Entries Tagged as ‘Funny Things’

November 24, 2009

Things I’ve Been Thinking About

1. Why do airports still have screens displaying arriving flights in the gate area when the only people who can go through security are people who are leaving? Please tell me what I’m missing here.
2. Can’t they figure out a better way to package eggs? By my estimation, approximately half of all egg cartons in [...]

October 26, 2009

More excuses why I haven’t been blogging

1. Margaret untethered the hot air balloon in the garage and it took me 12 hours to find her.
2. Had to get ready to host bunco.
3. Spending hours and hours making home-made Halloween costumes. No one will believe that one.
4. Catching up on episodes of Glee. (Good show)
5. Catching up on episodes of Modern Family. [...]

October 10, 2009

Dear David, I’m sorry

Dear David,
Please accept my sincere apologies for the fact that I did not collect your tooth and leave money last night.  I can only imagine your heart-rending sobs this morning when you looked under you pillow and discovered that your tooth was still there.  There’s so little in life you can really count on, and [...]

September 7, 2009

Things I learned this Labor Day weekend

1. A blue Sharpie in the hands of a 3-year-old is a very bad thing.
2. Blue Sharpie does not come out of tan Berber carpeting, although Mr. Clean Magic Eraser makes it less noticeable.
3. Blue Sharpie does not come off Mac keyboards.
4. When using a wet Mr. Clean Magic Eraser to try to clean a [...]

July 8, 2009

Wanna get away?

I’ve been thinking about experiences that make me want to disappear through a trap door in the floor:
1. Seeing work colleagues at the pool.  When I’m in a bathing suit.  With my stomach showing. (I don’t remember this bothering me when I was 26, but at 46, it’s mortifying.) Although it is fun to see [...]

June 2, 2009

My 10 Favorite Pieces of Advice

I try really, really hard not to give advice.  So if you don’t want advice, stop reading now.
Well, okay, since you asked:
1. Just because you can get it zipped doesn’t mean you should wear it.
2. Put a little lipstick on. It will make you feel better. (This one’s courtesy of my friend Eva’s mom. And [...]

February 26, 2009

Deep pockets

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

January 30, 2009

Random Friday

I’ve run out of variations on “odds and ends”, so I had to come up with another title.
1. Interesting article by David Pogue on twitter. (I’m getting really good at this live links thing, aren’t I? Huh?…Huh?) 
2. Another great post from Bob Hoffman, the Ad Contrarian, on social media and its potential for marketing. Any marketer who reads [...]