Category: Recreational Complaining

Other things I need to ignore (in favor of work) are exchanges that begin with words like: Honey, come here a sec. Mom, I’m bored. Honey, could you… I can’t find my… Hey, you gotta see this! Have a great day! Someone please send gorgeous male minions to do something about the Armageddon cluster that is my kitchen, por favor.

Leave my daughter and the baby together for half an hour, and this is what happens… He is impossibly spoilt already.

Yeah, it’s 11:30 AM, here, and I still haven’t come up with anything worth posting about. At what point do I give up and just say, “Hey, it’s Monday! What’s happening, everybody?” and hope no one notices that I have not, in fact, posted anything at all? Reckon I just did. (The fact that even this short post was interrupted twice by phone calls should give you some indication how things are going on this end.)

This morning, while double-checking a word-usage issue, I tripped across my own personal heaven. I’m sorry if you had other plans for today, because… vocab quiz! Even though I know this site plays on several of my weaknesses, I just cannot resist that “Next Question” button. In other news, I had meant to post a cat picture today. In fact, I was just about to hit publish on the post when I took a closer look at the picture. It showed Booger and the baby man cat. Also a big section of storyboard full of spoilers, with no easy way to crop them out. Whoops. So you get the vocab-crack… Read More

Guess what I got for Thanksgiving? Some kind of flu-like bug I’m affectionately referring to as Ogehntmasswitis. (Oh-God-everything-hurts-nobody-touch-me-and-stop-saying-words-itis) And okay, the devil bug actually hit on Wednesday; not in a hair-splitting place, today. Is anyone really surprised at the timing? The kittens go, and BAM, I’m sick. Shocker. But hey, I slept through all of Thursday, so at least I didn’t overeat, yeah? I triaged the inbox; things are still a bit deep in there. The most urgent things should have answers by now, but if I missed you, prod me again, please. Here’s hoping everyone had a safe and less buggy holiday! Any black Friday drama to report?

So. This is happening: Good thing I’m up to my eyebrows with Hellfire today. Looks like I won’t be going anywhere. Have a great Monday!

Not much to report, here. Toiling on many projects, trying to help get the new office finished, trying to avoid stealth cat attacks… Have I mentioned that my daughter changed Scaramouche’s nickname from Moose to Moose-ifer? It fits. Office: Catpile: No, that’s not the mama cat lounging in the foreground. That would be Mandango, who is more than half the size of his mother at five weeks. Behold this rare, peaceful moment.

Kitten update: All four kittens are fat, healthy, and well into their ‘attack anything that moves — and then anything that doesn’t move’ phase. This coincides with the CLIMB ALL OF THE THINGS phase. My legs are covered in tiny puncture marks. As is the dog. The husband. All three kids, and our one huge tomcat (Booger) who has decided the swarmlings are not, in fact, minions of satan, as was his initial conclusion. He’s cool with them working him over until one of them chews an ear. Then his sense of humor takes a powder. In other news, the new office is at about 70%. One kid is sick, another… Read More

You know that one room in your house? The one that’s going to be your office “someday”? Right. Yes, we all have that room. The one where you look at all that lovely, open, unused space over the years, and you think “today is not that day” so everything accumulates in that space like sediment in a delta? “Someday” you’ll clean it out of there. Well… today is that “someday”. Not because you’re getting organized or anything awesome like that. No, today is that day because Mr. Silver needs to get started on the flooring in there. God help me, I have probably a thousand-some books to sort through. And… Read More