At Annie’s 18 month visit, Dr. Looove gave me a pamphlet about potty training. POTTY TRAINING Y’ALL. I had no idea this was something I was supposed to start concerning myself with already. But Dr. Looove is the expert, so I read the pamphlet…and I took some notes. I decided I’d use the weekend to…
My Girl Wants To Potty All The Time
July 25th, 2011Comments: 210
Take Off Your Judgey Pants And Stay A While
July 20th, 2011Comments: 290
Yesterday I wrote about taking Annie to a movie for the first time. The whole experience was about doing something with Annabel that we’d done with her sister. We don’t ever want Annie to look back on my chronicle of our lives with her sister and say, “how come you didn’t do that with me?”…
Dancing On The Debt Ceiling
July 14th, 2011Comments: 31
Heather: Leah is coming over tonight, and she said she wants to talk to you about the debt ceiling. Mike: OK. Heather: So, that gives you three hours to learn what “debt ceiling” means. Mike: I know what the debt ceiling is. Heather: Oh. Well that’s good. I didn’t want to have to explain it…
Brains Scrambled Over Easy
July 5th, 2011Comments: 34
A few months ago I went on a trip and thanks to lack of routine and forgetfulness, I didn’t take my head meds for three straight days. My head meds are for my anxiety, so you’d think that forgetting to take then would just make me anxious, right? Wrong. I went into this weird state…
Do These Stripes Make Me Look Pregnant? Wait, Don’t Answer That.
June 23rd, 2011Comments: 92
The week before I got sick I went to a house party. When I walked in and saw my friend Rebecca, we both burst out laughing. We were were dressed almost identically. We both had on black and white striped maxi dresses that were cut the same. She’d almost worn a jean jacket, and I’d…