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IDT Energy, or I Don’t Think So Jack Ass

Posted on August 26, 2007

I heard a rattling coming from the back of the house, checking for and finding both girls I shrugged it off. Then the dog started making frantic sounds, I checked the clock and looked toward the back of the house, “Too early for Sean,” I thought. “What’s that sound mama? What’s that sound?” Briar asked, wrenching herself from the tractor beam pull of Wonder Pets. “I’m not sure honey. Stay here, I’ll be right back.” I locked the two doors on that side of the house and walked toward the rattle. I had left the storm door open when we’d come home from the sitter’s house. It was locked and standing on the other side was a tall man, dressed in black dress pants…

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The Usketeers (part 1)

Posted on August 25, 2007

I was holding Briar on my hip, Sean was two paces behind me with Avery. It was hot, the kind of hot that creates a hateful, halo of frizz around my face and makes me feel ever so slightly as if I have wet my pants. They breezed past us, all purses and grins. They moved in classic friendship formation, shoulders touching, eyes dancing in shared merriment, heads tilted toward one another, the better to whisper and titter. I looked away and buckled the girls in the cart. I tried to shake off the sensation that I should be there with them, that if I were more normal, more something, than they’d ask me to join. A part of me clung inexplicably to the…

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Heavenly Housekeeping

Posted on August 25, 2007

I have been shamefully remiss. I am as fond of comments and feedback as donkeys are of cookies (unless they’re rocks). I have inexplicably sat for weeks, months even, on the best kind of feedback for a praise-hungry ass like myself, fellow blogger bestowed awards. Today I am making amends and dusting off the awards I’ve been given, by women so talented and beautiful in both spirit and person, that when I discovered the praise I both teared up and squealed, while my feet made energetic-1920’s-synchronized-swimming-bathing-beauty-flutter-kicks-of-joy. The Rockin’ Girl Blogger This badge gets around like certain Hollywood starlets, yet I still take the receiving it with a reverence reserved for things like 25 minutes showers with new girly products, too expensive to have made…

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Blaggity Blag

Posted on August 24, 2007

Colleen at a Madison Mom, blagged me after she was blagged by Melody at Slurping Life. Never one to back down to a dare, or forsake the opportunity to overuse a word like blag which somehow seems scandalous and wicked, I am answering her blag challenge…almost a week later. These are the rules and details of the Blag:• Each player starts with eight random facts or habits about his or her self – Colleen wrote about 8 careers, so I am following suit. • These blagged chosen ones are to write posts on their own blog about these eight facts. • They are also to post these rules. •At the end of their blog they will list eight people* they have chosen to blag…

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