The Bigger They Get

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)

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Entries Tagged as 'Hell in a Handbasket'

I found myself traveling through another dimension…

August 12th, 2008 · 6 Comments

I’m sleepily pondering the irony of sitting in a hospital waiting room today, worrying, while doctors implanted a defibrillator in Yes,Dear’s chest - which we’re not entirely sure our crappy insurance will cover - while the waiting room TV was tuned to an Oprah rerun focusing on the healthcare mess in America. The program [...]

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Van-quished

July 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

We put our van in the shop today to have a hitch installed so we can move Daughter to Chicago next week. We also asked that they change the oil and check the fluids for the trip. Our car guy called this morning and reminded me that when we’d had the van in [...]

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See this plate?

July 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

(Ignore the cobweb on the wall behind the table. I didn’t see it until after I’d taken the picture. It’s gone now.)
Back to the plate.
We have twelve of these. Or had. Maybe still have, I’m not sure. This morning there were none of these dirty in the sink. There [...]

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This Week’s Hell in a Handbasket Award

April 17th, 2008 · No Comments

This evening we found ourselves following a commercial vehicle with a scrotum hanging from its back bumper. Go ahead, rub your eyes and then read that again. It still says scrotum.
I am not kidding.
The truck eventually turned into - get this - a CHURCH PARKING LOT.
When we got home, I looked at [...]

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