It’s not every day that your neighbors knock on your door to kindly let you know that you currently have an alligator underneath your car… …and thank god for that! In reality this particular pond monster was only about five feet long once the trapper pulled him out and got him measured, but he certainly looked…
Month: April 2016
Apr 25, 2016: Reading Is Fundamental
This is one scene around the house that I never get tired of seeing! Even if he isn’t really so much as talking yet, Christopher seems to love flipping through books, whether they’re these big picture books meant to help him learn words or even just regular story books. I was always very much into reading growing up, so…
Apr 19, 2016: Homemade Cherry Coke
I’d forgotten just how addicting soda can be! This week I’ve consumed more than I would probably care to, mostly because I’m still coming off of my cold and it’s something simple that I’ve been enjoying, but also because I finally figured out how to make Cherry Coke the right way that used to be a lot harder…
Apr 13, 2016: Wasps?! Why Did It Have to be Wasps???
When I discovered earlier today that the AC in my house wasn’t working, a lot of things went through my head… For a brief, deluded period I wondered if I could actually fix it myself. Then I wondered if this was going to turn into my very expensive lesson for not renewing our home warranty…
Apr 12, 2016: Special Delivery
For those of you who’ve been following along with the crisis on Twitter … yes, my furniture did finally arrive! I know, I know – it’s just a bench – but in my defense, it really brings the room together, and it gives me a place to tie my shoes because my bed is really…
Apr 11, 2016: Undivided Attention
It’s so rare for us to focus on any one thing at a given time these days … sometimes it’s a little sad. Sad, I suppose, because although it started off merely as multi-tasking that at least has good intentions, let’s be honest that with the advent of social media in particular, more often than not we’re not even dividing…
Apr 10, 2016: House Hunting
We’re not really in the market to be buying a new house right now, but after finding a listing last night that was intriguing and happened to be having an open house today, we decided to pop in and see what it was all about anyways… The thought of our current house being a tad bit…
Apr 9, 2016: Your Mother Doesn’t Work in the Magic Kingdom Parking Lot
How is it that litterbugs aren’t a class of people who’ve been shunned out of society yet??? When you cut somebody off in traffic or cuss in front of a toddler, it’s still a reasonable excuse to claim that you merely weren’t paying attention, but unless you’re being chased by a group of thugs and the…
Apr 8, 2016: One Berkshire
Today I bought my first share of Berkshire Hathaway. Mind you, Berkshire has two classes of its common stock – Class A that runs something like $200,000 a share right now, and Class B that runs, well, less … so just to be clear, I bought Class B… 😛 Still, it was kind of a special purchase for me because…
Apr 7, 2016: Banana Shortage
Only when you’ve got a toddler in the middle of his I only want to eat bananas-phase is it possible to walk into your local Target and find nary a single bananular fruit in all of their entire produce section… Except for a small rack of super unripe, organic bananas that we soon found out were pretty much unedible on…
Apr 6, 2016: Trampoline!
It’s not hard to see why kids are always getting themselves into trouble for jumping on the bed when to your average toddler, a king-size bed is pretty much the perfect trampoline. Granted, I’m probably not helping the situation by repeatedly tossing him up into the air so that he can plummet with laughter into…
Apr 3, 2016: Bark Park
Against my better judgement, today I took both dog and child to the park for a bit of running around … all by myself! Admittedly, a big part of it was self-serving just to get away from house for a while because apparently our new neighbors have this thing about spending pretty much all of…
Apr 2, 2016: Shredded Debt
I finally broke down and bought a shredder – mostly due to a growing stack of credit cards that I’d rather not just cut in half and throw in the trash. The downside is that now after shredding roughly 20 cards, the kitchen smells vaguely of melting plastic. The upside, of course, is that shredding things…
Apr 1, 2016: Is That a Shark???
“Never look a gift shark in the mouth.” “A shark on your roof is worth two in the sea.” “Some days you just can’t get rid of a shark!” A lot of things went through my head when I was driving home this evening and saw this building that appeared to have a shark coming through the…