Pie, looking closely at my face: Did you know that old people get wrinkles? Me: They do? Pie: Yeah. You don’t have wrinkles yet. Pie puts her hands up on my face. She touches the corners of my eyes. Pie: But you’re starting to. Right here, by your eyes. You’re starting to get wrinkles. Me: [...]
5:37 a.m. Poke, poke, poke. Me: What the hell are you people doing in my bed? Why the hell are you people waking me up! Leave me alone! Little people noisily stomp off and slam the door shut and then proceed to make enough noise that I can’t fall back asleep 8:15 a.m. The boy: [...]
As you no doubt remember from our last camping trip, just two blog posts ago, that we were woefully underprepared. Adam decided to make up for it. All of a sudden, Thermarests appeared. A new sleeping bag. A camping stove. (Do we need a camping stove? No. The camping stove is going back.) Bungee cords. [...]
I stink. I mean this in the most literal of ways (and for you, Dawn, I’ll add, “and I don’t say ‘literal’ lightly!”). You walk into our lovely, more or less clean house, and breathe in the freshness. Then, as you make your way upstairs, you’ll notice this dank, disgusting smell. It was stuffy. And [...]
Not a good sign before camping. As the car is packed, the food is loaded, the friends are about to pull out of their driveways, the husband turns and says, “So what am I going to use for a sleeping bag?” Me: Um, your sleeping bag? Adam: I don’t have one. Me: We don’t own [...]
…because I got my bigger GBs! I guess it’s time to figure out how to use that Tumblr account and get the photo blog going again.
I went a little nutso at Whole Foods. Because we’re going camping with two other families. And it’s a well known fact that camping requires copious amounts of food. There must be meals. Snacks. Drinks. Grown-up drinks. Treats. We divvied up the shopping. So I bought three bags of marshmallows, two boxes of graham crackers, [...]
I’m dealing with GE and my oven. My lovely oven that I miss oh-so-very much. The oven for which I have now twice been stood up for by an appliance repair person. My phone options? To schedule a repair press 1. To extend your warranty press 2. For billing, press 3. All those are inadequate [...]
I’m pretty sure I’ve blogged about Adam and his phones (yes, plural, phones), but I can’t find it so you’ll just have to trust me. The boy has phones. He wants an iPhone. He has a Blackberry. He has a Nexus Droid. “For work,” he swears. “I need them to test our new products.” That [...]
So first my iPhone was telling me it was charged when it wasn’t. I couldn’t understand why it wouldn’t work, even though it said the battery was full of green. And then, on a lovely mid-80s day, when I was inside the house, which was set to mid-70s with air conditioning, I got this message [...]