Vacation?

Since I’m off on holiday break and have a bit of free time on my hands, I thought I’d spend some time catching up on my blog reading, which sadly gets neglected during the school year. Of course, since the holidays have just barely left us, only one of the blogs I read on a [...]

‘Tis the season to be greedy little pigs

I don’t know what comes to everyone else’s mind when they hear the words “bring goodies to share,” but I tend to think this means I will bring some sort of tasty treat and in exchange, I will get to nosh on the tasty treats brought in by others as well. Apparently at my school, what [...]

Semi truckers should be banned

On the way home from work today I was almost run off the road by a semi. I realize that anyone who has ever driven a car has shared the same fate, but today it was particularly annoying. I’m not sure what it is about driving one of these behemoths that results in a total [...]

Advertisers can go to hell

I despise jewelry commercials. I don’t actually mind the overly sappy TV commercials where the husband surprises his wife on their anniversary with the little box hidden underneath a napkin or even the current holiday one where the kids are retelling The Night Before Christmas to their mother while their father sneaks up behind her [...]

A rant deferred

I was going to rant tonight. I really want to rant tonight, but as I am so angry and annoyed that I might actually spill way too many details and actually run the risk of someone I work with reading this, knowing exactly who I am talking about (and want to cause physical harm to [...]

My domesticity

While pointedly ignoring my husband who’d just made a snippy comment at me over dinner, I found my eyes wandering toward the econo-sized Sam’s Club container of parmesan cheese. As my son was already in bed and I had not yet resolved myself to get over my husband’s fever chilled brainless comment, I took refuge in [...]

The stomach flu or something else akin to death

I don’t like to brag (excessively), but I don’t throw up. This is a well-known and documented fact that generally makes my friends roll their eyes whenever I point it out. Much like that episode of Seinfeld, I can actually count the number of times I’ve thrown up since I was 14 on one hand. [...]

It’s the little things

Because I have a stack of research papers waiting to be graded, I thought I’d put together a list of things that are currently annoying me:
1) Research papers, or rather getting a one paragraph “paper,” despite kids having nearly three weeks to work on it and pretty much only it.
2) The kid getting annoyed when [...]

Recipe secret police be damned

Since I was never specifically told I couldn’t share this recipe and it was given to me by my sister-in-law, the one who does not hire body guards to stand outside the kitchen when she’s cooking just in case someone tries to sneak a peak at the ingredients or cooking times, for anyone interested, here [...]

There are some things only grandma can make

In response to my last post, my dear friend gb came out in defense of recipe mystery (and consequently, my in-laws) by saying that he rather likes the idea of saying, “wow, this is great (fill in the name of food stuffs here), but it’s just not like (fill in the relative) used to make.” [...]