Archive | September, 2008

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Area woman suffers record amount of pinkeye flares When my sister was a kid, she used to get pinkeye a lot.  I remember mom telling me not to use her hand towel in the bathroom, to stay away from her pillow, that sort of thing.  I always emerged unscathed.  Now, however, I am clearly a [...]

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Did you know that the combination of Dayquil and coffee can give you a serious buzz?  Or maybe that is just me.  At any rate, I am high as a kite here.  I really feel as though I have a couple margaritas under my belt.  Which, while awesome, is making it difficult to concentrate or [...]

Sleep disruptions, stinkeye and global exploration

Miss T still doesn’t sleep through the night, but I have stopped mentioning it in detail here because I am quite sure everyone was sick of hearing about it.  I know I was sick of writing about it, and thinking about it, and dwelling on it.  My new mantra is “She will go to college someday and [...]

It’s like the song that never ends. Only more annoying.

AE goes through phases where he likes to talk a lot.  It seems that we have entered one such phase, not so very long after the last one.  Lately, though, he seems to be talking simply to hear the sound of his own voice.  He just talks and talks, and attempts to be an authority on any [...]

Driving, shopping, movies and cats with a death wish

Texas is a right-turn-on-red state This morning I had the dubious pleasure of dropping AE off at school.  And was able to further establish that some people are idiots and should not be allowed to obtain a driver’s license.  I tend to have road rage issues anyway and I really don’t think that morning traffic at [...]