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Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: January 2010

  • And Now On a Very Special Mystery Diagnosis

    I love Mystery Diagnosis. When they had a woman on with MS, I did not guess it at all. The teratoma episode: I could watch that over and over. If you’ve never seen it, this is the formula: Setup: You meet the patient. Patient experiences symptoms.Commercial Recap of everything before the commercial. You can be…

  • My Madeline

    Or, Past Things of Remembrance Great-aunt Merle was really the sister of my step-grandmother. One summer I was nine and spent a good of time with her in Prairie Hill, Mo. (One hill, one street, one church = Prairie Hill. Seriously. It was a hill.) At the beginning I thought a week with my step-grandma…

  • An Unfortunate Post on Martin Luther King Day

    How I originally began this post: I couldn’t post yesterday because yesterday was Cooking Day, and I cooked so long and so hard my fingers turned to butter. “What’s that from?” I wondered. Then I realized it was from Little Black Sambo. “Well, can’t use that.” Then I did a little research and found that…

  • Anne Carries on the Cake Pie Dream

    Anne at work sent me this link, where I learned about the CherPumpple. Three layer cake filled with pie – not pie filled with cake! Revolutionary! It appears to be three frozen pies cooked while submerged in three box cake mixes. Another Piekenstein:

  • Oh, Great, Now I Need to Top This

    Okay, Gary dialed the bear game up to 11 now. Here’s the current bear configuration: Oh yes, that is the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog with its sharp, nasty, pointy teeth that gnash and gnash. One of the bears IS in its mouth. Short of sewing up little Rocky Horror bustiers and fishnets for the bears…

  • In Which We Also Pile On to Pat Robertson

    So, I know evangelist Pat Robertson doesn’t deal with catastrophe well. He wants to blame every disaster on humanity’s “sins.” He said Katrina happened because of the sin, sex and drinking in New Orleans, and 9/11 occurred because America allows abortion. Today he claimed Haiti was being punished for a centuries old deal with the…

  • Updates

    Music Update The Incestuous Pandas are getting the band back together, baby! For the first time in months I picked up my acoustic guitar. I sounded beautiful. Slow. But so pretty. And I wondered why I don’t play my acoustic every day. It’s just like sex, you’re so much better if you haven’t practiced for…

  • Phrases

    My Favorite Old Phrase“It’ll never show on a galloping pony.” Said by: A friend’s mother while we were sewing said friend’s wedding gown.Only, to be fair, we weren’t really sewing on the lace appliques as much as smearing them with fabric glue and pounding them on with our little fists. My Favorite New Phrase“The juice…

  • I am never putting these bears away.

  • The Only Christmas Decorations I Didn’t Clean Up

    One Christmas, Mom bought a set of these bears. I didn’t clean them off the ledge when I put away Christmas. So last night I came back and found the Bear Kama Sutra. There’s