Category: In Which We Mock Ourselves

HelloGary and I went for our yearly physicals this morning. This meant I needed to leave my staff meeting early. I snuck out while we were introducing ourselves to Hysterical New Friend to Be Numbered Later. Of course, we had all met her, so we essentially went in a circle and reminded her of our…

So I was sitting here, envying Catherine the Red for being a cousin of John Glenn, when Stephen Colbert brought up my family connection to greatness, Warren G Harding. Colbert played a clip of John McLaughlin saying Warren G Harding was black. “That sounds right,” I thought, “where have I read that?” It was in…

Gary was coming down with a cold this weekend. In fact, it was the cold I got a month ago. I felt such pity for him I made him oatmeal raisin cookies sans nuts. Now, the oatmeal raisin cookies are my specialty cookies, but the last few times I’ve made them they disappointed. This time…

If I were a male celebrity I would be Richard Quest, CNN reporter, Not because he affects the “lively” air when he’s reporting on the royal family and the serious air when he’s anchoring on CNN International. I would be Richard Quest, because he was arrested in Central Park and found to have a sex…

Today was the day we signed up for the next BNL cruise. Specifically, I was scheduled to sign up at 2:00 Central time. I couldn’t sign up at work because TeddyJ has us locked in to the Amish Internet. (For example, you can’t get to this very blog. Prudes! My boss explained they look for…

Thank God for CNN never letting a story die. Dinosaur Sighting #1: Yesterday, CNN had a choice. It was Breaking News: Hydrochloric acid is seeping into Louisiana versus Breaking News: Teddy Kennedy had a stroke. They went with the stroke. Not true, of course, just a seizure. Dinosaur Sighting #2: Dave called a few hours…

Okay. Last night I had a post in my head. It was about dinosaurs. You won’t be reading that post. Because I went to bed. Without writing it. And now I don’t remember a word of it. It wasn’t about dinosaurs as much as it just had several references to dinosaurs to pull it together.…

A few weeks ago, I was at work but I needed to make some phone calls between nine and four. Because a number of government agencies needed to know Mom was dead. After a few days of playing with words (“dead,” “passed on,” “passed away,” “not with us, if you know what I mean,” back…

Gary and I were at the grocery Saturday night, when I said, “I want to cook you something, like a roast or a steak.” He just screamed like a girl at the idea of the roast. (I can only imagine all fights between his parents stemmed from food: too much for the freezer, how hard…