about Junk Mail and it made me think about how everyone I know is inundated with the stuff. And [...]

This is Ashlyn…don’t tell Mommy…

SSHHH…my mommy is in the showuh wight now. i know she wites abowt me heuh. she thinks i don’t unduhstand evything she says when she talks and wites at the same time. but i’m smahtuh than she thinks. let’s keep it that way, k?
i want to take the opputoonuty to clear up sum miscept…misconert…miscontracept…misconceptions bout [...]