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Posts in ‘2008’

Better living through chemicals

Dear Company-That-Manufactures-Robitussin-with-Codiene,
I truly want to extend my deepest regards and heartfelt thanks for the unexpected joy you’ve brought into my life.
I recently (last night) was on the road for over eight hours driving from Florida to Alabama.  As my daughter has your product prescribed, I planned to give her a dose to knock her butt [...]

It may be too late

There I am, watching a commercial about the BEST ENERGY DRINK EVER!
In fact, one of the greatest selling points is exactly how little time it takes to ingest.
Marketing geniuses, I say.
After a full sixty seconds of energy drink propoganda, they close it up by announcing that you can purchase this product at all “these fine [...]

Knowing what crazy looks like doesn’t make it any easier to avoid

A cough in the middle of the night.
Followed by another.
Then a soft moan of discomfort.
That’s all it takes.
I’m transported to a night over two years ago when I woke up to hear Peyton crying in her sleep.
“I hurt, mommy.”
Those three words foreshadowed pain and sickness and disease.
I didn’t know it at the time.
It would be [...]

Proof that 2008 did, in fact, NOT suck for us!

All over the universe there are lists, lists of things that made us happy, lists of things that pretty much blew, lists of lists.
So, of course, because I’m so terribly original, I thought I’d do some lists of my very own!
This is probably the most random and scattered list you’ll ever read, full of the [...]

The lost Christmas post

I had a whole post ready to go and I really did mean to write something funny and poignant about the holiday….but I left it hanging on my screen while the family went off to Christmas Eve service and to get all unwrap-y on some gifts….and now it’s gone.
GONE.
GONE GONE GONE.
*ARRRRG!*
I quit.
So, you get this [...]