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Archive | August, 2010

The hazards of having a firstborn son

Yesterday morning I was sitting in the kitchen, drinking my coffee and messing around on the computer.  Miss T was busy in her play kitchen, feeding her favorite doll. I was only sort of listening to her tiny, one-sided conversation.  “Are you hungry, Baby Beth?  Here you go, Baby Beth.  Have some pizza.  It’s yummy.” […]

One day at a time, that’s how

My freakout has begun.  You know, the I’m-starting-grad-school-in-10-days-while-working-full-time-and-parenting-two-young-kids-I-barely-keep-on-top-of-my-life-as-it-is-mother-of-God-what-have-I-done freakout. What, you’ve never had one of those? I ordered my textbooks online through Amazon last week and one arrived yesterday.  I skimmed through it and was immediately transported back into my very first sociology class, a place where I was introduced to the word “paradigm” and […]

Movie reviews x4

In no particular order (or genre, really), here are spoiler-free reviews of what I’ve been watching this summer: Zombieland – I really didn’t think I’d like it at all.  I’m not a Woody Harrelson fan.  In fact, I’m anti-Harrelson.  So much so that my Netflixed copy of the movie sat there for two months (TOTALLY making […]