Posted in Beloved, memes, movies, tagged movies, memes, Beloved on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
ones I’ve seen in bold; ones I want to see underlined. (of course, zuska-style, with commentary) Steal at will - I got it from E. McPan. The “new classics” from the last 25 years. According to Entertainment Weekly, anyway.
1. Pulp Fiction (1994)
2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-03)
3. Titanic (1997)
4. Blue Velvet (1986)
5. [...]
Posted in *E*, *J*, Beloved, family, kids, tagged family, kids, movies, moving on June 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We saw Wall-e tonight. It was fun, and it made us all laugh. E’s favorite part was an allusion to an Iraq-related Bush-ism, “we have to stay the course!” She nearly split a side. (Update: Beloved has found since that there is a good bit of debate going on about that line. I think that’s [...]
Posted in *J*, Beloved, School Issues, family, friends, harassment, hostility, kids, motherhood, parenting, parents, soccer on May 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I stopped at Trader Joe’s on the way home tonight. I needed laundry quarters (even though I didn’t do the laundry after all), and so I picked up a bottle of Rose, and I was enjoying a slow walk home on a pretty spring evening. When all of a sudden my vision focused on a [...]
Posted in *E*, *J*, Beloved, family, kids, tagged family, kids, *E*, moving, *J* on April 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The girls are going through their things in pursuit of our goal: Two boxes packed per person per week. Beloved and I are trying to make this process as painless as possible (we move in July …. )
They ended up traveling to the apartment next door with their arms full of dolls. [...]
Posted in *E*, *J*, Beloved, family, kids, work, working mom, tagged boston, Exercise, games, kids, marathon, vacation, work, working mom on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
This is the first year that the girls have been home during a school vacation week. My higher income gave me a bit of a bargaining chip in the child support/visitation department. He pays less, I get to play with the kids more. We were going to go to D.C., but instead choose to syphon [...]
Posted in *E*, *J*, Beloved, family, kids, work, tagged divorce, drama, family, parenting, parents, school, School Issues on April 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Posting has been light, but with good reason. The kids’ school play was this past weekend, wherein E was one of the leads, and J was an adorable little singer & dancer. I, meanwhile, was on the “production team,” and ended up spending every spare moment - both at work and at home - dealing [...]
Posted in *E*, *J*, Beloved, family, finances, transportation, travel, weekends on March 31, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My family thinks me evil, but I just feel done. Zipcar is fun, and it’s useful, and it’s served us very well. But yesterday, I had to set my alarm for 8 a.m. and call a cab to take me to the car that zipcar switched my reservation to. It cost $10 to get there, [...]
Posted in Beloved, School Issues, friends, housework, housing, independence, kids, parenting, parents, real estate, sleep, teenagers, weekends, work, working mom on March 10, 2008 | No Comments »
It was a busy weekend.
E had a friend sleep over on Friday night. It went well. It is a friend who I have had some issues with before - her behavior, her negativity, her influence on E. There was none of that this weekend. She was flexible, fun, and really pleasant to have around. It [...]
Posted in Beloved, feminism, gender roles, health, housework, marriage on March 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m sure Beloved would “get more sex” — if he weren’t so damned tired all the time from shopping and cooking and picking up kids and cleaning that he does.
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But seriously - why is it still framed in these terms? Men “get more sex”? What about us? Do we “have to endure more sex”? Do [...]
Posted in Beloved, Books on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Had I updated?
The reason for my relatively prolonged absence was - in all seriousness - b/c I wanted to read more. To read again.
I had said, back then - that I was sure there was a book I was forgetting.
I realized, just before my return, that there was.
I had re-read Wicked.
Which was not as good [...]
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