Archive for the ‘parenting’ Category

Monday, September 4, 2006

Lost Weekend

Right now I’m avoiding doing some work that I should do. (Revising a book proposal.)

We ran around like maniacs this weekend but did nothing we were supposed to do. I was supposed to:
1. Inaugurate the weed-eater.…

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Posted in domestic, parenting, venting on 09/04/2006 04:20 pm
 
 

Friday, September 1, 2006

Sad Monkeys

I’m going to tell you what Rose and I talked about more than a week ago. Look:

Monkeys want cell phones but get rebuffed.

This is a sad story. Monkeys live at the zoo. They see humans using …

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Posted in parenting, psychobabble on 09/01/2006 01:14 pm
 
 

Monday, August 21, 2006

Wistful

I’ll tell you what I just told Rose, which is that I wish I could be a housewife, now that I have a house. I’m home sick today (recuperating from yesterday’s periodic 8-hour drive to babydaddy’s house) and I’m …

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Posted in domestic, fantasies, parenting on 08/21/2006 07:07 pm
 
 

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Yay! (Plus Bugs)

I found my tile today! I decided to flake on work and go to a new tile place, and I found the tile I wanted, for cheap, deliverable this week. Woo hoo!

There was a weird, pregnant-looking, …

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Posted in domestic, insects, parenting, venting on 08/15/2006 05:50 pm
 
 

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Feelings

I miss my kids a lot. I’m ready for them to come home from their summer visitation with their dad. I miss my kids so much, it makes my uterus hurt. (Either that or it’s just normal periodical cramping.) …

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Posted in parenting, psychobabble on 07/27/2006 01:28 pm
 
 

Monday, July 17, 2006

Numbered List

1. I love my kids. I had a good weekend with them. (This was my allotted weekend in the midst of their 8-week summer visitation with their dad.) We had fun.

2. Austin is so very hot and …

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Posted in domestic, parenting on 07/17/2006 04:38 pm
 
 

Sunday, May 7, 2006

Big Old Weekend

I don’t have a new book out right now because I’m lazy and I write a book every other year instead of every year. However, because Houston’s Latino Book Fair was this weekend, and it’s the biggest …

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Posted in parenting, writing on 05/07/2006 02:08 pm
 
 

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Expressions of Love, Part Two: Chicken Soup for the MMORPG Soul

The other day I was playing World of Warcraft (or World of War-crack, as I’ve heard it called). In that world, I’m a blue-haired Night Elf in leather armor, …

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Posted in parenting, pop culture on 02/23/2006 09:35 pm
 
 

Monday, February 20, 2006

Weird

I’m guessing God or Blogger doesn’t like my last entry, because it keeps disappearing of its own volition. Fine. I’ll leave it off for a while, then. A bloodless sacrifice. I got the chicken salad recipes I needed. FINE. …

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Posted in parenting on 02/20/2006 03:01 am
 
 

Friday, February 10, 2006

book-related

Most nights, I read to my kids. Last night we decided to give up on Ramona and Her Father and switch over to A Wizard of Earthsea, instead. I haven’t read that one since I was a kid. …

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Posted in books, parenting on 02/10/2006 10:38 pm