Posted by
the planet of janet on Aug 12th, 2010 in
2010-8 |
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On July 29, I celebrated my third blogoversary — a stupid term for a day that means I have been flooding cyberspace with my goofy ramblings and birthday dinners for 1,096 days.
In looking back over three years, I realize just how far my family has come.
My Drummer Man, now 29, is celebrating three years of his relationship with the Fabulous Girlfriend. I have watched them develop into an amazing, loving...
I am the mother of a teenage girl.
You may kill me now. Frankly, it’s a mystery how I have survived this long.
Mothers of teenage girls know that teenage girls frequently suffer from dissociative identity disorder, otherwise known as multiple personalities. Sometimes they are one person. Sometimes they are another.
This makes a mother’s job particularly difficult, especially when one never knows WHICH...
The days of affliction are over, and I am slowly but surely recovering from having only a semi-colon at work.
That being said, I thought I would solve some of the mysteries of the deep, er, I mean the interior mysteries of intestinal fortitude. I mean, uh, why we Jews are grateful for something like this:
Now, people, THAT’S funny, right there. I don’t care who you are.
Anyway, as I was saying, since...
For years, I thought my eyes were brown.
Uninspiring, dull, uninteresting brown.
I have NO idea what possessed me to look DEEEEP into the mirror one day in a brightly lit bathroom. Perhaps it was to keep from poking myself in the eyeball while applying makeup. Or just because I couldn’t see unless I was closeclosecloseup.
What I saw there was a revelation.
My eyes weren’t brown. THEY WERE GREEN!
Maybe you could...
This month contains a difficult time for those of us of the Jewish persuasion — of which I count myself a member.
It’s Passover — truly a lovely holiday that is all about the celebration of freedom from slavery. This year, it starts at sundown on March 29 — and continues for eight fun-filled days.
I love this holiday. I love the traditions. I love the two nights of seder dinners with their...
