Every couple of years, I feel the need to clean out my coat pockets. Here’s what I found this morning in the pockets of my winter coat:
1) My crumpled-into-a-ball black leather gloves
2) My CTA card
3) My Blackberry
4) 6 1/2 used tissues (and I mean REALLY used)
5) One lavender “Dora the Explorer” glove
6) $.23 (two dimes [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 26, 2009
Deep pockets
February 24, 2009
A tale of two sisters
Due to circumstances not entirely out of my control, I have one daughter who’s learning to drive, and one daughter who’s learning to use the potty. One daughter who cried today because she has an ankle injury and can’t run in Thursday’s track meet, and one daughter who cried today because I wouldn’t let her [...]
February 22, 2009
I’d like to thank the Academy…
Observations from the Oscars (well, okay, from my living room watching the Oscars):
1. Can we just watch 3 hours of Hugh Jackman? Please?
2. Hugh has some white spit in the corner of his mouth, and it’s only the opening number.
3. Ok, Hugh chatting people up is getting really tedious.
4. OMG – what is Whoopi Goldberg [...]
February 19, 2009
What a surprise…
Today, a list of things that surprised me about parenting:
1) Before I had children, I always imagined that my children would be exactly like me.
2) Once I had the amnio/CVS that determined that my children were “perfect”, I thought I was out of the woods.
3) I thought parenting would get way easier once the kids [...]
February 18, 2009
And then you’ll be a man, my son
My son (my only son, David, 5) adores his dad. Adores his dad so much that all he wants to be when he grows up is a daddy. This is after he marries our neighbor Fen, who is an older woman at age 6. (“Someday, when Fen and I are married…” he muses. ) (The marriage [...]
February 15, 2009
Inside out
Here are a few things I’ve learned in the past year:
1. When I compare myself to someone else, I can only compare my insides to their outsides. And it’s not a valid comparison. Most people look waaaayyyy more together on the outside than they feel on the inside (myself included).
2. Hurt people hurt people. People who say and do [...]
February 14, 2009
10 Things I Don’t Understand
1. Why people go on talk shows if they don’t want to talk (Joaquin Phoenix).
2. Why potholes happen. I know it has something to do with ice and snow but I don’t know what. Probably involves physics, the only class I dropped in college, because I couldn’t understand it.
3. What Rod [...]
February 12, 2009
But who am I really?
Sorry, folks, this blog post isn’t going to be funny. I’m not in a funny mood.
You see, my identity has been stolen. Again. I got a call tonight from a car dealer on the South Side. A woman was trying to buy a car using my identity. Actually, when her credit wasn’t good enough to [...]
February 8, 2009
A great day in the worst month
I think February is the worst month. (I know, I know, I complained a lot about January. But my birthday is in January, so there’s always at least one bright spot in the month for me.) But February, despite the fact that it only has 28 days, always feels like a very loooonnng month. But [...]
