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August 17, 2014
It’s a matter of bandwidth
MacDreamy2 is showing his age lately. He’s four years old and gets heavy,heavy use. If it’s not me pounding out blog posts (which have been sadly rare these days) or a snarky Facebook update or answering yet another email (Sisyphus would have lurved email) or working in multiple tabs while streaming music, it’s the boys …
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July 29, 2014
Who wears short shorts?
Answer: not me. In fact, summer in Chicago this year has been so cool that it’s been mostly capris and blue jeans. I do have shorts in the drawer, but I think I can count on one hand how many times they’ve been pulled out. Cool summer + AAS = I had to talk myself …
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July 21, 2014
It’s all about connection
As I write this, I’m heading home from the annual SENG conference. I had to stay an extra day because the airline was demanding all my organsfor a Sunday afternoon flight, and soI had quiet hours in which to think, something I get maybe once in a never. My brain was all flustered that I …
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July 11, 2014
Summer polar vortex. These words are just wrong.
So yesterday this BS came across my feed: The words from my mouth would have made a sailor blush.Yes, the temps areonly dipping down into the upper 60s (40s at night), but it.is.July. Supposed to be the hottest month of the year. I’ve only sweat through my underwear once this season, and that’s because I …
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July 8, 2014
What’s in a blog name?
Couldyour blog’s name subconsciously influence your life? When I first started writing this blog, lo those many years ago, it was under the nameNever a Dull Moment. Made sense. I had a four year old and a one year old and dear god dull moments were few and far between. So few and far between …
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July 7, 2014
{GHF Blog Hop} I wouldn’t have believed you
I can’t believe I’m saying this, I really can’t. It gets better, parents. I hardly believe it myself. •The infant who didn’t sleep through the night with any regularity has become the teenager who easily sleeps around the clock. •That crazy active toddler who ran around investigating how everything worked and demanded scientifically accurate bedtime …
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June 28, 2014
Ants. No uncles.
I wasn’t even to the door of my house after a day of work when crash…tinkle…tinkle… Aaaaaand…we’re mourning the death of the second coffeepot this year. A new carafe is speeding our way from Amazon, but in the meantime it’s iced coffee concentrate from Trader Joe’s and prayer that I’m functional enough in the mornings …
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June 25, 2014
It’s just like that
It’s just like this. Only the blocks are one big chunk of solid cement, I am crushed beneath it, and the boys are wrestling and jumping on top while the dog barks and farts with impunity. The pencil is out of reach, the paper is soaking wet, and the lightbulb has burnt out. My …
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June 12, 2014
Marry the person with whom you can have a midlife crisis
“It’s the days leading up to a full moon that lands on Friday the 13th, it’s Mercury Retrograde, I haven’t seen the sun in three days, the boys gnawed on my second-to-last nerve today, I’m PMSing to a level of crazy that is not healthy, and I’m out of anti-depressants. The pharmacy says they are …
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June 10, 2014
The dregs of the drafts folder
I was doing a little back-end housecleaning and oh hello, the drafts folder. Where posts go to die. I knowthere are bloggers out there who have several hundred or even thousand dribbles of posts in their drafts folder, but I don’t. I have an entirely separate working system where I have, at present, eleventy-billiondifferent ideas …
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