I usually hate when a blogger posts excuses for not blogging, but I’m going to do it now just so no one thinks it’s a repeat of the unannounced lengthy sabbatical I took from the old blog. I’ve been off attending the annual conference of the American Water Resources Association (TN Section) which is held [...]
Archive for the ‘Personal’ Category
Flimsy excuses and fist shaking.
Posted in Personal on April 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The great ice cream controversy
Posted in Personal on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Some days people just make me tired. Maybe I’m just old and cranky, but it seems like there is someone (if not an entire group) dedicated to criticizing a decision someone else made. Believe it or not, I’m not even referring to this years elections. The ice cream man seems to be another flashpoint in [...]
My love/hate relationship with the ice cream truck
Posted in Personal on April 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Alternate title for today’s post: Why ice cream makes me contemplate mortality. I love me some ice cream, but I much prefer to fetch my own these days. I’m referring to the portable purveyor of frozen goodness that comes wrapped in the shrillest, loudest, most annoying music possible. And my objections are personal and professional, [...]
The Great Storm (So Far) Of ’12 – The Aftermath
Posted in Personal on March 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »
This is the finale of The True Story (Only Slightly Exaggerated) About The Time Ice Fell From The Sky And Bashed My House, With Added Drama. See part 1 for the build-up and part 2 for the climax of the storm. You hear about golf ball size hail, or whatever colorful descriptor that comes to mind, [...]
Gone Viral
Posted in Personal on February 29, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Things on the blog have been slow because the kids AND the computer have gone viral. Sadly, neither of those are as similarly labeled kitty videos. The computer is finally fully functional again and the kids are back to their previous level of snot so hopefully I can get back to posting.
First Amendment Versus Hickman County High School
Posted in Personal on January 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Last week a controversial story broke at Hickman County High Schoool. Hickman County is very rural and it’s located about an hour west of Nashville. Apparently the principal there has a policy where every instance of cursing results in one minute taken off the entire school’s lunch break. The students retaliated by putting together a [...]
Enjoying My Burrito
Posted in Personal on January 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It can’t be a good sign that I feel the urge to apologize to everyone who reads this post even before they even read it. I started with what I thought was a simple enough of idea about what I wanted to say, but despite several rewrites it’s still rambling, messy, and probably unclear. I’m [...]
In Defense of The Elf*
Posted in Parenting, Personal on December 21, 2011 | 8 Comments »
A local blogger who’s opinion I respect came out pretty hard against the whole Elf On The Shelf idea yesterday. I feel the need to respond because her post had a lot of implicit criticism of parents who have an elf, and obviously we do have one at our house. I generally don’t like to respond [...]
Parenting 101 – The Age of Reason
Posted in Parenting, Personal on December 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
There are few things that rival the casual destruction of a toddler. As you can see, way back in 2008 we had to put our Christmas tree behind bars just to keep out the destruction which was wrought daily in our house with two eleven month olds. The next year (just before they turned two) we rtook [...]
Care and Feeding of Your Christmas Elf
Posted in Personal, Uncategorized on December 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Edited to add commenter Jennifer C.’s important point. So, now that I’ve told you how I really feel about our Elf on the Shelf, let’s discuss how the four and under half of the family feel about Doodlebug. They absolutely love him (unless they get caught doing something naughty). Every morning it’s a huge game [...]
