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define “professional”

After several attempts to cut  Alex’s hair myself, I finally cracked and admitted that yes, some things are better left to the professionals.  For a few sweet months, Alex had Beth at Daddy’s haircut place who gave the most adorable haircuts as evidenced below: Look how adorable!  Then Beth went on vacation, and has been [...]

i have a b.a. in b.s.

Brett:  The camera won’t focus. Me:  What do you mean it won’t focus?  What happened to it? Brett:  You dropped it the other day and now it won’t focus.  The pictures are fuzzy. Me: (Sigh…hmmmph) Give it to me, I’ll try to fix it. Exhibit A…  Sometime later… Me:  I fixed the camera. Brett:  How?  [...]

this is why i don’t write a blog about finances

Did you hear there’s like, an economic crisis going on?  I haven’t written about it because, eh…everyone else is writing about it.  People who pay attention to these things and have budgets and clip coupons and have much more valuable advice and tips like packing your lunch and then washing and re-using your Ziploc bags. [...]

out damned stuff part deux

On Thursday, we have a second charity coming to haul away MORE CRAP, including a futon that got rejected by the first charity, a working television WITH REMOTE, and various home decor objects. The first charity rejected the futon and left it in our driveway because it had cat hair on it.  Not blood or pee stains [...]