Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Quoted

"You can't reason someone out of something they weren't reasoned into."

- Jonathan Swift

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Lunch

Being unemployed means that I am lucky enough to get to eat lunch with the girls at school every now and again. It's a simple little thing that I bet most career housewives take for granted. I missed a lot of lunches...and programs...and everything else for a long time. I'm trying hard to make up for lost time.

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Quoted

"Sean Hannity...he's the guy who put the 'a' in moron"

- Jed Lewison

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Wacky? Tacky? You decide.

Nobody



does



Wacky-Tacky



day



quite



like



Emily.

Quoted

"This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected."

Barack Obama

Monday, September 21, 2009

Don't Wake Daddy!!!

Kevin has always been a napper. I have watched him fall asleep in cars, at the zoo, on airplanes and just about any other scenario you can imagine. To be honest, I mostly accept that all men are just lazy. It doesn't really bother me. So from the beginning of my relationship with Kevin, I just assumed he was a little bit lazy and he really liked to nap. I like swiss cake rolls. We all have our own nonsense. It wasn't a big deal.

After we got married though I began to notice something odd. Kevin didn't just like naps, he seemed to be unable to function without one. We slept late one Sunday morning. By early that afternoon, he was literally falling asleep at his computer. That's not laziness, my friend.

My job at Vandy had exposed me to myriad cases of sleep apnea so Kevin scheduled a sleep study. It turns out he was having apnea episodes every 90 seconds or so. Imagine if someone poked you hard enough to wake you up every minute and a half throughout the night. Chances are you'd probably need a nap or two to make it through the day.

We investigated some surgical options but ended up going with the standard sleep apnea treatment... the CPAP. So far, it seems to be helping a great deal. He can still take a nap if he wants to. Apnea could have killed him. Laziness doesn't seem like that big a deal in comparison.





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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Quoted

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

--M. L. King

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Quoted

You can tell you have created God in your own image when it turns out that he or she hates all the same people you do.

- Anne Lamott

Monday, September 14, 2009

Happy Birthday to me!

36 years

I celebrated this birthday surrounded by my wonderful family and my slobbery basset hound. Kevin bought me many fine presents. We had ice cream cake.

What more could you possibly desire?

(I mean, except for a new vaccuum cleaner, which is a given, right?)

Because I'm middle aged now and I can do what I want, prepare for dozens of basset pics.

is not hotdog, basset hound, loldogs n cute puppy pictures, I has a hotdog
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Book Review




I haz been led astray.


One of my favorite book bloggers gave this book a great review. I trust her implicitly. She has never disappointed me...until now.


This book is teh suck.

Where to start? The book is about a family that employs a young woman to care for their adult son. It is set mainly in the late 60's and is told as a memoir of sorts by the main character. The adult son suffers from some kind of autism. (I'm guessing here. They never reveal his actual ailment.) The elderly mother keeps the son doped up most of the time. The nanny's name is Kerstin. Only it's pronounced "Shastin". No, I don't know why but it's one of the most annoying aspects of the book. The fact that her employer will not pronounce the nanny's name correctly is an important characteristic of the mother's personality. Unfortunately, the author thought it was so important that she mentioned it about every three pages. Seriously, Barbara...we get it. The mom's an insensitive biatch. Move on.

In like fashion, the author is CONSTANTLY reminding the reader of the time setting of the book. Within the first pages, you realize that the main character is living in present time and recalling her experiences during the 60's. This happens in lots of books. Most literate people have no trouble with this concept. But the author apparently thinks she is writing for a preschool audience because she continually reminds you of the disconnect. For example, Kerstin will call someone from a telephone and the author will point out that cell phones weren't available in 1960. Wow...thanks for letting us know. Kerstin is trying to research the condition of her charge and she must (gasp) go to a library. The author must point out that the internet was not widely used in the 1960's. Again...really?

I admit that the story was fairly interesting. Creepy old house, semi-crazy son locked in a weird library, crazy sisters, odd little love affairs and a murder sound like they are gonna converge into one awesome book. And they might have if the author hadn't ruined all the fun with her pedantic nonsense.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Quoted

"I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane."

- John Cole

Friday, September 11, 2009

Jamie?

Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday. How bout you call me, huh? My cell number is the same. I miss you and your nutty family. Hope everyone is well.