You probably foolishly waited until your children were actually born before preparing them for college.
And we wonder why the Latvians are kicking our asses in math and science. And Sims.
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Christmas approaches inexorably, even as I try to push it back. I’m thinking my powers are no match for the multitudes of 8-year-olds who are willing Christmas to come sooner SOONER SOONER.
I promised myself that I wouldn’t use wrapping paper on anything, remembering the mountains of paper waste that gets thrown away in our house [...]
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And it’s not about live turkeys this time. It’s about the turkey you are going to roast for Thanksgiving. As part of my mission to Serve the People, I did a pre-Thanksgiving test meal so that I could work out the kinks and make The People’s holiday stress-free. Also, Von’s is selling turkeys for $5 [...]
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In one of my famous whirlwind rounds of activity (generally preceded and followed by long periods of sloth) I sort-of-more-or-less cleaned the house for the comfort and safety of Margarita and Her Italian Lover FlaVio (Not Their Real Names), ironed clothes I probably won’t wear anyway because I’ll be in jeans and t-shirts (but who [...]
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I am developing an unhealthy obsession with The Internets. Now I want big hair and mall bangs. I wonder if I could buy find a little girl to do pageants with. Life would be sweet.
Or maybe I just need to get out more.
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Rick’s dad had a question for any of us who bought a new vehicle: “How’s the love affair with the [insert vehicle]?”
Ironically, in the decade that saw the fall of the Berlin Wall, the love affair with my little truck was cut short by Communism.
I first dreamed of owning a truck when, time after time, [...]
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There wasn’t really a dog food can cover in the freezer. That was “Artistic License.” There was a broken doohickey that caused a major frostup behind the freezer which kept the cold air in the freezer from circulating up to the refrigerator. Hence the rock-hard ice cream and lukewarm Diet Cokes.
Oh, there were other things [...]
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You know how spaceships always seem to land in corn fields out in the middle of nowhere? I have always thought that if aliens were smart enough to build a craft that would bring them to Earth from wherever they live, that they should have figured out that landing on a Saturday night out in [...]
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