NoFAP

Laylee’s loving school. I’m loving school, if for no other reason than that I now get to write NoFAPs now. MWAH-ha-ha-ha! [continued at Parenting.com]

Filed under: education, parenting, world domination

Speed Walking Glory

Dan supervised the kiddie festivities with mildly-annoyed resignation while I walked a 5K in the mud behind some of my running girlfriends. My joints are fairly bad and I once had a physical therapist tell me not to become a runner so I use that as an excuse to walk races with dignity. [...]

Filed under: all about me, around town, aspirations, save me from myself, weather, world domination

My Self-Imposed Interactive Nanny Cam

We miss Dan a lot. You see, he works all day… at an office… far far away from our raucous good times. Sometimes he doesn’t make it home in time for dinner and we think about him and talk about him and set his place at the table just in case.
A couple of [...]

Filed under: domesticality, he's so fine he blows my mind, technology, world domination

Biggest Loser - EXPOSED

It has come to my attention that the entire Biggest Loser franchise, Jillian Michaels specifically, is not working to help overweight Americans but rather attempting to kill fat people.
I started watching last season when Dan was working a billion hours and there was nothing on TV Tuesday nights and heaven forbid I do anything [...]

Filed under: all about me, aspirations, save me from myself, television, weight loss, world domination

Water Torture is for Sissies

If you really want to wreak havoc with your mortal enemies’ psyches, pump their house full of rabid fruit flies that have no identifiable nesting ground or food source.
The flies will billow in clouds around their heads driving them to:
-flail their arms around spasmodically
-clap loudly at random times
-hit themselves
-scream at invisible flying specs of annoyance
-repeatedly [...]

Filed under: all about me, blick, domesticality, world domination

Insecure Voter

Procrastinator seems like a made up word, like slang for someone who procrastins. It makes me think of the rodenator or a guy who would give me the wink and the gun and call me Kate-inator.
Well I’ve been procrastinatorating filling out my absentee ballot, or to be more exact, I’ve been putting [...]

Filed under: all about me, world domination

My Responsibility

There’s a small local bookstore in my neighborhood. I like books. I like supporting the town. So I shop at this bookstore.
The books are used. Sometimes I have to settle for Olivia Saves the Circus instead of the original Olivia, but they’re both cute, they cost less than three dollars and [...]

Filed under: around town, get serious, parenting, world domination

Tip Tuesday – Picky Spice and Other Instances of Parental Trickery

Spouses? Spice? Spizals?
This Tip Tuesday is about tricking your kids… in a good way… in a way that helps them become better people because they have no clue what’s really going on with their parents… in a way that masks your neuroses so that they can develop neuroses of their own without having [...]

Filed under: blick, domesticality, parenting, tip tuesday, world domination

Lunch Engine Optimization

I hear a lot of people talking shmack about Search Engine Optimization, the art of getting your website as high in the search results as possible on Google, MSN, Yahoo or Hakia.
There are many ways to do this. One is to creatively add popular keywords all over your site, in your post titles, your [...]

Filed under: food, technology, world domination

Seattle Mom Blogs

Jenny, Eve and I stayed up WAY too late in Chicago and came up with all kinds of ideas. We decided to make up songs and sing in an atonal vibrato. We decided to jump from bed to bed wearing capes. And we decided to set up a community to encourage and [...]

Filed under: Blogging, blogher07, seattle mom blogs, world domination