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Why I can't do anything. An essay by Busy Mom.
2009-03-05 15:49:00 The downside to this whole possible Internet addiction thing is that when the whole house goes all Comcastic, you can't even watch TV or use the Internet while you wait for the Comcast guy. In fact, you might even get a little itchy. But, it's then you realize it's because the cable people have effectively removed all excuses for not folding the laundry tundra in the bedroom, yet you're still not folding. You have a dial up account for such emergencies, but then you realize you never installed the program on your new-ish computer, and you need the Internet to do it. Posting from your phone is all well and good if you are under 40 (see also: what I really typed, I wonder) and if you don't live in the sticks and can only get phone reception by hanging out your kitchen door. (see also: winter, it's still kinda here). And that, dear friends is why I can't post, I'm pacing outside the house, I'm not at work and clean laundry is the new carpet. More About: Essay , Busy
Burnin' down the house
2009-03-03 03:17:00 So, I came home from work this evening and Busy Boy was charring fruit on a chopstick using a homemade flame thrower in the dining room and Busy D. was videotaping it... And, well that's really enough right there for an entry, no? More About: House , Kids , The House
My Weekend. A short story by Busy Mom
2009-03-02 05:38:00 So, I yammered on the other day about shut up and write, yet I haven't written anything since. If you follow me on Twitter, I'm sure this has become a cliche but I've been at volleyball all weekend. Busy Girl plays club volleyball, this is her first year and wow does this ever take up a bunch of time. Yesterday, our first game was at 3pm, and we got home around midnight. Granted, that time included dinner, which took a while since as parents, we were pretty much obligated to take the coach out for a beer or four after a decidedly "What. Was. That?" performance by our kids. It also included the 35 mile drive back in the snow at 45 mph with my running commentary to Busy Girl about the hazards of driving in snow and ice. I like to tell her I talk about these things because she'll be driving soon (I know!), but actually, I was really tired and the snow was hypnotizing me and I wanted to stay awake to keep from having to demonstrate how to call a tow truck or an ambulance w... More About: Story , Weekend , Short , Short Story
Mommybloggers disagree. Now let's write, already.
2009-02-27 17:50:00 (Note: This has been in my head for a while, and is coincidental to other fabulous posts of its kind at other sites. Must be something in the air) Long ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Internet in 2003, I started one of these here "blog" thingies. I quickly met other people doing the same thing and we traded animal pelts. Some of my new friends were parents, some not but any way you sliced it, there was fun. The concept of a feed reader would have been crazy talk, you had to go to someone's site to find out what was up with them. You admired their new layout, left a comment and hoped to be included on their "blogroll". That was really all there was to it. The landscape has changed, technology has changed and that's good. There's so many wonderful things that we didn't have when we dragged our clubs and our women around by the hair. OK,you're right. That last line would have been way more effective if I were a boy. (/Beyonce) Anyway... But, apart from these nifty n... More About: Blogging , Write
Auction for the Borderview YMCA
2009-02-24 04:41:00 When a friend is in need, it can be hard to know what to do to help. When that friend is an online one, you feel even more helpless as it's pretty hard to reach through the computer and lend a hand during the extraordinarily tough times. But, this time I'm able to do just that. I don't do this much, so please just trust me when I say my friend Matthew of Child's Play x2 really needs you. The best way we can support him right now is to help him raise money for the Borderview YMCA. There's a fabulous online auction where you can bid on lots of cool things, including ad space on this here blog. Won't you please go over there and check out the prizes and bid lots of money? Come on, promote your business, send me a love note or plaster your own face on my blog, it's a great cause, but more than that, it's for one of our own (bloggers). More About: Auction
"I'll take 'Digital Yahoos' for $500, Alex"
2009-02-21 20:33:00 The answers are: "Whoa!" "Dang!" "No way!" "Look at that!" The question: "What is 'The Busy Family Discovers HDTV?'" ************** P.S. Last day, Lands" End free shipping More About: Alex , Digital
May have to break up with Target
2009-02-21 18:35:00 Target, oh Target. Why have you forsaken me? Please return the Cherokee Boys Ultimate Flat Front Khakis to the racks (heh, I said "rack"). That's all my boys will wear, and I need disposable khakis since Busy D. is still at the age where it is hilarious to slide across the floor on his knees at school. Average shelf life for khakis for him = about 2 weeks. I would say that Target and I may have to part ways over this, but it knows I will eventually come crawling back, anyway. More About: Shopping , Break Up , Break , Target
Greetings from the Blonde-o-sphere
2009-02-19 05:48:00 Busy Girl (to her dad): "You know her, she's his sister." Busy Dad: "What's her last name?" Busy Girl: "Huh? What's my last name?" Busy Dad: ",,," Oh, and if a certain Busy Girl gets mad that I shared this, then she shouldn't have been reading here in the first place. More About: Sphere , Kids Say the Darndest Things , Blonde
Knock, knock...Housetaking
2009-02-18 05:48:00 Geez, what is my problem lately? I can't seem to coordinate time and the use of a computer to write anything. And now that I'm sitting here, I can't think of a thing in the world to say. Hum dee dum dee dum... Anything? No. La la la la. How about now? Nope. Um, we were out of town for volleyball over the weekend. There was a gym. There were some volleyballs. That's all I'm going to say about that part. The hotel was interesting. I ended up getting half my money back because our room wasn't cleaned, it had ants and housekeeping stole my dirty towels. On Saturday morning, we weren't quite ready to leave the room, so I stuck the "do not disturb" sign on the door when I heard housekeeping in the hall. I removed it when we went downstairs. I ran back up to the room for something a little while later and it was back on the door. Weird. I took ir off, and went back downstairs. I came up a second time, and guess what? It was back on the door. I removed it ... More About: Knock
This whole entry was much more riveting in my head
2009-02-09 05:58:00 In a possibly unprecedented move, I actually did two things I said I was going to do: I bought a GPS for geocaching and, guess what? We got a new TV! We are, however still lacking a new mattress, but heck, we've used this one for 23 years, what's a few more? Thanks to your advice, we edumacated ourselves and bought a 42 inch LG LCD TV that I'm entirely too lazy to look up and link. We're still learning about it, and it's just kinda sitting there, but we can watch most of the channels, but the jury's still out on whether or not we can get anything else to work. I have discovered, though that I may like watching TV again, I actually sat down and watched 2 shows on TLC. With a couple of exceptions, I really hadn't watched TV that's not sports or the Disney Channel in years, and even then I have a hard time doing it as I have the attention span of a sparrow. I didn't used to be this way, I really think it has something to do with when my mother was sick and I spent e... More About: Head , Entry
Bacon bacon bacon
2009-02-05 22:06:00 This one's for all the bacon talk everywhere: heh. More About: Bacon
But, I didn't shoot the friar, too
2009-02-03 02:07:00 Dinner this evening: Busy D.: "Do I change my name when I get married?" Busy Boy: "No." Busy Dad: "You could become a monk, and then you could change your name." Busy D: "OK". Busy Boy: "Yeah, you could be Friar Bob Marley." More About: Kids Say the Darndest Things , Shoot
My name is Earl
2009-02-01 21:07:00 I think it's weird that even after having kids of my own, that I still stuble over my words when I introduce myself to a child as "'Mrs. Busy". This is the South, it's law that you have to call adults "Mr. and Mizzus", so I'll have to keep practicing. More About: My Name Is Earl , Earl
Come fly with me
2009-01-30 14:46:00 So, I sign onto the computer, and I'm all, "Hey, that's riiiight...I have a blog." 5 days, really? New Orleans Friend should be my virtual assistant, thanks for the poke. OK, that was awkward. Sometimes Facebook jargon doesn't translate well outside the Facebubble, no? She um, reminded me that I haven't posted in a while. That's better. Anyways, I'm still here. I have exposed my toiletries and removed my shoes in the interest of National Security so that you, dear readers, can live in safety and I'm waiting to leave Philadelphia on the way home from the event that shall not be named (at least until I get home and can write about it on Busy Mom Reviews), but it rhymes with Bambell's Croup. After an average airport breakfast, Dawn and I are waiting for our fight to Chicago. She gets to go home, but I get to wait for another flight at O'Hare because everyone knows you have to go to Chicago to get from Philadelphia to Nashville. Du-uh. I have paid the $7.99 ...
So, here I am...
2009-01-25 03:57:00 Busy Girl asked to go to a friend's house tonight, and since it's a new friend, I naively replied, "Sure!" Turns out friend lives literally across town, and the distance is too far to go back home and return to pick her up, yet the time is too long for me to hang out. I didn't think to bring the computer with me, either, so this entry comes to you courtesy of Samsung and Windows Media smart phones. I elected to hang out anyway here in small town, USA and I've done everything I can think of to do, short of cruising the local Dairy Queen. I did buy a new microwave since ours croaked last night and the kids are hungry. I also talked myself out of new sheets (even though we desperately need them) and a pair of shoes. I discussed global warming with the carry out dude at HH Gregg and bought a milkshake. Now I''m loitering in the grocery store parking lot trying to convince John Mayer that he should probably go ahead and do something else while he's waiting on the world to c...
Happy Blog Day to me
2009-01-23 06:00:00 Six years ago on this very day, I saw something about "blogs" on the news and said, "Hey, I can do that!" And, I did. I wrote about all 3 kids playing band instruments in the next room and Busy D. wasn't even 1 yet. I was astounded when someone read it. And I'm even more astounded that I'm still doing it and someone is still reading. Wait, you're here, right? Hello? *taps computer and then gets mad after leaving fingerprints on screen* I could wax eloquent about my time here, but I'll spare you this time. The first person to say something like, "Why start being eloquent now?" gets a knuckle sandwich and has to leave my blog party without a goodie bag. More About: Blog , Happy
Shady Lawn
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Holiday Road
2009-01-19 06:32:00 Are ya'll having fun? Our trip to the beach is drawing to a close. Many of you know I'm here on vacation on my 10th Annual Girl's trip. It's been rather low key, but we've had a nice time. The trip down was uneventful, though I think I scared my passengers (who don't have teenagers) with my vast knowledge of the lyrics to some pretty ghetto-fabulous musical selections. We left town in the evening and drove into the wee hours, so I had to keep myself awake somehow. (It's a Kodak moment, let me go and get my camera, all I wanna know is...) I apparently overdid the coffee by about a cup because I was pretty much vibrating when we got here at 2am and no one appreciated my dilemma, nor would they rearrange the furniture with my after a quick run down the beach. OK, lying about the run since I'm pretty sure my left knee is going to fall off. Something is all kinds of wrong with it, but well...whatever. Other than that, there's been some shopping, some eating, some laz... More About: Travel , Holiday , Road
Free Obama card sets
2009-01-19 04:53:00 Despite what you read, it's neither the Second Coming, nor is it Armageddon (y'all just calm down, now), but if you haven't heard, there's a Presidential Inauguration coming up. Inaugurations are pretty cool in and of themselves and there's no denying this one is historic. I'm passing along word of these free Obama card sets (there is a small S&H fee) for a friend, so go check them out! They are top quality cards, printed full color with gold metallic ink on both sides and one of the cards is original artwork created by a digital artist just for the set and he is hand signing them. The goal is to let everyone have a piece of history, without having to shell out a lot of hard earned cash to do it. So, if you are so inclined, check them out! More About: Shopping , Card , Free , Sets
Dinnertime
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Mmmm coffee.
2009-01-16 16:52:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } More About: Coffee
Mornin'
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Here's our room, hop out of the suitcase
2009-01-15 09:06:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 1px #000000; } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Made it to the beach, ya'll get out and get to bed. We have a big day tomorrow. More About: Room
Can she do it? Yes, she can.
2009-01-14 00:27:00 I'm attempting to type an entry using my phone. I'm at volleyball and bored. Too cold to go anywhere and I am dreading a potentially awkward conversation with someone. Bored. Bored and cold. I even had to get out my super secret granny reader glasses to do this. Don't tell anyone I have these. So, now I'm going to look for "publish" and see if this works or not.
More on blogging friends
2009-01-12 05:05:00 A few days ago, I talked about how I sometimes have difficulty finding the words to refer to you guys, my friends inside the computer. Not that I want to make a distinction, but every now and then, the linguistics of the whole thing about friends I can't see gets interesting and there needs to be a word or phrase to describe it. Today, I wish that one of my blogging friends was someone I can see. This person is going through a really, really tough time. Stuff beyond my comprehension and I have never wished more that there was something I could do. Don't know where I'm going with that other than it's occupied a large portion of my mind for a couple of days now, and I feel so helpless yet I would have a hard time explaining it to the people I can see. More About: Friends , Blogging
My coffee hasn't kicked in yet, so this is what you get
2009-01-10 16:36:00 From my dad, purveyor of all things e-mail forwarding: When everyone on earth was dead, and waiting to enter Paradise, God appeared and said: "I want the men to make two lines." "One line for the men who were true heads of their household, and the other line for the men who were dominated by their women and I want all the women to report to St. Peter." Soon, the women were gone, and there were two lines of men. The line of the men who were dominated by their wives was 100 miles long, and in the line of men who truly were heads of their household, there was only one man. God said, 'You men should be ashamed of yourselves, I created you to be the head of your household! You have been disobedient and have not fulfilled your purpose! Of all of you, only one obeyed. Learn from him. With that, God turned to the one man and asked, 'How did you manage to be the only one in this line?' And, the man replied, 'My wife told me to stand here.' More About: Humor , Coffee
Live from Weekday World
2009-01-08 15:27:00 I work full time. Yes, yes, I know..."Why does she even have kids?" "Raise your own kids!" (Insert favorite working mother cliche here, I'll wait). I mean, duh, they can all reach the microwave, what do they need me for? Anyway, that's not the point here. When I'm at work, there's apparently an entire subculture that is very active in the daytime hours during the week and I never get to see it. I'm at the bagel place in suburbia since my dad is determined he's going to drive himself to his MRI today, (but I'm going to meet him there just in case this turns out to be one of those "good idea at the time" things), so I'm hanging out here until it's time to go, and this is really interesting. Observations about this weekday subculture I find myself in at the moment: - I don't need Facebook. Everyone I need to catch up with is here. - Don't any of you people have a job? Where did I go wrong? - Someone dressed for work using a laptop is apparently a freak and even s... More About: Parenting , World , Live
Thank you.
2009-01-05 20:25:00 The other day on Twitter, I made a remark about Twitter-speak not always translating well to "real life" friends. Rightly so, Rex jokingly replied, "What are we? Chopped liver?" Over the years, many a blogger has waxed eloquent about how online acquaintances may or may not be defined as "friends" and people will continue to analyze that thought for many years to come. I've always struggled with how to refer to you guys inside the computer relative to the friends I can see and touch. Most of the time, I have no need to differentiate, and if I do have the need, it's mostly whining when they don't "get" me. At any rate, this past Saturday night I talked with my friends on Twitter. Note there was no need to put that in quotes. My dad had to go the the ER and I was at home with a bunch of little boys who don't understand anxiety. Busy Dad took him, so he was away and Busy Girl wasn't home, but I wasn't about to dump that on her, anyway. Since my mother died a couple of... More About: Parenting
From spam and "As Seen on TV" fame
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