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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A special edition of odds and ends

1. This has to be one of the cutest commercials I’ve ever seen:

2. This really makes me want to drink Coke:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/01/clean_a_toilet_with_coke.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890
3. An oldie but a goodie from The Ad Contrarian (Bob Hoffman). I just love #10 on the list:
http://adcontrarian.blogspot.com/2008/10/top-10-bullshit-professions.html
4. Part 3 of an interesting Slate.com series by Sarah Wildman on the [...]