Dirty Dishes

and other negelected things

Month: February, 2007

Favorite quote of the Sick Day

For the last few days I’ve been working on a little painting project in my basement, trying to cover up almost six years worth of nicks, scuffs, and pop bottle explosions with a fresh coat of semi-gloss beige. Because why should I try to clean the walls, when I can just cover them up? [...]

More Snow, More Sick

My kitty loves to watch the snow falling.

And Leo doesn’t love so much having croup for the second time this year. He does, however, love not having to go to school.

S is for Swing

Inappropriately dressed for the weather

Call me crazy, but this just doesn’t make me feel better

For my birthday, which comes every year just one measly day before the biggest holiday in all of consumer and Christendom, a friend of mine gave me a little desk calender. It is appropriately themed “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff”, because my friend was tired of me never knowing what the date [...]

G. I. Badger

My husband Chris and our friend Elliot are geeks. Nice, sweet, adorable geeks. I’m somewhat ashamed to admit this, but we actually met Elliot through some friends that Chris met playing Quake 2 on the Internet. True story. And they are all totally normal people. Well, as normal as [...]

Garden Hose

Tag, I’m It.

My good Internet friend Stardust has tagged me to list my five favorite quotes. She had the good sense to leave me a comment about it, knowing that even though I had read her post in which I was tagged, I had no idea she was talking about me. I am that oblivious. [...]

Favorite quote from Valentines Day

“Leo, do you want to take these treats to pass out to your class?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“It’s against my personality.”

Knee deep in vomit and happy

That’s right folks, we are suffering through our second round of stomach flu in about a month. It started on Sunday night with Badger throwing up in the car and then continuing to do so on throughout the night. Then spread to Sunny on Monday morning, and finally culminated in Leo chucking up [...]