Archive for October, 2008

Hairmergency

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

I have a whole other post almost written out but I’m too sleepy to make sure it makes any sense. It’s about my children being pointlessly cute and difficult, and about our trip, and about all of the many and exciting things that are going on all the time.
But none of that matters, because I [...]

Mom, you’ll be so proud when you see what I traded our milk cow for!

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This week we went and picked up 21 boxes, weighing 25 pounds each, full of Nerdy Baby flash cards. I’m a dizzying combination of giddy because OMG wooo! and freaked out because all of our money has now been converted into things we cannot eat.

Because what I really need is more internet addictions

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

I just signed up for twitter. I’m a late adopter of all things cool, and now I think it’s starting not to be cool anymore? Not sure. Anyway! Here’s my thingy: https://twitter.com/boogalooooooooo

It occurs to me that I’ve never explicitly said this: please do not hack this web site.

Friday, October 17th, 2008

A couple of months ago a kind reader alerted me to a problem. Whenever she tried to read this blog from her phone, she got all these crazy ads for Viagra and Flickr and stuff. I don’t want my readers to have to deal with that crap! So I helpfully suggested that she throw away [...]

The 120-hour dash

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

It’s like sprinting across hot coals, with my bag of orders to ship over one shoulder and my kids in either arm. Once the week begins, I am in survival mode: there can be no major house cleaning, no significant cooking, only divided trays full of assorted steam-in-the-bag items and quick glances in the mirror [...]