If you spend more than 10 minutes among the general public, you know that there are more than enough obnoxious behaviors to go around. I don’t know if I’m just cranky or things are really getting worse, but I’ve been noticing them more lately. Consider this post a crude response to a pretend Dear Abby…
Way back in July, I published 7 Things People Need To Stop Doing On Facebook. It’s one of my most viewed – and commented on via Facebook – posts to date. Well, several months have passed, and with those months some more annoying Facebook trends have developed. I’m sure you’ve noticed. If you haven’t, then…
This is Daisy, the window licker. Anyone who owns animals can tell you that they have their own little personalities. Some are playful. Others are grouchy. Others are, well… One of my cats, Daisy, like to lick windows. This is part of her morning ritual. I used to think she liked to do it when…
Welcome to the latest installment of “Crazy Crap I Found In My Mom’s House”. If you missed Volume 1, my mom loves to decorate and has many unique items. Again, this is just a small sampling. Before I begin, though, Mom is making me tell you that many of the things she has are antiques.…
My four-year-old son has been going through a “phase” where he throws a tantrum every night. Every. Damn. Night. Tantruming has worked for him exactly never, so I don’t get why he thinks it will get him somewhere now. The funny part is he’s usually screaming what he “wants” to do, and it’s the behavior he…
As I was leisurely scrolling through my facebook newsfeed this morning, I came across this post from fellow blogger Insane in the Mom-Brain. She’s describing the pictures in the directions that were included with a piece of furniture she purchased from Ikea. If you can’t read her description, it says: The assembly instructions for The Boy’s Ikea…
I just got back from camping. Okay, that’s not true. I took a shower first because I could no longer stand to be in my own presence. But I got back earlier today. This is where we were camping. My family and I spent three days roughing it in the high altitudes of the Rocky…
Confession: I am on Facebook a lot. I was hooked pretty much from the moment I joined. At first, I loved connecting with all the friends from the various circles of my life and watching them all interact around a single topic. Then, I got into the games (which was mostly short-lived). Now, I use…
This morning, it started before I had fully emerged from glorious slumber. “Mom!! He stole part of my sculpture and made a helicopter out of it!!” We’ll refer to the angry one as Big One, and his thieving brother as Little One. Big One had left his tinker toy contraption in the living room, and…
When I started elementary school, my school had an awesome playground. As I progressed through the grades, the playground became increasingly sucky as all the fun equipment was removed because of risk of injury to the users. Incidentally, the only severe injury I ever personally saw was caused by a dumpster lid. But I digress.…
Allison Maruska 