The money trail

(originally posted at November 9th)
So in the press this morning we learn that Ms. Clinton’s campaign raised 45 million dollars in February. The Obama campaign promises to release figures later today and that they have raised a significantly greater sum. 
That’s just during February.
Now I know being leader of the free world is a really important [...]

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Better than Green Eggs and Ham

(originally posted at November 9th)
February 23, 2007 was a reallllllly bad day. Recalling it still makes my heart stop and my body ache with pain. So  February 23, 2008 started out with an aura of bad bad bad surrounding it, for past present and future reasons.
 And then…
 I took my girls to the theatre. Now they’ve [...]

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Face It

(originally posted at November 9th)
I have forehead wrinkles. I noticed them today for the first time. They now join the tiny little lines around my eyes and lips, the ones called “laugh lines”. They don’t bother me. My dermatologist once told me that I talked with my face and that someday I would regret it. [...]

Check please

It started out as a perfectly nice lunch with a perfectly nice gentleman. Probably the first lunch with someone that hasn’t had me looking at my watch and wondering couldn’t he eat faster?
And then he said, Your girls sound delightful, I can’t wait to meet them.

Very very long pause. Had this been a [...]

A rose is just a rose

(originally posted at November 9th)
This morning a group of co-workers (men) were bemoaning the upcoming Valentine’s Day and batting around the eternal question What Does She Want?
When they looked at me the only answer I could dead pan was “Do her on the desk”.  They squirmed uncomfortably while battling in their minds Hmm… that would [...]

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Be Mine

Originally posted at November 9th
I met Pam when I was six years old. She lived one house down from me, so I walked over and knocked on the door to ask if she might like to play. She closed the door in my face. Not an auspicous beginning. I don’t know what  caused her  change [...]

123456

(originally posted at November 9th)
Today was a good day. Sushi with the girls then an afternoon spent exploring the bookstore where we each found something  we just had to have.  For fun when the girls came home they counted all the books in my various  “to read” stacks located about the house.  They determined that [...]

Good Riddance

(originally posted at November 9th)
So Mitt dropped out of the presidential race with this to say:
If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, [...]

It’s A Beautiful Day

 I am about to confirm what my children already think of me: I am a geek.

I am so excited about the very special visitor for my youngest’s class tomorrow-
 
MR MCFEELY!
If you don’t know him  you can stop reading now-you are too young to remember. Or you weren’t a fan.
There are Mr.Rogers people
               Sesame Street people 
               [...]

I’m #1.

(originally posted at November 9th)
After a year or so of being called some pretty nasty things, it is nice to be the recepient of a superlative, and to learn that I am, in fact, number one at something.
My youngest let me know this morning that I am “The Worst Mommy In The World” . Now [...]

Beat the clock

(originally posted at November 9th)
Wolf Blitzer says “The polls in Arkansas will close in thirty seconds.”
He glances at the clock and then says
“CNN is now ready to project the winner in Arkansas.”
 For the love of god could you at least let the little old ladies that work the polls get their coats on before you [...]

This calm brought to you by George.

(originally posted at November 9th)
Thank you to all for the inquiries-no yesterday was not a Sound of Music day. It was worse.
So this morning is a Variations morning.
George Winston’s Variations on the Canon by Pachabel is one of my most favorite things in the whole wide world. I have it as its’ own individual playlist [...]

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On marriage beds and voting booths

 
Originally posted at November 9th
Visited overpriced shrink yesterday. Hadn’t seen him in just over nine months. He still has the really ugly sofa, not much else has changed around there. I wanted to talk to him about the girls, the recent goings on, and whether or not we were screwing them up for the rest [...]